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

Wed OCT 31, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Cameras and Digital Photography", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "Halloween HTML5 Game Project Night", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Photo Editing 102", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Thu NOV 01, 2012
FOSS User Group, Natick, "Meet (and install?) the new Ubuntu Linux 12.10", 3-6PM, NEW Natick Senior Center
Agile New England, "Systemic Agile: A Framework for Enterprise Agility", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Security Meetup, "Amazon Cloud and Linux IPSec", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "Project Night", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ $, "The Economic$ of Quality", 6PM,  Courtyard Marriott, Billerica $
Seacoast Drupal Meetup Group, "three short sessions", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Whirlwind Tour of Visual Studio 2012 & TFS 2012", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Boston Python Meetup, "November Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Fri NOV 02, 2012
Boston Python Meetup, "Intro to Python for women and their friends", 6PM, MIT room 4-231

Mon NOV 05, 2012
HTML5 Boston Group, "Anatomy of a Virtual Self-Study Group & Essentials of HTML5 for desktop and mobile", 6:30, Thomson Reuters, Boston
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, "ASP.NET Web API", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "Trends in Mobile Investment", 6:30, Nutter Law, 155 Seaport Blvd
Boston d3.js Meetup, "Make your own charting library with d3!", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Tue NOV 06, 2012
MIT Drupal Group, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, Tang Center, E51-145
Boston Facebook Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Tavern in the Square, Cambridge
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Boston PDA Users Group, "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed NOV 07, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Tour of LexMedia Facilities", 10 am, LexMedia Studios @ Avalon Lexington Hills
NH SolidWorks Users, "What's New In SW 2013", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Sitecore Symposium Panel", 6PM, location TBD
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "What is SSD Caching and can it hurt me? ", 6PM, Microsoft Sales Office, 1 Cambridge Center
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, 6PM, topic and location TBD
Boston Linux & Unix Desktop SIG Meetup, "GNU/Linux Desktop Election 2012", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 372
Boston Mobile C# Dev Meetup, "Introduction to MonoTouch and Collection Views in iOS6", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, "2 short 'lightning' talks with questions and discussion", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
MacTechGroup, "iPad app which moves objects based on brain waves", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335
Boston Flex Users Group, "Air on Mobile For Your Clients", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

Thu NOV 08, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "GC Tuning Recipes", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Software Engineers, "The Future of Communications with Nuance and Microsoft", 6PM, Microsoft Store, 800 Boylston St
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "4 Short Talks", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML, class 1", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston CocoaHeads, TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372

Fri NOV 09, 2012
Creative Cut Pro Users $, "Third Annual Boston SuperMeetUp", 5:30, Revere Hotel Boston Common $

Sat NOV 10, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, topics TBA, 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon NOV 12, 2012
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Map/Reduce Workshop", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "Gaming & Accessibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "ScaleArc", 6:30, MIT 32-141 (Stata Center) Room 32-D463
Boston .NET Study Group, "Restful API / Node.js Part 1", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Variety and Wanderu", 6:30, MassChallenge, One Marina Park Dr
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue NOV 13, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Adobe Boston Users, 6PM, topic and location TBA
New England M Users' Group, "The %UnitTest package", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
NE Artificial Intelligence, "Short lectures and study groups on topics in AI", 6PM, Google Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Biofeedforward Interfaces: Learn How You Learn and Respond To Your Thoughts", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Mandeep Singh of Mandeeps", 6:30, location TBD
Boston Ruby UG, "ElasticSearch and scaling your search in the cloud", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Build Guild in Cape Cod monthly gathering of web folks, 6:30, BBC, Sandwich

Wed NOV 14, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Software Engineers, "The Future is Real Time with IBT Technologies", 6:30, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave
Back Bay LISA, "Internet buffer bloat", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Adobe Create the Web Tour Boston", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Node.js in the Wild Meetup, "Testing Node.js Code", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
IT-Pro User Group, "Veeam Software overview", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu NOV 15, 2012
Virtualization User Group, "Flash-Optimized Storage Architectures", 6PM, Microsoft, 1 Cambridge Center
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML, class 2", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE SQL Server Users Group, "What's Buried in the Plan Cache?", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center
Web Performance, "Optimizing the Development and Load Test Cycle", 6:30, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston

Sat NOV 17, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "Realtime Web Workshop", Noon, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave

Mon NOV 19, 2012
Data Mgmt Assn Meetup, "Deciding Between Relational Databases and Storage Tables in the Cloud", 6PM, Enternoc, 101 Federal St
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Inside Module Development", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, 700 Mass Ave, Arlington
Boston .NET Study Group, "Restful API / Node.js Part 2", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "Web to Mobile and Back with Greg Raiz", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Sports Tech Meetup, "Kick Off MeetUp", 7PM, Jerry Remy's Bar & Grill.

Tue NOV 20, 2012
Agile Boston, "4th Annual Give Thanks for Scrum", 9:30AM, 200 West St, Waltham
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Hadoop's Inherent Advantages Over RDBMS", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston New Tech Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA Developers Group, "Dev Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed NOV 21, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, NO MEETING
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2013 for IT Pros", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, unconfirmed, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston

Mon NOV 26, 2012
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "WordPress as a Career and Book Launch Party", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Study Group, "Mobile apps with jQuery mobile", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
HTML5 Boston Group, "HTML5 Mobile Game Development", 7PM, Thomson Reuters, Boston

Tue NOV 27, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "informal, pay-your-own way dinner", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge

Wed NOV 28, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
DrinksOnTap Meetup, "Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development", 6PM, Tavern in the Square, Porter Square
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Web Odyssey: 2013", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Thu NOV 29, 2012
Google Developers Meetup, "Making Sense of Android Sensors", 6:30, Fidelity, 245 Summer St
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon DEC 03, 2012
The Data Scientist, "Seminar 6 - Visualizations", 6:15, Location TBD
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, "RavenDb.net", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta

Tue DEC 04, 2012
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Boston Tech Explorers Meetup, "Meet and Greet!", 7PM, location TBA

Wed DEC 05, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem

Thu DEC 06, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Mobile security talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte: Hacker vs. Hacker", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "MVC vs WebForms", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "KnockoutJS", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

Sat DEC 08, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLVI", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E-51, Room 061
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Mon DEC 10, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue DEC 11, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Margot Bloomstein", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed DEC 12, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston PHP Meetup, "How to Become a Web Developer", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Southern NE SQL Server, "Lightning talks", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, East Greenwich RI
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "Video & Captioning", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu DEC 13, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
Boston Azure Users, "AAD/Authentication and/or AAL", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE SQL Server Users Group, "TBD", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center

Wed DEC 19, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston
IT-Pro User Group, "Windows Server 2012 Launch", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Wed DEC 26, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, NO MEETING
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu JAN 03, 2013
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Building Windows Store Applications", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham

Mon JAN 07, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JAN 08, 2013
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed JAN 09, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Back Bay LISA, "LISA Recap", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu JAN 10, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
Boston Security Meetup, "Secure data deletion under linux", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Big Data and Cloud at Microsoft", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center

Sat JAN 12, 2013
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Mon JAN 14, 2013
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Wed JAN 16, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, topic TBD, 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Linux & Unix, "Android Sensing", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "Heroix Longitude", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu JAN 17, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Maqetta and Dojo Mobile", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

Tue JAN 22, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup, "informal, pay-your-own way dinner", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge

Wed JAN 23, 2013
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon JAN 28, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu JAN 31, 2013
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon FEB 04, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu FEB 07, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Intel security talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Mon FEB 11, 2013
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue FEB 12, 2013
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center

Thu FEB 14, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence

Wed FEB 20, 2013
IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Tue FEB 26, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup, "informal, pay-your-own way dinner", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge

Thu FEB 28, 2013
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAR 20, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XIII", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

NOV 05, 2012
National Information Security Group, "Securanoia - Boston 2012", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

NOV 16, 2012
Windows Server Users, "Windows 2012 Load Fest", 8AM-4PM, 1 Cambridge Center

NOV 20, 2012
Agile Boston, "4th Annual Give Thanks for Scrum", 9:30AM, 200 West St, Waltham

DEC 01, 2012
Boston Predictive Analytics, "R Bootcamp", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 08-10, 2013
Big Data TechCon, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

APR 23-24, 2013
BOSCON, Waltham Woods Conference Center

MAY 28-31, 2013
AnDevCon: Android DevCon Spring, Westin Waterfront

JUN 11-13, 2013
Red Hat Summit / JBoss World 2013, Hynes Convention Center

AUG 11-14, 2013
SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference, Boston


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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