User Group events: See list below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Sat APR 13, 2013 Windows App Dev Meetup, "Boston Hackathon", 9AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center Boston Python Meetup, "CPython development sprint for new contributors", 11AM-5PM, MIT, room 4-159 RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "from 10:00 until noon, we will have an iPhone training session", MIT Building 5, room 134 Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "translation app, two tutorials, prescription system", 12:30-2PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Boston d3.js User Group, "Open Discussion - Hackday", 2PM, Cambridge Innovation Center Sun APR 14, 2013 Code for Boston Meetup, "Urbanite Extended Hack Session", 3PM, Darwin's Ltd, 148 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge Mon APR 15, 2013 North Shore TECH Meetup, "Bimonthly Social", 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Adobe Boston, 6:30, @NU Egan Education Center Hacking Predictive Analytics App $, "Hackathon", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center Tue APR 16, 2013 Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Managing Virtual Meetings for Real Results", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford NSCoder Boston Meetup, coding alone together, 6PM, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave WordPress Providence Meetup, "Mobile Ready Responsive Sliders and Slideshows", 6PM, The Design Office, Providence RI Concord .NET Meetup, "Win 8 Apps Boot Camp", 6PM, NHTI, Concord NH App Development Meetup $, "Developers meet Recruiters", 6:30, location TBA $ Boston Predictive Analytics, "Interactive Web Visualizations using D3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Code Mentors Boston Meetup, "Weekly Practice @ Backupify", 7PM, 486 Green St, Cambridge Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center Wed APR 17, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Owning your own Domain on the Internet", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Providence Geeks, "topic*tbd", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence Boston PHP Meetup Job Fair, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH .NET Users, Nashua Cloud .NET "Basic Windows Phone 8 App Dev with XAML & C# ", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Biting the Apple While Avoiding the Worm", 6PM, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth NH RI Ruby Meetup, "Ruby Groups: Act Locally - Think Globally", 6PM, location TBA Boston Linux & Unix, "Whilrpools, Maelstroms, and Maytags", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 Cold Fusion Meetup, "Data Visualization Using D3.js", 6:30, Vertex, Marina Park Drive Natl Info Security Group, "Bulletproof IT Security", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston PHP Meetup, "Solution Design", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Fighting the Bar Chart: Workshop at MIT", 7PM, MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "LinkedIn for Professionals", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center IT-Pro User Group, "Server manager essentials", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI Node.js in the wild Meetup, "Debugging Node.js Applications", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St HTML5 Game Dev Meetup, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St NetSquared Boston Meetup, "Fighting the Bar Chart: Workshop at MIT", 7PM Thu APR 18, 2013 Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, topics TBD, 8:30AM, EMC, Hopkinton Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Twitter Bootstrap: Simple HTML, CSS, and JS for user interfaces", 7PM, WPI Fri APR 19, 2013 North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Sat APR 20, 2013 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence Boston Arduino Meetup, "Hardware Freedom Day", 7PM, Sprout, Somerville Mon APR 22, 2013 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Burlington Boston Wordpress Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue APR 23, 2013 Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "April product showcase - 28th edition!", 6 PM, StartupLab, Allston Web Start Women Boston, "Web Applications: PHP (4 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center NE Info Tech Pro Meetup, "Early Experts Study Group", 6:30 pm, Microsoft, 1 Cambridge Center Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Code Mentors Boston Meetup, "Weekly Practice @ Backupify", 7PM, 486 Green St, Cambridge 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 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge NE SiteCore Meetup, "Responsive Design & Sitecore", 6PM, 281 Summer St., Boston, Agile Boston, "Are You Agile/Agile?", 6:30, 200 West St, Waltham Boston Python Meetup, "April Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Ember.js Meetup, Front End Dev Meetup, "Introduction to Ember", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Dave Winer: Using HTML 5 as a platform", 7 pm, Boston Globe Thu APR 25, 2013 Boston Jaspersoft Meetup, "Cloud Reporting Framework", 4PM, Sheraton Commander, Cambridge Agile Boston, "Are You Agile/Agile?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Web Start Women Boston, "CSS Basics (2 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue APR 30, 2013 Tech in motion Meetup, "Azure vs. Open Source Cloud Services", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed MAY 01, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Potpourri and Q&A", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College 495 Web Prof Meetup, "Content Curation", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin JavaScript Meetup, "May project night", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St MacTechGroup Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu MAY 02, 2013 Agile New England, "Making Product Decisions with a Practical, Sustainable Value Model", 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham Software Engineers Meetup, "Cloud Data Night", 6:30, NUODB, 215 First St, Cambridge Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Mon MAY 06, 2013 Boston Python Meetup, "May Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge North Shore TECH Meetup, "Bimonthly Social", 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers Tue MAY 07, 2013 NE Info Tech Pro Meetup, "IT LAB - Server 2012", 9 am, New Horizons, Waltham NE Info Tech Pro Meetup, "IT LAB - Server 2012", 1 pm, New Horizons, Waltham Azure Cloud Meetup, "PowerShell on Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD Web Performance Meetup, "What if your database could be elastic?", 6:30, Wayfair, 177 Huntington Ave Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed MAY 08, 2013 Lexington Computer and Technology, "Running Mac OSX on a Dell PC", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center SW Quality Group of NE, "Risk-based Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Search in SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Java Meetup, "Java and History", 6PM, Harvard Univ Thu MAY 09, 2013 Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 Noon, Providence Web Start Women Boston, "CSS: Positioning & Layouts (4-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center NE SQL Server Users Group, topic TBD, 6:30, One Cambridge Center Sat MAY 11, 2013 RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence Mon MAY 13, 2013 NH WordPress Meetup, "Child Themes Made Easy", 6:30, The Farm Bar & Grille, Manchester NH Wikipedia Meetup, 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD Boston MySQL Meetup, "VoltDB", 7PM, location TBA Tue MAY 14, 2013 Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center New England M Users, "iKnow: Mining an legal case for data", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St eXtreme Tuesday Meetup, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston.pm (Perl), topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Room E51-376 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 Mon MAY 20, 2013 Hacking Predictive Analytics App $, "Hackathon", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center 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 Boston Predictive Analytics, "Project, Networking, and Startup Night", 6 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, Burlington Adobe Boston, 6:30, Northeastern Univ Thu MAY 30, 2013 Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace has an Azure Framework", 6PM, Microsoft NERD Fri MAY 31, 2013 Windows Server Users, "Windows Server 2012 Loadfest", 8:30AM-4PM, One Cambridge Center Tue JUN 04, 2013 Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St Thu JUN 06, 2013 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Mon JUN 10, 2013 Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, topic and location TBA Tue JUN 11, 2013 Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St 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", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston NE SQL Server Users Group, "Database Design With CA and SoftMart", 6:30, One Cambridge Center 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, Burlington Fri JUN 28, 2013 Boston Area SAS Users Group quarterly meeting, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed JUL 10, 2013 SW Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Wed JUL 17, 2013 Boston Linux & Unix, "Sonar GNU/Linux distribution", 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, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 Wed SEP 18, 2013 IT-Pro User Group, "Microsoft Surface Tablet", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: APR 12, 2013 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, "2013 Student Research Conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge APR 23-24, 2013 BOSCON, Waltham Woods Conference Center APR 26, 2013 Drupal 7 in a Day, 460 Totten Pond Road, Waltham APR 26-28, 2013 GiveCamp a way for technical and design people to help nonprofit agencies meet their IT needs APR 27, 2013 Global Windows Azure Bootcamp, Nutter, McClennen & Fish, 155 Seaport Blvd MAY 18, 2013 Security BSides Boston, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge MAY 28-31, 2013 AnDevCon: Android DevCon Spring, Westin Waterfront MAY 31, 2013 Windows Server 2012 Loadfest, One Cambridge Center MAY 29, 2013 Boston UXPA, "Usability and User Experience 2013", Sheraton Boston Hotel JUN 08, 2013 Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM, "Improving User Experience for the Very First Time", Harvard Univ. JUN 10-14, 2013 Red Hat Summit / JBoss World 2013, Hynes Convention Center JUN 22-23, 2013 Design for Drupal web design camp, MIT Stata Center JUL 27-28, 2013 Boston Predictive Analytics, "Python Data Science Workshops", (currently in the planning stages), Microsoft NERD, Cambridge AUG 11-14, 2013 SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference, Boston AUG 16-18, 2013 Northeast PHP 2013 Conference, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge SEP 10-12, 2013 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference(HPEC '13), Westin Hotel, Waltham NOV 08-15, 2013 Better Software & Agile Development East, Hynes Convention Center 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 Bentley University Usability Center - User Experience Certificate program 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.