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  • Monday
    Sep 6 2010
    PDX TechCoffee
    6–8:30am
    Southeast Grind

    Season 3, episode 8

    Get up early and work on your side projects with some like-minded geeks!

    TechCoffee is part running club, part knitting bee, and part hackathon. It's hard to work on all of your amazing ideas after a long workday, so instead we get up early. And we get together, so we have the reinforcement of other people up early, too. A couple hours a week can make a big difference.

    So bring your laptops and your work ethic to PDX TechCoffee. Or, if you can't be there in person, join us on IRC at #techcoffee on freenode. One commit a week is all we ask.

    Website
  • PDX Jelly coworking
    10am–4pm
    NedSpace Old Town

    Jelly is free casual coworking... we started in Portland last year and are now hosted twice a month! Anyone is welcome to come. Bring your laptop or an old-fashioned notebook, as well as something you're working on: whether it's an online business, an art project, coding, writing or something else, and work alongside other creative, fun people. Hope to see you there! See http://WorkAtJelly.com for more background.

    We'll each work on our own thing in the same space. Meet new friends, share common interests, trade ideas, brainstorm, get some work done, go out to lunch together, and maybe even get some business referrals.

    RSVP at http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInPortland with your name, the time you expect to arrive, and what you'll be working on.

    Website
  • North Portland Coders' Night - Welcome DjangoCon!

    Come hang out, drink beer, and write code every Monday night.

    The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome, including DjangoCon attendees!

    The Lucky Lab in North Portland is close to the MAX Yellow line, and several bus lines.

    Website
  • Tuesday
    Sep 7 2010
    PADNUG September meeting

    Please join us for Paul’s talk on WPF data binding!

    WHEN:
    Tuesday 9/7/2010
    6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
    6:30 p.m. Presentation
    ~8:30 p.m. After Words at TBD

    WHERE:
    Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium
    2501 NW 229th Avenue
    Hillsboro, OR 97124
    Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

    WHO:
    Paul Sheriff
    Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (http://www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).

    TOPIC:
    WPF Data Binding from A to Z
    There are many ways to bind controls in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to the data from your database, xml files or your own classes. This seminar will explore many ways to retrieve and present data using data binding. You will see examples of loading data into combo boxes, list views, and how to filter data using the ObjectDataProvider. You will learn how to populate WPF controls using a DataTable, Collection Classes, XML, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. In addition a simple add, edit, delete form will be presented.

    While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
    Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com
    Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com
    ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com
    O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

    Website
  • Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting

    GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland Oregon area. Join other developers for presentations and discussions about Ruby and its uses.

    VENUE: This meeting’s space is kindly provided by Robert Half Technology at their 2nd Floor Conference Room. Enter the KOIN Tower from SW Columbia between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, take the back elevators to the 2nd floor, and then follow the pdxruby signs.

    Website
  • Wednesday
    Sep 8 2010
    IEEE Workshop on The Smart Grid - from Appliance to Generator and Back

    IEEE Workshop on The Smart Grid - from Appliance to Generator and Back

    Sponsors: IEEE Region 6 and Oregon Section
    Co-Sponsored by Oregon Power and Energy and Computer Society Chapters

    Date: September 8, 2010
    Venue: Ambridge Event Center, Portland, Oregon; see "www.ambridgeevents.com"

    An IEEE Oregon “Smart Grid Week” (September 8-10) event

    READ "FULL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION PDF"

    A one day workshop with reception of how the Smart Grid provides interactions between the end uses of electricity ("appliances" or industrial processes) and utilities, viewed from the perspective of the technologies, standards, and policies that will enable those interactions and foster innovation and interoperability.

    The Smart Grid marries the electrical grid, an extremely complex system based on mature, conservative technology, with two fast moving innovative technologies, computers and communications. It is one of the greatest electrical, electronic and information processing challenges of our time and represents a significant engineering opportunity over the next two decades and beyond. It captures information about supply, system demand, individual usage, and pricing that fundamentally shifts how electricity is used. It enables the operators of the power system to increase efficiency and reliability while reducing costs and empowering consumers of electricity to minimize their own electricity costs.

    Learning Objectives:
    Attendees will gain an understanding of the monitoring, communications, security and control systems of the Smart Grid, how they interact, the flow of data and control, and design and implementation considerations including:

    • Information requirements for optimal control of generating capacity, regional transmission grids, and municipal distribution grids to meet end user demands.

    • How generation, transmission and distribution control systems utilize digital information.

    • How suppliers and distributors of electricity use information to minimize costs while increasing reliability, flexibility, and security.

    • How usage monitoring and automation will allow end users to make informed decisions that reduce their electricity costs.

    • How to ensure grid security.

    • Balancing optimization of the grid’s subsystems and the grid as a whole.

    Target Audience:
    The target audience is engineers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs who want to understand the Smart Grid in order to make better professional, technical and business decisions.

    Prerequisites:
    Attendees should be generally familiar with the electric power system, software, or data communications concepts; a power engineering background is not required.

    Registration:

    "Register online here". Seats are limited.

    The workshop will be held Wednesday, September 8 at the Ambridge Event Center at 1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97232. On-site registration/check-in starts at 7:30 AM, and the workshop starts promptly at 8:00. On-site attendees will receive one electronic media with course materials, continental breakfast, breaks, lunch and reception (cash bar). The reception for the speakers and attendees will be held from 5-6pm.

    Lecture notes will provided to all attendees. In addition, 0.6 CEU’s (6 PDH) will be awarded upon completion of the on-site seminar. Details for webcast access will be provided upon registration. Webcast will be recorded and available for limited period (min. 90 days) replay/review by all attendees. No CEUs will be provided for webcast only and Student/Life Member/Unemployed registrations.

    Fees
    IEEE Member onsite: $225; webcast $99
    Non-Member onsite: $275; webcast $150
    IEEE Student/Life Member onsite: $75; webcast $25
    Unemployed onsite: $75; webcast $25

    Parking
    Limited free parking available. Ambridge is 2 blocks from Oregon Convention Center MAX stop. "Parking info"

    NOTE: The organizing committee reserves the right to substitute speakers, restrict size, change venues, or to cancel the seminar. In the event the seminar is canceled by the organizing committee, registration fees only will be fully refunded. Individuals canceling their registration prior to September 1 will receive a full refund. No refunds will be made to individuals who cancel their registration after September 1. Substitute attendees accepted. Attendance is limited. Registration will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis.

    Agenda:
    Workshop Agenda
    Time Topic
    7:30 - 8:00am Doors open; check-in and continental breakfast
    8:00 - 8:05am Opening Remarks: welcome, day plan
    8:05 – 8:50 Opening Keynote: The Smart Grid – What will it take to make it possible; Saifur Rahman, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Virginia Tech
    9:00 – 9:45 Controllability: The Challenge of Synchrophasors and Wide Area Control; Dmitry Kosterev, BPA
    9:45 – 10:15 Break
    10:15 – 11:00 Smart Grid Communications: You want how much bandwidth? And that little latency?; Joe Andres, BPA
    11:10 – 12:00 Managing Supply and Demand: Supply and demand control methods and control points; Rob Pratt; PNNL
    12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch Keynote: Smart Grid policy; Jeff Hammarlund, PSU
    1:10 – 2:00 Smart Grid Security: can’t be giving personal info away or letting bad guys in; Dave McKinnon, PNNL
    2:10 – 3:00 Smart Grid Enabled Applications and Services: What’s the killer app (and for whom); Linda Rankin, PSU
    3:00 – 3:30 Break
    3:30 – 4:20 Interoperability and Standards: What standards are needed/being developed to make the Smart Grid work; Steve Widergren, PNNL
    4:30 – 5:00 Panel Discussion: Q+A with the day’s speakers
    5:00 – 6:00pm Reception and Networking

    Location:
    Bldg: Ambridge Event Center
    1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Blvd
    Portland, 97232

    Website
  • IEEE Oregon Smart Grid Week
    7:30am through Friday, September 10 at 4pm
    Ambridge Event Center

    Co-sponsored by: IEEE Region 6 and Oregon Section

    Smart Grid Week September 8-10, 2010

    A set of three 1-day events about the Smart Grid organized by the Oregon Section.

    The Smart Grid marries the electrical grid, an extremely complex system based on mature, conservative technology, with two fast moving innovative technologies, computers and communications. It is one of the greatest electrical, electronic and information processing challenges of our time and represents a significant engineering opportunity over the next two decades and beyond. It captures information about supply, system demand, individual usage, and pricing that fundamentally shifts how electricity is used. It enables the operators of the power system to increase efficiency and reliability while reducing costs and empowering consumers of electricity to minimize their own electricity costs.

    • The Workshop - Sept. 8. Sponsored by Region 6 and the Oregon Section. It will cover the Smart Grid as a system. “Smart grid” means many things to different audiences, we have brought together a distinguished set of thought leaders and subject matter experts who will present the architecture, operation and implementation of the Smart Grid, with a focus on the technologies and enabling standards that will make it work. It will be webcast to all of Region 6. See http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/2801 for full details and registration.

    • The Tutorials - Sept. 9 and 10. IEEE Oregon has partnered with TADA Training for two Smart Grid tutorials on wireless technologies for Smart Grid and Smart Grid metering. These workshops are targeted for the embedded systems engineer (hardware and/or software) and managers at the Intermediate / Advanced level. Prerequisites: knowledge of embedded systems concepts and development, including rudimentary C language coding. Each runs from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time), at ITT Technical Institute, on Cascades Parkway in Portland. Special Smart Grid Week IEEE member rate: $249.00. For full details and registration, go to http://www.tadatraining.com/smartgrid.

     

    Location:
    Portland, Ambridge Event Center (Workshop);
    ITT Technical Institute (Tutorials)

  • OEN Graduate Student Networking Workshop
    4–6pm
    Miller Nash

    Facebook and Myspace wont land you a job or help you grow your business. Get back to basics and learn how to build your own personal network! Join the Oregon Entrepreneurial Network for a two-part event, exclusively for graduate students, aimed at providing you with the skills you need to build a successful network and successfully leverage your contacts.

    Start with a roundtable discussion led by Bill Etheredge, a long time entrepreneur, recently retired VP of Sales for Tektronix, and currently Principal of WCE Consulting Group. Learn the ins and outs of personal networking including how to strategically build your network, how to present yourself effectively, and how to manage your contacts.

    Then head over to Backspace for free entry into OEN's September Pub Talk, put your skills to the test and begin building your network by engaging with local entrepreneurs, investors and service providers.

    Locations:
    • Miller Nash (Networking Workshop), 111 SW 5th Ave, Portland OR 97204

    • Backspace (PubTalk), 115 NW 5th Ave, Portland OR 97209

    Schedule:
    4:00 - Round Table Discussion Starts
    5:00 - Networking Starts at PubTalk
    5:30 - Company Presentations Start
    7:00 - Continue Networking

    Cost: $35 for non-members; Free for student members. If you are a student member and unsure of how to log in, please contact Larry Williams, OEN Web/IT Manager, at 503-222-2270 x 17 or larryw@oen.org and he can take care of your registration.

    Website
  • OEN PubTalk™ - Activewear Innovation Mecca
    5:15–7pm
    Backspace

    Portland is rapidly becoming a mecca for innovation in activewear. From interchangeable shoe soles, to breathable outerwear for cycling and snowboarding, to sustainable fashion designs, there are terrific innovations happening locally! Activewear firms design, develop, manufacture, market, distribute and sell apparel, footwear and gear for active outdoor recreation. The activewear category consists of more than 300 firms in Oregon, employing more than 14,000 people with an approximate payroll of $1.2 billion. The activewear industry cluster is growing in Oregon and includes numerous start-ups that are creating local jobs and using the rich and talented local knowledge base. This exciting industry cluster is designing and producing innovative products that address niche markets that are currently underserved by the local giants.

    Join the OEN at the September Pub Talk to hear from four activewear entrepreneurs who will share their stories of how they got started, how they have grown, and the unique opportunities available to them because of their presence in this hotbed of innovation.

    Moderator:
    Rob Langstaff - RYZ

    Panelists:
    Bill Worthington - OluKai
    Sean Beers - Korkers
    Ed Dalton - Showers Pass
    Carrie Atkinson - Sock it to me

    OEN Member Fee: $15.00
    Non-Member Fee: $25.00

    Website
  • Portland Perl Mongers -- Modern Perl + Test::Builder 2
    6:53–8:30pm
    Free Geek

    speakers: chromatic and Michael Schwern

    This meeting will be two shorter presentations back-to-back. The Modern Perl talk is broadly targetted at beginners and everyday general usage concepts while the Test::Builder 2 talk will delve much deeper into particular details of Perl's testing system.

    chromatic on Modern Perl
    Perl masters talk about strange subjects such as whipupitude, manipulexity, context, lexicals, and linguistic principles. It may seem that you must be a wizard to apply these notions to your code and dexterously wield Perl's essential strengths. In truth, these ideas and idioms are deceptively simple: you use them every day when you read or write plain English.
    Demystifying the linguistic concepts in Perl opens up the doors of Perl mastery. Come learn the philosophy behind Perl's design in order to understand Perl and how to use its unique isms to improve your code.

    Schwern on Test::Builder2
    Test::Builder is what most Test modules are written with these days. It lets them quietly coordinate with each other and frees the authors from having to worry about the details. It was written in 2001 and in that decade there's been an explosion of testing modules.
    A decade later, Test::Builder is starting to show its age and limitations. Its assumptions and biases are restraining the Perl testing community. Perl has moved on, too. When Test::Builder was written, testing was still a "new" thing. Now it's a given. We have a real object system now and a sophisticated community to take advantage.
    Enter Test::Builder2. A total rewrite of Test::Builder to remove its biases and let test authors do whatever they can dream up while still being the solid iron core of Perl testing and remaining compatible with Test::Builder. It takes advantage of things like Mouse (that's a small Moose), method wrappers and roles. Counter-intuitively, it does less than Test::Builder does while providing more opportunities.
    Schwern has a grant for Test::Builder2 from the Perl Foundation and if he doesn't release something by October they'll break his legs. So he's hoping to generate some contributors by showing off the design and code!

    As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.

    Website
  • Thursday
    Sep 9 2010
    SAOpdx: Collaboration in Social Media featuring Richard Boly of the US Department of State

    Presented by the Software Association of Oregon's Marketing + Sales Forum & Social Media Club PDX

    You are invited to join us for an exceptional keynote presentation followed by a Q&A session with a full panel of local collaboration and social media experts.

    Agenda
    5:30pm Registration opens, networking
    6:15pm Program begins (welcome)
    6:20pm Keynote with Richard Boly
    6:45pm Panel Q&A
    7:30pm Program ends

    KEYNOTE: Embracing Social Media at the U.S. State Department: If the Oldest Federal Agency Can, Why Can’t You?
    The State Department is the oldest executive agency in the United States. Cold war secrecy created a need-to-know culture that impeded unofficial information sharing. State’s diplomatic corps is selected for risk aversion and trained to obtain many clearances and authorizations before officially transmitting information internally.

    Then the end of the Cold War was followed by the East Africa embassy bombings and 9/11. The paradigm shifted. The lack of information sharing and collaboration meant that puzzle pieces remain scattered and threats were unidentified. In this shift, the State Department’s office of eDiplomacy was born.

    Come find out how State Department has embraced lightweight social media tools behind the firewall to move from a need-to-know culture to need-to-share one.

    Meet Richard Boly, Director of eDiplomacy, US Department of State
    Richard Boly is a career U.S. diplomat and currently the Director of the Office of eDiplomacy, an applied technology think tank for the United States Department of State. Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program. He recently served in U.S. Embassy, Rome, where he developed and ran a program to promote entrepreneurship in Italy. Other embassy assignments include the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Richard is the most junior diplomat to win the Cobb Award for commercial diplomacy.

    In a prior life, Richard was the first Presidential Management Fellow with the Inter-American Foundation, was a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank, and founded and ran a shrimp hatchery in coastal Ecuador. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD.

    Q&A Session Panelists
    Deb Bryant, GOSCON Director, Oregon State University Open Source Lab
    Rami Kassab, CEO, Typethink
    Skip Newberry, Economic Development Policy Advisor, Office of Mayor, City of Portland
    Stuart Cohen, CEO, Collaborative Software Institute
    Richard Boly, Director, Office of eDiplomacy at U.S. Department of State

    Sponsors: Social Media Club of Portland, tw telecom, Webtrends

    Website
  • SPIN Seminar: Diana Larsen on Six Collaboration Skills for Teams

    Clarity Rules: Six Collaboration Skills Critical for Team Success


    Presented by Diana Larsen


    Dates/Times: Thursday, September 9th, 2010; Networking @ 6:00 PM; Seminar 7:00-8:00 PM
    Location: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) Campus, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124 - View Map
    Directions: From Cornell, head South on NE Elam Young Pkwy (near Costco). Take the first left to turn into the Intel parking lot. The HF3 campus will be directly in front of you. Parking is available on both sides of the building.

    Abstract


    We measure project success by the team's ability to efficiently and reliably deliver valuable, high quality software to the customer.
    Increase the prospect for project success by ensuring team members have the skills for effective collaboration and clear, unambiguous communication. In this talk, Diana Larsen will describe the six collaboration skills teams need and show techniques to get them active in your team.

    Speaker Bio


    Diana Larsen is known in the software industry for conducting project retrospectives and transitioning groups to Agile processes. She is one of the founders of FutureWorks Consulting, LCC where she consults with leaders and teams to create work processes where innovation, inspiration, and imagination flourish. With more than fifteen years of experience working with technical professionals, Diana brings focus to the human side of organizations, teams and projects.

    Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great! She publishes articles and write occasional blog posts at “Partnerships and Possibilities”. Current chair of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, she co-founded the “Agile Open Northwest” conference and the international “Retrospective Facilitators Gathering”.

    A Special Treat from PNSQC


    Plan on coming early! In collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) the SPIN meeting will have pizza and soda provided by PNSQC beginning at 6:00 pm.

    PNSQC is the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, a group of volunteers interested in Software Quality. The Mission of the PNSQC is to enable knowledge exchange to produce higher quality software. As a non-profit, it seeks to promote software quality by providing education and opportunities for information exchange within the software community.

    How to Register


    This is a FREE lecture sponsored by the Rose City SPIN. Please RSVP to rhea.d.stadick@intel.com so we know you’re coming!

    Rose City SPIN


    The Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) is a monthly forum for networking, mutual support, and promotion of effective software practices. We exchange practical experiences, ideas, knowledge, wisdom, and war stories about the technical, business, and human facets of software process improvement. The Rose City SPIN serves the software development community of the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Whether you work for a large company or a small one, corporate or self-employed, industrial or academic setting, you are welcome at the Rose City SPIN.

  • PDX Weekly Hackathon

    Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.

    All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.

    You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.

    Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.

    Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.

    Website
  • Portland Commodore Users Group: Screening of Get Lamp, with the filmmaker
    7–10pm
    Backspace

    Jason Scott will be present to show his latest documentary, Get Lamp. Get Lamp is a new documentary about text adventure games (such as Zork and Colossal Cave). If you've ever played a text adventure in your life, you should check it out.

    More info about the film at http://www.getlamp.com

    Presented by the The Portland Commodore Users Group

    Website
  • Friday
    Sep 10 2010
    EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Networking

    Monthly networking over the lunch time for people involved in Electronic Design Automation as:

    Developers
    Marketing
    Sales
    PR
    VC
    Consultants

    Bring business cards and be prepared for a self-introduction and share what you are working on.

    Website
  • Beer and Blog

    The website says...

    "Beer and Blog is about bloggers helping bloggers over beers. It is a meet up that takes place every Friday from 4pm until at least 6pm at the Green Dragon in Portland, OR. It started as a means to swap information among peers in the Portland tech scene. Now it has grown into a weekly happy hour for Portland area bloggers. Sometimes we work. Sometimes we discuss. Sometimes we go on a field trip. But we mostly play and celebrate the transition from the work week to the week end. It’s the kind of place that is fun to network in, kindle ideas into side projects, and announce a release."

    ... but it really has very little to do with blogging.

    Website
  • Saturday
    Sep 11 2010
    Beermongers' Cycle Hunt
    10am–9pm
    Beermongers

    To celebrate an amazing first year in business The Beermongers will host the first annual PDX Cycle Hunt from 10am to 9pm on Saturday, September 11.

    This event will involve individuals, teams of friends or families riding their bicycles, recumbents, tandems, unicycles, whatever around PDX following clues to various other small businesses. The first, second and third teams back to the Beermongers with verified evidence that they have visited each of the businesses will win a prize. Beer will be available to everyone with a valid license that states you are over 21. This event is open to all ages.

    More information, and registration info, forthcoming.

    Website
  • Monday
    Sep 13 2010
    BarCamp 4 Volunteer / Planning Meetup

    Interested in helping make BarCamp 4 happen? Join us for an informal planning meeting.

    Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form:
    http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

    What is BarCamp?

    BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

    Website
  • DorkbotPDX Meeting
    7–11pm
    Backspace

    Part hackathon, part geek social, these biweekly meetings are a time for you to come join others for insight, inspiration or just insanity. Bring your toys for others to see, or come see what others have been painstakingly chipping away at in their spare time. Whether it's code or chips, hacking of all sorts is encouraged. But we also like to hear your crazy ideas, so please come join us and bring your willingness to share your brilliance. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

    Website
  • Portland Functional Programming Study Group
    7–9pm
    TBD Portland

    ABOUT: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Scala, and others. The group meets regularly and provides presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on the second Monday of the month.

    Website
  • Tuesday
    Sep 14 2010
    IEEE Oregon - Technology and Bioscience Career Fair

    Co-sponsored by: IEEE Oregon Section and Oregon Bioscience Companies

    Technology & Bioscience Career Fair
    Tuesday, Sept 14, 2010
    11:00am to 5:00pm

    Act before 7-Sep for 30% Employer Discount

    Ambridge Event Center
    1333 NE MLK Boulevard, Portland, OR 97232
    (Two blocks North of the Portland Convention Center Max Stop)

    Join us at Oregon’s Premiere Technology & Bioscience career fair with pre-screened, seasoned, local technology professionals and college graduates from PSU and ITT Technical and others. The PacificNWTech.org career fair, is co-sponsored by the IEEE Oregon Section and Oregon Bioscience companies. We are very encouraged by improving economic conditions and expect over 400 local Pre-screened job seekers.

    For Employers. Facilities are available for employers to meet 1 on 1 with special job candidates, you can build your short list on site! Reserve a table for your company and ask about our co-sponsorship and media coverage package today!
    Register before Sept 7th to qualify for a 30% discount! Packages start at $295 (start-ups).

    Free for job-seekers.

    11am-2pm Career coach presentations
    1pm-2pm Career Fair employer set-up
    2pm-5pm Career Fair

    See www.PacificNWTech.org for list of companies and how to register to attend as employer or job seeker.

    Contact Bruce Virell, Event Director PacificNWTech, PO Box 1672, Wilsonville, Or 97070. Cell: (503) 841-2991

    Agenda:
    11am - 2pm Career Coach Presentations
    1pm - 2pm Career Fair employer set-up
    2pm - 5pm Career Fair

    Transportation options: http://www.ambridgeevents.com/resources-transportation.php

    Parking map: http://www.ambridgeevents.com/images/parking-map.pdf

    Location:
    Bldg: Ambridge Event Center
    1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Blvd
    Portland, Oregon
    97232

  • PSU - OMSE Open House

    The Oregon Master of Software Engineering (OMSE) program at Portland State University will be holding their Fall 2010 Open House at the PCC Willow Creek Center. Plesae join us to learn about the progam and meet with OMSE faculty, current students and alumni.

    For more information, go to www.omse.pdx.edu

    Website
  • Predicting the Success of your Business

    Thomas Thurston, President and Managing Director of Growth Science International, presents his ideas on predicting the success of a business. Thurston is a global authority on disruptive innovation and empirical models that predict if a business is likely to survive or fail. Through his research at Intel and later at Harvard with the legendary Professor Clayton Christensen, he shares insights on the key ingredients for predicting the future of a business. Join him and a panel (Mark Frohnmayer, President Arcimoto, Sudhir Bhagwan, Angel investor and ex CEO of Snap Games, and Charla Mathwick Associate Professor of Marketing and Advertising, PSU)to learn how to develop a strategy to position a business to succeed.
    The event will be preceded by a reception hosted by Melvin Mark Companies
    Agenda:
    6-7 - Reception: Registration,Food, Networking
    7-9 - Presentation, panel discussion

    Registration: www.oregon.tie.org
    Fee: Members $15 online, $20 onsite
    Non-Members $25 online, $30 onsite
    Students $10

    Website
  • UX Book Club PDX: "Thinking in Systems"
    7–10pm
    TBD Portland

    Interested in user experience in all of its forms? Enjoy reading? Want to combine the two in a social setting with other smart, like-minded people, and maybe drink a beer?

    Join us for Portland's 8th UX Book Club meeting. At this session, we're reading "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows. (link to book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/axXKbb)

    As always, we'll post the location a few days prior. Hope to see you there! And please join the UX Book Club PDX Google group for ongoing updates.

    Website
  • Wednesday
    Sep 15 2010
    Certified ScrumMaster Training

    Delivered by SolutionsIQ’s world-renowned Certified ScrumMaster Trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing Product Backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints), and tracking and reporting progress. You’ll learn how to lead Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Review meetings, Sprint Retrospectives, and much more.

    Agenda:

    * Introduction to Agile
    * Origins of Scrum
    * The Scrum process
    * Roles and responsibilities
    * Product Backlog
    * Estimating Product Backlog items
    * Scaling Scrum
    * Scrum in detail
    * Sprints
    * Sprint planning meeting
    * Daily standup meeting
    * Burndown charts and project reporting
    * Sprint review and retrospective
    * Getting started with Scrum
    * Graduation and closing

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  • Lunch 2.0 at Slate Technologies
    noon–3pm
    Slate Technologies

    Slate Technologies will be welcoming Lunch 2.0 back to their office in the great Southeast Wednesday, September 15, 2010.

    Are you vegan or vegetarian? Please leave a comment so we can plan food accordingly. Thanks.

    Wondering what Lunch 2.0 is?

    Lunch 2.0 is a phenomenon that began in Silicon Valley. You can read about their current events and the history behind Lunch 2.0 at lunch20.com.

    We imported the concept to Portland in 2007, and you can follow all things Portland Lunch 2.0 at the Silicon Florist.

  • OEN Workshop: What's your company worth? Everything you need to know about company valuation
    4–6pm
    Lane Powell

    As an early stage entrepreneur looking for the first round of funding, one of the most daunting tasks may be determining the valuation of your company. In this workshop, we will cover the basics of valuing a seed or launch stage company, and answer some questions, such as:

    Who sets the valuation - the company or the investor?

    What does pre-money and post-money valuation mean? How do I calculate it?

    How do I value my company if we don’t yet have revenues?

    How do investors determine the valuation?

    How have valuations changed in the economic downturn?

    We'll explain the terminology, demystify the math and explain some of the ways that valuation is set during the funding process. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so come armed with your questions and be ready to participate in a lively discussion about valuing early stage companies.

    $30 for OEN Members; $70 for non-members.

    Speaker: Naomi Derner
    Naomi Derner, CFA is the founder and managing director of Derner Valuation Consulting. Prior to 2008, she was a Vice President in the San Francisco office of Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin. After joining Houlihan Lokey in 1999, she performed and managed fairness opinions and the valuations of public and private securities as well as intangible assets for a wide variety of purposes including financial reporting purposes, tax reporting purposes, transactions, IPO planning, litigation, stock and stock option grants, recapitalizations, gift and estate tax planning, ESOP updates and general corporate planning purposes. Ms. Derner has valuation experience across a wide variety of industries, with specific expertise in technology and life sciences companies at all stages of development.

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  • OEN Workshop: What's your company worth? Everything you need to know about company valuation
    4–6pm
    Lane Powell

    As an early stage entrepreneur looking for the first round of funding, one of the most daunting tasks may be determining the valuation of your company. In this workshop, we will cover the basics of valuing a seed or launch stage company, and answer some questions, such as:
    • Who sets the valuation - the company or the investor?
    • What does pre-money and post-money valuation mean? How do I calculate it?
    • How do I value my company if we don’t yet have revenues?
    • How do investors determine the valuation?
    • How have valuations changed in the economic downturn?

    We'll explain the terminology, demystify the math and explain some of the ways that valuation is set during the funding process. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so come armed with your questions and be ready to participate in a lively discussion about valuing early stage companies.

    OEN Member Registration: $30.00
    Non-member Registration: $70.00

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  • OEN SW WA PubTalk
    5:15–7:15pm
    AHA!

    SW WA PubTalk ：
    Wed. Sept 15, 2010 ： 5:15pm – 7:15pm

    DETAILS ：
    Come join us at the Sept 15th SW WA PubTalk…
    A great place to meet people, build business networks, share relevant information, and connect start-up firms w/ VC capital.

    LOCATION ：
    AHA!
    415 West Sixth St., Ste. # 605
    Vancouver, WA 98660
    (360) 750-1680

    REGISTER ：
    OEN member cost ： $15
    Non-member cost ： $25

    Registration： @ 123.signup ：
    https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?PG=1520184182300&P=152018400

    HOSTED by ： OEN ： CREDC ： SWWDC
    SPONSORS ： Bullivant Houser Bailey PC ： Blind Onion Pizza

    Google Map：
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=AHA!&hl=en&cd=1&ei=QQNrTPePFZCyoAT03tDEBw&sig2=HthE8VxOTlmvnrWZ-WLxgg&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=4281369456162678840&ved=0CB4QpQY&hq=AHA!&hnear=&ll=45.625458,-122.675421&spn=0.008704,0.021544&z=16&iwloc=A

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  • SW Washington PubTalk - September
    5:15–7:15pm
    AHA!

    SW Washington PubTalk™ attendance and success continues to rise - 120 people participated in the June event which received a 90+ percent satisfaction rating by attendees. Don't miss this unique opportunity to interact with innovators in your local community. Back by popular demand, the evening will feature a business pitch from a local startup company. Advance registration is encouraged to allow event organizers to plan accordingly.

    Location: AHA! 415 West Sixth Street, Suite 605, Vancouver, WA 98660.

    Time: 5:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

    Please direct questions or comments to Stephanie Weldy at sweldy@credc.org.

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  • SAOpdx: Remember the Milk: Location-based Apps with Amber Case and Aaron Parecki

    There’s a message from your future and it’s telling you to remember to pick up milk.

    Amber Case and her partner Aaron Parecki are the founders of GeoLoqi. GeoLoqi is a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends. Geoloqi has been covered in the Willamette Week and Oregon Business. It has been presented at eComm, Open Source Bridge, Show and Tell PDX and Research Club under the alias Non-Visual Augmented Reality with SMS and GPS. Read CNN's article on GeoLogi, "What's Next for 'Check-in' Apps".

    What will you learn:

    1. Why developers of apps should look at what users want to do now, as well as what users want to do in their future.
    2. Why social apps should try to mirror real–world relationships
    3. Why sharing should be about who you share with as well as how long you want the information to be available.
    4. Why developers should think about making apps "ambient” and require less user interaction.

    Meet the Geeks

    Aaron Parecki is a Portland-based PHP developer and GPS fanatic. His fascination with GPS began at the age of 6, when he began tracing the routes of family road trips on a map with a highlighter. This interest has grown into groundbreaking new methods of location sharing and data collection. Recently he co-founded a company, Quicksilver Real Estate Solutions, developing software for the real estate industry. You can learn more about Aaron at aaronparecki.com, and you can follow him on twitter at @aaronpk

    Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and corporate consultant currently living in Portland, Oregon. She founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. She’s also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She was previously a blogger for Discovery Channel and worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. She’s also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portland’s Webvisions 2009. She previously wrote for Discovery Channel’s Nerdabout.com and worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon.

    Amber Case is known for her skills in online productivity, business strategy, and new communication methods. She is currently writing a book on applying anthropological techniques to better understand industry ecosystems. Amber was recently featured in Fast Company as one of their Most Influential Women in Technology. She is on twitter as @caseorganic.

    $15 members / $30 non members
    Includes networking and program

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  • PDX Cocoaheads
    7–10pm
    bRainSilo

    We will be discussing graphic design for programmers. There are plenty of resources out there on how to use the various programs... much less so on how to really *use* them, how to break down the image in your mind into its
    component parts and put them together until it looks like what you
    want. And now that we're in the iOS Era, having some graphics skill
    is just as important as knowing Cocoa Touch if you want to build your
    own apps.

    This meeting can include any topic that's graphics or image related,
    whether it's creating them, using them, or just demoing your favorite
    program(s).

    (Note, the entrance to BrainSilo is in the back of the building!)

  • Thursday
    Sep 16 2010
    SAOpdx: CloudCamp 2
    9am–5pm
    TBD Portland

    This is the follow up to last year's CloudCamp half day conference. We're looking to make this a full day session and are in the planning stages now.

    For more information on this event, to sponsor, volunteer, or sign up to speak, please contact Adam Simantel at asimantel@tripwire.com

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  • OEN Webinar - "Employment Law Basics for Start Ups" with Leslie Bottomly of Ater Wynne
    10–11am
    Online

    This webinar led by Leslie Bottomly, partner at Ater Wynne LLP, will cover employment law basics for start-ups. Topics include: hiring, firing, discrimination, wage and hour compliance, and development of policies and procedures.

    Speaker: Leslie Bottomly, Partner, Ater Wynne LLP
    Leslie Bottomly’s practice focuses on employment matters. She regularly advises public and private employers on such matters as employee discipline and termination, compliance with family and medical leave, discrimination, wage and hour, and other employment laws, development of employee handbooks, drug testing programs and international issues. Serving as Ater Wynne LLP's Director of Human Resources gives Leslie unique insight into the practical challenges employers face day to day.

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  • OEN Webinar - "Employment Law Basics for
    10–11am
    Online

    OEN Webinar - "Employment Law Basics for Start Ups" with Leslie Bottomly of Ater Wynne

    This webinar led by Leslie Bottomly, partner at Ater Wynne LLP, will cover employment law basics for start-ups. Topics include: hiring, firing, discrimination, wage and hour compliance, and development of policies and procedures.

    Speaker: Leslie Bottomly, Partner, Ater Wynne LLP
    Leslie Bottomly’s practice focuses on employment matters. She regularly advises public and private employers on such matters as employee discipline and termination, compliance with family and medical leave, discrimination, wage and hour, and other employment laws, development of employee handbooks, drug testing programs and international issues. Serving as Ater Wynne LLP's Director of Human Resources gives Leslie unique insight into the practical challenges employers face day to day.

    Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Where: Online

    OEN Member Registration: $0.00
    Non-member Registration: $30.00

    503.222.2270
    info@oen.org
    http://www.oen.org/events.aspx?id=156

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  • OEN Webinar - "Employment Law Basics for Start Ups" with Leslie Bottomly of Ater Wynne
    10–11am
    Online

    This webinar led by Leslie Bottomly, partner at Ater Wynne LLP, will cover employment law basics for start-ups. Topics include: hiring, firing, discrimination, wage and hour compliance, and development of policies and procedures.

    Speaker: Leslie Bottomly, Partner, Ater Wynne LLP
    Leslie Bottomly’s practice focuses on employment matters. She regularly advises public and private employers on such matters as employee discipline and termination, compliance with family and medical leave, discrimination, wage and hour, and other employment laws, development of employee handbooks, drug testing programs and international issues. Serving as Ater Wynne LLP's Director of Human Resources gives Leslie unique insight into the practical challenges employers face day to day.

    OEN Member Registration $0.00
    Non-member Registration $30.00

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  • Flex and Maven - a joint event by Thetus Corporation and PDXRIA User Group

    Join us Thursday, September 16, for food, networking and a look at building and deploying Flex applications with Maven. We invite experienced Flex application developers to bring their resumes and meet Thetus Flex developers.

    Building and deploying complex Flex applications is a challenge. How
    do you ensure repeatable builds that are correct on multiple platforms
    and in multiple IDEs? Maven is one tool that has been long used in
    the Java community to provide application lifecycle (build, test,
    deploy) functionality that is standard across projects. By utilizing
    a common filesystem layout and a predefined set of goals or targets
    (the Project Object Model, POM), you can easily move between
    projects without having to learn the intricacies of each project's
    build and deployment setup. Modern IDEs such as Eclipse and IDEA have
    support for loading Maven POM files and configuring projects
    automatically. Recent additions to Maven (flex-mojos) allow this same
    power to be applied to Flex as well. I'll show practical examples of
    how Maven works in a mixed Java/Flex project that deploys to the
    Amazon cloud.

    Christopher Mason is a Flex developer at Thetus corporation. A
    refugee from bioinformatics, Christopher has focused for more than 10 years
    on building applications that aren't afraid of large information sets
    and that scale both from a technology and a user-understanding
    perspective.

    Meeting starts at 6 PM. Food and networking at 5:30 PM sponsored by Thetus Corporation in association with the PDXRIA User Group.

    RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6735069/OR/Portland/Flex-and-Maven-a-joint-event-by-Thetus-Corporation-and-PDXRIA-User-Group/Thetus-Corporation/
    Your RSVP enters you in a raffle for a Powell's gift card.

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  • PDX Weekly Hackathon

    Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.

    All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.

    You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.

    Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.

    Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.

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  • Friday
    Sep 17 2010
    Beer and Blog

    The website says...

    "Beer and Blog is about bloggers helping bloggers over beers. It is a meet up that takes place every Friday from 4pm until at least 6pm at the Green Dragon in Portland, OR. It started as a means to swap information among peers in the Portland tech scene. Now it has grown into a weekly happy hour for Portland area bloggers. Sometimes we work. Sometimes we discuss. Sometimes we go on a field trip. But we mostly play and celebrate the transition from the work week to the week end. It’s the kind of place that is fun to network in, kindle ideas into side projects, and announce a release."

    ... but it really has very little to do with blogging.

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