This hackathon is different than others...it is a two day charrette to bring together developers, designers and innovators building web or mobile apps to solve environmental issues and enjoy a few good company.

Here is the scoop about the hackathon.

Prizes First place: $1500 and three 50% off the admission to the NEXT Startup Weekend Second place: $500 and two 50% off the admission to Tech for Change

Friday, 5/17 (optional but recommended) Kick-Off Party: Good food and beer will be there for you plus some good companies. An opportunity to scout teammates and networking & social

Saturday, 5/18 Commissioner Fish will speak. Bill Weihl, Sustainability Guru at Facebook will make cameo appearance via video conferencing. API, datasets and project ideas will be presented.

Sunday, 5/19 It is your time to shine. The final presentation will start at 3:30 and the prizes will be given out to the top two teams.

Breakfast and lunch are on us. Thanks to Chipotle!

See you all there!

UPDATE: Due to several people on our team being out of town, we've had to postpone this event until later this year. We'll be sure to add it to calagator when we pick a new date!

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We're throwing a big hackathon to showcase a bunch of new Esri tools! Come be some of the first to check out new and improved documentation, user interface and new SDKs and APIs for Esri's core technology.

New to Esri? Basically, you can do anything add any kind of geo-functionality any product or app you're working on. From maps and data, geocoding and routing, demographic data and more, you'll be able to check out and test work from Esri R&D Center Portland and Esri HQ in Redlands!

There will be plenty of free food and drink, and networking kickoff the night before. Teams will have Friday night until 6pm Sunday to build apps using Esri technology. We'll have sample code on Github and a ton of example projects. There will also be plenty of Esri devs on site to help out.

Who should attend?

Feel free to participate if you're a designer or developer, college student, professional, high school student or someone just interested in geo. Keep in mind that this is a developer hackathon, so you should arrive with at least some knowledge of HTML/CSS so that you can contribute to a team. If you don't know HTML/CSS but are a skilled graphic designer, we need you too! Think of it as a playground for trying new things out.

What kind of prizes will there be?

Prizes will be announced soon, but suffice it to say they will likely be interesting objects that fly through the air. Also, free conference tickets and Esri software credits for runner ups.

The first-ever Kickstarter Project Jam

Join us on Saturday, May 18 for an afternoon of hands-on learning about Kickstarter and shaping your creative project.

What is a Project Jam?

A Project Jam is a collaborative workshop on how to launch a Kickstarter project. Kickstarter staff and experienced project creators will share tips, experiences, and best practices on all things Kickstarter.

Things to know

A Project Jam is an in-depth workshop on how to build your Kickstarter project, beginning at 1pm and ending at 6pm. Participants should plan to be there for the duration of the event.

The Project Jam is intended for people interested in launching projects. We'll be announcing meetups in all of these cities shortly, and look forward to seeing current and past creators there in the evening.

The Innovation Academy is bringing together students, teachers, and working professionals from the Northwest’s technology industries to empower students with new skills sets of the digital age.

Teams will work collaboratively to build software applications and other technology-­‐based solutions that solve real world problems that exist within our community. The solutions that will emerge from these teams will be known as "Innovation for the Common Good."

The region’s first "Innovation Academy will be launching at Franklin High School Saturday, May 18 from 2-­‐5pm. The launch will offer students the opportunity to form project teams that will meet over the summer to work on their projects with industry mentors. New solutions in areas such as education, the environment, energy and public safety will be explored.

Attendees at the launch event will preview a new community safety mobile app that is being developed by a team of Franklin and Wilson students working with industry experts and the Portland Police Bureau. Designed to improve communication and collaboration between district police officers and the neighborhoods that they serve, the new mobile app is an example of the kind of impact student-­‐based innovation can bring to Oregon.

All students, teachers and technology industry professionals are welcome to participate in the launch event. Once teams have been formed and projects are begun, their solutions will be demonstrated in a large community celebration when the school year resumes next fall.

Join web and mobile experts on Sun., May 19th at the Portland Hackathon for Social Good. Hackathons are events when programmers and designers meet to work collaboratively to build programs and applications.

The day will begin with short presentations by educators and non-profit organizations, followed by informational sessions on building sites and web applications to help benefit non-profit organizations: The Dalai Lama Center, Dress for Success, Habitat for Humanity (Re)Store and Compassion & Choices.

Register online at http://wvpdx13-hackathon.eventbrite.com

Advanced Web Design and Development Workshop

This two-week intensive workshop covers more advanced web design and development topics to help you create intelligent and engaging web applications.

Topics covered include CSS for layout, User Experience Design, JavaScript, Ruby, working with a web development team and version control.

This workshop is for people who have already created static websites or websites in Drupal/Wordpress but want to go farther and create engaging web applications.

There will be time from 3pm – 5pm on Sundays to stay later and work with other in the class to complete projects.

Pre-requisites: You will need to bring your own laptop for this bootcamp. Students taking this course should have already taken the Intro workshop or demonstrated their abilities by deploying a hand-made website to a server on the internet.

Dates: Sunday – Wednesday 5/19/13 – 5/29/13 Times: Sundays: 10 – 3pm (lunch provided on Sunday) & Mondays – Wednesdays: 6 – 9 pm (Snacks provided on weeknights)

Early Bird registration fee: $1,540 Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 3rd by 5:00pm Late registration fee: $1,800 Register Now: http://portlandcodeschool_advanced_workshop.eventbrite.com/#

A 4-hour lecture and visual slideshow on how electricity shapes and powers the physical universe.

Lecturer James Sorensen is an engineer and science buff with a lifelong interest in myths & legends, religions, and scientific theories. James believes all these knowledge systems must be integrated to gain a deeper understanding of living phenomena, and this is the inspiration for his lectures.

While working in the semiconductor industry, James noticed curious similarities between his observations of plasma etching (micro) and the forms of planetary nebulae and cosmic plasma phenomena (macro). This inspired five years of intensive study into Electric Universe theory.

Join us for an overview of how recent discoveries in electricity, when linked to historical events, challenge conventional wisdom across the sciences -- from astronomy, biology, geology, and archaeology, to health sciences, mythology, meteorology, and beyond.

Price: $30 Adults / $10 Young Adult / Children free, and should be able to sit quietly for 3-4 hours. Limit of 25 guests, reserve your space now.

To register, contact Cherie Mensching 206-459-6626.

DrupalCon Portland is the official conference of the Drupal community. DrupalCon is a biannual event presented to an ever expanding international audience since Drupal became an open source project in 2001. It's produced by the Drupal Association and a fabulous group of volunteers from across the globe.

The Oregon Convention Center will accommodate the largest gathering of Drupal developers than ever before.

Come learn about volunteer opportunities at this year's Open Source Bridge! Receive updates on volunteering, sign up with the newest version of our app, learn more about the conference, meet the core team, and socialize with other volunteers.

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

The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome! It is highly suggested that you bring a laptop and a project to work on.

Maybe we'll be in the middle room, maybe in the back room, just keep walking until you see a table full of laptops.

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.

ABOUT THE GROUP: pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations, and shares practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation and cloud computing. Meetings are usually on the third Monday of the month. Website: http://pdxdevops.org/ && Twitter: @pdxdevops

Come join an amazing group of ladies! No specific agenda, just network and have fun!

This month Squishy Media is hosting PDXWiIT and the Women in Drupal at the same event in their new offices! Only 20% of the attendees at this year's DrupCon are women. Let's work together to make that number bigger next year! Food and bevys will be provided!

PDX Women in Information Technology exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company–or anything in between–come join us!

@PDXWiIT

vendors: This is a friendly networking event only

Using HTML5 WebSockets for Building a Real Time Web Pages

One of the more interesting additions in HTML5 are WebSockets. With bandwidth capable of streaming video and audio, it presents a completely new world for building real time push web pages like multi-user forms and HTML control panels.

We will review the browser client side of WebSockets and then the server side communication with a Java Servlet and with CometD.

Jacob Riddle will discuss the KURB (Kernel/UseRspace Bridge) project. The goal of KURB is a kernel independent driver subsystem for Linux. The talk will include the architecture of KURB, the reasons for KURB, and how to get involved.

Jacob Riddle is in the Game Development program at Lane Community College. Prior to that he was a Nuclear Machinist Mate in the Navy. He as a passion for all things Computer Science with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence and kernel operations.

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby. Bring questions. Drink $beverage. Hack. Experienced Rubyists welcome; we want you to share your expertise!

If you have a question or a topic you'd like discussed at the meeting, feel free to post to the mailing list.

At May's R meetup Rich Shepard will present on analyzing censored environmental data using the NADA package.

"Extracting Correct Information From Censored Environmental Data"

Richard B. Shepard, PhD

It’s an undeniable trend: every day, more and more people are reading books and comics on their phones, e-readers and tablets. Rather than disappearing, though, physical books and comics are evolving into more highly-designed art objects. Hosted by the Independent Publishing Resource Center, this conversation will involve a vibrant group of Portland-based writers, zinesters, small press publishers and comics artists, all of whom are thriving within the intersections of traditional printing and digital publishing.

This event is part of Wild: Portland, an exploration of the frontier of art, technology and culture.

Come join us for Lean Coffee. We will be talking about "Lean Knowledge Work" using the Lean Coffee format. We tend to focus on the business of software development, but you can talk about any topic your group agrees to talk about.

For more on Lean Coffee, check out leancoffee.org. To see what this group has discussed in the past, check out portland.leancoffee.org.

New Relic is hosting this event, providing us space and coffee (and a spectacular view). The event is free, but space is limited, please purchase a ticket to let us know you will be coming.

The event is free and open to the public, but please let us know you are coming by grabbing a ticket at leancoffee.eventbrite.com.

Ground Zero for Dangerous Thinking

Explore the Future of the Web

WEBVISIONS PORTLAND // May 22-24, 2013

WebVisions explores the future of web and mobile design, digital media, UX and technology with an all-star lineup of visionary speakers, including Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing.net and MAKE Magazine, Ethan and Malachai Nicolle (creators of AxeCop), Carla Diana (Smart Design NYC), Jason Kunesh (Director of UX, Obama for America), Carolyn Chandler (Manifest Digital), Mark Trammell (Twitter), and more!

"WebVisions is like the medium that spawned it: unique, personal, honest, emotional and eye-opening." –Jeffrey Zeldman

Register online at http://webvisions-portland.strangertickets.com/

SharePoint 2013 Administrator Training Course: Live Online - $1485 On-Site - $1585

Registration is through our website or call us at 1-800-935-4245

This course is the place to learn the administration, best practices and governance of SharePoint 2013 from industry experts and Microsoft MVPs.

SharePoint Innovations SharePoint training environment is a real-world enterprise server farm hosted in SAS 70 compliant datacenter.

This course is intended for Administrators, Architects, Developers and other IT Professionals.

Audience

This course is intended for:

IT Professionals (Administrators, Developers, Managers, etc.)

Non-IT Professionals who will be participating in SharePoint 2013 Planning and Deployment project(s) in their organization

Duration

3 Days

Course Outline

Module 1 - SharePoint 2013 Deployment Overview SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Product Architecture SharePoint 2013 Best Practice Software, Hardware and Virtualization Requirements SharePoint 2013 6 Major Enterprise Functional Areas SharePoint 2013 Farm and Service Application Architecture SharePoint 2013 Editions IIS 8, .NET 4.0 Architecture SharePoint 2010 Editions Overview

Module 2 - SharePoint 2013 Install and Configurations SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites (Active Directory, SQL Server etc.) SharePoint 2013 Farm Deployment and Service Accounts Install SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Server Farm SharePoint 2013 Configuration, Service Application and Content Databases Configuring and Managing SharePoint 2013 Central Administration Configuring and Managing Service Applications SharePoint 2013 Security Management SharePoint 2013 Web Application and Site Collection Configuration Site Collection Logical Architecture, Planning Site Collections, Creating Site Collections

Module 3 - SharePoint 2013 Deployment Best Practices SharePoint 2013 Information Architecture SharePoint 2013 Service Application Best Practices SharePoint 2013 Security Best Practices SharePoint 2013 Web Applications, Site Collections, Quotas and Content Database Best Practices SharePoint 2013 Scalability and Performance Best Practices

Module 4 - SharePoint 2013 Unified Search SharePoint 2013 New Unified Search Architecture Setup and Configure SharePoint 2013 Unified Search Service Application SharePoint 2013 Unified Search Content Sources and Managed Properties SharePoint 2013 Unified Search Security SharePoint 2013 Unified Search Center SharePoint 2013 Search Performance SharePoint 2013 New Search Web Analytics Management

Module 5 - SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Metadata Management Business use case for Managed Metadata Architecture and Enhancements of the Managed Metadata service Anatomy of the SharePoint Metadata Term Store Managed Metadata and the SharePoint 2013 end user experience integration Managed Metadata common business use cases and usage scenarios Administering the Managed Metadata service, Term Sets and Terms Term Store Security and Export/Import Mechanisms

Module 6 - SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Content Types Overview of Enterprise Content Type Architecture Role that the Managed Metadata service plays in sharing content types between site collections, web applications and farms Configuring the Managed Metadata service and Site Collections as Content Type Hubs Content Type Syndication and New Cross Site Publishing feature. Enterprise Content Types, Taxonomy and Term Store Best Practices

Module 7 - SharePoint Workflows SharePoint Workflow (.NET 4.0 based) Architecture Overview and Management SharePoint Designer 2013. SharePoint Out-of-the-box Workflows Workflow scenarios, Creating workflows, Configuring workflow settings, Deploying workflows Creating Custom Workflows and Extending existing workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013 Creating workflows in Visio 2013 Workflows best practices and 3rd party add-ons

Module 8 – Enhancements to MySites and SharePoint Social Networking Managing My Site, My Newsfeed/Activity Feeds, Tags, Notes, Subscriptions (NEW) and Ratings. Finding People in your organization, Viewing My Sites Tag Clouds, Social Bookmarking, Wiki and Blog Sites Expertise Finder Customize MySite Look and Feel User Profile Setup and Configuration

Module 9 – SharePoint Site Administration Site Topology, Create/Delete Sites and Workspaces Enhanced Site and List Templates Site Administration and Settings, Manage Regional Settings Manage Site Libraries and Lists, Manage User Alerts, Managing RSS Usage Search and Offline Availability, Manage Sites and Workspaces Workflow Settings, Related Links Scope Settings, Term Store Management Manage Site Features, Reset to Site Definition Site and Site Collection Recycle Bin Site Web Analytics Reports

Module 10 – SharePoint Site Customization Adding Pages to your SharePoint Site, Adding and Modifying Web Parts Look and Feel Settings, Modifying Navigational Components Creating Site Templates and Themes Manage the Look and Feel, Customize Site Title, Description, and Icon Web authoring and Publishing, Master Pages and Page Layouts Customize Sites using SharePoint Designer 2013

Module 11 – InfoPath 2013 Business Forms and Workflows Overview of InfoPath 2013 Forms Services Create and Publish InfoPath 2013 Forms Connect Out-of-the-box and Custom SharePoint Designer Workflows to InfoPath 2013 Forms Creating Composite Business Applications and Office Business Applications (OBA) Architecture Business Forms Applications Best Practices

Module 12 – SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence and Dashboards Create and Manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Excel Services and Excel Services Web Parts Visio Services Introduction to PerformancePoint 2013 Services

Module 13 – eDiscovery and Records Management in SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Records Management and eDiscovery Overview Create and Configure Record Center, eDiscovery Center Information Management Policies, In-Place Records Management Record Routing and Legal Hold Management, SharePoint In-Place Hold, Exchange In-Place Hold, and Query-based preservation Records Management Best Practices

Module 14 – Business Connectivity Services (BCS) SharePoint 2013 BCS Overview OData Support and other BCS enhancements Create and Configure Business Connectivity Services External Content Types and Lists Integrate External Systems (Databases, Web Services, ERP/CRM/3rd Party Apps) to SharePoint using BCS BCS and Search Integration BCS Best Practices

Module 15 - Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2013 Strategies for protecting against both small and large disasters using the SharePoint 2013 native backup and restore tools Farm-level backup and restore using the GUI and PowerShell Granular backup and restore of site collections, sites, document libraries and lists Granular restore from an off-line SQL Server content database 3rd Party Disaster Recovery Tools, High Availability Options Business Continuity Best Practices

Module 16 – SharePoint Governance Governance Overview Information Architecture and Policies SharePoint Governance and Manageability Tools Auditing and Reporting Governance Best Practices

Module 17 – SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Migration Upgrade Concepts and Terminology Deprecated Upgrade Techniques from SharePoint 2010 Database Detach Preparation Content Migration SharePoint 2010 UI Mode vs SharePoint 2013 UI mode

Be our guest at this empowering luncheon.

Umpqua Bank and the Beaverton Chamber are serving up a delicious opportunity to help you grow your business. Please join us for an important business growth session: “Keys to the Vault” presented by Dave Chin, ActionCOACH of Portland.

When was the last time you looked in your own vault? And do you know what you are looking for? This session will teach you about the importance of understanding your financials. Especially, where your cash comes from and goes… and how to keep some of it. You’ll learn how to read your financial statements, the cashflow cycle, and how to achieve true profitability.

If you shutter at the thought, could use a refresher or just a fresh perspective, this workshop is for you.

A two-hour mentorship workshop for girls that starts with an overview of the speed mentoring process by Ivo Lukas, Chief Innovation Officer of Girls in Tech.

After the introduction, we'll start the Speed Mentoring Rounds. Each mentee will meet one-on-one with up to four Mentors for 15 minutes.

Bring the following:

Your elevator pitch
2-3 questions you would like help in answering
Business cards to give to each Mentor

The purpose of speed mentoring is to get feedback on your strengths and professional challenges from an industry expert - it's an efficient and effective way to learn, connect and network.

When you arrive, sign up for time slots so you can meet and learn from the Mentors. First come first served!

ABOUT GIT: The Girls in Tech MENTORSHIP Program was developed to provide integrated, engaging and educational high-touch workshops for young girls ages K-12, women in colleges/universities and working professionals. In an effort to encourage girls to enjoy, embrace and understand the importance of math, tech and science at a young age, we are building the curriculum which will enable girls to learn the basic skills, software programs and gain entrepreneurial exposure to become leaders within their communities, academia and in their future careers in the tech space.

To learn more about girls in tech mentorship please contact ivo@24Notion.tv

Or connect with her @MsSonicFlare Use hashtag #GITm

3 PDUs available for this course

This course is scheduled for two days: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:30PM - 4:00PM PDT Friday, May 24, 2013 2:30PM - 4:00PM PDT

Course Description

Learn the language and processes of project management and how to use them to effectively communicate with your team to complete projects on time, in budget and with less stress!

Project management is an essential skill utilized within many levels of organizations today. More and more individuals are being tasked to assist with project management. However transitioning into the role of project manager without acquiring the necessary skills and training can be overwhelming!

This course focuses on providing students with the essential knowledge needed to plan and manage projects effectively, and provides a thorough understanding of project management terminology and fundamental concepts. Students will learn industry Best Practices for incorporating proven-effective, project management processes into their organization.

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Benefits

After attending this webinar, participants will:

* Increase their knowledge of basic project management concepts and terminology
* Understand global project management standards and frameworks
* Be able to differentiate recognized project management education and certification
* Become familiar with recommended project management processes and methodologies
* Review project management case studies and best practices
* Envision the Advisicon solutions that build a project management culture

Key Project Management for Non-Project Managers Concepts:

* The purpose of project management
* The role of the project manager
* Desired competencies in project managers
* Paths to project management certificates and certification
* Project management life cycles
* The Project Management Institute and the PMBOK® Guide
* PRINCE2
* Implementing project management software
* Building project management supporting infrastructures
* Program management 
* Portfolio management
* Agile project management

Registration

https://attendee.gototraining.com/78mx2/register/2200148405721684736

For May, we'll be taking our beer and UX-loving selves over to White Owl in SE. Anyone with an interest in user experience is welcome, so you don't have to strictly be a designer.

Clarity is excited to host an Education BoF happy-hour event next week during the Portland DrupalCon conference to converge with the many education minds!

Food and drink ($3 pint night) to celebrate, connect and bond with those that use Drupal for all things related to K12 and higher education. First few rounds (and food) hosted by Clarity Innovations (Drupal in education enthusiasts since version 4.7).

Cost: Free! [RSVP] (http://www.drupaleducationsocial.eventbrite.com).

Join us to flock with the best of 'em! Drop us a line if you want to connect during the conference!

Note: Coder Dojo is on Wednesdays now

Free tickets are required

Get tickets at: https://coderdojopdx.eventbrite.com/

Coder Dojo Portland is a coder night for kids, where K12 youth, along with their parents can play, explore, and learn about coding and building software.

More details are available on the website CoderDojoPdx.com.

We want interested K12 youths, parents, and mentors to join us! We are in lovely downtown Portland Oregon at the Engine Yard offices.

• Bring or borrow a laptop
• Parents are required for 12 and under
• One (free easy) ticket per youth, parent, or mentor

Barry Wilson will talk about NSDocument, UIDocument and UIManagedDocument for CoreData, and briefly NSPersistentDocument.

7 PDUs available for this course.

Course Description

Enjoy a day of hands-on, comprehensive Microsoft Project 2010 training in our advanced training facility. This interactive course is designed to teach management and customization of project plans through all project stages. Bring your own laptop and participate in this day-long crash course full of tips and tricks for mastering Microsoft Project 2010 taught by a Microsoft MVP and 25 year industry expert.

Learning Objectives

• Establish global resource pools for interlinked projects and project reporting on integrated resources
• Leverage and use master projects and sub projects
• Understand Project Server and Enterprise Business Intelligence capabilities and uses
• Use formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking and critical deliverables reporting
• Use reporting features and capabilities more effectively
• Build and control filters, tables, details and groups
• Create custom views utilizing filters, tables, details and groups
• Understand MS Project scheduling methodologies
• Understand and utilize effort driven scheduling
• Use advanced approaches to resource scheduling and over/underallocation issues
• Use MS Project with other external applications

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 book.

Who should take this course?

Project managers, project team members, project schedulers… and anyone who has used Microsoft Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted!

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Registration

Register at http://microsoft-project-2010-advanced.eventbrite.com/#

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.

We're restarting an old OTBC tradition - Founders Friday. Each Friday, join us for munchies, beverages, and the company of other startup founders to decompress from the week, get help/input on current challenges, and in general get to know some of your peer founders.

Have you ever written a nice friendly email and gotten a reply that seems like they read a whole different email?

In Open Source communities we write to each other all the time, but we’re not really writing, we’re speaking with our fingers. Text is our primary way to communicate, but text has problems. Speaking conveys subtle emotional cues that as social animals we rely on; text strips them out. A thoughtful correspondent can put those emotions back, but we’re often not thoughtful.

This talk is about the special problems of textual communication: mitigating them; ensuring that what you mean to say is what is understood; interpreting messages that seem totally out of whack; and increasing empathic bandwidth.

About the speaker

Nóirín Plunkett is a jack of all trades, and a master of several. By day, she works for Eucalyptus Systems, as a geekEnglish translator, and general force multiplier. She's passionate about community, communication, and collaboration.

Her open source work epitomizes the saying “if you want something done, ask a busy person”: Nóirín cut her teeth on the httpd documentation project at Apache, but soon started running conferences for the Apache Software Foundation . She was involved in setting up the Community Development project, is Org Admin for the Google Summer of Code (with more than 40 students!), and continues to contribute to projects as diverse as Infrastructure and Incubator.

Nóirín was the first woman on the board of the Apache Software Foundation, and continues to sit on the board of the Open Cloud Initiative. She's also an advisor to The Ada Initiative, supporting women in open technology and culture.

When she’s not online, Nóirín often found on the dance floor or down at the pub, although she’s also a keen harpist & singer, and an excellent sous chef!

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

The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome! It is highly suggested that you bring a laptop and a project to work on.

Maybe we'll be in the middle room, maybe in the back room, just keep walking until you see a table full of laptops.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Free and open to the public. The Red Lion charges the OCCA for using their meeting room. Please help us defray this cost by buying food and beverages. Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of the month (except December).

RSVP to meetup.com/itpro-70

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 6 pm

Agenda: 6:00--6:20 Networking 6:20--7:00 No-host dinner 7:00--7:30 Introductions and announcements 7:30--8:30 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A):

Office 365

What is it?
Business view on using Office 365
Comparison of On-site versus cloud costs
Office 365 capabilities
SkyDrive Pro
Office suite + Mac support
Visio + Project - Office 365 services
How does Office 365 Licensing work?

What is Windows Intune

What services does Windows Intune provide
How Windows Intune reduces the cost of IT support

Using Office 365 Document services

SkyDrive Pro and Windows 8
Office 365 + Team Site
Collaboration with Office 2013
Data everywhere
Demonstration of Office 365 services

Next Steps

Summary of Office 365 features
Moving to Office 365
Office 365 Migration

Presented by Matt Katzer and Don Crawford

Matt created KAMIND in 1998 to supply solutions using Microsoft Technologies for small and medium size businesses. In addition to providing out sourced IT managed solutions, Matt pursued the development of technology related inventions and holds 19 domestic and international patents in related areas. Matt holds a BSEE from University of Michigan and an Executive MBA from the University of Oregon.

Don Crawford has been consulting and developing software and hardware products since 1969. In January 2012, Matt and Don combined to form a new KAMIND Cloud services business focused on Microsoft Cloud solutions. The new KAMIND is responsible for the Office 365 and Windows Intune migrations of over 200 customers in 18 states and 4 countries.

Topic: TBD

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All self-identified women and genderqueer persons are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby as well as experienced programmers. Bring your laptop and your desire to learn.

Experienced Rubyists welcome; we will encourage newbies to self-teach during these sessions so you should have a great place to hack in peace.

14 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Learn how to manage projects from initiation to close‐out. This practical course teaches participants how to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close‐out projects applying industry best practices.

Based on Project Management Institute methodology, this class examines the foundation of Project Management. Students will learn Project Management concepts, helpful Project Management terminology, and established methods based on the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Our hands‐on training is extremely practical and gives participants the conceptual and practical tools, templates, and checklists they need to collaborate on and manage projects successfully.

Learning Objectives

•Project Lifecycle Steps, Templates and Key Activities •Managing Issues, Risks and Requirements •Delivering Value and Success through Chaos and Changes •Scheduling Tools and Techniques for Managing Complex or Dynamic Projects

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Practical Project Management book, with 300+ pages of PMI approved life-cycle and thorough reference guide.

A CD with Advisicon’s best practice electronic tools and templates to aid in Project Management, and the Project Management Lifecycle flowchart.

Who should take this course?

•Project Managers •Project Team Members •Project Contributors •Project Support Team •Functional Managers •Executives

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Project Management Overview
  • The Goal of Project Management
  • Projects and Operations
  • Portfolio Management and Project Selection
  • Understanding the Project Lifecycle
  • Stakeholders, Managers and Team Members
• Executing and Controling a Project
  • Implementing Project Plans
  • Managing Requirements and Stakeholders
  • Managing Change and the Change Control Process
  • Managing Communications
  • Managing Risks, Issues, and Document
• Initiating a Project
  • Project Initiation Processes and Tools
  • Identifying Project Deliverables
  • Gathering Project Requirements
  • Developing the Scope Statement and Project Charter
  • Managing Expectations, Assumptions, and
  • Risks
• Closing Out a Project
  • Project Close‐Out Processes and Tools
  • Getting Acceptance of Project Deliverables & Requirements
  • Leading Effective Lessons‐Learned Sessions
  • Capturing and Implementing Lessons‐Learned
  • Handing‐Off Project Deliverables to
  • Operations, Customers, and Others
  • Final Reports and Project Closure
• Planning a Project
  • Project Management Planning Processes
  • Developing the Scope Management Plan
  • Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Characteristics of Good Project Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Communications Management

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise by forming workgroups that have the responsibility for planning and executing a project. Build a product according to the scope of sponsor specifications and implement the disciplines learned to deliver it within time and budget. We add twists, turns and other project real world problems for the teams to work through which adds to the fun of this creative simulation which effectively reinforces concepts and tools taught in the course.

Registration

Register at http://practical-project-management.eventbrite.com/

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

Join other tech folks to network, check out our expanded space, and have lunch on OTBC!

Come learn more about how crowdfunding can get YOUR project off the ground or accelerated into the marketplace.

How crowdfunding works - sites to raise funds or even find investors (Kickstarter, IndieGoGo & more)

How to create the “perfect pitch” for crowdfunding sites

Use crowdfunding to road test your product offerings & help you build a rabid fan-base

We’ll introduce you to the “Money 4 Something” step-by-step DIY workshop and resource to get outside funding to launch or complete your projects.

We’ll even give you one of our own proprietary tools that you can use to craft your own crowdfunding campaign on your own—just for attending and learning how you can take advantage of these amazing crowdsourced fundraising mechanisms.

Questions? Contact presenter Adrienne Fritze at adrienne@marketingmoxie.biz, or at 503.349.6075.

Last year we gathered weekly to share useful business tips that could be implemented immediately. In 2013 our workshops are changing to a new monthly format. This time we’ll gather monthly to share lessons learned working with a Portland-based business and present the results of our work in the form of a case study.

Each month will feature a different local business.

Why should you join us?

If you can identify with any of the following scenarios, you should stop what you’re doing and reserve yourself a seat for an upcoming CAKE:

You have a great idea for a business. You have just started developing a business. You have a hobby you want to make money from. You own an existing business and are feeling overwhelmed. You’re just a really awesome person who enjoys eating cake (the edible kind).

Don’t take our word for it, people really like us…

“Since the first CAKE workshop that I attended, I’ve gone back as often as my schedule allows. The two hosts, as well as all the participants have great input and advice to offer, and they offer somewhat unconventional advice on how to start up a business with a more ‘boot-strap’ approach.“ -Grant Bernard (Blurble)

“CAKE provides, not just vague conceptual pieces of inspirations, but tangible information in order for you to confidently and with ease take the next step to grow your business.” -Akiko Oguchi (5th Season: Clothing Reborn)

Ted Wheeler, Oregon State Treasurer, will be the guest of honor at the TiE Pearl at ISITE launch. TiE leaders attending from Silicon Valley are P.K. Agarwal, CEO, TiE Global, and Vish Mishra, Past President TiE Silicon Valley and Trustee TiE Global.

Other distinguised guests include Erin Flynn, Associate Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at PSU, TiE Oregon Board Members Diane Fraiman Voyager Capital, and Nitin Khanna CEO, MergerTech.

Please RSVP to attend this event, enjoy a reception with appetizers and beverages and network with Who's Who of the Portland investment and Startup scene.

Join TiE Oregon and ISITE Design as we celebrate the grand opening of the TiE Pearl Incubator at ISITE, Wednesday May 29th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

A collaborative workspace focused around digital startup companies, TiE Pearl is now accepting applications for residency from Portland-area startups.

Tie Pearl is located within ISITE Design's Portland headquarters building, at 2035 NW Overton St, Portland OR 97209. Registration is required for this event. www.oregon.tie.org

Note: Coder Dojo is on Wednesdays now

Free tickets are required

Get tickets at: https://coderdojopdx.eventbrite.com/

Coder Dojo Portland is a coder night for kids, where K12 youth, along with their parents can play, explore, and learn about coding and building software.

More details are available on the website CoderDojoPdx.com.

We want interested K12 youths, parents, and mentors to join us! We are in lovely downtown Portland Oregon at the Engine Yard offices.

• Bring or borrow a laptop
• Parents are required for 12 and under
• One (free easy) ticket per youth, parent, or mentor

SharePoint 2013 Power User Training Course:
Live Online - $1085 - Onsite $1285

This class is designed for individual contributors or departmental staff in a variety of job roles, such as content managers, site owners, site administrators, project managers, administrative assistants, functional or operations managers, business users with basic SharePoint skills, and who have the responsibility for managing SharePoint sites as an enabling technology within their workgroups and teams, not necessarily technical professionals. This course provides a comprehensive SharePoint training that will present students with a ground-up understanding for how to use, build and manages sites in a SharePoint Server 2013 environment.

Duration

2 Days

Course Outline

Module 1 – Introduction to SharePoint 2013 Server End User, Content Manager and Site Administrator Overview Sites, Lists, Libraries and Common Web Parts Team Sites and Communities SharePoint Site Hierarchy and the Ribbon What’s new in SharePoint 2013

Module 2 – SharePoint Lists What’s New with SharePoint 2013 lists Create a SharePoint Team Site and Configure Lists and Libraries Add/Modify List Items, Create/Modify List Views, Sort/Filter, List Metadata and Navigation Add Documents to a Library, Edit Library Documents, Share Documents Across Libraries, Create Wiki Pages, Request Access to SharePoint Content Working with Library folders, properties, workflows and document sets Customize List and Library Look and Feel Manage Security of Lists and Libraries Connect Lists and Libraries to Outlook and SharePoint Workspace

Module 3 – SharePoint Search and Navigation What’s new with SharePoint 2013 Search and Navigation Metadata Navigation SharePoint Site Information Architecture Best Practices Search, Search Index, Advanced Search, People Search, Refinements, Best Bests and Keywords, Faceted Search Search Security, Web Parts and Alerts Customize Search Results Look and Feel

Module 4 – SharePoint and Microsoft Office Integration What’s new with SharePoint 2013 SharePoint Office Integration Overview SharePoint Workspace, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, Excel, Access, Outlook and PowerPoint

Module 5 - SharePoint Content Types Overview of Enterprise Content Type Architecture Create and Manage Site Columns and Content Types Document Sets, Term Stores, Content Type Hub Managed Metadata and Content Types common business use cases and usage scenarios Content Type Best Practices

Module 6 - SharePoint Workflows SharePoint Workflow Overview SharePoint Out-of-the-box Workflows Workflow scenarios, Creating workflows, Configuring workflow settings, Deploying workflows Creating Custom Workflows and Extending existing workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013 Creating workflows in Visio 2013 Workflows best practices and 3rd party add-ons

Module 7 – MySites and SharePoint Social Networking What’s New in SharePoint 2013 MySites. Managing My Site, My Newsfeed/Activity Feeds, Tags, Notes and Ratings Finding People in your organization, Viewing My Sites Tag Clouds, Social Bookmarking, Wiki and Blog Sites Expertise Finder Customize MySite Look and Feel

Module 8 – SharePoint Site Administration What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Site Administration Site Topology, Create/Delete Sites and Workspaces Site and List Templates Site Administration and Settings, Manage Regional Settings Manage Site Libraries and Lists, Manage User Alerts, Managing RSS Usage Search and Offline Availability, Manage Sites and Workspaces Workflow Settings, Related Links Scope Settings, Term Store Management Manage Site Features, Reset to Site Definition Site and Site Collection Recycle Bin Site Web Analytics Reports

Module 9 – SharePoint Site Customization Adding Pages to your SharePoint Site, Adding and Modifying Web Parts Look and Feel Settings, Modifying Navigational Components Creating Site Templates and Themes Manage the Look and Feel, Customize Site Title, Description, and Icon Web authoring and Publishing, Master Pages and Page Layouts Customize Sites using SharePoint Designer 2013

Module 10 – InfoPath Business Forms and Workflows Overview of InfoPath Forms Services Create and Publish InfoPath Forms Connect Out-of-the-box and Custom SharePoint Designer Workflows to InfoPath Forms

Module 11 – SharePoint Business Intelligence and Dashboards Create and Manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Excel Services and Excel Services Web Parts Introduction to PerformancePoint Services

Module 12 – SharePoint Security and Site Governance Security and Governance Overview Permissions, Permission Levels and SharePoint Groups Manage User Access to SharePoint Site, Manage SharePoint Groups and Users Permissions Inheritance Hierarchy SharePoint Security and Governance Best Practices

UX and CSS Bootcamp

This two-day bootcamp introduces User Experience Design and using CSS3 to create engaging web layouts. We will cover the essential tenants of UX, some of the new properties in CSS3 and HTML5, Polyfills, and how to research which new parts of HTML5/CSS3 are stable and ready to be used now.

This class is for students who have already published several websites but are unsatisfied with using someone else’s theme or just want more control over the visual aspects of the web. This class is also great for backend developers who would like to get a handle on CSS to push themselves further in their careers. There will be time from 3pm – 5pm on Saturday to stay later and work with other in the class to complete projects.

Pre-requisites: You will need to bring your own laptop for this bootcamp. Students taking this course should have already taken the Intro workshop or demonstrated their abilities by deploying a hand-made website to a server on the internet.

Dates: 5/30/13 & 6/1/13 Times: Thursday 5 – 9pm & Saturday 10 – 3pm (lunch provided on Saturday)

Early Bird registration fee: $540 Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 10th by 5:00pm Late registration fee: $800 Register Now: http://portlandcodeschool_ux_css_bootcamp.eventbrite.com/#

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.

The Zissou Society for Programming Language Exploration (aka pdxlang) is a general programming language discussion/exploration group. The weird, the offbeat, the little-known, the forgotten programming languages. These are the things we discuss and explore.

Scheduled speakers: Bart Massey talking about m4 and Dave DiNucci talking about ScalPL.

There will be pizza and beer. (If your company wants to sponsor that please get in touch with Matt.)

AWS User Group Road Trip with Jeff Barr

Interested in volunteering at this year's Open Source Bridge? Join us at the Green Dragon to get all of your questions answered and sign up for shifts.

"The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Today it announced the National Day Of Civic Hacking on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate data for citizens across the U.S. to use to build tech that helps their communities. Twenty-seven cities have planned events where hackers will have access to data from The Department of Labor, The Census Bureau, and even NASA’s space stats.

The National Day Of Civic Hacking is a joint project from the U.S. government, Code For America, Random Hacks Of Kindness, and Eric Schmidt’s early-stage venture fund Innovation Endeavors. Part of a growing initiative to increase government transparency and civic engagement,..."

from http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/national-day-of-civic-hacking/

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Intro to PuppetDB - Nick Lewis
• 7:45 - 8:30: Exported Resources - Spencer and William
• 8:30: Decide if we should meet on July 1 (scheduled), push to July 8 or cancel July

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

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.

Learn how Google & Intel are leveraging the latest in neuroscience to

· solve design problems months earlier

· dive deep into uninterrupted collaborative effort

· transform thrash and frustration into energetic ease and insight

· boost creativity in stressful work environments

Join us for this experiential workshop exploring the intersection of emotional intelligence, mindfulness and creativity.

ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the mailing list. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there!

SecureWorld provides more content and facilitates more professional connections than any other event in the cyber-security industry. Our model relies on collaboration with high-level security thought leaders, which enables us to provide globally relevant education, training, and networking for cyber-security professionals on a regional level.

This is our inaugural event in Portland, our hometown! Join your peers for two days of high-quality training and networking, and earn CPEs. Visit our website for more details, www.secureworldexpo.com.

Come have a beer and (if you want to) compete in the Ping-Pong Tournament:

June 5th Tech+Pong tournament with two brackets:

1) The Best of the Best (for pongers who can smash, hit, and rock their way through a pong game).

2) The Best of the Worst (for rookie pongers who just want to have fun and the thought of "spinning a slice shot" seems like something having to do with a pizza parlor). More details can be found here:

http://www.meetup.com/PDX-Tech-Pong/events/111321222/

Do you work for a tech company in any way, shape, or form (developer, marketing, design, admin, tech student, etc.)? Do you want to be more involved in the Portland tech community? Come by and play some Ping-Pong! Or, just come by for some good conversation and a beer. Headbands, wristbands, and other such attire are encouraged.

This event is free but please RSVP so we get a head count: http://www.meetup.com/PDX-Tech-Pong/events/111321222/

The program will begin with a review of Honda’s user research and design research process while developing new applications for the company’s 3-D heads-up display prototype. It will be a fairly candid talk showing lessons learned and how the team changed focus mid-way on design direction after learning about new things while designing. This included focusing more on the driver’s primary task instead of secondary tasks to help create a more engaging (“kick-ass”) experience for the driver.

About the Speaker Victor Ng Thow Hing is a Principal Scientist working at the Honda Research Institute in Mountain View, Calif. He has worked on projects related to digital human modeling, intelligent systems, human-robot interaction, and now human-machine interaction in the car.

Join AppNeuxs for our first ever Engineering@Scale PDX event: "Tips and Tricks with JavaScript"presented by software engineers from AppNexus' User Interface team.

We will kickoff with two lightning talks and then dive into "Writing High Integrity JavaScript" with Nathan Wall. Nathan's talk will explore common security problems and solutions, various ways to implement private state JavaScript, and tips for hardening code to run safely alongside third party scripts.

We'll have pizza and beers at 6:30, and the presentation will kick off at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public.

RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6590326845

Note: Coder Dojo is on Wednesdays now

Free tickets are required

Get tickets at: https://coderdojopdx.eventbrite.com/

Coder Dojo Portland is a coder night for kids, where K12 youth, along with their parents can play, explore, and learn about coding and building software.

More details are available on the website CoderDojoPdx.com.

We want interested K12 youths, parents, and mentors to join us! We are in lovely downtown Portland Oregon at the Engine Yard offices.

• Bring or borrow a laptop
• Parents are required for 12 and under
• One (free easy) ticket per youth, parent, or mentor

Jim Manico has offered to come and give us another great talk. Topic and location currently TBD.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Chapter meetings are free and open to the public.

Details TBD.

PLUG: Portland's only 12-month tech conference

The Portland Linux/Unix Group has met since 1994 and hosts two conference-class speakers a month plus a hands-on clinic.

This month's topic is to be announced.

Find out more at http://pdxlinux.org

Many will head to the Lucky Lab NW after the meeting

From tech to food and onto science, our region's entrepreneurs are developing ideas and companies that are making a difference from both an economic development standpoint and the betterment of the society we live in. The journey from an idea or concept to actually getting your company up and running is never an easy one. It's one that is filled with ups and downs, victories and defeats, but the one thing that all of these entrepreneurs share is a passion for what they are trying to build or create.

OEN's Entrepreneurial Summit is your opportunity to discover and learn about the incredible collection of entrepreneurs, across all industries that are making things happen in Oregon.These entrepreneurs all have a passion and belief in what they have built, but their journeys will both inspire and spark ideas within you. D'Wayne Edwards with Pensole Shoe Design Academy, Anna Martens with FreeRangePDX/Leatherman and Mat Ellis with Cloudability are just a few of the great speakers that are lined up for the event.

As many of these entrepreneurs will attest, they couldn't have done it on their own. To that end, after the talks have completed, OEN is hosting an"Entrepreneurs Journey" trade show. The trade show will include the organizations, accelerators, universities and government resources that provide the support, mentorship and potential funding for entrepreneurs.

The opportunity is NOW! Don’t miss another chance to get in on the next great marketplace! Get your competitive juices flowing and participate in a fun and FREE Windows 8 App Factor event.

Friday, June 7: A day of content on how to build a Windows 8 app. Form teams or code alone, and build your app over the next 2 weeks.

Saturday, June 22: Hackathon presentations.

Register today at the registration site. More information is on http://www.windows8appfactor.com.

Have app ideas? Have software development skills? If so, that’s all you need to learn, compete and win! Take your skills and ideas into a new economy. If you've just had an idea, already been developing for Windows 8, or have been wondering how easy it is to get in on the new Windows app economy then this is for you.

We'll cover what you need to know from idea to store submission. Well show you how to either create an application from scratch or use a beautiful sample to get started. Once you discover your app potential, your team can hack for two weeks building the app of your dreams. You can even get free consulting from the local evangelist team (in person or online).

Don't worry if you don't yet have Windows 8. We'll give you a trial version which has all the tools you'll need. You can install this in a VM on a Mac or PC as long as you have 25 GB of free space.

On Saturday, June 22, we’ll host Windows 8 App Factor Compete, and provide you with an opportunity to show off your app and hard work to the world and potentially win the Windows 8 event. Prizes include Surface RT slates, Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, and Jawbone Jamboxes.

More information to be provided on rules and eligibility for online or in-person submission at the first event. Find out what amazing apps are coming out of your community! Watch and see which developers truly have the Windows 8 App Factor!

Jackie Barretta will be talking with us about dealing with performance reviews when you're trying to focus on team level performance.

More details closer to the date.

The Rye Beer Fest, a celebration of the revival of rye beers, will be held at EastBurn (1800 E. Burnside., Portland, Ore.) during Portland Beer Week. The fest will take place on Friday June 7th, from 4-10 p.m. and will feature 19 rye beers. Two of the beers being featured are special collaboration beers. One was brewed by 10 Barrel Brewing Company in collaboration with Taplister and the other was brewed by Hopworks Urban Brewery in collaboration with Taplister. All proceeds from the sale of the collaboration beers will be donated to the Children’s Cancer Association.

In addition to rye beers, there will be rye cocktails and rye food. Entry to the event is free. The pricing for the beer (half pints and pints), cocktails and food is still to be determined.

To keep up with the latest news regarding the Rye Beer Fest check out www.ryebeerfest.com.

About Dawn To Dusk:

Dawn to Dusk is an endurance paddling where paddlers do laps for 12 hours around Ross Island in downtown Portland to raise money for the Children’s Cancer Association. Last year Bridge City Paddling Club raised more than $28,000 for this great organization. Bridge City Paddling Club is a non-profit organization, dedicated to both community service and competition.

Mercy Corps and Startup Weekend have partnered to create a first-of-its kind event focused on solving some of the world’s toughest problems through technology and entrepreneurship, measured by solutions formulated from the boldest of ideas.

Tech4Change will serve as a platform to encourage new ways to think about entrepreneurship in challenging environments around the globe. The 54-hour marathon event will be focused on developing tech tools for the greater good and creating viable social enterprises that can scale to address global needs.

We need sharp business development and marketing experts with ideas for social change! We need Ruby and mobile engineers and developers! We need UI/UX experts with an eye for all things beautiful!

Here's an opportunity for you to gain experience working with social impact entrepreneurs and nonprofit program officers! Put your skills to the test at Tech4Change and develop a minimum viable product with a shot for deployment with Mercy Corps!

Tech4Change will take place at Mercy Corps Portland Headquarters and will start with participants pitching their ideas for social change. You'll also get to hear pitches from Mercy Corps personnel who've been in the field. From there, the crowd will choose the best ideas that will be developed during the weekend. The top prize winning team will have a chance at deploying their application with Mercy Corps in the field!

Mercy Corps is a non-profit disaster relief and development organization with operations in over 40 countries. Its mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps strives to catalyze community-led and market-driven solutions to global poverty issues. Increasingly, Mercy Corps is employing technologies which have the potential to give millions of people new access to financial services and information, enabling them to grow businesses and improve their livelihoods, health and communities. Mercy Corps is also increasingly using startup technologies to streamline operations and meet compliance needs, freeing up human and financial resources to benefit those in need.www.mercycorps.org

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

28 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Your career depends on your ability to demonstrate Industry Best Practices in project management. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is the industry standard for project managers to validate and certify that you understand and can manage projects to Industry Best Practices.

This course prepares you to take and pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam from the Project Management Institute (PMI), by offering an in-depth examination of the required study areas. The experienced Advisicon instructors know the exam inside and out, and share their valuable tips and tricks for mastering the PMBOK concepts and passing the exam.

Included Materials

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 4th Edition is the global standard for project management and is provided to course participants. It outlines the PMI framework of 9 Knowledge areas, 5 Process Groups, and the 44 Processes contained in the PMP exam.

Advisicon provides students with a copy of Kim Heldman’s comprehensive PMP Study Guide. This comprehensive exam study guide includes a CD with practice exams, exam prep software, electronic flashcards, and over two hours of additional audio review. All exam objectives, as well as essential PMP topics, concepts, and key terms are covered. This is an essential tool for passing the PMP exam.

Who should to take this course?

Anyone preparing to take and PASS the the Project Management Institute's PMP exam. Please see the PMI website to review eligibility requirements.

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• The 5 major project management processes, including inputs, outputs, tools, techniques, and terminology
• How each process relates to the 9 project management knowledge areas
• The project management framework and how processes flow within it
• The professional responsibility subject matter PMI has added to the exam
• The PMI formulas related to cost, time, quality, and risk, and the ability to apply them in real scenarios
• How to produce network diagrams, calculate critical path, float, and lag, and the terms, tools, and techniques that apply to them
• Test taking strategies to help you understand and decode PMI's test questions and avoid common traps and pitfalls
• A working knowledge of PMI's vocabulary and terms.

Registration

Register at http://pmp-exam-prep.eventbrite.com/

Join us for this informative lunch seminar that will show you how to transform your business or agency with Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions.

DISCOVER how M2M solutions are enabling organizations like yours to: • Increase operational efficiencies • Improve customer or end-user experience • Enhance safety and security • Generate new revenue streams

HEAR from industry experts that have developed and deployed innovative M2M solutions in a variety of industries.

SEE demonstrations of M2M products and services that are available now, offering you new ways of engaging and enabling your assets, your workforce and your customers or citizens.

MEET with Verizon’s M2M specialists and solutions providers to discuss how your business or agency can benefit from M2M solutions.

LOCAL PARTNERS In the last year, one of our main initiatives is to help customers integrate wireless into their products. We will be showcasing some of these partners at CTT. Come talk with them about how Verizon Wireless has helped them develop their products.

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby as well as experienced programmers. Bring your laptop and your desire to learn.

Experienced Rubyists welcome; we will encourage newbies to self-teach during these sessions so you should have a great place to hack in peace.

Quarterly meetup of DITA XML users in the Greater Portland area. Free beer and food, geeky chitchat, discussion of DITA best practices and travails. Newbies to experts welcome. Please join us!

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML data model for authoring and, with the DITA Open Toolkit, publishing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture

The jQuery Conference in Portland 2013 will be jQuery's largest event to date. It's a great opportunity to meet and get to know over 1000 of the world's top jQuery talent.

This group is intended for but not limited to, SharePoint business users interested in learning more about SharePoint and getting involved in the SharePoint community. We Provide an opportunity to learn and enjoy lunch on us!

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Saturdays, June 15th & 22nd, (10am-4pm)

Crafting the Perfect Pitch for Getting Your Projects Funded through Crowdfunding

In this HANDS ON workshop you will create your fundraising pitch and set-up your profile on one of these crowdfunding websites: KICKSTARTER.COM, INDIEGOGO.COM, FUNDABLE.COM.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

• Sat, June 15th & Sat. June 22nd Classrooms, 10a - 4pm with a 1-hour lunch break
• Monday June 17th thru Friday June 21st: e-mail support
• Two conference calls during the Week of June 17th - 21st

INCLUDED IN THE WORKSHOP

• Workbook for creating a powerful pitch
• Guides for writing and producing content
• Budget planning worksheet (paper & .xls) to help estimate the project budget and pledge levels
• eMail and teleconference support the week between classrooms
• Links to helpful online resources
• Case studies of successful crowdfunded projects and summary of projects that failed and why
• List of the top crowdfunding sites for everything from projects to investment clubs.

After a review of the workbook, resource material & budgeting tools, we roll up our sleeves to begin the work of creating your project pitch and project marketing plan.

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

We have so much confidence in the value of this workshop that we're offering a money-back guarantee. If you complete the workshop and are not satisfied with the value, request a refund in writing within a week of the workshop and we'll refund your workshop fee.

RSVP to this FREE event on eventbrite

OpenITP Event Wiki Link

What is it?

This is the first Techno-Activism 3rd Monday event for Portland, Oregon! Read more about techno-activism 3rd mondays.

Who should come?

Anyone interested in techno-activism. We invite coders, geeks, artists, and anyone else. No technical experience required.

Who's hosting?

The Privly Foundation will organize this and future TA3M Portland events. Puppet Labs is generously providing space.

Event Description

We'll be chatting with James Vasile. James directs the Open Internet Tools Project, which supports development of anti-censorship and anti-surveillance tools. He is a partner at Open Tech Strategies, which advises organizations and businesses as they navigate the open-source world. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Software Freedom Law Center, where he acts as a strategic advisor on a range of free software efforts.

James has helped boot up a number of free software organizations, including the FreedomBox Foundation, Open Source Matters, and the Software Freedom Conservancy. His FreedomBox work has been recognized by an Innovation Award at Contact Summit 2011, as well as an Ashoka ChangeMaker’s award for Citizen’s Media.

You can learn more about James at JamesVasile.com. He tweets as @jamesvasile and blogs at Hackervisions.org.

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.

Open Source Bridge is an open source developers conference, focused on bringing people from a range of technology backgrounds together to share their knowledge and explore what it means to be an open source citizen.

Find out more at http://opensourcebridge.org/

The Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics meeting

Every month we have a more hands-on meeting to compliment our 1st Thursday General meeting.

Topic to be announced

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

14 PDUs available for this course.

Course Description

Quit doing all manual work in Excel! Come learn to use a dynamic, resource driven reporting tool from industry experts. This course is designed to help you manage and master MS Project from simple task management to Program and Portfolio management.

Learn how to create and maintain easily dynamic schedules, and address resource demand and capacity, over and under allocations all with visual reporting and proven techniques by 20+ year industry veterans. This course trains participants how to plan, forecast, build, and manage project tasks and resources and to combine issues, risks, deliverables and dashboards in one central tool

Learning Objectives

• Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
• Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
• Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
• Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
• Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
• Use reporting functions more effectively

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 book.

Who should take this course?

Project managers, project team members, project schedulers… and anyone who has used Microsoft Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted!

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Effective Use of Microsoft Project
  • MS Project Overview
  • Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project
  • Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
  • Creating task relationships & dependencies
  • Setting task constraints and outlining
• Managing and Tracking of Projects
  • Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
  • Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
  • Advanced resource scheduling techniques
  • Managing costs, tracking baselines
  • Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
  • Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
  • Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules
• Applying Resources and Calendars
  • Creating and utilizing resource pools
  • Applying layers of calendars
  • Utilizing project views
  • Formatting schedule layouts
  • Utilizing project reports
  • Understanding printing
• Working with External Data & Applications
  • Linking data between applications
  • Importing & exporting data
  • Hyperlinking and web pages
  • Utilizing business analysis templates
• Customizing for Better Management Results
  • Using filters, tables, details and groups
  • Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
  • MS Project scheduling methodologies
  • Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise where the participants can have actual tactical experience creating a schedule, linking tasks, creating custom views, along with best practice knowledge transfer on topics such as critical path methodology, project tracking, and Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts. Participants will also walk away with an understanding of how the schedule engine within Microsoft Project functions and will no longer need to ‘game’ the software, but can now let the software work for them.

Registration

Register at http://managing-projects-with-microsoft-project-2010.eventbrite.com/

The Elevating Impact Summit, brought to you by Impact Entrepreneurs at Portland State University, is a celebration of new approaches to generating social impact across business, social, public, and academic sectors.

This event features a dynamic day of interactive discussion and learning sessions, inspiring speakers, first-hand accounts from social entrepreneurs and innovators, and opportunities to connect with a diverse audience of business professionals, cutting edge entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and students all working to realize the full potential of business for positive impact.

Join us at Elevating Impact to connect with creative individuals and groups who are driving social impact across sectors and ages.

14 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Learn how to manage projects from initiation to close‐out. This practical course teaches participants how to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close‐out projects applying industry best practices.

Based on Project Management Institute methodology, this class examines the foundation of Project Management. Students will learn Project Management concepts, helpful Project Management terminology, and established methods based on the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Our hands‐on training is extremely practical and gives participants the conceptual and practical tools, templates, and checklists they need to collaborate on and manage projects successfully.

Learning Objectives

•Project Lifecycle Steps, Templates and Key Activities •Managing Issues, Risks and Requirements •Delivering Value and Success through Chaos and Changes •Scheduling Tools and Techniques for Managing Complex or Dynamic Projects

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Practical Project Management book, with 300+ pages of PMI approved life-cycle and thorough reference guide.

A CD with Advisicon’s best practice electronic tools and templates to aid in Project Management, and the Project Management Lifecycle flowchart.

Who should take this course?

•Project Managers •Project Team Members •Project Contributors •Project Support Team •Functional Managers •Executives

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Project Management Overview
  • The Goal of Project Management
  • Projects and Operations
  • Portfolio Management and Project Selection
  • Understanding the Project Lifecycle
  • Stakeholders, Managers and Team Members
• Executing and Controling a Project
  • Implementing Project Plans
  • Managing Requirements and Stakeholders
  • Managing Change and the Change Control Process
  • Managing Communications
  • Managing Risks, Issues, and Document
• Initiating a Project
  • Project Initiation Processes and Tools
  • Identifying Project Deliverables
  • Gathering Project Requirements
  • Developing the Scope Statement and Project Charter
  • Managing Expectations, Assumptions, and
  • Risks
• Closing Out a Project
  • Project Close‐Out Processes and Tools
  • Getting Acceptance of Project Deliverables & Requirements
  • Leading Effective Lessons‐Learned Sessions
  • Capturing and Implementing Lessons‐Learned
  • Handing‐Off Project Deliverables to
  • Operations, Customers, and Others
  • Final Reports and Project Closure
• Planning a Project
  • Project Management Planning Processes
  • Developing the Scope Management Plan
  • Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Characteristics of Good Project Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Communications Management

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise by forming workgroups that have the responsibility for planning and executing a project. Build a product according to the scope of sponsor specifications and implement the disciplines learned to deliver it within time and budget. We add twists, turns and other project real world problems for the teams to work through which adds to the fun of this creative simulation which effectively reinforces concepts and tools taught in the course.

Registration

Register at http://practical-project-management.eventbrite.com/

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby as well as experienced programmers. Bring your laptop and your desire to learn.

Experienced Rubyists welcome; we will encourage newbies to self-teach during these sessions so you should have a great place to hack in peace.

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

Do you have a SaaS site that you run? Then you should come to our event! We are entrepreneurs who run and/or manage small software as a service businesses.

Your app can be written in any language we welcome all technical abilities, programming languages, and business stages.

The important thing is that you have passion for technology and are interested in hanging out with other like-minded folk.

We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Green Dragon in SE Portland.

This is a new group, so volunteers and suggestions are welcome.

Ben Ford will be presenting about making a game in Core Animation. Conventional wisdom says it can't be done with decent performance - he has done it and lived to tell the tale. :) The sample project to be discussed is here: https://github.com/bentford/ButtonWars

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

7 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

A proper set of requirements are the backbone of all successful projects. Poor requirements inevitably lead to poor project performance. Requirements provide the essential link between the goal of the project and the design of outputs and products. They are the only proper basis for your project's quality efforts and are the first line of defense against scope creep. Poor requirements, by themselves, lead to rework and subsequent schedule and budget overruns, flawed designs, failed quality and testing programs, and customer dissatisfaction.

This course teaches participants how to elicit, characterize, document, analyze, validate, verify and manage requirements for new projects, products and services. This is a must have for anyone who will be part of delivering or managing a project and includes tools, flowcharts and courseware that leverage industry best practices for successfully managing and delivering requirements to stakeholders..

Included Materials

Course participants receive a course manual and CD with tools and templates for gathering, recording, and managing requirements.

Who should take this course?

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Senior Management/ Customer or Stakeholders
• Business Analysts
• Team Members responsible for gathering informational and required details for project deliverables

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Eliciting Requirements
  • Defining high-level business requirements
  • Identifying user classes & representatives
  • Selecting elicitation techniques
  • Eliciting functional & non-functional requirements from users
  • Identifying business rules
  • Reviewing requirements with users
• Requirements Analysis
  • Clarifying complex and unclear requirements
  • Evaluating & prioritizing requirements
• Requirements Documentation
  • Naming conventions and definitions
  • Documenting relevant facts and assumptions
• Requirements during the Design & Build Phase
  • Match product to prioritized requirements
  • Requirements-based quality control
  • Establishing a stakeholder acceptance process
• Requirements Change Control
  • Establishing document version control
  • Establishing change control process
  • Tracking changes
• Requirements Verification
  • Verifying requirements
  • Creating requirements traceability
• Requirements during Testing and Acceptance
  • Establishing requirements-based performance and acceptance tests
  • Requirements-based redesign & rework
• Requirements and Closing a Project
  • Acceptance of deliverables
  • Project documentation closeout process

Register

Register at http://mastering-requirements-gathering-calagator.eventbrite.com

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

14 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Learn how to manage projects from initiation to close‐out. This practical course teaches participants how to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close‐out projects applying industry best practices.

Based on Project Management Institute methodology, this class examines the foundation of Project Management. Students will learn Project Management concepts, helpful Project Management terminology, and established methods based on the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Our hands‐on training is extremely practical and gives participants the conceptual and practical tools, templates, and checklists they need to collaborate on and manage projects successfully.

Learning Objectives

•Project Lifecycle Steps, Templates and Key Activities •Managing Issues, Risks and Requirements •Delivering Value and Success through Chaos and Changes •Scheduling Tools and Techniques for Managing Complex or Dynamic Projects

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Practical Project Management book, with 300+ pages of PMI approved life-cycle and thorough reference guide.

A CD with Advisicon’s best practice electronic tools and templates to aid in Project Management, and the Project Management Lifecycle flowchart.

Who should take this course?

•Project Managers •Project Team Members •Project Contributors •Project Support Team •Functional Managers •Executives

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Project Management Overview
  • The Goal of Project Management
  • Projects and Operations
  • Portfolio Management and Project Selection
  • Understanding the Project Lifecycle
  • Stakeholders, Managers and Team Members
• Executing and Controling a Project
  • Implementing Project Plans
  • Managing Requirements and Stakeholders
  • Managing Change and the Change Control Process
  • Managing Communications
  • Managing Risks, Issues, and Document
• Initiating a Project
  • Project Initiation Processes and Tools
  • Identifying Project Deliverables
  • Gathering Project Requirements
  • Developing the Scope Statement and Project Charter
  • Managing Expectations, Assumptions, and
  • Risks
• Closing Out a Project
  • Project Close‐Out Processes and Tools
  • Getting Acceptance of Project Deliverables & Requirements
  • Leading Effective Lessons‐Learned Sessions
  • Capturing and Implementing Lessons‐Learned
  • Handing‐Off Project Deliverables to
  • Operations, Customers, and Others
  • Final Reports and Project Closure
• Planning a Project
  • Project Management Planning Processes
  • Developing the Scope Management Plan
  • Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Characteristics of Good Project Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Communications Management

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise by forming workgroups that have the responsibility for planning and executing a project. Build a product according to the scope of sponsor specifications and implement the disciplines learned to deliver it within time and budget. We add twists, turns and other project real world problems for the teams to work through which adds to the fun of this creative simulation which effectively reinforces concepts and tools taught in the course.

Registration

Register at http://practical-project-management.eventbrite.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to your feedback, the OTBC/OEN/TAO Summer Camp topics are set.  Here's the plan:

• We'll present 2 workshops every week in July, and then re-run the same set in August  
• Workshops in July will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, July 9  
• Workshops in August will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, Aug. 6  
• The workshops will be a OTBC - but will also be streamed live to the web (with a chat room so you can ask questions)

Going on vacation?  Not to worry.  If you miss a workshop in July, it will come around again in August. And here's the schedule:

• How to Get Started - a Checklist of Things to Do  July 9 and Aug. 6
   
• The Top 20 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (and how to avoid them)  July 11 and Aug. 8
   
• How to Capture and Validate your Business Model Assumptions on a 1 Page Lean Canvas  July 16 and Aug. 13
   
• Customer Development - if you build it, will they buy it?  July 18 and Aug. 15
   
• How to Build a Realistic Funding Plan  July 23 and Aug. 20
   
• How to Size and Segment a Market  July 25 and Aug. 22
   
• How to Develop a Go to Market Plan  July 30 and Aug. 27
   
• How to Make Sure your Company Owns it's Intellectual Property (and Why That is Critical)  Aug. 1 and Aug. 29

Learn more and register here

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to your feedback, the OTBC/OEN/TAO Summer Camp topics are set.  Here's the plan:

• We'll present 2 workshops every week in July, and then re-run the same set in August  
• Workshops in July will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, July 9  
• Workshops in August will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, Aug. 6  
• The workshops will be a OTBC - but will also be streamed live to the web (with a chat room so you can ask questions)

Going on vacation?  Not to worry.  If you miss a workshop in July, it will come around again in August. And here's the schedule:

• How to Get Started - a Checklist of Things to Do  July 9 and Aug. 6
   
• The Top 20 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (and how to avoid them)  July 11 and Aug. 8
   
• How to Capture and Validate your Business Model Assumptions on a 1 Page Lean Canvas  July 16 and Aug. 13
   
• Customer Development - if you build it, will they buy it?  July 18 and Aug. 15
   
• How to Build a Realistic Funding Plan  July 23 and Aug. 20
   
• How to Size and Segment a Market  July 25 and Aug. 22
   
• How to Develop a Go to Market Plan  July 30 and Aug. 27
   
• How to Make Sure your Company Owns it's Intellectual Property (and Why That is Critical)  Aug. 1 and Aug. 29

Learn more and register here

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

28 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Your career depends on your ability to demonstrate Industry Best Practices in project management. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is the industry standard for project managers to validate and certify that you understand and can manage projects to Industry Best Practices.

This course prepares you to take and pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam from the Project Management Institute (PMI), by offering an in-depth examination of the required study areas. The experienced Advisicon instructors know the exam inside and out, and share their valuable tips and tricks for mastering the PMBOK concepts and passing the exam.

Included Materials

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 4th Edition is the global standard for project management and is provided to course participants. It outlines the PMI framework of 9 Knowledge areas, 5 Process Groups, and the 44 Processes contained in the PMP exam.

Advisicon provides students with a copy of Kim Heldman’s comprehensive PMP Study Guide. This comprehensive exam study guide includes a CD with practice exams, exam prep software, electronic flashcards, and over two hours of additional audio review. All exam objectives, as well as essential PMP topics, concepts, and key terms are covered. This is an essential tool for passing the PMP exam.

Who should to take this course?

Anyone preparing to take and PASS the the Project Management Institute's PMP exam. Please see the PMI website to review eligibility requirements.

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• The 5 major project management processes, including inputs, outputs, tools, techniques, and terminology
• How each process relates to the 9 project management knowledge areas
• The project management framework and how processes flow within it
• The professional responsibility subject matter PMI has added to the exam
• The PMI formulas related to cost, time, quality, and risk, and the ability to apply them in real scenarios
• How to produce network diagrams, calculate critical path, float, and lag, and the terms, tools, and techniques that apply to them
• Test taking strategies to help you understand and decode PMI's test questions and avoid common traps and pitfalls
• A working knowledge of PMI's vocabulary and terms.

Registration

Register at http://pmp-exam-prep.eventbrite.com/

A startup is an organization that is searching for a business model that works. It's critical to understand that a startup's business model is a set of assumptions - and those assumptions need to be tested, earlier rather than later! And earlier means before you develop the product or service! (But even if you've already started developing the product is still the right time to validate the business model!)

A 1 page business model canvas is an excellent way to capture the assumptions underlying your business model, so you can methodically test those assumptions. In this workshop, you'll learn about the lean startup approach, and be introduced to the 1 Page Lean Business Model Canvas, and discuss how you can use the canvas to test each assumption in the model. Then you'll work through a “hands on” exercise where you complete and present to the group a portion of your 1 page lean canvas. All participants will receive printed copies of the Lean Canvas to use, and will also be provided with a PowerPoint version of the canvas so they can continue to create canvases on a computer.

Who should attend: Anyone who is starting a business and has not yet developed and tested the business model for that business. This material and process is relevant for any startup - not just tech startups.

Presenter: Steve Morris Steve Morris is the Executive Director of OTBC and the Managing Director of OregonStartups.com. He is a veteran of three start-ups, and has more than 25 years of management experience in the software, service, and semiconductor test industries at companies such as Hewlett Packard, Integrated Measurement Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Credence Corporation and Teseda Corporation. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Reed College and a Masters of Science degree from Carnegie-Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now The Tepper School of Business).

When: Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Time: 9:00am - Noon

Where: Hillsboro Chamber of Commmerce, 5193 NE Elam Young Parkway, Suite A, Hillsboro, OR 97124

OEN & HCC Member: $32 Non-Member $70

The Community Leadership Summit 2013 brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community.

The event pulls together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community.

At the heart of Community Leadership Summit 2013 is an open unconference-style event in which everyone who attends is welcome to lead and contribute sessions on any topic that is relevant. These sessions are very much discussion sessions: the participants can interact directly, offer thoughts and experience, and share ideas and questions. These unconference sessions are also augmented with a series of presentations from leaders in the field, panel debates and networking opportunities.

Save the Date: OSCON returns to the Oregon Convention Center July 22-26, 2013

14 PDUs available for this course.

Course Description

Quit doing all manual work in Excel! Come learn to use a dynamic, resource driven reporting tool from industry experts. This course is designed to help you manage and master MS Project from simple task management to Program and Portfolio management.

Learn how to create and maintain easily dynamic schedules, and address resource demand and capacity, over and under allocations all with visual reporting and proven techniques by 20+ year industry veterans. This course trains participants how to plan, forecast, build, and manage project tasks and resources and to combine issues, risks, deliverables and dashboards in one central tool

Learning Objectives

• Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
• Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
• Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
• Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
• Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
• Use reporting functions more effectively

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 book.

Who should take this course?

Project managers, project team members, project schedulers… and anyone who has used Microsoft Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted!

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Effective Use of Microsoft Project
  • MS Project Overview
  • Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project
  • Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
  • Creating task relationships & dependencies
  • Setting task constraints and outlining
• Managing and Tracking of Projects
  • Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
  • Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
  • Advanced resource scheduling techniques
  • Managing costs, tracking baselines
  • Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
  • Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
  • Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules
• Applying Resources and Calendars
  • Creating and utilizing resource pools
  • Applying layers of calendars
  • Utilizing project views
  • Formatting schedule layouts
  • Utilizing project reports
  • Understanding printing
• Working with External Data & Applications
  • Linking data between applications
  • Importing & exporting data
  • Hyperlinking and web pages
  • Utilizing business analysis templates
• Customizing for Better Management Results
  • Using filters, tables, details and groups
  • Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
  • MS Project scheduling methodologies
  • Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise where the participants can have actual tactical experience creating a schedule, linking tasks, creating custom views, along with best practice knowledge transfer on topics such as critical path methodology, project tracking, and Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts. Participants will also walk away with an understanding of how the schedule engine within Microsoft Project functions and will no longer need to ‘game’ the software, but can now let the software work for them.

Registration

Register at http://managing-projects-with-microsoft-project-2010.eventbrite.com/

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Doug Mason will show us how to integrate apps with Twitter and Facebook, both the new iOS 6 way and the way we did it in the Dark Ages, I mean before iOS 6. :)

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

7 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

A proper set of requirements are the backbone of all successful projects. Poor requirements inevitably lead to poor project performance. Requirements provide the essential link between the goal of the project and the design of outputs and products. They are the only proper basis for your project's quality efforts and are the first line of defense against scope creep. Poor requirements, by themselves, lead to rework and subsequent schedule and budget overruns, flawed designs, failed quality and testing programs, and customer dissatisfaction.

This course teaches participants how to elicit, characterize, document, analyze, validate, verify and manage requirements for new projects, products and services. This is a must have for anyone who will be part of delivering or managing a project and includes tools, flowcharts and courseware that leverage industry best practices for successfully managing and delivering requirements to stakeholders..

Included Materials

Course participants receive a course manual and CD with tools and templates for gathering, recording, and managing requirements.

Who should take this course?

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Senior Management/ Customer or Stakeholders
• Business Analysts
• Team Members responsible for gathering informational and required details for project deliverables

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Eliciting Requirements
  • Defining high-level business requirements
  • Identifying user classes & representatives
  • Selecting elicitation techniques
  • Eliciting functional & non-functional requirements from users
  • Identifying business rules
  • Reviewing requirements with users
• Requirements Analysis
  • Clarifying complex and unclear requirements
  • Evaluating & prioritizing requirements
• Requirements Documentation
  • Naming conventions and definitions
  • Documenting relevant facts and assumptions
• Requirements during the Design & Build Phase
  • Match product to prioritized requirements
  • Requirements-based quality control
  • Establishing a stakeholder acceptance process
• Requirements Change Control
  • Establishing document version control
  • Establishing change control process
  • Tracking changes
• Requirements Verification
  • Verifying requirements
  • Creating requirements traceability
• Requirements during Testing and Acceptance
  • Establishing requirements-based performance and acceptance tests
  • Requirements-based redesign & rework
• Requirements and Closing a Project
  • Acceptance of deliverables
  • Project documentation closeout process

Register

Register at http://mastering-requirements-gathering-calagator.eventbrite.com

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

The inaugural IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability will be a 1 day event focused on a cross-disciplinary look at advances in available as well as emerging technologies that advance the goals of long-term economic, societal and environmental sustainability for humanity.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

Justin Miller will present about Cocoapods.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

TechFestNW (formerly known as PDXconf) is designed to celebrate interesting people who are passionate about technology. Who are building a better world. And who value craft over commodity.

The event takes place in conjunction with MusicFestNW, one of the largest independent music festivals in the US. Last year, MFNW attracted acts from up-and-coming artists to bands like Passion Pit, Dinosaur Jr, Silversun Pickups, and Girl Talk. While the inaugural tech event featured speakers from Flipboard, Betaworks, Walmart Labs, GigaOM, Shazam, and Spotify---as well as local favorites like Draplin Design Co, LAIKA, Chirpify, Simple, and Nike.

TFNW will take place September 6-8, 2013, with speakers the 6th and 7th and a hackathon on the 8th. Tech takes place during the day. And music takes place during the night. Creating a true festival atmosphere.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Note - this meeting is a week earlier than usual - Organizer's Prerogative, to not conflict with a personal event.

Joseph Jaramillo will talk about "Core Data and NSFetchedResultsController, for Fun and Profit". :)

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

Portland's favorite annual geography unconference is back again! Stay tuned for more details.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

LEGO KidsFest brings all of the creative hands-on, minds-on fun of LEGO building and experiences together in one activity- and entertainment-packed family event for children of all ages and builders of all skills and interests.

Join us at the 12th Beaver BarCamp hosted by the OSU Open Source Lab. BBC is a semi-annual interactive unconference where the attendees determine the topics! It's an opportunity to share your experiences and learn about what other people are doing on campus and in the community.

Topics can range from technical to recreational. Share your love for programming or teach people how to whistle (already been done!). All you need to do is show up and sign up to host a session. Or you can just attend! We'll have refreshments throughout the day and a limited amount of t-shirts.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Justin Miller will show us how to use Xcode tools from the command line. Excellent for scripting.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Note - this meeting is a week earlier than usual due to Thanksgiving.

Joseph Jaramillo will help demystify Auto Layout.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Super Models in 3D!!!!

Scott Neal will kick off 2014 in style with another installment of his annual Core Data presentation series. This year it's super models, aka how to design your data model so you're working with Core Data instead of against it.

Elizabeth Taylor will reprise her popular presentation about doing testing with UIAutomation. This time with sample code!

Joel Bernstein will present about Reactive Cocoa.