Here’s the latest roundup of tech- and developer-focused events here in the northeast. Most are free, but the exceptions are noted with [$].
As always, if you know of other free or nearly free developer-focused events, please let me know.
-Chris
[Last updated 5/4/2012]
May 1 Agile Connecticut - Farmington, CT
May 3 Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT “MoCloud: Useful Cloud Patterns for Mobile Developers” – Dani Diaz
May 8 Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT “Windows 8 Development” – Chris Bowen
May 9 Connecticut Access Users Group – Farmington, CT
May 14 Hartford Area Build Guild – Farmington, CT “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
May 23 Windows 8 Developer Camp – Farmington, CT A free, full day for developers to learn about Windows 8, including sessions and hands-on labs Chris Bowen & Rachel Appel
June 7 Hartford Tech Meetup – Hartford, CT
June 23 Fifth Annual Hartford Code Camp – Farmington, CT
Schedule TBA Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group - Bethany, CT Connecticut SharePoint User Group – Farmington, CT Connecticut Web Innovators ��� Hartford, CT Fairfield County SharePoint User Group – Fairfield, CT Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - Stamford, CT
May 10 Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME “Advanced JavaScript Techniques” – Fritz Onion
May 22 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
June 26 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
Schedule TBA Agile User Group – Portland, ME Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME SharePoint Maine User Group – Portland, ME Usability / User Experience User Group – Portland, ME Web Designers User Group – Portland, ME
May 1 Boston Business Intelligence – Waltham, MA “Introduction to BI Semantic Model” – Slava Kokaev
May 1 Boston Predictive Analytics – Cambridge, MA
May 2 Code Mastery – Waltham, MA A free, full-day tech event by Magenic. Features two tracks: “Future of Development” and “Developing a BI System Using SQL Server 2012”.
May 2 The Road to Windows 8! – Waltham, MA “A free, unbiased look at the current and future development with Windows 8 and .NET.” - Markus Egger
May 2 Boston Tech Meetup - Cambridge, MA “Did WordPress Do That?” – Jon Bishop
May 2 Boston PHP Meetup – Cambridge, MA “Show ‘n Tell Night”
May 3 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA “An Introduction to Windows 8” – Chris Bowen
May 3 (first of 4 classes) [$] Web Start Women Boston – Cambridge, MA ”Wrangling HTML/CSS”
May 4-6 New England GiveCamp – Cambridge, MA A weekend for tech professionals to donate time and talent to support local charities and non-profit organizations.
May 5 Boston Innovation Challenge – Allston, MA
May 7 New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA TBD – Keith Battocchi
May 7 New England Artificial Intelligence – TBD “AI, Pizza, & Beer”
May 8 DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge, MA
May 8 Build Guild – Salem and Cape Cod “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
May 9 Drinks on Tap – Allston, MA ”Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development'”
May 9 Emerging Business Tech – Cambridge, MA “NoSQL in the Real World”
May 9 Breakfast at Telerik: Agile – Waltham, MA
May 9 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
May 9 (first of 2 classes) [$] Web Start Women Boston – Cambridge, MA ”Photoshop: Designing for the Web”
May 10 Microsoft Web Camp – Waltham, MA A free, full-day event focused on web development topics including HTML5, ASP.NET 4.5, WebMatrix, jQuery, Internet Explorer 9 & 10, and more.
May 10 Microsoft DevBoston – Cambridge, MA “Developing Software for Windows 8” – Chris Bowen
May 10 Worcester Web Technology – Worcester, MA “Agile Testing”
May 10 Boston Software Engineering Meetup – Boston, MA “Nanotechnology | Small Scale Software Engineering”
May 10 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA “How Not to Be a Cranky DBA” – Mike Hillwig
May 14 Boston Software Craftsmanship – Cambridge, MA Lightning Talks
May 14 [$] Tech Cocktail Sessions Boston – Cambridge, MA ”Startup Inspiration: Turning Ideas Into Action”
May 14 Boston WordPress – Cambridge, MA
May 15 Hacks / Hackers Boston – Boston, MA ”Using mapping to inform the world”
May 16 Boston New Technology Meetup – Cambridge, MA Tech products and startup community
May 16 Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
May 16 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
May 17 Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA “Taking the Plunge” – Mike Kivikoski
May 19 SQL Saturday Boston – Waltham, MA A free full day of sessions for anyone looking to learn more about SQL Server.
May 22 Windows 8 Developer Camp – Waltham, MA A free, full day for developers to learn about Windows 8, including sessions and hands-on labs Chris Bowen & Rachel Appel
May 23 Boston Orchard CMS User Group – Cambridge, MA “Orchard CMS Boston Feature Development for v1.4”
May 23 jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA “Five minute lightning talks!”
May 23 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
May 23 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA
May 24 Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA “Windows 8” – Chris Bowen
May 24 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
May 29 Boston Software Engineering Meetup – Cambridge, MA “Robotics | AI | Big Data”
May 30 Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA “Hands-On with the Windows Azure SDK (Bring Your Own Laptop!)” – Jason Haley
May 30 Boston Tech Meetup - Cambridge, MA “Jobspring and Workbridge Career Fair” & ”Start-up Panel Discussion”
May 30 HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
June 4 Cloudy Mondays – Cambridge, MA “Control in the Cloud”
June 6 Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
June 7 Microsoft DevBoston – Cambridge, MA
June 7 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA “RavenDB” – Igor Moochnick
June 7 Boston Web Performance Group – Boston, MA
June 11 Boston Software Craftsmanship – Cambridge, MA
June 14 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA “Reducing Data Integration TCO – Best Practices for SQL Server 2012” – Larry Barnes
June 14 Boston Software Engineering Meetup – TBD “3D Printing Hackday and Party”
June 18 New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA ”Bumblebee” - Mathias Brandewinder
June 20 Boston Orchard CMS User Group – Cambridge, MA “Orchard CMS Themes Styling and Design Walk Through” – Rebecca Pleshaw
June 20 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
June 20 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
June 21 Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA “Infragistics Presentation”
June 21 [$] Tech Cocktail Sessions Boston – Cambridge, MA
June 22-23 Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA “Boston Azure Bootcamp (hands-on)”
June 25 Boston WordPress – Cambridge, MA
June 27 HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
June 27 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
June 28 Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA TBD – Michael S. Collier
July 5 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA “The Other Stack: HTML5 and CSS” – Doug Domeny
July 10 Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
July 17 [$] Tech Cocktail Sessions Boston – Cambridge, MA
July 18 Boston Orchard CMS User Group – Cambridge, MA “Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure”
July 26 Worcester Web Technology – Worcester, MA “Build a Python/Django/jQuery web app within an hour” – Marc Hughes
July 26 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Schedule TBA
Beantown ALT.NET Group – Cambridge, MA Boston Arduino Users Group – Cambridge, MA Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA Boston Artists + Coders – Boston, MA Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA Boston Front End Developers – Cambridge, MA Boston JavaScript Meetup – Boston, MA Boston Node.js Meetup – Boston, MA Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA HTML5 Boston – Boston, MA Kinect Boston Users Group – Cambridge, MA Mobile Monday Boston – Boston, MA New England Mobile .NET Developers’ Group – Cambridge, MA New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA North Shore .NET User Group - Ipswich, MA North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Waltham, MA UX Book Club, Boston – Cambridge, MA Western Mass Developers’ Group – Hadley, MA
May 3 eBrew – Portsmouth, NH
May 8 NH Database Meetup – Manchester, NH First meeting. Topic: MongoDB
May 9 Portsmouth Startup Meetup – Portsmouth, NH Jeffrey Vocell
May 10 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH Derek Cash-Peterson
May 10 Joomla NH User Group – Durham, NH
May 11 [$] eCoast Cloud Summit – Portsmouth, NH
May 17 Digital Portsmouth – Portsmouth, NH “The Art of Code”
May 17 Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH “Hadoop, Big Data & SQL – TripAdvisor’s Story” – Don O’Neill
June 14 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH Glenn Gnabasik
July 12 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH “SharePoint Maturity” - Sadalit Van Buren
Schedule TBA Nashua Scrum Club – Nashua, NH NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH Systems Engineering and Administration Technical User Group – Portsmouth, NH Web Dev Meetup – Portsmouth, NH
May 1 AppRochester – Rochester, NY
May 2 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
May 3 OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Rochester, NY
May 8 Tech Valley .NET Users Group – Albany, NY Open Q&A Session
May 12 SQL Saturday Rochester – Rochester, NY A free full day of sessions for anyone looking to learn more about SQL Server.
May 15 Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Rochester, NY “PowerShell Basics: Pipeline Tactics”
May 21 Capital Area SQL Server Users Group – Albany, NY ”Star and Snowflake Schema, SSAS and Multidimensional Tables”
May 29 Microsoft Developers of Western NY – Buffalo, NY ”Windows Phone Development” – Dani Diaz
May 30 AppRochester – Rochester, NY “Windows Phone” - Dani Diaz
May 31 Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY “Windows Phone” – Dani Diaz
June 6 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
July 11 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
Schedule TBA Build Guild – Troy, NY Microsoft Developers of Western NY – Buffalo, NY Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY Western New York Back Office Technology User Group – Blasdell, NY Western NY SQL Server PASS – Amherst, NY
May 9 Southern New England SQL Server Users Group – East Greenwich, RI “On beyond Zebra AdventureWorks OR where did I go wrong?” – Steve Simon
May 10 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
June 14 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
July 12 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
August 1 Rhode Island SharePoint User Group – Providence, RI ”Inaugural Meeting!”
Schedule TBA MoDevRI (Mobile Developers & Entrepreneurs) – Providence, RI Providence Geeks – Providence, RI Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI WordPress Providence Meetup – Providence, RI
May 2 Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT ”What’s New in SSIS Denali” – Christian Cote
May 14 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT Chris Fradenberg
June 11 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT
July 16 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT Ward Bell
Schedule TBA Burlington PHP Users Group – Burlington, VT Northern Vermont SharePoint Users Group – Essex Junction, VT
One additional group you might want to consider listing for VT is the Burlington Web Application Group - http://www.btvwag.org/
Thanks for the pointer - I'll add them for the June post!