I recently sent the list below to a colleague. I figured I should share it further.

This is a list of user groups I attend fairly regularly.

1. .NET User Group
• First Thursday of the month.
• General .NET talks covering all areas of .NET
• Held at Microsoft offices in Bloomington.
• http://www.ilmservice.com/twincitiesnet/Membership.aspx
• (the site sucks, just sign up for the newsletter to find out about upcoming events.
2. Developers Guild 
• Second Tuesday of the month
• In depth talks on .NET, programming patterns, project patterns. Talks have been in depth azure, dependency injection/inversion of control
• http://www.twincitiesdevelopersguild.com/
• Held at New Horizons Mn in Edina
• I may be giving a talk here this fall
3. Languages User Group
• Second Thursday of the month
• Held at Magenic in Golden Valley
• A new language or part of a language every month. Talks on java, lisp, creating your own language. The next one is going to be great, esoteric languages.. the languages that are made for fun
• http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com/TCLUG/Default.aspx
4. Silverlight/WPF Users Group
• Third Tuesday of the month, held during the day noon to 12
• Covers Silverlight mostly, some WPF
• Held at Microsoft in Bloomington
• (site also sucks) http://www.ilmservice.com/silverlight/Membership.aspx
5. XNA User Group
• Third Thursday of the month
• Covers the XNA framework and general game development ideas
• Held at Magenic in golden valley
• http://www.twincitiesxnausergroup.com/
6. Twin Cities Code Camp
• Twice a year, sometime in spring and fall. Around March/October
• Large free event that's all about code and is always full of great talks and cutting edge topics. It takes place on a Saturday and ends with tons of prizes, normally an Xbox 360 or two in the top prizes. (done by random name selection of attendees). I've been to everyone so far and I always come away feeling like it was worth it, something I have not been feeling after going to conferences that I paid for.
• http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com/TCCC/Default.aspx
• I'm giving a talk this fall on Visual Studio 2010 extensions. I gave a talk in the spring about Visual Studio Tips and Tricks
7. Twin Cities Web Design:
• Meetings don’t seem to be on a schedule,
• Covers general web design things like JavaScript frameworks, CSS tools
• Meets at Sierra Bravo
• http://tcwebdesign.org/
8. MySQL/Drizzle user group
• No set schedule
• Covers MySQL topics and what not
• Sometimes meets at Sierra Bravo
• http://www.meetup.com/mn-mysql/