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  • Friday
    Jul 3 2009
    XPDX/Agile Enthusiasts Pub Lunch

    Casual conversation over no-host lunch about all things relevant to Agile software development. Sometimes a few of us show up to talk, more often a dozen (or more) practitioners join the fun.

    * If your business card says programmer, tester, project manager, product manager or coach (or would if you had one)
    * If you use Agile methods, practices, principles or approaches
    * If you seek opportunities to keep working for companies that prefer an Agile approach
    * If you want to recruit dev team members who know how to work in an Agile environment
    * If you're curious about any the above
    *Come on over for lunch.*

    We welcome practitioners from all Agile flavors--Scrum, XP, DSDM, Crystal, FDD, AUP, Adaptive, EVO, etc.

    Website
  • Beer and Blog: Rest Up This Casual Friday, We've Got Plans Galore in Store Ahead!

    My goodness. Summer is here already! How is it I've just today noticed my first fireworks stand of the holiday season? Time to slow down and smell the sulfur, I say.

    This Friday's Beer and Blog is casual. As in: we have nothing planned and yet we'd like to hang out anyway. Unwind from the work week and kick of the 4th of July weekend with the usual suspects on the patio of the Green Dragon. Casual Friday style, yo.

    Next week, however, it's time for some fun. July 10th we've brought back by popular demand What the Shit, @melissalion's heelarious Dramatic Twitter Reading Series. I lamed out last time, but this time I've already got a couple of good tweets to orate. Time to put those high school theatre skills to use. BONUS: AboutUs is having it's anniversary party at Beer and Blog and wants to share the love in the way of beer. For the Beer and Bloggers. Yay! Stay tuned for more info.

    And finally, while I've got your attention, I'd like to announce a date change for the hugely successful End Bloglessness. Again. (Long story.) BUT THIS TIME WE MEAN IT. On July 18th, Beer and Blog proudly continue its collective efforts to put an End to Bloglessness. We feel everyone should be polluting the Internet with our hopes, opinions, rants, and obsessions, not to mention hocking the Next Big Thing. Held at Web Trends, more details to come.

    Have a safe and explosive holiday weekend!

    Website

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  • Monday
    Jul 6 2009
    West Side PDX Job Search Group

    Theme: Planning An Effective Website

    1) Architect'ing the PDX Job Search website
    Another in a series of education on tools that can be leveraged in your career. Learn the basics of planning how to build an effective website. Increasing the knowledge and usage of personal websites, blogs, twitter streams, social media are important to hiring organizations. Participate with the group as we create PDX Job Search's website.

    2) Networking time

    This is an open event for Portland job hunters. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

  • TAPLISTER.com Launch Party
    7–11pm
    EastBurn

    Taplister.com, the world's first live beer search engine based off Twitter wants you to celebrate the creation of this new service. Taplister.com will be throwing a launch party on Monday July 6th at 7pm at the EastBurn (1800 East Burnside Portland, OR 97214). EastBurn will be offering $10 pitchers of beers and Taplister.com will be giving away craft beer swag and demoing their website and free iPhone app called Beer Signal. This will sure be an event that no craft beer fan will want to miss. As an added bonus, Hopworks Urban Brewery and Upright Brewing will be bringing special beers and the brewers themselves will be in attendance to talk about their beers.

    Website
  • Tuesday
    Jul 7 2009
    Portland Business Alliance Presents ShopTalk Showcase at Susan G. Komen for the Cure
    7:30–9am

    ShopTalk Showcase is a bi-monthly networking event presented by Portland Business Alliance, Greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce, and hosted by local member businesses.

    Wear pink to Susan G. Komen for the Cure and receive a pin! With events like Race for the Cure, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has become the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. Come learn more about how you can help.

    Tuesday July 7th from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 am at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 1400 S.W. Fifth Avenue, suite 530.

    Advance registration highly recommended at www.portlandalliance.com.

    Members: FREE in advance/$5 at the door.
    Non-members: $5 in advance/$10 at the door.

    Website
  • Galois Talk: The Fleet Architecture by Ivar Sutherland
    10:30–11:30am
    Galois, Inc

    Abstract: This talk describes a radically different architecture for computing called Fleet. Fleet accepts the limitations to computing imposed by physics: moving data around inside a computer costs more energy, more delay, and more chip area than the arithmetic and logical operations ordinarily called “computing.” Fleet puts the programmer firmly in charge of the most costly resource, communication, instead of in charge of the arithmetic and logical resources that are now almost free. Fleet treats arithmetic and logical operations as side effects of where the programmer sends data.

    Fleet achieves high performance through fine grain concurrency. Everything Fleet does is concurrent at the lowest level; programmers who wish sequentiality must program it explicitly. Fleet presents a stark contrast to today’s multi-core machines in which programmers seek concurrency in an inherently sequential environment.

    The Fleet architecture uses a uniform switch fabric to simplify chip design. A few thousand identical copies of a programmable interface connect a thousand or so repetitions of basic arithmetic, logical, input-output, and storage units to the switch fabric. The uniform switch fabric and its identical programmable interfaces replace many of the hard parts of designing the computing elements themselves.

    Both software and FPGA simulators of a Fleet system are available at UC Berkeley. Berkeley students have written a variety of Fleet programs; their work helped to define what the programmable interface between computing and communication must do. A simple compiler now produces the programs required at source and destination to provide flow-controlled communication. We expect work on a higher-level language to appear soon as a PhD dissertation.

    A recent 90 nanometer TSMC test chip, called Infinity, demonstrated switch fabric performance at about 4 GHz. A new test chip, called Marina, has just gone out for fabrication. Marina will test the programmable interface, and if successful, will give us confidence to build a complete Fleet. We seek participation from sponsors, programmers, and designers of basic computation elements.

    Bio: Ivan Sutherland is a Visiting Scientist at Portland State University where he and Marly Roncken have recently established the “Asynchronous Research Center” (ARC). The ARC occupies both physical and intellectual space half way between the Computer Science (CS) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) departments at the university. The ARC seeks to free designers from the tyranny of the clock by developing better tools and teaching methods for design of self-timed systems. Prior to moving to Portland, Ivan spent 25 years as a Fellow and Vice President at Sun Microsystems. A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Ivan got his PhD at MIT in 1963 and has taught at Harvard, University of Utah, and Caltech.

    Dr. Sutherland received the 1998 Turing Award, for his pioneering work in the field of computer graphics.

    Website
  • Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting (pdxruby)

    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.

    NEW 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 Ruby signs.

    Website
  • Wednesday
    Jul 8 2009
    Portland Business After Hours @ Inn at Northrup Station
    5–7pm

    Business After Hours is an evening networking event presented by Portland Business Alliance, Greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce, and hosted by a local member business.

    Inn at Northrup Station, July's Business After Hours host, is an elegant all-suites boutique hotel directly on the Portland Streetcar line in the heart of Nob Hill. Come and see the suites!

    Wednesday July 8 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Inn at Northrup Station - 2025 N.W. Northrup Street.

    Advance registration highly recommended at www.portlandalliance.com.

    Members: $8 in advance/$10 at the door.
    Non-members: $15 in advance/$20 at the door.

    Website
  • Springboard Social Innovation Forum on the New Family-Forward Agenda
    5:30–9pm
    Urban Grind East

    Our July Forum will offer an exciting shift in format. We get to participate in the launch of Family Forward, a new nonprofit focused on inspiring workplaces, communities, and policies that value families.

    Did you know that motherhood is the single biggest predictor of poverty in old age? What does this say about our community’s priorities and values? Join us for an evening of thought-provoking discussion about the economics of family-raising, the crisis of care, and what we can do to set a new course in Oregon. We will hear from experienced leaders who are working for family forward change on a number of fronts: employment, parent activism, women’s leadership, state policy, and more. We will work together to develop a new vision for a Family Forward Oregon. Please join us!
    Date:
    Wednesday, July 8th
    Doors open at 5:30pm
    Forum 6-9pm
    Cost: $5
    Location:
    Urban Grind East
    2214 NE Oregon St.

    Website
  • CHIFOO: Reading and Collaborating in a Digital Age
    6:30–9pm
    Jive Software

    Reading is an inherently social experience: what we read and how we read it is shaped by who we know and the broader communities we belong to. With that in mind, Cathy Marshall from Microsoft Research will take a fresh look at the future of eBooks and how we get there from here. In particular, she will share some findings from a body of studies of reading-related activities (such as annotation and clipping) and will draw on her experiences with several generations of eBook products, including Microsoft Reader, ePeriodicals (a reader for magazines like The New Yorker and Esquire), and the Times News Reader (an RSS-based reader for The New York Times).

    Registration begins 6:30 pm.
    Program followed by questions from 7 - 9 pm.
    CHIFOO members get in free. Non-members pay $5 to attend the meeting.

    Website
  • Portland Perl Mongers - PDX.pm
    6:53–8:30pm
    Free Geek

    Meeting Content To Be Decided

    Possibly an Euler shootout challenge

    Website
  • Thursday
    Jul 9 2009
    Shizzow Developers Meetup

    Join the Shizzow team at the Developers Meetup on Thursday, July 9th at Green Dragon at 5pm. We’ll be discussing how to enable your applications to access the Shizzow API using oAuth, and how to create mashups using the Places in the Shizzow database.

    Website
  • Friday
    Jul 10 2009
    SAOpdx: 14th Annual Golf Tournament

    It's time again for the annual SAO Golf Tournament! Whether you were part of the fun in 2008 or joining us for the first time, you're in for an afternoon of fun, sun, golf, beer, and networking. We've got great early-bird pricing, so grab your three best friends (or those who you owe the biggest favors) and reserve your foursome today.

    Looking to meet some new people? Individual spots are available too! We're limited to 144 players, and at this price, are going to sell out.

    Everyone is invited - you do not have to be an SAO member to play!

    Website
  • 1st Annual Uniquely Portland Oregon Tweetup

    THIS IS A FREE EVENT

    * Bring your business cards and meet other liked-minded business people!
    * Introduce yourself to your fellow Portland Tweeters!
    * Enjoy the coffee and treats of Sip & Kranz Coffee Lounge!
    * Hear national speakers and trainers, Rich Fenton and Andrea Waltz!

    Website
  • Saturday
    Jul 11 2009
    Trek in the Park

    Atomic Arts is presenting a LIVE free performance of the classic Star Trek episode “Amok Time” at the Woodlawn Park amphitheater. Witness Mr. Spock undergo the bizarre and brutal Vulcan marriage ritual of PON FARR as the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise attempt to save him before it’s too late!!

    Portland actors, accompanied by live music and effects, will bring this classic piece of television to life! Spend a day in the park, bring a picnic and BOLDLY GO!!

    Dates are July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 5 pm (note time change!). For more info contact AdamRosko //at// Gmail.com.

    Website
  • MagicSeth: The Online Magician

    Check out Seth Raphael, the Magician of the Future, as he blows your mind with magic featuring Google, cellphones, and time machines.

    This show is usually only seen by his corporate audiences, and will appeal to anyone who has ever searched on the internet. It will fry anyone who has ever done any computer programming. And it will astound anyone who has ever used a cell phone.

    This is a family friendly event, but the magic is definitely aimed towards adults.

    For more information visit http://magicseth.com/show

    Website
  • Sunday
    Jul 12 2009
    Trek in the Park

    Atomic Arts is presenting a LIVE free performance of the classic Star Trek episode “Amok Time” at the Woodlawn Park amphitheater. Witness Mr. Spock undergo the bizarre and brutal Vulcan marriage ritual of PON FARR as the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise attempt to save him before it’s too late!!

    Portland actors, accompanied by live music and effects, will bring this classic piece of television to life! Spend a day in the park, bring a picnic and BOLDLY GO!!

    Dates are July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 5 pm (note time change!). For more info contact AdamRosko //at// Gmail.com.

    Website
  • Monday
    Jul 13 2009
    Ultimate SEO Mastery Workshop: 2-Day Essentials
    9am through Tuesday, July 14 at 5:30pm
    MacForce

    The Ultimate SEO Mastery Workshops will teach you how to position your website so that you will get more visitors to your website. Not only that, you will get the right visitors. You will learn how to create pages that turn visitors into customers. This is all done in a small group setting where the focus is on your needs. Not only do you receive incredibly comprehensive search marketing knowledge, you will also get a custom review of your website that will help you set priorities once you get back to the office.

    $995, or $895 prior to July 7th

    Website
  • West Side PDX Job Search Group
    noon–1:30pm
    Beaverton City Library

    Theme: Revealing the mysteries of successful blogs

    1)John Goalby will explain the mysteries and benefits of blogging
    All you ever wanted to know about Blogging
    Another in a series of education on tools that can be leveraged in your career. Learn the basics of blogging..
    2) Networking time

    This is an open event for Portland job hunters. Each meeting provides practical tools and a forum for networking to make your job search more effective. We share our techniques and ways to improve our job hunting success. Each week has a theme and time for networking.

  • Tuesday
    Jul 14 2009
    Portland Business Alliance presents Business Leads Exchange - a fun bi-monthly speed-networking event!
    7:30–9:30am

    Come join Business Leads Exchange, a fun and beneficial speed-networking event presented by Portland Business Alliance, Greater Portland’s Chamber of Commerce.

    Tuesday July 14 from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Rose Quarter Rose Room, Two Center Court on the Fourth Floor.

    Advance registration highly recommended at www.portlandalliance.com.

    Members: $5 in advance/$8 at the door.
    Non-members: $15 in advance/$20 at the door.

    Website
  • Wednesday
    Jul 15 2009
    OEN Webinar: Taxes for Startups - It isn't just about income
    10–11am

    As with most start-ups, there may be a significant period of time before the business becomes profitable. Therefore, when making a list of priorities, start-ups tend to list taxes right above "Get a plant service.” David Uslan, tax shareholder in charge of Perkins and Company's high tech niche, will address why taxes should be moved higher up the list, especially in a down economy.

    The business decisions you make today can affect your tax situation in the future, including where you locate your company, what type of entity you choose for your company, or even how you obtain sales. David will provide an overview of how your startup can effectively manage taxes for long-term success.

    Registration:
    OEN Member: No Cost
    Non - Member:$30

    Website
  • Lunch 2.0 hosted by Pacific Real Estate Partners at Jive
    noon–2pm
    Jive Software

    Pacific Real Estate Partners will be hosting the July installment of Portland Lunch 2.0 on July 15.

    The lunch will be held at Jive Software , one of their clients.Thanks to Kristin Hammond (@ FzMcFadden ) and Mark Friel of Pacific Real Estate Partners for connecting all the dots.

    Lunch 2.0 is a Valley phenomenon that you can read about at lunch20.com , and we're putting a PDX stamp on it.

    You can follow all things Portland Lunch 2.0 an the Silicon Florist .

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

    Website
  • Thursday
    Jul 16 2009
    Free Culture: Creating Copyright and Copyrighting Creation
    6:30–8:30pm
    White Stag Block

    Join the UO in Portland for a discussion of how copyright law affects artists, musicians, and other creative workers—and help rewrite copyright law with electropop trio YACHT and copyright lawyer Peter Shaver.

    “Free Culture: Creating Copyright and Copyrighting Creation” is an opportunity to learn more about the state of copyright law in the arts. It’s also a chance to meet creative professionals in the Portland area, and generate good ideas in great company.

    Join us at 6:30 pm at the White Stag Block for convivial conversation and local libations from New Seasons and New Old Lompoc. This event is co-sponsored by the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons, Academic Affairs, and UO Cultural Forum.

  • Ignite Portland 6

    Save the date! Ignite Portland 6 will happen on Thursday, July 16, 2009, at the Bagdad Theater. Stay tuned to http://www.igniteportland.com/ for more details, and submit YOUR talk idea now!

    More details coming soon!

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