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Updated 03/29/2012 -- '12 #086
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Thu MAR 29, 2012
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Introduction to Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Providence Drupal, "DrupalCon Debrief", 6PM, Lullabot's Activity Center
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
JavaScript Meetup, "Choosing CoffeeScript", 6:30, SignedOn, 373 Washington St
Greater Boston Chapter ACM, "Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology", 7 PM, Broad Institute, Cambridge

Fri MAR 30, 2012
Boston Python Meetup, "A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends", 6PM, MIT room 4-237

Mon APR 02, 2012
NE F# User Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue APR 03, 2012
Refresh Boston, "What's Next for Responsive Web Design?", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Drupal Meetup, "The Boston Initiative", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
Boston MySQL Meetup, "an informal meeting", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed APR 04, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Discussion of Free Software", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Exchange Server Service Packs 1 and 2", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu APR 05, 2012
eCoast Technology Roundtable, "eBrew: open to employees and guests of all local high-tech businesses", 5PM, The Press Room, Portsmouth NH
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Healthcare Quality Measures in Transition ", 5:30, Holiday Inn, Tewksbury
Agile New England, "The Economics of Agile", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Lean Meetup: Building a Vertical Search Engine", 6:30, Needs a location
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Using jQuery UI in Drupal 7/Gardens", 7:30, location TBD

Fri APR 06, 2012
North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon APR 09, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue APR 10, 2012
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Enchanted Furniture: How apps will jump off the screen and into everyday objects", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Microsoft Office", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Ruby UG, "Continuous Delivery...", 6:45, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston.pm (Perl), "Uri, revisting cgi", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "How to Keep Your News Site Sticky", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester
Boston PDA "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Voice Users, MEETING IS CANCELED

Wed APR 11, 2012
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "SW World & Surfacing Design Help, Envelope Parts & 2D to SW 3D", 5:30, Nypro, Clinton
Software Quality Group, "Use Cases - What are they and how are they used for testing?", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
OWASP Boston Chapter, "HP Enterprise Security, Gray-Box Vulnerability Testing", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Back Bay LISA, "A fresh look at SELinux and what it is complaining about", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu APR 12, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Security Meetup, "2 mobile security talks in 1 night. zomg pwnies!", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE Java Users Group, "Building Mobile Apps with HTML, PhoneGap and Java", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE SQL Server Users Group "Common Backup Problems and How to Deal With Them" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Monetize Your Windows Phone App", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Kinect Boston Meetup, "Demos and PAX Debrief", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Final Cut Pro Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston

Sat APR 14, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, topics TBD, 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon APR 16, 2012
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Tue APR 17, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Data Manipulation", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
NH Java Users, "Developing a Spring Data and MongoDB app", 6:30, location TBD
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed APR 18, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XII.2: LVM Fundamentals and CGroups", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG/a>, "VMware Technologies in 2012", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI

Thu APR 19, 2012
UPA Boston Chapter, "Responsive Design and Prototyping", 6PM, Digitas, 33 Arch St
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Git/Github in an Agile/Collaborative environment", 7PM, WPI
Boston Post Mortem, "Indie Game:The Movie Local Showing", 7&9:30, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge

Mon APR 23, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Traackr’s migration from HBase to MongoDB", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "The Mobile Pitch Challenge", details TBD

Thu APR 24, 2012
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Building Games with Windows Azure Services", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA "Developer Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed APR 25, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston InDesign User Group, "Folio ShowNTell 2012", 6:30, Boston Beerworks, Fenway

Thu APR 26, 2012
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Recap of the Microsoft Management Summit", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri APR 27, 2012
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group semi-annual meeting, 8:30AM-5PM, IDC, Framingham

Mon APR 30, 2012
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 01, 2012
Boston Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed MAY 02, 2012
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG/a>, "Tech Update 2012", 9-4, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu MAY 03, 2012
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue MAY 08, 2012
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372

Wed MAY 09, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "Release Management Flow", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Thu MAY 10, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Chris Bowen: Developing Software for Windows 8", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Agile Testing", 7PM, WPI

Sat MAY 12, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Mon MAY 14, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E51-345
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 15, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
BostonCHI, "Richard C Boly, U.S. State Dept - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed MAY 16, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico shares his OSCON 2012 presentation", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Wed MAY 23, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Feature Development for V1.4", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAY 24, 2012
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAY 28, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed MAY 30, 2012
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "TOPIC TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Tech Meetup, "Career Fair", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 05, 2012
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JUN 06, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem

Thu JUN 07, 2012
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat JUN 09, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Mon JUN 11, 2012
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston MySQL Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E51-345
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 12, 2012
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Lesley Mottla, Zipcar - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Wed JUN 13, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Sun JUN 17, 2012
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Tue JUN 19, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed JUN 20, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux on Small Hardware", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG/a>, "Lee Benjamin: Exchange 2010 SP2", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Fri JUN 22, 2012
NE Oracle Users, "Five Things You Probably Didn't Know about SQL", 6:30, Doubletree, Westborough

Tue JUN 26, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users quarterly meeting, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JUN 27, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu JUN 28, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Michael S. Collier: Topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge


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Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

MAR 30, 2012
Boston Drupal Workshop, "Drupal 7 in a Day", 460 Totten Pond Road, Waltham

MAR 31, 2012
New England Code Camp 17, "a day of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing", Microsoft, Waltham
Joomla Day New England, Marlboro College Graduate School, Brattleboro VT

APR 19-21, 2012
Agile New England, "Agile Games conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 24-25, 2012
American Society for Quality, "BOSCON", Waltham Woods Conference Center

APR 30, 2012
Microsoft TechNet Event, "IT Camp: The Future of IT", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 02, 2012
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG/a>, "Tech Update 2012", 9-4, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI

MAY 11, 2012
Adobe Camp 2012, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 220 Longwood Ave, Boston
eCoast Cloud Summit presented by TechWorld, Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel

MAY 12, 2012
UPA Boston Chapter, "Getting Buy-In for UX Research", Bentley University

MAY 19, 2012
Greater Boston Chapter ACM, "4 Different Perspectives on Software Development", 9 AM, Harvard University

MAY 24-25, 2012
Boston Drupal Workshop, "Drupal Module Development"

JUN 08-10, 2012
Gr Boston iPhone/iPad Boot Camp Meetup Group, "Absolute Beginners' iPhone/iPad Boot Camp", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave

JUN 22-23, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Boston Azure Bootcamp (two days, hands-on)", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 26, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Mapping with SAS" Training Class, 1PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 26-29, 2012
Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012, Hynes Convention Center

JUL 22-25, 2012
SharePoint Technology Conference, Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston

AUG 11, 2012
Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Northeast Conference (Day 1)", 9am, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

SEP 11-12, 2012
IEEE Conference on High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC '12), Westin Waltham Hotel

SEP 17-20, 2012
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center


Ongoing:

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science events open to the public

The IEEE Boston Section posts local courses at http://www.ieeeboston.org/

South End Technology Center @ Tent City Course list

Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 617 547-6789 or http://www.ccae.org

DevelopMentor Training Classes, http://www.develop.com

Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media

Data Education (formerly Boston SQL Training)

Apple seminars

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

Boston TechVenue Calendar

Boston Events List for Professionals

IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham

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