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User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Thu APR 26, 2012 NE Oracle Users, "Database Security Seminar", 10AM, Fleming's Steakhouse, 217 Stuart St Boston Area SolidWorks UG, misc topics, 5:30, Cummings Center, Beverly NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Recap of the Microsoft Management Summit", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH Lean Startup Circle, "Using Lean to Enter a New Market", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston BizSpark Meetup, Boston Web Design Meetup, $ "EFactor Presents: Perfect Your Pitch", 6:30, 300 Technology Square, Boston $ NH Python SIG, "Digital Audio Editing with Audacity", 6:30, Lawrence Library, Pepperell MA 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, "Prototyping Web Apps, Ecommerce", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue MAY 01, 2012 Boston Drupal Meetup, "The Boston Initiative, lightning talks", 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 Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Extending a Computer's Usable Life - Part 2", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Agile New England, "Agile For Executives", 7am-noon, Westin, Waltham 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 Merrimack Valley Section ASQ $, "Root Cause Analysis", 5:30, Tewksbury Country Club $ 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 NE F# User Group, "Keith Battocchi", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Back to the Basics Part 1 of 2", 6:15, Rye Jr High Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Steve Fabian presents the Web Developer’s Toolbox", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem 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 Java Users Group, "Solving Development Infrastructure Problems", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, 530 South Porter St, Manchester NH 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 Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "details will be announced at the beginning of May", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Mon MAY 14, 2012 Boston Software Craftsmanship Group, "a rousing evening of 1/2 baked lightning talks", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Google Technology Users, "Mobile Application Risks", 6:30, Fidelity Ctr, 245 Summer St 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 New England M Users' Group, "Global Summit Recap", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Using mapping to inform the world", 6PM, Dodge Hall, Northeastern Univ BostonCHI, "Thriving Behind The Firewall: Intranet Lessons from the US State Department", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Cambridge SEO Meetup, "topic tbd", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Java Users, "Advanced Message Queuing Protocol", 6:30, location TBD Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge Wed MAY 16, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "Hacking Embedded Linux: More Hardware than You Require", 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 Tue MAY 22, 2012 Boston PDA "Developer Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Content Management", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center 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 Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, topics TBD, 5:30, Assabet Valley, Marlboro Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Hands-On with the Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Tech Meetup, "Career Fair", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Sat JUN 02, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLIV", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 061 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 ==================================================================================== OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY! Our first calendar was published Tue, 17 Jun 1997 ==================================================================================== Mon JUN 18, 2012 NE F# User Group, "Bumblebee", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 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 07, 2012 UPA Boston Chapter, "Usability and User Experience conference", Sheraton Boston 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 21-25, 2012 2012 HOW Design Live, Hynes Convention Center 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
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.