User Group events: See list below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Thu JAN 10, 2013 Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Dimensional Management", 5:30, Tewksbury Country Club Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Mold / Tool /Die 101, Sustainability Intro", 5:30, ProSource, Waltham Boston Security Meetup, "Secure data deletion under linux", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston NH SharePoint User Group, "10 Best Productivity Features In SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua 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 NH Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, ABI Innovation Hub, Manchester NH Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (pt 1)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center NE SQL Server Users Group, "Big Data and Cloud at Microsoft", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center OpenStack User Meetup, "New Year Kick-Off Party", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge North Shore Computer Society, " Identity Theft and Computer Security", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372 Sat JAN 12, 2013 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Vibug Post-holiday Party", 1-4PM, Boston Beer Works, 61 Brookline Ave North Shore TECH Meetup, "3D Printing Presentation", 2PM, Custom Heat LLC, Danvers Mon JAN 14, 2013 Revit Meetup Group, "Review of Autodesk 360 Cloud Services", 5:30, Autodesk, Waltham Storm Meetup Group, "Getting started with Storm", 6PM, Visible Measures, 143 South Street Nashua Adobe Meetup Group, "Photoshop CS6 Power Hour", 6PM, Renaissance Downtowns, Nashua NH 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 Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "real-world examples of AWS usage", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue JAN 15, 2013 NH SolidWorks Users, "Property Tab Builder, Title Block Table, World Model Mania Files", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Writing Effective User Stories", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Google Developer's Group Boston, "Developer Presentations App Engine", 6:15, EnerNOC Inc, 101 Federal St, Boston Web Start Women Boston, "Version Control with Git (pt 2)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center 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 Central Mass Adobe Meetup, "InDesign with Randall Warniers", 6:30, location TBA Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St Wed JAN 16, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Anti-malware and anti-virus software: Gary Patrick", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Submodeling, Library Feature 101", 5:30, Assabet Valley Reg Tech H S, Marlborough Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability Speed Dating", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Midrange Users Group, "PHP/IBM IBM i Toolkit", 6PM, Clarion Inn, Seekonk 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 Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (pt 2)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center 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: It's a Great Time to be a UX Designer", 7PM, Constant Contact, Waltham Fri JAN 18, 2013 North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Sat JAN 19, 2013 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence Mon JAN 21, 2013 North Shore TECH Meetup bimonthly social, 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers 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 Web Start Women Boston, "Version Control with Git (pt 3)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center Boston MySQL Meetup informal dinner, 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Manchester NH Linux Users, "Primer on IPv6 on Linux", 7PM, The Farm, 1181 Elm St Wed JAN 23, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Computer & Internet Safety by Lexington Police Dept", 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 Interactions, "our annual winter party", 6PM, The Asgard, Cambridge Natl Info Security Group, "Smoking Guns in the Windows Registry", 6:30, 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 Tech In Motion Boston, "Perform Better in 2013", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library Tue JAN 29, 2013 Greater Boston Chapter of ACM, "Playing with WaveForms: Cypress PSOC and Oscilloscopes", 6PM, Lincoln Lab, Lexington Wed JAN 30, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "The Ever-changing Climate Change by George Gamota", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center 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 Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed FEB 06, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Potpurri: Using our Yahoo group and other discussion", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center Windows Server Meetup and Group, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College Desktop GNU/Linux Meetup, "How to Build a Home/Media Server with GNU/Linux", 6:30, MIT bldg E51 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 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 Artificial Intelligence meetup, 6PM, Google, Cambridge 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 Build Guild in Cape Cod monthly gathering of web folks, 6:30, BBC, Sandwich Wed FEB 13, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Topic TBA", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center SW Quality Group of NE, "Implementing Quality as a Platform", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington So NE SQL Server, "Windowing Functions and SQL Server ~ Christina Leo", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI Thu FEB 14, 2013 Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence Wed FEB 20, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Picasa Revisited by Gerry Sauermann", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center 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 Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 1", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed FEB 27, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Topic TBA", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center 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 Tue MAR 12, 2013 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St Wed MAR 13, 2013 SW Quality Group of NE, "Use Cases for Requirements and Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington So NE SQL Server, "Specific Techniques to Make Queries Faster ~ Andy Novick", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI Thu MAR 14, 2013 NE Java Users Group, "Rocking the Gradle", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham 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 Open Analytics Boston, "Discussion about Semantic and Structural Conflicts of Data", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 So NE SQL Server, "Hey! DBAs! You’re doing it wrong! ~ Mike Walsh", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 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 So NE SQL Server, "SQL Server Development and Administration Tips and Tricks", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI Wed JUN 12, 2013 SW Quality Group of NE, "Annual Election of Officers ", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington So NE SQL Server, "Using File Partitioning And Data Compression.... ~ John Miner", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 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 JAN 24, 2013 Drupal 7 in a Day, Waltham JAN 26, 2013 Seacoast Wordpress Developers, "Intro to WordPress class (for beginners)", 8:30-2:30, Portsmouth, NH MAR 16-17, 2013 The Northeast GNU/Linuxfest, Harvard University 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 10-14, 2013 Red Hat Summit / JBoss World 2013, Hynes Convention Center AUG 11-14, 2013 SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference, Boston SEP 10-12, 2013 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference(HPEC ‘13), Westin Hotel, Waltham 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
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.