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

Mon FEB 04, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 3PM, Microsoft Store, 800 Boylston St
Predictive Analytics Meetup, "unWorkshop", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
MV Software Engineers Meetup, "Jim O'Neil, Microsoft Evangelist", 6PM, location TBA
North Shore TECH Meetup bimonthly social, 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers
Hacking Predictive Analytics App, "Hackathon", 7PM, Venture Cafe @ Cambridge Innovation Center, 4th Fl
Providence Functional Programmers Meetup, 7PM, Swipley offices, 39 Pike St

Tue FEB 05, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Workshop: Building Windows 8 Apps with C#/XAML", 1-4PM, One Cambridge Center
Web Start Women Boston, "WordPress: Installation to Plugins (pt 1)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
MIT Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center E51-145
Boston Network Users, "Comparing Windows Server 2012 & Windows 8", 6:30, NE Rehab Hospital, Woburn
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
Lexington Computer & Technology, "Malwarebytes in safe mode & join and use our Yahoo Group", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Workshop: Introduction to Creating Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript & HTML", 1-4PM, One Cambridge Center
Technical Skills Share Meetup, 1:30, Acton Memorial Library
Windows Server Meetup and Group, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center
Oracle NoSQL Meetup, "Big Data and Oracle", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College
Web Start Women Boston, "CSS Basics (pt 2)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Desktop GNU/Linux Meetup & Boston Linux & Unix, "How to Build a Home/Media Server with GNU/Linux", 6:30, MIT E51-372
Oracle DBA SIG, "Exadata from Beginners to Advanced", 6:30, Doubletree, Westborough
New Technology Meetup, "Networking Night & Web Design ", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston PHP Meetup, "The Reverse Startup", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Seacoast Wordpress Meetup, 7PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH

Thu FEB 07, 2013
FOSS User Group, Natick, topic TBD, 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
ESRI Dev Meetup, 5:30, Bell in Hand, 45-55 Union St
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "ReShoring", 5:30, Marlborough Courtyard Marriott
Microsoft DevBoston Meetup, "How is Architecting for the Cloud Different?", 6PM, One Cambridge Center
Boston Security Meetup, "Hacking communications with android + Secure API", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Agile New England, "Lean Startup and the Enterprise", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NH Seacoast Drupal, topics TBD, 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
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
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces", 7PM, location TBD

Fri FEB 08, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Windows Phone JumpStart", 8:30AM-5PM, One Cambridge Center

Sat FEB 09, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Google Translate, Fleksy,  music playlists", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134
Hacking Predictive Analytics App, "Hackathon", 1:15PM, Cambridge Innovation Center - 5th Floor

Mon FEB 11, 2013
Boston Tech Happy Hour Meetup, 6PM, location TBD
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL Monthly Meetup", 7PM, location TBD
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "real-world examples of AWS usage", 7PM, MathWorks, Natick

Tue FEB 12, 2013
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
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, "Getting Closure", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Documents: PDF Parsing", 6:30PM, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center
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
BostonCHI, "Using eCommerce Techniques to 'Sell' Science", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Facebook Developers, "Growth Hacking the Open Graph", 6:30, Tavern in the Square
Boston Unity Group, "Virtual-Holographic Computing with zSpace and Unity", 7PM, Bocoup Loft
Graphic Design Meetup, "Learn How to Build a Stunning Website", 7PM, Oficio, 30 Newbury St
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed FEB 13, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Potpurri: Computer Q&A and more demos", 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
Back Bay LISA, "Centrify From a Sysadmin Perspective", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, WPI Campus Center

Thu FEB 14, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Dealing with Large Codebases", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston UXPA, "Transforming your UX team through Collaboration", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Start Women Boston, "CSS: Positioning & Layouts (pt 1)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center

Sat FEB 16, 2013
Boston PHP Meetup, "Developer Dorm Room", 9AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon FEB 18, 2013
Boston Wordpress Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue FEB 19, 2013
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Your IT career: Get Noticed, Get Promoted", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed FEB 20, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Picasa Revisited by Gerry Sauermann", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, ".NET and Architecture - 11 years later", 6PM, Mobuiquity, Inc. Waltham
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Data Visualization in SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH .NET Users, "Windows 8/Windows Azure Mobile Services", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
RI Ruby Meetup, "Contributing to the Ruby language", 6PM, location TBA
NE SQL Server Users Group, "DB Dev with SQL Server Data Tools", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Boston Linux & Unix, "IPv6 on a Home Network", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "Allworks IP Phone System", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu FEB 21, 2013
ASQ Boston $, "Case Study on Lean Six Sigma", 6PM, Embassy Suites Waltham $
NH SharePoint User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Refresh Boston, "Honest SEO", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps", 7PM, WPI

Sat FEB 23, 2013
NH Drupal Groups, "First BI-ANNUAL NH Drupal Summit", 1-7PM, The Barley House, Concord NH

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

Tue FEB 26, 2013
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed FEB 27, 2013
Lexington Computer and Tech, "Routers: firmware update, convert to repeater, configuration", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 2", 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
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri MAR 01, 2013
495 Web Professionals Meetup, "Greet and Meet Networking", 7PM, Panera Bread, Franklin

Sat MAR 02, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLVII", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E-51, Room 061

Mon MAR 04, 2013
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

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

Wed MAR 06, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "potpurri:  TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 3", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Mon MAR 11, 2013
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "real-world examples of AWS usage", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston MySQL Meetup, "OpenStack", 7PM, location TBD

Tue MAR 12, 2013
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
BostonCHI, "topic tbd", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAR 13, 2013
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topics TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Dragon Software: Product and Technology Background", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
NE SQL Server Users Group, "DBA/DB Dev Open Q&A Panel", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery to Create Images, Graphs and a Coloring Book", 7PM, WPI

Mon MAR 18, 2013
Boston Wordpress Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAR 20, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Tentative: Update on Security SW and more", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

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

Mon MAR 25, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed MAR 27, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Skype: Dick Bolander", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center

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

Wed APR 03, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "(unconfirmed)  Telescopes part 1", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center

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

Tue APR 09, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston Python Meetup, "April Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed APR 10, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "The Human Genome by Allan Kleinman", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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 APR 17, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Obtaining a domain and website hosting service", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Thu APR 18, 2013
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, topics TBD, 8:30AM, EMC, Hopkinton

Mon APR 22, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed APR 24, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Building a Website using Weebly", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center

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

Mon MAY 27, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

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 JUN 19, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Mon JUN 24, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

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


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

FEB 08, 2013
Windows Phone Development JumpStart, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center

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

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