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

Wed MAY 30, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Backups", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Town Hall format", 5:30, Assabet Valley, Marlboro
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Hands-On with the Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Data Therapy: Creative Ways to tell your Story with Data", 6PM, MIT Media Lab
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "Energy Star, Energy Analysis, eQUEST", 6PM, GSD Associates, North Andover
Web Start Women Boston, " Project Night! Bring your laptop", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Visual Studio 11 Beta", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, 6:30, Alpha Loft. Portsmouth
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Microsoft Management Summit Recap", 6:30, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Boston Tech Meetup, "Career Fair", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Tech Meetup, "Start-up Panel Discussion", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Underused Features", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Thu MAY 31, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Cenzic will be doing a sec talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "Web Applications: PHP (4 class series)", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Drupal, "Jesse Beach from Acquia", 6:30PM, Details TBA, Arlington

Sat JUN 02, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLIV", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 061

Mon JUN 04, 2012
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python User Group, "June Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 05, 2012
Virtualization User Group, "Beyond Data Protection in the Cloud, Fujitsu PRIMERGY", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Start Women Boston, "Business Finances 101", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston PDA User Group "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JUN 06, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Topic TBD", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Area Windows Server Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Agile Boston, "Gathering Agile requirements", 3PM, Hyatt Regency Boston
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Visual Studio 2012 & TFS 2012", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile New England, "Little’s Flaw: Can you Predict Software Schedules?", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Moving Operations Or Sourcing Offshore", 6PM, Sweetheart Inn, Methuen
Visual Basic Professionals, "Igor Mochnick: RavenDB", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Performance Group, "Performance Implications of Mobile Web Design", 6:30, Wayfair Offices, Boston
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat JUN 09, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "basics of web design, Gadget and app day", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon JUN 11, 2012
Boston Software Engineers "Beyond the Hadoop Hype", 9AM, Foley Hoag, 155 Seaport Blvd
Boston Software Craftsmanship Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "pay your own way" dinner, 7PM, John Harvard's Brew Pub
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 12, 2012
NH Adobe Users, "Adobe CS6 Party", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web, "translation of BEL (Biological Expression Language) & Semantic University", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England Artificial Intelligence, "AI and Machine Learning Developers Share & Learn", 6 pm, Google, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Lesley Mottla, Zipcar - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Web Start Women Boston, "Practical & Realistic SEO (1 class)", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston Ruby UG, "TorqueBox", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed JUN 13, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Topic TBD", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
Boston Avid Users, topic TBD, 6:30, Future Media Concepts, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, "Keeping up with Systems Management across Windows, Linux and Mac platforms", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu JUN 14, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Usable Security - Tipniques and Practfalls", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NH SharePoint User Group, "Search Based Applications with SharePoint", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE SQL Server Users Group "Reducing Data Integration TCO - Best Practices for SQL Server 2012" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Software Engineers "3D Printing Hackday and Party", 7PM, Location TBD
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sat JUN 16, 2012
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Hadoop / Apache Pig and Hive Workshop: SQL-Like Languages", 9:30-noon, Akamai, Cambridge

Sun JUN 17, 2012
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Mon JUN 18, 2012
NE F# User Group, "Bumblebee", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 19, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Security: Apache Shiro and OAuth", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
NH Java Users, "Liquibase", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston PDA Developer's Group, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed JUN 20, 2012
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Orchard CMS Themes Styling and Design Walk Through", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux on Small Hardware", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
BostonCHI, "Designing Great Experiences: Observing and Understanding People", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Business, Cambridge
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

Thu JUN 21, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Easy Application Security with Apache Shiro", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
Gr Boston Chapter ACM, "Democracy is a design problem: How changes in design change the outcome of elections", 7PM, MIT E51-315
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "JQueryMobile", 7PM, WPI
App Development Meetup, "iPhone/Android App Business models that work", 7PM, Kabab & Tandoor, Waltham

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
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "Startup showcase" at the MIT Museum
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 26, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "SAS Mapping", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, 6:30, Alpha Loft. Portsmouth

Wed JUN 27, 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, "Leading mobile web app platforms", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH

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:

JUN 05, 2012
TEXPO 2012 Trade Show, Rule Boston Camera, 395 Western Avenue

JUN 06-08, 2012
Windows 8 and Windows Phone Developers, "Metro Accelerator Labs", Microsoft, Waltham

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

JUN 12, 2012
WiAC '12: 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit, Sheraton Boston
UCMS '12: 2012 USENIX Configuration Management Workshop: Virtualization, the Cloud, and Scale, Sheraton Boston
USENIX Cyberlaw '12: 2012 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cyberlaw, Sheraton Boston

JUN 12-13, 2012
HotCloud '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, Sheraton Boston

JUN 13, 2012
WebApps '12: 3rd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development, Sheraton Boston

JUN 13-14, 2012
HotStorage '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, Sheraton Boston

JUN 13-15, 2012
USENIX ATC '12: 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Sheraton Boston

JUN 14-15, 2012
TaPP '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, Sheraton Boston

JUN 15, 2012
NSDR '12: 6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, Sheraton Boston

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, "Maps Made Easy Using SAS" Training Class, 1:30, 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 11-12, 2012
Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Northeast Conference", 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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