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Thanks to Recent Event Reporters:
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Resources:
Do your own search using our LIST of USER GROUPS with their website URLs   --   Track Changes
User group email Notices for January '12,    February '12,    March '12,    April '12,  or for All Notices
View our archives: 2011 calendars,   2012 calendars   or   all previous calendars   --   Read Our Story
Chris Bowen's Blog   --   Boston User Groups, Inc.   --   User Groups Meeting at MIT   --   Computer Meetup Groups   --   Events @ Microsoft NERD

User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

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, "6 innovative and exciting technology products", 6:30, Boston Globe
NH Java Users, "Developing a Spring Data and MongoDB app", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Manchester Linux Users, "Logical Volume Manager, MD driver", 6:30, The Farm, 1181 Elm St, Manchester NH
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

Sat APR 21, 2012
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

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", 6:30, Omni Parker Hotel, Boston

Thu APR 24, 2012
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, BSA, 290 Congress St
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Building Games with Windows Azure Services", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA "Developer Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Python Meetup, "Fundamental Topics: Iteration and Classes", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup, "development languages/tools/frameworks", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
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
Boston BizSpark Meetup, Boston Web Design Meetup, $ "EFactor Presents: Perfect Your Pitch", 6:30, 300 Technology Square, Boston $

Fri APR 27, 2012
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group semi-annual meeting, 8:30AM-5PM, IDC, Framingham
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Amazon AWS 101 for .Net developers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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, "Prototyping Web Apps, Ecommerce", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 01, 2012
Boston Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Web Content Rec. using Bayesian Class via Apache Mahout", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, "Custom post types", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335
BostonTech Meetup, "Did WordPress Do That?", 7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAY 03, 2012
Agile New England, "Agile Development for FDA Regulated Software", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
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

Fri MAY 04, 2012
North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat MAY 05, 2012
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Boston Innovation Challenge", Noon, Harvard I-Lab, 125 Western Ave, Allston

Mon MAY 07, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Sandro Frattura discussing Pentaho", 7PM, MIT E51-345

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
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Back to the Basics Part 1 of 2", 6:15, Rye Jr High
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Guest speaker Steve Fabian", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, "Breaking up WegoWise, Scaling Crowdtap", 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
Boston Avid Users, topic TBD, 6:30, Boris FX, 25 Thomson Place
Back Bay LISA, "What does a CIO do anyway?", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

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
NE SQL Server Users Group "PM  How Not to Be a Cranky DBA - Mike Hillwig" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376
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 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
Back Bay LISA, "Keeping up with Systems Management across Windows, Linux and Mac platforms", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu JUN 14, 2012
NE SQL Server Users Group "Reducing Data Integration TCO - Best Practices for SQL Server 2012" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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, "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. Collier: Topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge


	(Meetings beyond June will be hidden from view until the future of this calendar is resolved)


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 NERD, Cambridge

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 22, 2012
Windows Developer Camp, "registration is now full", Microsoft, Waltham

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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