User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed APR 11, 2012 Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Offline malware scanning / Free Software", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center 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 Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Russ Edelman: Building a Business Case Toolkit for SharePoint", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge OWASP Boston Chapter, "HP Enterprise Security, Gray-Box Vulnerability Testing", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "discuss online accessibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "SW World & Surfacing Design Help, Envelope Parts & 2D to SW 3D", 5:30, Nypro, Clinton 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 NH SharePoint User Group, "SharePoint Governance", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua 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 Boston Python Meetup, "Project Night, with Designer advice!", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Final Cut Pro Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Worcester Linux Users, "ZFS", 7PM, WPI Campus Center Sat APR 14, 2012 Boston Unity Group, "United for 3D Stimulus and Game Development", 9AM-4PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "CSUN Recap, System Access from Serotek", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Mon APR 16, 2012 Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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), "Adopting Agile: How to Avoid Top 10 Pitfalls", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Content Strategy at Work", 6PM, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth NH Google Tech, Boston Web Performance Group, "Website optimization", 6:30, HubSpot, Cambridge Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Boston Globe 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 Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "iPad Extravaganza - iPad Basics and Favorite iPad Apps", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center NH .NET Users, "Deep dive into Blob Storage", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XII.2: LVM Fundamentals and CGroups", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335 jQuery Boston Meetup, "lightning talks", 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG, "VMware Technologies in 2012", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI Thu APR 19, 2012 Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ UPA Boston Chapter, "Responsive Design and Prototyping", 6PM, Digitas, 33 Arch St Seacoast SQL Server Users Group, "Aaron Bertrand & SQL Server 2012", 6:30, Great Bay Comm Coll, Portsmouth NH Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "Nanoscale construction with DNA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-315 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Git/Github in an Agile/Collaborative environment", 7PM, WPI Boston Post Mortem, "Indie Game:The Movie Local Showing", 7PM, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge North Shore Web Geeks, "Intellectual Property", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport 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 Boston .NET Certification Group, 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 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Boston InDesign User Group, "Folio ShowNTell 2012", 6:30, Boston Beerworks, Fenway Agile Boston, "Karen Spencer on The Psychology of Agile", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Front End Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "MacMini in Home Theater", 7PM, Nashua Public Library Thu APR 26, 2012 NE Oracle Users, "Database Security Seminar", 10AM, Fleming's Steakhouse, 217 Stuart St 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 HTML5 Boston Meetup Group, "How to Properly Structure an HTML5 Web Page", 6:30, Location TBA Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, "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 Bostontech Meetup, "Did WordPress Do That?", 7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu MAY 03, 2012 Visual Basic Professionals, "Chris Bowen: Introduction to Windows 8", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford North Shore Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Salem Beer Works Sat MAY 05, 2012 Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Boston Innovation Challenge", Noon, Harvard I-Lab, 125 Western Ave, Allston 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 Boston PDA "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence Mon MAY 14, 2012 Boston Software Craftsmanship Group, "a rousing evening of 1/2 baked lightning talks", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "Sandro Frattura discussing Pentaho", 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 Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Using mapping to inform the world", 6PM, Dodge Hall, Northeastern Univ BostonCHI, "Richard C Boly, U.S. State Dept - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA Cambridge SEO Meetup, "topic tbd", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Accessibility Roundtable, "discuss online accessibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Thu MAY 17, 2012 Refresh Boston, "Taking the Plunge", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Seacoast SQL Server Users Group, "Hadoop, Big Data, SQL Server and SSAS", 6:30, Great Bay Comm Coll, Portsmouth NH 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 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, 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, "Hands-On with the Windows Azure SDK", 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 Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "discuss online accessibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu JUN 07, 2012 Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Visual Basic Professionals, "Igor Mochnick: RavenDB", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham 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 ====================== OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY! Our first calendar was published Tue, 17 Jun 1997 ====================== 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, "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 Mon JUN 25, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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. 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Events, Conferences, Education and Training: APR 13-15, 2012 Boston Post Mortem, "Mass. DiGi Game Challenge & 3D Stimulus Day", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge APR 14-15, 2012 Post-PC apocalypse Hackathon, "replace desktop applications with web-based alternatives", Martin Trust Center, MIT E40-160 APR 19-21, 2012 Agile New England, "Agile Games conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge APR 21-22, 2012 Rethink Music Hackers' Weekend, "create music applications from scratch and share with everyone", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge APR 22, 2012 New England Wikimedia General Meeting, 1-4:30, Boston Public Library—Central Library APR 24-25, 2012 American Society for Quality, "BOSCON", Waltham Woods Conference Center APR 28, 2012 SharePoint Saturday Boston 2012, "sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs", Microsoft, Waltham APR 30, 2012 Microsoft TechNet Event, "IT Camp: The Future of IT", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge MAY 02, 2012 IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG, "Tech Update 2012", 9-4, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI The Road to Windows 8!, "A look at the current and future development with Windows 8 and .NET", Microsoft, Waltham MAY 04-06, 2012 New England GiveCamp, "donate time and talent to support local charities and non-profis", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, "2012 Programming: More Than Coding" seminar, 9AM, 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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