Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - Jan/Feb 2009

The new year is upon us, and so is a large list of upcoming user group meetings and other events for developers in the Northeast.

Know of any other events or user group meetings?  Please let me know!

Connecticut

February 10
Connecticut .NET User Group - Microsoft Offices, Farmington, CT
"SharePoint Development" - Travis Falls

March 10
Connecticut .NET User Group - Microsoft Offices, Farmington, CT

Schedule TBD
Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - UConn, Stamford, CT
Agile Project Leader Network - Microsoft, Farmington, CT
South CT .NET SIG - Shelton, CT

Massachusetts

January 13
Cape Cod .NET User Group - Plymouth, MA
"An Introduction to F#" - Chris Bowen

January 14
Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA
"Parallel Programming in .NET" - Richard Hale Shaw

January 21
Access Day - Waltham, MA
Afternoon through evening sessions for professionals working with Access.

January 21
IASA New England - Boston, MA
"Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises" - Roger Sessions

January 21
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA

January 22
MSDN Developer Conference - Boston, MA
This conference will be a great way to hear about the cutting edge of developer technology right here in the northeast. 12 sessions, a keynote by Amanda Silver, a WomenBuild feature, Community Courtyard and more!

January 24, 8-30 AM - 5:00 PM
New England Data Camp v1.0 - Waltham, MA
A Code Camp style community event for anyone who works with data (and who doesn't?) Developers, DBAs, BI pros will all find something interesting here!

January 28
Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
Group hands-on game coding! All are welcome, novice to expert. Bring those laptops!

February 3
Western Mass .NET Users Group - Chicopee, MA
Topic TBD

February 4
Boston Area Windows Server User Group - Waltham, MA
Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group

February 5
New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA
"VB.Net on Linux/Mono Boo... and other open source languages" - Joe Hill

February 5
Beantown .NET User Group - Boston, MA

February 11
Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA
"A First Look at Windows Azure" - Michael Stiefel

February 12
New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA
"Incremental Loads, Change Data Capture, and SSIS 2008" - Andy Leonard

February 18
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA 

February 25
Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
Group hands-on game coding! All are welcome, novice to expert. Bring those laptops!

March 5
New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA
"ASP.NET Data Services (Astoria)" - Igor Moochnick

March 11
Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA
"Interfacing .NET and Java" - Stuart Jones

March 27, 9 AM-5PM
SQL Server 2008 LoadFest - Waltham, MA
A full day to work with and learn about all that's new with SQL Server 2008!

Schedule TBD
New England Windows Mobile User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
Agile Boston - Waltham, MA
New England SharePoint User Group - Waltham, MA 

Maine

January 27 
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
"Entity Framework" - Daniel Pratt

February 24 
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
"Tips and Techniques"

March 24 
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
"SQL2005 XML"

Schedule TBD
Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME
Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME

New Hampshire

January 15 
New Hampshire .NET User Group - Nashua, NH
2 Sessions: SQL 2008 with Rick Lemon and LINQ with Pat Tormey

February 28
New Hampshire Code Camp - Nashua, NH
Join fellow New England developers for a full day of technology, sharing and networking!  Registration is open as is the Call for Speakers (Code Camp needs you!)

Schedule TBD
NH SQL Users Group - Nashua, NH

New York (Upstate)

January 13 
Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
"Windows Workflow Steals the Show" - Jim O'Neil

January 22 
Western New York .NET Users Group - Buffalo, NY 
"LINQ to SQL" - David Stevenson

February 10 
Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY

February 11 
Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
"Developing Applications Using Data Services" - Jim O'Neil

Schedule TBD
VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY  

Rhode Island

Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
January meeting is the New England Data Camp v1.0 (listed under MA above)

Schedule TBD
Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI

Vermont

January 12
Vermont .NET User Group - S. Burlington, VT
"Best practices to design a modular architecture" - Mario Cardinal

February 9
Vermont .NET User Group - S. Burlington, VT
February will mark the seventh year for Vermont .NET! Congratulations!

Schedule TBD
Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT