Boston Technology/Geeky Events
Just for my own reference, I’ve been maintaining a calendar of tech or new-media related events in Boston for years now. It just recently dawned upon me that there aren’t many lists like this published so I decided to make mine available. When my work is slow I look at the calendar and see what is going on. I try to make it to one or two events a month.
One frustration I have is that so many events are announced with only a week or so notice. Organizers, please release as many details as early as you can, it will get more people to go to your event. If you know of anything going on that I don’t have on my list, please, send it along.
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Event: Boston JQuery Meetup
When: Wed, Mar 3 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Description: Free John Resig will be talking on Advanced jQuery techniques. Feel free to come early to hack ahead of time. Thank you to our sponsor: The Atom Group The Bocoup Loft is in Fort Point, a 5 minute walk from South Station, with plenty of parking available. http://loft.bocoup.com/ There will be pizza and beer. And some soda too. But also beer. MMmmmmm beer. Boston JQuery Meetup
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Event: Gov 2.0 Camp New England
When: Sat, Mar 6 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Description: Free What is Government 2.0? Who should attend the Gov 2.0 Camp New England? Gov 2.0 Camp New England
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Event: JBoss Users Group
When: Tue, Mar 9 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Description: Free Second Tuesday of every month. This Month: Event: Tech Tuesday
When: Tue, Mar 9 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Description: Free This Month featuring Mobile! JBoss Users Group
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Event: Boston Javascript Meetup – Hexlib
When: Today 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Description: Free + pizza Our March JavaScript Meetup will be held Thursday, March 25th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. When you arrive security will direct you to the correct floor. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building. Parking is also free on the street in front of the building at 6 PM. At 6:30 PM our fellow member Jim Wilson will talk about hexlib, a JavaScript UI library he’s been developing for making tile-based web games, particularly for use with Google Wave and other Comet frameworks. You can learn more on this project at http://github.com/jim… After the presentation | demonstration, we will go around the room introducing ourselves and asking the group for advice | opinions on any JavaScript-related issues members are facing. Microsoft will provide pizza again. What a generous organization! Boston Javascript Meetup – Hexlib
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Event: Test Case II
When: Wed, Mar 24 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Description: Free Webheads, free pizza+beer and a bit of testing. Test Case II
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Event: PAX East
When: Fri, Mar 26 – Sun, Mar 28 Description: PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from top game publishers and developers. Even with all this amazing content the best part of PAX East is hanging out with other people who know their shit when it comes to games. Location: Hynes Convention Center PAX East
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Event: PAX East
When: Fri, Mar 26 – Sun, Mar 28 Description: PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from top game publishers and developers. Even with all this amazing content the best part of PAX East is hanging out with other people who know their shit when it comes to games. Location: Hynes Convention Center PAX East
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Event: PAX East
When: Fri, Mar 26 – Sun, Mar 28 Description: PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from top game publishers and developers. Even with all this amazing content the best part of PAX East is hanging out with other people who know their shit when it comes to games. Location: Hynes Convention Center PAX East
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Event: Anime Boston
When: Fri, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 4 Description: Anime Boston is an annual three-day Japanese animation convention held in Boston, Massachusetts. Anime Boston 2010 will be held Friday, April 2nd through Sunday, April 4th at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel. Anime Boston 2010 will once again be presenting popular events which include a masquerade, an anime music video contest, video programming rooms, an artists’ alley and art show, karaoke, game shows, video games, manga library, dances and balls, and much more… We’ll also be hosting some special guests and industry representatives at Anime Boston. Anime Boston
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Event: Anime Boston
When: Fri, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 4 Description: Anime Boston is an annual three-day Japanese animation convention held in Boston, Massachusetts. Anime Boston 2010 will be held Friday, April 2nd through Sunday, April 4th at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel. Anime Boston 2010 will once again be presenting popular events which include a masquerade, an anime music video contest, video programming rooms, an artists’ alley and art show, karaoke, game shows, video games, manga library, dances and balls, and much more… We’ll also be hosting some special guests and industry representatives at Anime Boston. Anime Boston
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- Wed, Mar 24 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Test Case II
FreeWebheads, free pizza+beer and a bit of testing.
TestCase is a gathering of web marketers and developers attempting to mix a good time with a learning experience.
We hope to provide participating companies valuable feedback from the attendees and focus the conversation of the evening on testing, usibility and conversion rates. (Cambridge – Microsoft NERD) - Fri, Mar 26 – Sun, Mar 28: PAX East
PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from top game publishers and developers. Even with all this amazing content the best part of PAX East is hanging out with other people who know their shit when it comes to games. (Hynes Convention Center) - Fri, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 4: Anime Boston
Anime Boston is an annual three-day Japanese animation convention held in Boston, Massachusetts. Anime Boston 2010 will be held Friday, April 2nd through Sunday, April 4th at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel.Anime Boston 2010 will once again be presenting popular events which include a masquerade, an anime music video contest, video programming rooms, an artists’ alley and art show, karaoke, game shows, video games, manga library, dances and balls, and much more… We’ll also be hosting some special guests and industry representatives at Anime Boston. (Hynes Convention Center)
- Tue, Apr 13 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: JBoss Users Group
FreeSecond Tuesday of every month.
This Month:
Java Enterprise Edition 6 & JBoss Application Server 6, by Scott Marlow & Shelly McGowan (Boston University) - Sat, Apr 17 – Sun, Apr 18: BarCamp Boston
FREEBarCamp is an unConference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees.
There is no registration fee, but you don’t just attend a BarCamp — you can participate in discussions, demo your projects, or join into another cooperative event.
Topics may include, but are not limited to: open source software, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, AJAX, hardware hacking, robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, RSS, Social Software, programming languages, and the future of technology. (Cambridge – MIT Stata Center) - Fri, Apr 23 – Sun, Apr 25: QuahogCon
100 for all 3 daysQuahogCon is a regional conference for the hacker culture in all forms. Hardware, Software, Security, Social, Eco Hacking, Zero Impact Living. Like most hacker cons, it will run Friday to Sunday. We’ll have two tracks: one for InfoSec topics and the other track will be a mix of all the other topics with a bit of an emphasis on hardware hacking and DIY electronics. Besides our perennial InfoSec favorites, we want to hear from some new voices on a wider range of topics. If it’s a good hack, we want to hear what you’re doing. (Providence RI – Hotel Providence)
- Wed, Apr 28 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Boston Javascript Meetup Group
Our April JavaScript Meetup will be held Wednesday, April 28th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. When you arrive security will direct you to the correct floor. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building. Parking is also free on the street in front of the building at 6 PM.At 6:30 PM Microsof ISV Evangelist Architect Chris Bowen will demonstrate the new Visual Studio 2010’s capabilities with JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and other technologies.
After the presentation | demonstration, we will go around the room introducing ourselves and asking the group for advice | opinions on any JavaScript-related issues members are facing.
Microsoft will provide pizza again. What a generous organization!
Please RSVP and bring guests. (Cambridge – Microsoft NERD Center)
- Tue, May 11 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: JBoss Users Group
FreeSecond Tuesday of every month.
This Month:
Java Connector Architecture 1.6, by http://community.jboss.org/people/jesper.pedersen (Boston University) - Tue, Jun 22 – Fri, Jun 25: Red Hat Summit & JBoss World
Boston. June 22-25, 2010The Red Hat Summit and JBoss World are the premier open source events that bring together engineers, business decision makers, developers and community enthusiasts to learn about the latest in open source cloud, virtualization, platform, middleware, and management technologies.
Attendees will learn about open source advancements through: technical and business seminars, hands-on labs and demos, customer case studies, networking opportunities, partner displays, visionary keynotes, and direct collaboration with Red Hat engineers. (Red Hat Summit)
