Upcoming Developer Events(New England & Upstate NY)
It’s pretty amazing that this list already has events that bring us to the end of the year. Every year does seem to go more quickly than the last! Anyhow, here’s the latest list of developer-focused events you may find interesting as the remaining weeks of 2011 breeze by.
Most are free, and the exceptions are noted with [$].
As always, if you know of other (free or nearly free) developer-focused events, please let me know.
-Chris
November 14 Hartford Area Build Guild – Farmington, CT “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
December 7 Windows Azure DevCamp – Farmington, CT Free afternoon to evening event to help you learn about Windows Azure. Sessions in the afternoon, and hands-on hackathon in the evening.
December 14 Fairfield County SharePoint User Group – Fairfield, CT
December 14 Connecticut Access Users Group – Farmington, CT
Schedule TBA Agile Connecticut - Farmington, CT Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group - Bethany, CT Connecticut SharePoint User Group – Farmington, CT Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - Stamford, CT Hartford SQL Server Users Group – Farmington, CT New England Silverlight Guild – Hartford, CT
November 15 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME Windows Azure (w/RockPaperAzure) - Jim O’Neil
November 16 Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME Windows Azure (w/RockPaperAzure) - Jim O’Neil
Schedule TBA Agile User Group – Portland, ME Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME Usability / User Experience User Group – Portland, ME Web Designers User Group – Portland, ME (on Summer break)
November 14 Windows Phone Inner Circle – Cambridge, MA “Enjoy free appetizers and cocktails, be one of the first people to get your hands on incredible new Windows Phones, and meet the team that brought them to life.”
November 15 Boston New Technology Meetup – Boston, MA 6 presentations on what’s new in the startup scene
November 15 Harvard Tech Meetup – Boston, MA
November 15 Boston Predictive Analytics – Cambridge, MA ”Big Data” .. Applications from Enterprises to Individuals
November 16 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA “Enchant.js” - Ubiquitous Entertainment “Internet Explorer 9 & 10 and HTML5” – Chris Bowen
November 16 New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA “Developing Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) Applications”
November 16 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
November 17 HTML5 Game Camp – Cambridge, MA Free event w/ morning sessions on HTML5 & game dev, then the afternoon is a hands-on game dev hackathon!
November 17 Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA “Back to the Basics: What is Cloud, What is Azure, and Intro to Windows Azure”
November 17 Boston JavaScript Meetup – Boston, MA “JavaScript Style, Code Conventions & Quality” – Joe Morgan
November 17 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
November 17 North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA
November 17 Worcester Web Technology – Worcester, MA “Rackspace Tutorial” – Chris Johnson
November 17 Western Mass Developers’ Group – Hadley, MA
November 17 [$] EFactor Presents: Mobile App Accelerant – Boston, MA
November 18 Social Mobile Cloud Event – Boston, MA
November 19 AT&T Mobile App Hackathon – Boston, MA
November 19-20 Fall 2011 Boston Game Jam – Cambridge, MA
November 22 Cape Cod .NET User Group – Plymouth, MA “HTML5 – A Practical First Look” – Chris Bowen
November 22 New England Mobile .NET Developers’ Group – Cambridge, MA Microsoft’s Jesse Liberty
November 22 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA [$] “Give Thanks for SCRUM” – Honoring Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber
November 23 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
November 28 Boston WordPress – Cambridge, MA “WordPress, HTML5 Adoption, and Internet Explorer 9 & 10” – Chris Bowen “Caching, Scaling, and What I’ve Learned Programming for WordPress.com VIP” – Erick Hitter
November 28 Beantown ALT.NET Group – Cambridge, MA “Exploring Domain Driven Design Implementation Patterns in .NET” – Steve Bohlen
November 29 Web Innovators Group (webinno) – Cambridge, MA
November 29 Tech Tuesday: Meet the Rockstar Developers of Massachusetts – Cambridge, MA
November 30 Boston Front End Developers – Cambridge, MA “Implementing the New BostonGlobe.com” – Adam Salsman
December 1 Microsoft DevBoston (formerly Boston .NET & Beantown .NET) - Cambridge, MA “How to be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps” – Ben Day
December 1 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA “XBox/Kinect Using the .NET Framework” – Phil Denoncourt
December 1 HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
December 1 Boston Tech Meetup - Cambridge, MA
December 3-4 Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) – Cambridge, MA
December 5 New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA
December 6 Boston Web Performance Group – Boston, MA “Testing in the Cloud” – Dan Bartow
December 7 Boston Artists + Coders – Boston, MA “Playing with Music” – Echno Nest co-founder Tristan Jehan
December 8 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA “Enterprise Information Management” – Chad Gronbach
December 12 Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA
December 13 Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA
December 13 Build Guild – Salem, MA “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
December 13 Build Guild in Cape Cod – Sandwich, MA “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
December 14 Microsoft DevBoston (formerly Boston .NET & Beantown .NET) - Cambridge, MA “Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud Enabled Windows Phone Apps” – John Garland
December 14 Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA
December 14 North Shore .NET User Group - Ipswich, MA “Cloud Architecture Patterns” – Bill Wilder
December 14 Boston PHP Meetup – Cambridge, MA “Paper Prototyping: Sketching and Evaluating Your Design Concepts” – Christine Perfetti
New Group! December 15 Boston Orchard CMS Group – Cambridge, MA Kickoff Meeting
December 20 New England Mobile .NET Developers’ Group – Cambridge, MA
December 21 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
December 27 Beantown ALT.NET Group – Cambridge, MA “Introduction to MonoTouch” – Michael Bluestein
Schedule TBA Boston Arduino Users Group – Cambridge, MA Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston Business Intelligence – Waltham, MA Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA Boston Node.js Meetup – Boston, MA Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge, MA jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA Mobile Monday Boston – Boston, MA New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA New England Silverlight Guild – Cambridge, MA OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Cambridge, MA Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA UX Book Club, Boston – Cambridge, MA Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA
November 16 NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH “Developing Cloud-Enabled Windows Phone Applications with Windows Azure” – John Garland
November 16 NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH “XBOX / Kinect Using .NET Framework SDK” – Phil Denoncourt III
November 16 NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH “Real Projects with Entity Framework 4.1”
December 8 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH “SharePoint Loggins & Debugging: The Troubleshooter’s Best Friend” – Cornelius J. van Dyk & Jason Himmelstein
Schedule TBA Nashua Scrum Club – Nashua, NH Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH
November 15 Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group (Rochester chapter) – Rochester, NY
November 15 Windows Phone Camp – Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY Free and open to all. Afternoon w/ dev sessions followed by evening hands-on hackathon.
November 16 MS Dev WNY– Hamburg, NY “Introduction to HTML5 Development” – Patrick Lupiani
November 16 Build Guild – Troy, NY “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
November 17 VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY “Windows 8 Metro Development” – Steve Maier
November 21 Capital Area SQL Server Users Group – Albany, NY
December 2-4 RIT Game Camp – Rochester, NY Special free weekend, combining four events! A weekend-long Game Jam, along with “XNA in a Day”, HTML5 Camp, and Windows Phone Game/App Camps on Saturday.
December 6 AppRochester – Rochester, NY
December 7 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
December 20 Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group (Rochester chapter) – Rochester, NY
Schedule TBA Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Rochester, NY Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group (Syracuse chapter) – Syracuse, NY Western New York Back Office Technology User Group – Blasdell, NY Western NY SQL Server PASS – Amherst, NY
November 16 Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
December 8 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
December 13 Tech Club Rhode Island – Providence, RI End of Year Celebration
Schedule TBA Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI
November 17 Burlington PHP Users Group – Burlington, VT ”Building Faster Websites”
December 5 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT “WCF RIA Services” – Kathleen MacMahon
Schedule TBA Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT