You might have a good time meeting people at Northeastern University. Every wednesday we have a speaker come in and talk about something they're interested in. It'd be a great place to meet geeky students and faculty at NU. http://acm.ccs.neu.edu/?q=videos has some videos of past talks, but they haven't been updated in a while.
Next week we've got Foy Savas giving a talk about Ruby.
They're in room 108 West Village H on thursdays at 11:35 (440 Huntington Ave. 02115). It's the really really big building with the glass across the street from the Museum of Fine Arts.
Unfortunately, the speaker this week doesn't look like he'll be coming this week. We're showing the documentary Code Rush instead (http://acm.ccs.neu.edu/?q=node/661).
Next week we've got Foy Savas giving a talk about Ruby.
You're welcome to join us.