Here’s the latest roundup of tech- and developer-focused events here in the northeastern US. Most are free, but the exceptions are noted with [$].
Also, I’ve listed some online events at the end.
If you know of other free (or nearly free) developer-focused events, please let me know.
-Chris
[Last updated 7/9/2012]
July 9 Hartford Area Build Guild – Farmington, CT “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
July 11 Connecticut Access Users Group – Farmington, CT
August 18 DrupalCampCT 2012 – New Haven, CT
September 12 Fairfield County SharePoint User Group – Fairfield, CT
Schedule TBA Agile Connecticut - Farmington, CT Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group - Bethany, CT Connecticut SharePoint User Group – Farmington, CT Connecticut Web Innovators – Hartford, CT Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - Stamford, CT Hartford Tech Meetup – Hartford, CT
July 12 Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME “Your Asynchronous Future” – Bill Wagner
July 24 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
August 28 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
September 25 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME Windows 8 – Chris Bowen
Schedule TBA Maine Agile User Group – Portland, ME Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME SharePoint Maine User Group – Portland, ME
July 5 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA “An Introduction to Modern Web Technologies” – Doug Domeny
July 5 (first of 4 classes) [$] Web Start Women Boston – Cambridge, MA ”JavaScript / jQuery”
July 10 Drinks on Tap – Cambridge, MA ”Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development'”
July 10 Boston Software Engineering Meetup – Boston, MA “Other People’s Code”
July 10 (first of 2 classes) [$] Web Start Women Boston – Cambridge, MA ”Photoshop: Designing for the Web”
July 10 Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
July 10 Build Guild Salem – Salem, MA “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
July 11 Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA ”SharePoint Maturity and User Adoption”
July 11 Game Dev Night – Boston, MA
July 12 Build Guild Cape Cod - Sandwich, MA “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
July 12 Boston Python User Group – Cambridge, MA ”July Project Night: Julython!”
July 14 [$] Boston WordPress – Boston, MA WordCamp Boston 2012
July 14 & 15 [$] No Show Conference – Cambridge, MA
July 14 & 15 [$] Design for Drupal 4 – Cambridge, MA
July 17 [$] Tech Cocktail’s Boston Summer Mixer & Startup Showcase – Cambridge, MA
July 17 Boston New Technology Meetup – Cambridge, MA Tech products and startup community
July 18 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
July 18 Boston Orchard CMS User Group – Cambridge, MA “Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure”
July 24 Boston Web Performance Group – Boston, MA “Abusing JavaScript to Measure Web Performance” – Philip Tellis
July 24 Boston Predictive Analytics – Cambridge, MA ”Linear and Logistic Regression Using R”
July 25 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
July 25 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA “Moving Beyond Icebreakers”
July 25 HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
July 25 Boston Tech Meetup - Cambridge, MA “Unsupervised Learning with Big Data”
July 26 Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
July 26 Emerging Business Tech – Cambridge, MA “NewSQL: SQL Technologies Keeping NoSQL Promises”
July 26 Worcester Web Technology – Worcester, MA “Build a Ptyhon/Django/jQuery Web App within a Hour”
August 7 Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
August 11-12 [$] Boston PHP Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston PHP Northeast Conference
August 14 New England Artificial Intelligence – Cambridge, MA “AI, Pizza, & Beer”
August 15 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
August 17 & 18 Windows 8 Developer Camp & Hackathon – Boston, MA A free, two-day event for developers to learn about Windows 8. Day one features sessions followed by an Installfest, and day two is a chance to work on Windows 8 development in the Hackathon, with experts on hand to help.
August 21 [$] Tech Cocktail Sessions Boston – Cambridge, MA
August 23 Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
August 29 HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
August 30 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
September 11 Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
September 13 New England SQL Server User Group – Cambridge, MA “2012/2013 Season Opener at Our New Cambridge Location”
September 19 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
September 27 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
September 27 Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
Schedule TBA Beantown ALT.NET Group – Cambridge, MA Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA Boston Arduino Users Group – Cambridge, MA Boston Artists + Coders – Boston, MA Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston Business Intelligence – Waltham, MA Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA Boston Front End Developers – Cambridge, MA Boston JavaScript Meetup – Boston, MA Boston Node.js Meetup – Boston, MA Boston Software Craftsmanship – Cambridge, MA Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA Cloudy Mondays – Cambridge, MA DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge, MA Hacks / Hackers Boston – Boston, MA HTML5 Boston – Boston, MA jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA Kinect Boston Users Group – Cambridge, MA Microsoft DevBoston – Cambridge, MA Mobile Monday Boston – Boston, MA New England F# User Group – Cambridge, 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 Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA UX Book Club, Boston – Cambridge, MA Western Mass Developers’ Group – Hadley, MA Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA
July 12 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH “SharePoint Maturity” – Sadalit Van Buren
July 17 Web Dev Meetup – Portsmouth, NH “Hoopla Party”
August 9 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH
September 13 Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH
September 19 NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH
Schedule TBA eBrew – Portsmouth, NH Joomla NH User Group – Durham, NH Nashua Scrum Club – Nashua, NH NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH NH Database Meetup – Manchester, NH Portsmouth Startup Meetup – Portsmouth, NH Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH Systems Engineering and Administration Technical User Group – Portsmouth, NH
July 11 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
July 27 & 28 Windows 8 Developer Camp & Hackathon – Rochester, NY A free, two-day event for developers to learn about Windows 8. Day one features sessions followed by an Installfest, and day two is a chance to work on Windows 8 development in the Hackathon, with experts on hand to help.
August 1 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
September 5 Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
September 20 Techapalooza 2012 – TBD (Albany area)
Schedule TBA AppRochester – Rochester, NY Build Guild – Troy, NY Capital Area SQL Server Users Group – Albany, NY Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY Microsoft Developers of Western NY – Buffalo, NY OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Rochester, NY Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY Tech Valley .NET Users Group – Albany, NY Upstate NY PowerShell Users 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
July 11 Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
July 12 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
July 17 WordPress Providence Meetup – Providence, RI
July 24 Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI ”Designers with Drinks”
July 25 MoDevRI (Mobile Developers & Entrepreneurs) – Providence, RI ”Interfacing Mobile to the Real World” - Brian Jepson
August 1 *NEW GROUP* Rhode Island SharePoint User Group – Providence, RI ”Inaugural Meeting!” – Talbott Crowell
August 9 *NEW GROUP* Prov.JS – Providence, RI ”Starting a Project with ExtJS 4”
August 9 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
August 14 WordPress Providence Meetup – Providence, RI
August 28 Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI ”Designers with Drinks”
September 5 Rhode Island SharePoint User Group – Providence, RI Marc Anderson
September 13 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
September 15 SQL Saturday Providence – East Greenwich, RI
September 25 Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI ”Designers with Drinks”
Schedule TBA Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI Southern New England SQL Server Users Group – East Greenwich, RI
July 16 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT Ward Bell
July 28 & 29 [$] Burlington Ruby Conference – Burlington, VT
Schedule TBA Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT Burlington PHP Users Group – Burlington, VT Northern Vermont SharePoint Users Group – Essex Junction, VT
July 10 Imaginet ”A View into Microsoft’s New ALM Features and Tools”
July 18 LIDNUG & Wintellect “Windows 8: A Tale of Two Stacks” - Jeremy Likness
July 18 MSDN Webcast ”Creating Chart- and Grid-Based HTML5 Applications (Level 200)” – Jason Beres
July 18 InCycle Software ”Visual Studio 2012 RC : The ultimate testing tools” – Sahas Subramanian
July 24 LIDNUG & Wintellect ”Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket, Part 1” - John Garland
August 1 LIDNUG & Wintellect ”Lock-Free Thread Synchronization” – Jeffrey Richter
August 14 Imaginet ”A Day in the Life: Developer Enhancements with Visual Studio 2012”
August 16 Northwest Cadence ”Refactoring without Fear: Architecture in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate”
August 23 LIDNUG & Wintellect “Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket, Part 2” – John Garland
August 28 Imaginet ”A Day in the Life: Developer Enhancements with Visual Studio 2012”
September 18 LIDNUG & Wintellect “Take a Drive with HTML5” – Jeff Prosise
September 18 Northwest Cadence ”Unit Testing without Fear”