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

Tue DEC 18, 2012
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Funded Founders Panel", 8AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Scrum: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Windows 8 App Developers Meetup, "Windows Phone 8 Apps", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Hacking Predictive Analytics Meetup, "Hackathon", 7PM, Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

Wed DEC 19, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Final Cut 10 video editing and some Photoshop editing", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Holiday Season Reception", 6PM
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Windows Phone 8", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH .NET Users, "OOP in JavaScript", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "10-MInute Talks on User Experience Topics", 6PM, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth NH
Boston Linux & Unix, "Building an ARM Laptop with Raspberry Pi", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Natl Info Security Group, "CSI - How Log Analysis Succeeds when Other Controls Fail", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston
Node.js in the Wild Meetup, "Node.js in an embedded environment", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
IT-Pro User Group, "Windows Server 2012 Launch", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu DEC 20, 2012
Virtualization User Group, "Meet With The Virtualization Experts", 6PM, Microsoft, 1 Cambridge Center
App Dev Meetup, "Non-technical challenges", 6PM, Waltham Public Library
Manchester Adobe Meetup, "the new Creative Cloud", 6PM, Manchester Community College
North Shore Web Geeks, "networking and holiday cheer", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport
Avid Geo Meetup, "coordinates, esri api, Open Street Maps, and more", 7PM, location TBD

Fri DEC 21, 2012
North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Wed DEC 26, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, NO MEETING

Wed JAN 02, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, NO MEETING
Windows Server Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem
MacTechGroup Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu JAN 03, 2013
FOSS User Group, Natick, topic TBD, 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Building Windows Store Applications", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Mon JAN 07, 2013
Boston Python Meetup, "January Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore TECH Meetup, 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers

Tue JAN 08, 2013
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, "Certificates, SSL, CSRs, and multi-factor auth", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
MIT Drupal Meetup, 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145

Wed JAN 09, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Setting up Web Sites by George Gamota", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Best Productivity Features in SP2013", 6PM, location TBD
SW Quality Group of NE, "How and why we transitioned to Agile", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Hadoop Meetup, "Apache Accumulo", 6:30, Hack/Reduce, Cambridge
Boston UX Social Hour, "connect up with UX professionals", 6:30PM, MeadHall, 4 Cambridge Ctr
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 Java Users Group, "Getting started developing with a PaaS", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
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
Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Marketing + Advertising", 6PM, Seaport Hotel
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Introduction to NuoDB", 7PM, location TBD

Tue JAN 15, 2013
NH SolidWorks Users, "Property Tab Builder, Title Block Table, World Model Mania Files", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
Boston Java Meetup, "Scaling Java Apps with Elastic Database Virtualization", 6:30PM, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Web Performance Meetup, "Analyzing the Impact of Content and SEO on Performance", 6:30, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston

Wed JAN 16, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Update on Security Software by Gary Patrick", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability Speed Dating", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston Mobile C# Dev Meetup, "Data Visualization with MonoTouch using NucliOS", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Maqetta and Dojo Mobile", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester
BostonCHI, IEEE, & GBC/ACM, "Jared Spool: Topic TBA", 7 pm, Constant Contact, Waltham

Mon JAN 21, 2013
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "co-founder of IBE.net", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Hacking Predictive Analytics Meetup, "Hackathon", 7PM, Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

Tue JAN 22, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup informal dinner, 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge

Wed JAN 23, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Computer & Internet Safety by Lexington Police", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Forget Frameworks: Create Your Own Flexible Grid System", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Thu JAN 24, 2013
Boston Python Meetup, "January Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Thu FEB 01, 2013
Practice Python Coding Meetup, "Pending: Mentor Connect Meeting -- Connecting Beginners w/ Mentors", 6:30, TBD

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

Tue FEB 05, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Boston Python Meetup, "February Project Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 06, 2013
Windows Server Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem

Thu FEB 07, 2013
FOSS User Group, Natick, topic TBD, 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
Boston Security Meetup, "Intel security talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Intro to Machine Learning", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat FEB 09, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "details will be announced at the beginning of February", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

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

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

Wed FEB 13, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Implementing Quality as a Platform", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Thu FEB 14, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Rocking the Gradle", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham

Wed FEB 20, 2013
IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI
Boston Linux & Unix, "IPv6 on a Home Network", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Thu FEB 21, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps", 7PM, WPI

Mon FEB 25, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 1", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu FEB 28, 2013
Boston Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace from Objective Logistics", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 05, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed MAR 06, 2013
Windows Server Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center

Thu MAR 07, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Security & Hacking...from the hardware side", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Sat MAR 09, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Wed MAR 13, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Use Cases for Requirements and Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Thu MAR 14, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery to Create Images, Graphs and a Coloring Book", 7PM, WPI

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

Thu MAR 21, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "High Performance Agile Teams", 7PM, WPI

Tue APR 02, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Thu APR 04, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Wed APR 10, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Testing Mobile Apps", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed MAY 08, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Risk-based Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed MAY 15, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Demystifying UEFI", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Wed JUN 12, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Annual Election of Officers ", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed JUL 10, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

JAN 18, 2013
Mad*Pow: Beyond Gamification: Designing Behavior Change Games, Boston

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)

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

Boston TechVenue Calendar

Boston Events List for Professionals

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