If you know of other free (or nearly free) developer-focused events, please let me know.
-Chris
[Last updated 4/3/2013]
Connecticut
April 1
Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT
“Test Driven Development: Blueprint Toolbox and Master Craft” – Stephen Ritchie
May 8
New Haven Design & Technology Meetup – New Haven, CT
”Monthly Networking Event”
May 19
Hartford Code Camp 6 – Bloomfield, CT
Schedule TBA
Connecticut SharePoint User Group – Farmington, CT
Connecticut Web Innovators – Hartford, CT
Fairfield County SharePoint User Group – Fairfield, CT
Hartford Tech Meetup – Hartford, CT
Maine
May 14
SharePoint Maine User Group – Portland, ME
Chris McNulty
May 16
Southern Maine Microsoft User Group – Portland, ME
”SQL Server Performance Monitoring”
May 28
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
Schedule TBA
Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME
Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME
Massachusetts
May 6
Boston Python User Group – Cambridge, MA
“May Project Night”
May 7
Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
”PowerShell on Azure: Turbocharging Azure Automation” – Aleksandar Nikolic
May 13
Drinks on Tap – Boston, MA
“Demos, Drinks and Discussions About Mobile Development (21+)”
May 15
HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
“HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup”
May 15
Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
May 18
[$] Security B-Sides – Cambridge, MA
”Launched in mid-2009, Security BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members.”
May 21
Boston Python User Group – Cambridge, MA
“May Presentation Night” – Kenneth Reitz
May 22
Boston Windows Game Developers – Cambridge, MA
May 22
Boston PHP Meetup – Cambridge, MA
“Universal Analytics: The Future of Digital Measurement” – Justin Cutroni
May 23
Boston Predictive Analytics – Cambridge, MA
“Project, Networking, and Startup Night”
May 23
Worcester Web Technology – Worcester, MA
“Using LESS or SASS to Improve Your CSS Workflow”
May 30
Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
”Matthew Grace Has an Azure Framework”
May 30
Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Schedule TBA
Beantown ALT.NET Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
Boston Area Pluralsight Study Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Artists + Coders – Boston, MA
Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Boston Business Intelligence – Cambridge, MA
Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA
Boston Indies - Boston, MA
Boston Mobile C# Developers’ Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Node.js Meetup – Boston, MA
Boston Orchard CMS User Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Software Craftsmanship – Cambridge, MA
Boston Unity Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Cape Cod .NET – Plymouth, MA
Cascade BOS – Boston, MA
Cloudy Mondays – Newton Center, MA
DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge (TBD), MA
Emerging Business Tech – Cambridge, MA
Game Dev Night – Boston, MA
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
HTML5 Boston – Boston, MA
jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA
Kinect Boston Users Group – Cambridge, MA
MetroWest Web Developers – Maynard, MA
New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA
New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA
OpenHack Boston – Boston, MA
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Cambridge, MA
Web Innovators Group – Cambridge, MA
New Hampshire
April 2
NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH
“JavaScript Games for Windows 8 with CreateJS” – Chris Bowen
April 3
Seacoast NH WordPress Developers – Portsmouth, NH
April 10
Portsmouth Startup Meetup – Portsmouth, NH
“Startup Meetup – Beer and Pizza”
April 11
Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH
”Automating Business Processes with SharePoint: InfoPath, Workflows, MS Access – 2010, 2013” – Marcel Meth
April 17
Nashua CLOUD .NET User Group – Nashua, NH
”Basic Windows Phone 8 Application Development with XAML & C#” – John Garland
Schedule TBA
eBrew – Portsmouth, NH
Joomla NH User Group – Durham, NH
NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH
NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH
NH Database Meetup – Manchester, NH
NH PHP – Manchester, NH
Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH
Systems Engineering and Administration Technical User Group – Portsmouth, NH
Web Dev Meetup – Portsmouth, NH
New York (Upstate)
April 2
AppRochester – Rochester, NY
April 2
Ithaca Web People – Ithaca, NY
”Beer and Code”
April 3
Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
April 4
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Startup Drinks”
April 5
Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY
“How to Stay Authentic in a Self-Marketing World” - Andrea Levendusky
April 6 & 7
Hack Upstate – Syracuse, NY
April 8
Capital Area SQL Server Users Group – Albany, NY
Alex Silverstein
April 9
Microsoft Developers of Western NY – Buffalo, NY
“Bridging the Gap Between Business Administration and Development
April 9
Buffalo PHP – Cheektowaga, NY
April 17
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Lessons Learned at SoftLock.com” – Jon Schull
April 18
Rochester Ruby Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
April 20
BarCamp Rochester – Rochester, NY
April 23
Syracuse Innovators Guild – Syracuse, NY
”An Introduction to Knockout.js Framework”
April 24
OpenHack Rochester – Rochester, NY
May 1
Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
May 2
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Startup Drinks”
May 7
Ithaca Web People – Ithaca, NY
”Beer and Code”
May 11
SQL Saturday Rochester – Rochester, NY
May 14
Buffalo PHP – Cheektowaga, NY
May 15
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Quick Pitch Night”
May 16
Rochester Ruby Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
Schedule TBA
Build Guild – Troy, NY
Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
IA/UX Rochester (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Rochester, NY
Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY
Syracuse Game Makers – Syracuse, NY
Tech Valley .NET Users Group – Albany, NY
Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Rochester, NY
Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY
Western New York Back Office Technology User Group – Blasdell, NY
Western NY SQL Server PASS – Amherst, NY
Rhode Island
April 3
Rhode Island SharePoint User Group – Providence, RI
”SharePoint 2013 – IT Pro Overview” – Jason Himmelstein
April 10
Southern New England SQL Server Users Group – East Greenwich, RI
“SSIS Best Practices, Tips and Techniques” – Bryan Cafferky
April 11
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
”Freeform discussion of all things web”
April 16
WordPress Providence Meetup – Providence, RI
“Mobile Ready Responsive Sliders and Slideshows” – Michael Tracy
April 17
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
April 23
Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI
”Designers with Drinks”
May 9
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
”Freeform discussion of all things web”
May 15
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
May 28
Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI
”Designers with Drinks”
Schedule TBA
MoDevRI (Mobile Developers & Entrepreneurs) – Providence, RI
Prov.JS – Providence, RI
Providence Functional Programmers – Providence, RI
Providence PHP Meetup – Providence, RI
Vermont
April 10
*New Group!*
Burlington JavaScript – Burlington, VT
”Lighting up with Ember.js” – Peter Brown
“Paper.js” – Ian Metcalf
April 13
[$] Girl Develop It Burlington – Burlington, VT
”Intro to HTML/CSS”
April 15
Vermont .NET User Group – Winooski, VT
April 29
Northern Vermont SharePoint Users Group – Essex Junction, VT
“SharePoint 2013: What’s New in Social” – Erica Toelle
May 13
Vermont .NET User Group – Winooski, VT
Schedule TBA
Burlington PHP Users Group – Burlington, VT
Burlington Web Application Group (BTVWAG) – Burlington, VT
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