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Change #25779

2014-01-16

17:10:55

update Calagator::Event 1250465323 Programming Android Devices - Study Group Begins Today Roll back

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Lucky Lab Brew Pub 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 503-236-3555 Join the first study group session for the Free 8 Week Course: Programming Handheld Systems with Android For more details, visit: https://www.coursera.org/course/android At this meeting we will discuss the first lesson from Tuesday 1/21 and decide where and how often to meet. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to have face to face help to go with the online coursework. Feel free to show up early and grab a brew and some food. We will be meeting along the back wall by the power. Stay as long as you have questions and leave when you like. Agenda: Pre-7:00: Food, Beer, Socialize. 7:00 Meeting Starts. Class Discussion. 7:30 Discuss next meeting's time and location. 7:45-??? Study Group as needed.

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Lucky Lab Brew Pub 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 503-236-3555 Join the first study group session for the Free 8 Week Course: Programming Handheld Systems with Android For more details, visit: https://www.coursera.org/course/android At this meeting we will discuss the first lesson from Tuesday 1/21 and decide where and how often to meet. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to have face to face help to go with the online coursework. Feel free to show up early and grab a brew and some food. We will be meeting along the back wall by the power. Stay as long as you have questions and leave when you like. If the main room is crowed, try the party room. Agenda: Pre-7:00: Food, Beer, Socialize. 7:00 Meeting Starts. Class Discussion. 7:30 Discuss next meeting's time and location. 7:45-??? Study Group as needed.

Change #25778

2014-01-16

17:08:18

update Calagator::Event 1250465323 Programming Android Devices - Study Group Begins Today Roll back

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Lucky Lab Brew Pub 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97214 503-236-3555 Join the first study group session for the Free 8 Week Course: Programming Handheld Systems with Android For more details, visit: https://www.coursera.org/course/android At this meeting we will discuss the first lesson from Monday 1/20 and decide where and how often to meet. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to have face to face help to go with the online coursework. Feel free to show up early and grab a brew and some food. We will be meeting along the back wall by the power. Stay as long as you have questions and leave when you like. Agenda: Pre-7:00: Food, Beer, Socialize 7:00 Meeting Starts. Class Discussion 7:30 Discuss next meeting's time and location 7:45-??? Study Group as needed

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Change #25777

2014-01-16

17:04:49

create Calagator::Event 1250465540 Agile PDX Evening: The Role of QA in Scrum - Leveraging Agile for Defect Prevention Roll back

description	nil	→	The key to a successful adoption of any software development methodology is a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each team member within that framework. As Agile continues its rapid adoption in organizations across the globe, it’s essential to define the role of QA in Scrum as concretely as we’ve defined the other Scrum Team roles. During our team’s recent Agile transition, I was approached from all corners of the organization, with questions like, “What does QA do every day in the sprint? What are their responsibilities beyond testing and reporting defects? What should they do in the early part of the sprint, when there’s no software to test yet?” Despite being a recent “graduate” of several Agile methodology courses, I found myself ill-equipped to answer these questions. There isn’t much information in the trainings or on the web about the role of QA in the Scrum team. What little I have found is primarily anecdotal, rarely specific, and never comprehensive. While Product Owner and Scrum Master roles are very well defined, QA Engineers fall under the generic label, “Team Member." We were on our own to define the role of QA. What we quickly learned delighted us: Agile methodology, with its fundamental shift away from waterfall software development, gives QA an opportunity for broader and deeper involvement in the overall software development lifecycle. This enables us better to ensure quality — not by finding and reporting defects — but by preventing the introduction of defects in the first place. This talk provides a deep dive into the specific, day to day role of QA in Scrum, as our team developed it through the course of a yearlong transition to Agile. You will learn specific responsibilities and activities you can bring to your teams to transcend the traditional test-and-report, after-the-fact approach to quality assurance. And you will learn to leverage the unique components of Agile to significantly expand your scope of influence, and measurably improve the quality of your software. Speaker : Karen Ascheim Wysopal is a Section Manager in Software Quality at Hewlett-Packard. She currently leads the Quality Assurance program for HPConnected.com, ePrintcenter.com, and related HP web-connected printer technologies. With over 20 years in the software QA industry, Karen’s professional passions are building high functioning innovative QA teams from the ground up, defining new processes, and expanding QA focus on the user experience. She can’t seem to stop breaking software.
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start_time	nil	→	2014-01-16 18:30:00 -0800
title	nil	→	Agile PDX Evening: The Role of QA in Scrum - Leveraging Agile for Defect Prevention
url	nil	→	http://www.agilepdx.org
venue_details	nil	→	Details and Pizza: This event is free. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland). The program starts at 7:00 pm. After the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion.
venue_id	nil	→	202393539

Change #25776

2014-01-16

16:16:13

create Calagator::Event 1250465539 AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch: Keeping it Fresh: New Ideas for Agile Retrospectives Roll back

description	nil	→	In February, due to popular demand, we are revisiting retrospectives with our local (and noted international) authority on the topic, Diana Larsen. Retrospectives improve any project or process--building on a team’s immediate past experience of success and failure. Smart teams and organizations hold Retrospectives iteratively, throughout the work cycle and at important milestones. In Retrospectives, teams systematically evaluate their own performance, explore their lessons learned, expand their capacity and capability, and forge ways to continuously improve their work and deliverables. Teams can’t truly call themselves Agile if they don’t include Retrospectives among their regular work practices. However, over time as Retrospectives become routine, they can also become stale and boring, delivering less value to the team. Or teams may hold pro forma Retrospectives that don't result in real improvements. How can you prevent this? Keep your Retrospective practice fresh through a renewed emphasis on team learning, collective analysis, and collaborative decision making. Bring new activities and group processes to the meeting that will stimulate better thinking and improvements. In this session, Diana Larsen will introduce the Flexible Framework for Retrospectives and how to incorporate the Five Rules for Team Learning in your Retrospective designs. She'll lead a discussion of new team activities to enlarge your repertoire, so bring your favorites to share. Bio: Diana Larsen, founding partner of FutureWorks Consulting, is considered an international authority in the areas of Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. Diana works with organizations around the world to design work systems, improve project performance, and support Agile leaders and enterprises. Deeply in tune with how work teams grow, adapt, and develop, she co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects, Quickstart Guide to Five Rules for Accelerated Learning, and articles about the Agile Fluency model at www.agilefluency.com and http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-fluency-fit-purpose Follow Diana on Twitter (@DianaOfPortland). We’ll be waiting for you at Ringler’s under the Crystal Ballroom on Burnside but will start on time at 12p and end on time at 1p. We’re in the back room. If you miss this opportunity, you miss an opportunity to learn, network, and drink McMenamin’s beer in the middle of day with new friends.
end_time	nil	→	2014-02-14 13:00:00 -0800
id	nil	→	1250465539
start_time	nil	→	2014-02-14 12:00:00 -0800
title	nil	→	AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch: Keeping it Fresh: New Ideas for Agile Retrospectives
url	nil	→	http://www.agilepdx.org
venue_id	nil	→	202390475

Change #25775

2014-01-16

14:42:48

update Calagator::Source 996334960 http://www.meetup.com/PDX-FitNesse-Users-Group/events/156305492/ Roll back

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2014-01-16 14:42:47 -0800

Change #25774

2014-01-16

14:42:47

create Calagator::Event 1250465538 FitNesse Orientation Roll back

description	nil	→	<p>Most of the folks that have joined this group have little or no experience with FitNesse, so we thought it would be a good idea to start off our regular monthly meetings with an orientation session.</p> <p>• What is FitNesse?</p> <p><br>• What can it do?</p> <p><br>• How does it work?</p> <p><br>• Examples</p> <p><br>Hope to see you there.</p> <p>Tim & Subu</p>
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source_id	nil	→	996334960
start_time	nil	→	2014-01-21 17:30:00 -0800
title	nil	→	FitNesse Orientation
url	nil	→	http://www.meetup.com/PDX-FitNesse-Users-Group/events/156305492/

Change #25773

2014-01-16

14:42:47

create Calagator::Source 996334960 http://www.meetup.com/PDX-FitNesse-Users-Group/events/156305492/ Roll back

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Change #25772

2014-01-16

14:12:46

update Calagator::Event 1250465536 "Is it usable yet?" Find out about the value of UCD & IA in contemporary UX Roll back

description	# Is It Usable Yet? Forty years on, it's easy to forget that user-centered design and information architecture were once disruptive new ideas. Today, they're both presumed to be kind-of "thrown in" when UX work is being done. "Of course we're user centered: that's the U in UX!" "Of course we did the IA - we've got navbars and a site map, don't we?" But as Peter Morville notes, when something is a part of everybody's job, that thing ends up being nobody's job and it does not get done right. What's the situation around, and value of, UCD and IA in contemporary UX practice? Find out in a lively Q&A and short presentation on January 28 at Mozilla's office in Portland with Dan Klyn from The Understanding Group. Spoiler: what these things mean today is amazing, essential, transformative and not what you probably expect. ## About Dan Dan Klyn is co-founder of The Understanding Group (TUG), teaches information architecture at the University of Michigan School of Information and serves on the board of the IA Institute. He does IA work for clients including Herman Miller and JSTOR and his research focus is also his hero: Richard Saul Wurman.	→	# Is It Usable Yet? Forty years on, it's easy to forget that user-centered design and information architecture were once disruptive new ideas. Today, they're both presumed to be kind-of "thrown in" when UX work is being done. "Of course we're user centered: that's the U in UX!" "Of course we did the IA - we've got navbars and a site map, don't we?" But as Peter Morville notes, when something is a part of everybody's job, that thing ends up being nobody's job and it does not get done right. What's the situation around, and value of, UCD and IA in contemporary UX practice? Find out in a lively Q&A and short presentation on January 28 at Mozilla's office in Portland with Dan Klyn from The Understanding Group. There will be food and drink at the event. Spoiler: what these things mean today is amazing, essential, transformative and not what you probably expect. ## About Dan Dan Klyn is co-founder of The Understanding Group (TUG), teaches information architecture at the University of Michigan School of Information and serves on the board of the IA Institute. He does IA work for clients including Herman Miller and JSTOR and his research focus is also his hero: Richard Saul Wurman.
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title	"Is it usable yet?" Find out about the value of UCD & IA in contemporary UX	→	Join IxDA at Mozilla's new office for Dan Klyn's talk "Is It Usable Yet?"

Change #25771

2014-01-16

12:54:31

update Calagator::Source 996334959 https://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/ical?reset=1&list=1&id=376 Roll back

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2014-01-16 12:54:30 -0800

Change #25770

2014-01-16