User Group events: See list below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed MAR 13, 2013 Boston Area SAS Users Group quarterly meeting, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lexington Computer and Technology, "Dragon Software: Product and Technology Background", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Providence Geeks, "the ABCya.com story", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence 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 Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2013 Provider Hosted Apps", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Worcester Linux Users, "Your Favorite Android Apps", 7PM, WPI Campus Center Back Bay LISA, "Mastering Human Communication Patterns for Techies", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149 Thu MAR 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 Embedded Systems Meetup, "Kickoff Meeting", 6PM, Foliage, Burlington NE SQL Server Users Group, "DBA/DB Dev Open Q&A Panel", 6:30, One Cambridge Center Openstack Boston Meetup, "Hyper-V update for OpenStack Grizzly", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 Sat MAR 16, 2013 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence Mon MAR 18, 2013 North Shore TECH Meetup, "Bimonthly Social", 6:30 PM, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers Boston Wordpress Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue MAR 19, 2013 SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Agile Resiliency", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford NE Area SMS Users, "Deploy, Manage Virtual Apps, Settings w System Center", 6PM, TechTarget, Newton Wed MAR 20, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Tentative: Update on Security SW and more", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Boston Riak Meetup, "Basho Office Hours", 10AM, Basho Tech, Cambridge NH SolidWorks Users, "eDrawings for Desktop and iOS", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH NE Midrange Users Group $, "How Not to Become a Business Refugee", 6PM, Clarion Inn, Seekonk $ NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Manchester Community College Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XIII: GlusterFS", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 Open Analytics Boston, "Discussion about Semantic and Structural Conflicts of Data", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Natl Info Security Group, "Incident Response and Malware Detection Using Traffic Analysis", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI Thu MAR 21, 2013 UPA Boston Chapter, "Work Life Balance as an Independent Consultant", 6PM, Bentley Univ New Technology Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Hult International Business School, Cambridge Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "High Performance Agile Teams", 7PM, WPI Providence JavaScript Meetup, "JavaScript Patterns in Objective-C", 7PM, Swipley, 39 Pike St RI/So MA SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, Bard (Davol), Warwick RI Mon MAR 25, 2013 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Tue MAR 26, 2013 Web Start Women Boston, "JavaScript / jQuery (4-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center Refresh Boston, "Designing Design Teams", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed MAR 27, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Skype: Dick Bolander", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Boston PHP Meetup, "W3C at Boston PHP", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Azure Cloud Meetup, "APM meeting Cloud", 6PM, Microsoft NERD Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Thu MAR 28, 2013 Ember.js Meetup, "OpenHack event", 6PM, Dockyard, 101 Tremont St Web Start Women Boston, "Photoshop: Designing for the Web (2 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon APR 01, 2013 New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue APR 02, 2013 Software Engineers Meetup, "Cloud Data Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St Boston Network Users, "Next Generation Firewall", 7PM, NE Rehab, Woburn Wed APR 03, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "(unconfirmed) Telescopes part 1", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Boston Riak Meetup, "Basho Office Hours", 10AM, Basho Tech, Cambridge RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem NH Seacoast Wordpress Meetup, 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH 495 Web Prof Meetup, "Networking", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin Thu APR 04, 2013 Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston Agile New England, "The Case for Agile Practices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Windows 8 Phone Development", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Sat APR 06, 2013 Boston Security Meetup, "8 hours of cracking external defenses & pivoting / cyber security 101", 9:30, Microsoft NERD Tue APR 09, 2013 NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall 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 Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Top 10 Ways that SharePoint Will Help Drive End User Adoption", 3PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Thu APR 11, 2013 Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (2 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center NE SQL Server Users Group, "Deciding Between Relational Databases and Storage Tables in the Cloud", 6:30, One Cambridge Center Tue APR 16, 2013 SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed APR 17, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Obtaining a domain and website hosting service", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Providence Geeks, "topic*tbd", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence RI Ruby Meetup, "Ruby Groups: Act Locally - Think Globally", 6PM, location TBA Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 IT-Pro User Group, "Server manager essentials", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI Boston PHP Meetup, "Solution Design", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu APR 18, 2013 Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, topics TBD, 8:30AM, EMC, Hopkinton Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Twitter Bootstrap: Simple HTML, CSS, and JS for user interfaces", 7PM, WPI 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 Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Python Meetup, "April Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu MAY 02, 2013 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Agile New England, "Making Product Decisions with a Practical, Sustainable Value Model", 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham Mon MAY 06, 2013 New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Python Meetup, "May Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue MAY 07, 2013 Azure Cloud Meetup, "PowerShell on Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St Wed MAY 08, 2013 SW Quality Group of NE, "Risk-based Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Search in SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue MAY 14, 2013 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St 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 IT-Pro User Group, "Deep Dive into Hyper-V", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI Tue MAY 21, 2013 SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Current State of Healthcare Medical Device Security and You", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed MAY 22, 2013 Boston PHP Meetup, "Universal Analytics: The Future of Digital Measurement", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu MAY 23, 2013 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using LESS or SASS to improve your CSS workflow", 7PM, check website Mon MAY 27, 2013 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Thu MAY 30, 2013 Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace has an Azure Framework", 6PM, Microsoft NERD Thu JUN 06, 2013 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford 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 Thu JUN 13, 2013 Boston Security Meetup, "Sec problems in postvirtualized environment + Mobile apps in insecure platforms", 6 PM, Jobspring, Boston Tue JUN 18, 2013 SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed JUN 19, 2013 Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Build, Customize or Buy?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 IT-Pro User Group, "Jack Danial - open source and security expert", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI Thu JUN 20, 2013 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery to Create Images, Graphs and a Coloring Book", 7PM, WPI 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 Wed JUL 17, 2013 Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 Thu JUL 25, 2013 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps Using Only Your Web Browser", 7PM, WPI Thu AUG 08, 2013 Boston Security Meetup, "Abusing HTML5 + Striking back at polymorphic viruses", 6 PM, Jobspring, Boston Wed AUG 21, 2013 Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: MAR 15-17, 2013 New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Colonial Hotel, Wakefield MAR 16-17, 2013 The Northeast GNU/Linuxfest, Harvard University MAR 23, 2013 Tech Day Camp, Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School, Franklin MAR 25-26, 2013 Isovera, "Drupal 7 Layout and Theming", Waltham 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 MAY 29, 2013 Boston UXPA, "Usability and User Experience 2013", Sheraton Boston Hotel 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.