Get a chance to learn about a Portland Business, and showcase your own business at this fun and helpful networking event presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce. Advance registration requested at www.portlandalliance.com. FREE for members, only $5 for non-members.

On days when we don't have a Lunch and Learn, we'll be having an informal brown bag lunch at OTBC. Today is an open topic session. Come and chat about whatever startup topic is on your mind! If you're open for lunch, grab lunch and join us at OTBC.

* Appetizers will be served * Open to the public * Door prizes & gift certificates * Networking mixers * Space is limited * Cost is just $5

pdx.rb is a gathering of Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon, area. Presentations: - "Using the Ruby DBI, a low-level database interface" by Erik Hollensbe, the DBI maintainer - "Exploring the DataMapper ORM" with Jesse Hallett. - ...and often many others spontaneously added during meeting Other possible topics: - What's new in Ruby 1.9.1? - What's new in Rails 2.2? - ...and more!

This workshop answers three fundamental questions: 1. What is Marketing? 2. Why is it important? 3. How do you make it work for you? Discover the change in the business environment that makes marketing vital to business success. Learn the power of the brand - and why you are the brand. Discover how analysis of the market, customers, your offering, your distribution, pricing and sales program will lead to developing a powerful marketing plan. Learn about marketing communication vehicles and the pros and cons of each. This dynamic, interactive, half day seminar will answer some fundamental questions about marketing: * What specifically do I need to do to effectively market my business? * Do I need a big budget to do marketing? * How do I compete with others who are doing what I'm doing? * Why do I need a marketing plan? * Discover some essentials that will help you start thinking and acting like a marketing expert.

On days when we don't have a Lunch and Learn, we'll be having an informal brown bag lunch at OTBC. Today is an open topic session. Come and chat about whatever startup topic is on your mind! If you're open for lunch, grab lunch and join us at OTBC.

Beer and Blog is a meet up that takes place every Wednesday from 5pm until at least 7pm at Block 15 in Corvallis, OR. Bloggers from the local scene show up and we help each other with our blogs. Sometimes we’ll arrange for a special guest to be there to help us on topics that are beyond the group’s skill set. Beer and Blog is like a networking event based around a group work session. Not only does it bring together talented folks that each bring a unique offering to the group, but it’s also a set social event that prompts us to do the updates we say we’re going to do.

This is second Beer and Blog for Corvallis and first for the new year! We'll be having another social/networking gathering with no topics planned. We'll be upstairs near the back (west end). Hopefully we won't have any bad weather again!

Since upcoming.org is still new to most Corvallians, we also have a Facebook event created (which has more people confirmed as coming). Feel free to RSVP there as well: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42763781591

See you there!

-Lance (@ramereth)
 

Happy New Year! Come join us for the first WikiWednesday of 2009. As usual, it will be a slightly informal event with drinks and snacks provided. This time around, we want to primarily focus on discussing February's RecentChangesCamp (see the Upcoming listing or 2009rcc.org). If you've ever been interested in attending RCC or just are curious, please do swing by.

Entrepreneur Meetups > The OTBC Meetup Group Do you have an idea for a startup, and you're looking for a team of founders to help you get your idea off the ground? Or do you not have a burning idea, but you'd be interested finding someone with a compelling idea, so you can get in on the ground floor? At OTBC, we'd like to find a way for entrepreneurs and prospective founders to find each other. Come join us for a chat about ideas for helping entrepreneurs get exposure for their ideas. How can we help idea people and prospective founders find each other? We'd like to hear your ideas. Where: OTBC (directions) Parking: free, next door in the parking garage MAX: Beaverton Central stop (Blue line, one stop west of the Beaverton Transit Center) When: noon to 1pm Beaverton, OR 97005 - USA Thursday, January 8 at 12:00 PM Photo: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/e/f/5/event_1344309.jpeg Attending: 0 Details: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1041/calendar/9365323/

Earlier this summer we released our previously commercial CMS as fully "Free Beer" under the MIT open source license. The second half of 2008 was a whirlwind for us as we were named project of the month on SourceForge and saw traffic go through the roof. As part of running what promises to be the next Drupal, local user groups are going to be a huge component to our success. We have several starting around the states and Europe this month, with the Portland one obviously being super keen as this is our home turf. Please join us at Hopworks on SE Powell on Jan 8th at 5pm - till late. Check out the project at http://concrete5.org RSVP at: http://www.concrete5.org/community/members/portland_or/ thanks. go pdx! -frz

AGENDA: 5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar 6:15 - 6:30: 30-Second Mic (give us your technology business elevator pitch!!) 7:00 Program: Josh Bancroft - Innovative Social media, the Edge Case at Intel. PROGRAM: Josh Bancroft is a longtime blogger, podcaster, Tweeter, and general internet community geek. For over a decade, he's been fascinated with the way communities form and interact on the Internet. At Intel, he provides innovative community building ideas and "future thinking" direction for Intel Software Network, the company's online developer community. He loves to speak, teach, and mentor, and generally share all the cool stuff that he plays with. Josh's home on the web is http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com, and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jabancroft. Come see how a company as large as Intel uses social networking, podcasting, blogging, and social marketing to build community!

Rapid Discussions on Any Topic by Anyone & Everyone Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no more than a few minutes each. If we have enough people involved we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic. ******************************************************************* Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc. 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation See above 9:00 - ... Beer Jax Bar And Restaurant 826 SW 2nd Avenue Portland (Note: We no longer use the Lucky Lab.)

Entrepreneur Meetups > The OTBC Meetup Group On days when we don't have a Lunch and Learn, we'll be having an informal brown bag lunch at OTBC. Today is an open topic session. Come and chat about whatever startup topic is on your mind! If you're open for lunch, grab lunch and join us at OTBC. OTBC coach Iris Sasaki will join us for this brown bag. Iris is an expert on human resources issues. Where: OTBC (directions) Parking: free, next door in the parking garage MAX: Beaverton Central stop (Blue line, one stop west of the Beaverton Transit Center) When: noon to 1pm Beaverton, OR 97005 - USA Friday, January 9 at 12:00 PM Photo: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/e/f/5/event_1344309.jpeg Attending: 0 Details: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1041/calendar/9365351/

What is WordCamp:Las Vegas? WordCamp:Las Vegas is a conference style event covering topics related to the WordPress software. We are also planning for Unconference style sessions in the afternoon to let the people attending WordCamp help choose the topics discussed at WordCamp:Las Vegas. Who Should Attend WordCamp:Las Vegas? No matter if you are a casual user, full time blogger, plugin developer, theme designer or if you are curious about getting in to blogging for the first time, WordCamp:Las Vegas promises to have a little something for everyone. When Is It? Mark your calendar, January 10th and 11th, 2009 Where is it? OK, you got me there. We are still working on securing a location for the event. As soon as we have a confirmed location, we’ll update the site and let you know.

In this four-hour workshop you will learn: * Understanding the transition of paper bookkeeping into an automated one and using the same modus operandi for QUICKBOOKS. * Understanding the basic accounting terms keeping a focus on common sense in terms of debits and credits. * Understanding the Chart of Accounts which are established ... and often are specialized for the specific business type. * Starting off with bank accounts, real property, inventory and client listings. * Learning some tip and tricks for setting it up and going forth in day-to-day bookkeeping. * Where to seek out help that is FREE from SCORE in refreshing your memory or when you find a roadblock.

Interested in seeing a social/sustainability focused unconference in Portland? Come to the Red and Black and help us figure out how to make it happen. This was originally scheduled for December 21, has been rescheduled due to snowpocalypse. Contact klint at klintron dot com if you can't make it but are interested in the project.

2nd monday of the month is android day. Android is the mobile phone operating system from Google. meet with local area developers.
 

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

Join this fun business networking event that's like speed dating! Meet and chat with 15 members of the business community in 30 minutes. Presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce. Advance registration requested at www.portlandalliance.com. Members: $5 online/$8 at the door. Non-members: $15 online/$20 at the door.

Entrepreneur Meetups > The OTBC Meetup Group The Program Finding money can be a challenge - even more so in tough economic times. And maybe you don't want to use (or don't have a concept that qualifies for) angel investment or venture capital. So in difficult times, how do you finance your startup? Presenter: Carolynn Duncan, founder at The Hundred Dollar Business. Current projects include CoffeeWithAnExpert.com, the Seattle Startup Wiki. She also consults with entrepreneurs who are prepping for angel/VC funding, streamlining operations, or need to begin generating revenue. Read more about Carolynn at her LinkedIn profile Where: OTBC (directions) Parking: free, next door in the parking garage MAX: Beaverton Central stop (Blue line, one stop west of the Beaverton Transit Center) When: noon to 1pm Price: $10 (includes lunch) if paid by the day before; $15 at the door Beaverton, OR 97005 - USA Tuesday, January 13 at 12:00 PM Photo: http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/e/f/5/event_1344309.jpeg Attending: 0 Fee: Price: USD 10.00 per person Details: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1041/calendar/9365382/

WHEN Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:30-7:30 PM WHERE White Buffalo, 4040 Westcliff Drive, Hood River (Exit 62 off I-84 next to Charburger) WHAT PubTalk™ is an informal event that provides ample time for networking before the program. Typically, two early stage companies present 10 minute pitches to the audience directly after the keynote speaker. These companies are most commonly seeking advisors or capital investment. As well-seasoned executives, keynote speakers provide advice and guidance related to many of the issues, challenges, and opportunities entrepreneurs will face along the path to success. WHO ATTENDS Entrepreneurs, investors, leaders of local companies, business professionals, consultants, and service professionals. AGENDA 5:30 Networking – Drinks & Snacks 6:15 Keynote Speaker: “Preparing your Company for Angel Investment” by Kirk Wright 7:00 Early Stage Company Presentations 7:30 Adjourn for More Networking ADMISSION $10 – includes program & snacks RSVP Contact Bill Fashing, Hood River County Office of Economic Development, 541-387-6863, bill.fashing@co.hood-river.or.us by January 9. Send checks payable to Hood River County to Hood River County Office of Economic Development, 601 State Street, Hood River, OR 97301.

I've decided to resurrect the Portland Data Plumbing Group to give us a place to talk about RSS feed hacking, Yahoo Pipes, Dapper, and other related technologies.

We'll be having these meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6pm (location TBD).
Please RSVP on Upcoming if you plan to attend.
The agenda for the first meeting:
- Intros
- Round table discussion: each person gets 3-5 min to talk about the coolest thing they've done to manipulate an RSS feed.
- Talk about ideas for future agendas.

You'll want to join this Google group to get announcements about future events: http://groups.google.com/group/portland-data-plumbing
 

The Open Source Bridge Content team is ready to kick off 2009 with a meeting on Tuesday, January 13, 7pm at Cubespace. We'll be going over our content areas, reviewing our initial call for papers, talking about our philosophy for the conference and assigning leads for each of the content areas. We're looking for people who can coordinate the activities of a few people in review committees, can commit to 10-15 hours of reviewing and responding time over the next two months. We figure we'll have 3-4 in-person meetings before we finalize acceptance of presentations on April 1! Anything else you're interested in chatting about? Send it to the list, and we'll make an agenda. Several people may retire to a nearby bar for #afterhours hacking. Let us know if you can make it!

All Aboard! We're going to par-tay all the way down to the OTBC for Lunch 2.0. Here's the scoop: Meet up at Pioneer Square MAX stop and catch the Blue Line MAX at 11:27. It will arrive just a few feet from the OTBC at 11:50. We'll all be in the rear MAX car cuz that's how we roll. Don't forget to RSVP for Lunch 2.0 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1148458/ Chuga Chuga Choo! Choo!

For the first time, Portland Lunch 2.0 will happen in the 'burbs, Beaverton to be precise.

The OTBC is moving into new space and partnering with the Beaverton Round Executive Suites.

So, to showcase their new digs and introduce Lunch 2.0 to the suburbs, the OTBC will be hosting Lunch 2.0 on January 14, 2009.

The Beaverton Round is right on the MAX line about 20 minutes from Portland. Just jump off the Blue Line at the Beaverton Central stop, and you're 90 feet from the new OTBC office.

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

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

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

NW China Council CHINA BUSINESS NETWORK PRESENTS "Sustainable Development Business Opportunities in China" by Bob Wise, Team Oregon, LLC ABOUT THE PROGRAM: This presentation will address major challenges facing China, China resource consumption tends, how China is addressing sustainable development, examples of successful projects, future opportunities for business development in China based on Oregon’s strengths, and lessons learned from past experience. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Bob Wise is Senior Project Manager with Cogan Owens Cogan, LLC and Director of Team Oregon, LLC, private firms focused on urban planning and sustainable development in its multiple dimensions. He works in state and local public policy, strategic planning, and sustainable development.

Enjoy the hospitality of a Portland business, while getting a chance to network with other members of the business community and share information about your own business. Presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce. Advance registration requested at www.portlandalliance.com. Members: $8 online/$10 at the door. Non-members: $12 online/$15 at the door.

Drinking and Drawing is an evening of collaborative animation. Each artist has 10 minutes to draw 8 frames of animation. They leave their last frame as a starting place for the person who comes after them, who draws 8 more frames and leaves their last one... repeat all evening. Anyone can participate- artists, animators, people who want to experiment. And people are welcome to attend just to drink and watch the action. The Someday Lounge is 21+ and non-smoking, with food and drinks available for purchase. This event is free to Cascade SIGGRAPH and Northwest ASIFA members- non-members pay $5 at the door. For more information about how it works, visit www.drinkinganddrawing.org. To see the movies we made last year, visit http://cascadesiggraph.org/eventspast.html#Jan_23_2008. To keep in touch with this event, follow @DrinknDrawPDX on twitter.

Lean methods in software development have progressed from conceptual understanding to practical techniques that people are using to solve problems and ship software today. The Lean toolkit augments or enhances the practices that are available to today's Agile practitioner. Lean expands the organizational scope of Agile and provides a rich and robust set of methods for process improvement. Corey Ladas is a Lean Software Development consultant and practitioner who focuses on evolving local development processes through systematic self-organization and continuous improvement. He will discuss and demonstrate some of the techniques from his new book, Scrumban: Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development. Pizza at 6:30pm, talk at 7pm, beer after. Pizza is sponsored by YesMail. As ever, we will follow the meeting with a chat and hang out at a local pub.

Perl 6, Perl 5, Python, Ruby, Lua, JavaScript, Java, C#, and many other languages use virtual machines as their execution environments. Instead of compiling directly to machine code, they rely on the presence of an ideal machine built specifically for the language – porting the language to a new architecture often means only porting that virtual machine. Does that sound complicated? It's not. Some of the details of very efficient and effective virtual machines are, but the general ideas are simple. This talk explains the important components of a virtual machine and how they fit together. Examples will come from the world of Perl 5, Parrot, and Perl 6, but the concepts apply to many languages and VMs. You may never need to hack the guts of your favorite language, but understanding how they work can help you become a better programmer. As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the LuckyLab.

Panel members lead a discussion or experts in the field present relevant topics for finance professionals in the technology industry. During this session attendees will learn about current SEC issues as well as other accounting topics. These events are open to member and non-member companies.

Hear from experts, share best practices, and grow your business. Presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce. Take part in a continuing discussion at the Cornerstones Conversations events, and on the new blog at www.alliancepdx.blogspot.com. Advance registration requested at www.portlandalliance.com. Members: $20. Non-members: $30.

Come watch this a unique competition for Oregon and Southwest Washington seed-stage companies who are seeking capital within the range of $100,000 to $2,000,000. One winner from each preliminary round will move on to a championship round, where a finalist will earn a coveted presenting opportunity at OEN's Angel Oregon 2009, the premier angel investing event in the Northwest. The 2009 conference will be held at the Governor Hotel in Portland on March 12th. Nine presenting companies in total will be selected to compete in the 2008-2009 Seed Oregon tournament. Each will have 10 minutes to present their concept to the PubTalk audience, followed by a 10 minute Q&A session. Three companies will compete at each of the preliminary rounds, with the audience voting for the winning presentations to move to the championship round.

"After Hours" @ Strega/ co-spons by (Digital City Date: 01/15/09 Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM PST Description: Chamber "After Hours" is a premier Networking Event that is hosted by a different business (or businesses), the third Thursday of each month from 5-7pm. Not to be missed! Details: "After Hours this month is co-sponsored by Strega Restaurant / and Digital City Guide. Not to be missed, this is being billed as a "Post New Years Party". Great Networking opportunity including finger food and beverages. They will unveil their "Stregatini"! Begin the New Year on the right foot. We will see you there! Location: 517 SW 2nd Street Corvallis, OR 97333

Portland loves blogging, and Portland loves WordPress. With so many great bloggers in the area using the WordPress platform, I'm excited to announce the first meeting of the Portland WordPress User Group.

Where/When: Thursday, January 15th from 6:00-7:30pm at CubeSpace.

We'll talk about:
* Getting started
* Meeting time/dates (monthly)
* Future meeting topics or speaker ideas
* The idea of a regular "help session" / "genius bar" type thing
* Some of the great new features of 2.7 that folks might not have found

Come join us and let's kick off what is sure to be a fun and helpful group.
 

Have you ever wanted to get together with a bunch of other bacon geeks and just geek out about bacon? What if there was an event specifically catered to bacon geeks to be able to share their favorite bacon treats with the world? Wouldn't it make sense to make it a competition complete with trophy and prizes? Of course it would.

Masterbacon is just such an event.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Get a chance to learn about a Portland Business, and showcase your own business at this fun and helpful networking event presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce. Advance registration requested at www.portlandalliance.com. FREE for members, only $5 for non-members.

The StartUp Exchange is about bootstrapping in the creation of a software company followed by organic, grassroots growth. Instead of a formal Board of Advisors, we are like a Board of Peers. Our events are for tech startup executives only - sorry services providers you can't attend. Request to join the "StartUp Exchange" group on the social network. It's an invite only group where ideas can be circulated between entrepreneurs. Our events are organized into 3 categories so attendees can talk with peers experiencing the same issues. Before the event post the specific topics that you would like to discuss on the social network group. Those topics will be emailed to attendees prior to the event. Come to discuss those specific topics or to participate in one, or multiple, of the 3 areas that the group will continually be divided into: 1. Have code, need customers 2. Have customers, need code 3. Have code and customers, need business support Thanks Chime Software for letting us use your awesome office and for the keg!

This month's topic: TBD

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PJUG meetings start with eat+meet+greet time (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then some time for Q&A, discussion, and sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

It is not necessary to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise; go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for drinks afterward, at a location decided on the fly (more often than not, Jax on 2nd).

Twitter: @pjug
Web: pjug.org
(feel free to join our mailing list, linked from the website!)
 

The continuing saga of Wherecamp - pondering the geospacial web.. and beyond.
 

2009 Legislative Session Preview Oregon’s legislative session begins during one of the worst economies, challenging state lawmakers with finding money to run state programs while tackling some of the state’s biggest issues like transportation and health care. What should businesses be aware of entering into this session? Where will some of the cuts and increases occur? State legislators will give the Forum audience a sneak peak at what may happen in Salem this biennium. Members: $30. Non-members: $40. Advance registration required at www.portlandalliance.com. Speakers: Peter Buckley - Oregon Representative Rick Metsger - Oregon State Senator Alan Bates - Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson - Oregon State Senator Series Sponsor: Portland Tribune

Come join us to work on improving Calagator in recognition of its 1 year birthday. We'll have a birthday party afterward.

Join us for a party to celebrate Calagator's 1st birthday!

The mission of PDX Critique is to provide a monthly forum for designers of any stripe (graphic, web, whatever) to crawl out of their work void to share information and constructive criticism. Have something you want critiqued? Contact us via the google group or on the blog.

Join this fun business networking event that's like speed dating! Meet and chat with 15 members of the business community in 30 minutes. Presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce. Advance registration requested at www.portlandalliance.com. Members: $5 online/$8 at the door. Non-members: $15 online/$20 at the door.

Build high performance Internet marketing skills with maximum impact in a limited amount of time. Classes teach a six-step, stress-free approach to Search Engine Optimization. Come to one of our workshops and learn techniques that will not only increase your traffic but convert that traffic into more sales.

Join us January 22nd for the 2-day Essentials, January 28th for the 3-day Advanced or all five days for the Comprehensive Workshop on Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing techniques.

Sign-up January 14th or before get up to a $200 discount off of the January Workshops.

These workshops have limited enrollment and fill up fast so register now!

About your instructor:

Colleen Wright is owner of the Interactive marketing agency Response Interactive LLC. Colleen’s career has spanned a variety of industries from banking and finance to seminar marketing, sports marketing, high tech, non-profit and horticulture. She designed her first website in 1997 for a clipart product series she developed. The clip art series named GardenArtz Gardening Clipart continues to be a bestseller in American Nurseryman Catalog.

As an associate of Search Engine Academy, Colleen teaches Search Engine Marketing through the Search Engine Academy of Oregon. Colleen is also on the Education Committee for the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) and attends local and national professional development events regularly.

Response Interactive LLC is an interactive marketing agency that offers search engine optimized web site design, search engine marketing services both PPC and SEO, online display advertising, email marketing, SEO training and consulting services. For more information, please visit www.responseim.com.

Who should attend:
• In-House Marketers
• Business Owners
• Direct Marketers
• Public Relations Professionals
• Real Estate Professional
• Web Designers
 

Given the extremely difficult economic climate that we have all entered, financial management has never been more critical to the survival of an enterprise. Have you engaged, as a board member or have you engaged your board in charting the financial future of the company? What are your plans for survival?

Paul Gulick, formerly of Clarity Visual Systems and Planar, will lead this lunch discussion about attracting, motivating and leading the people who will be key in driving your organization’s success. Come share your challenges, observations and successes with other CEOs of emerging businesses. Company culture is set from the leadership within. The group will discuss successes and failures they have seen or been a part of, and will explore strategies, methodologies, and best practices for setting the culture that will help make a great company. Open only to CEOs or Presidents of currently operating companies that have employees. Boxed lunch will be served. This program is limited to 12 participants, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Description: Angel Investors review hundreds of business plans each year. Learn how to make your presentation stand out and be one that will inspire them to begin due diligence! Led by Dennis Powers, Managing Partner of Cornerstone Management Resources, The Basics of Raising Money from Angel Investors will illustrate how angel investing works, what should be included in an executive summary, and how an entrepreneur should prepare for a meeting with an angel investor. This webinar is provided courtesy of OEN. Speaker: Dennis Powers, Founder and President of Cornerstone Management Currently the Managing Partner of Cornerstone Management Resources. CMR is a successful consulting firm focusing on all aspects of business development and revenue acceleration for emerging and mid-market companies. He has successfully completed numerous projects involving strategic planning, business plan creation, sales channel development, marketing communication programs, merger/acquisitions and assistance in raising early stage funding. Mr. Powers is also an Executive in Residence at the Open Technology Business Center, a leading incubator in Oregon, Chair of the Portland Angel Network, and an active angel investor. With more than 35 years experience in sales, marketing, general management and business development, Mr. Powers is well equipped to provide a wide range of assistance to early stage and mid-market companies.

Green Hour events, presented by Portland Business Alliance, greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce, will highlight Portland area businesses that are going above and beyond with sustainability and green practices. Green Hour events will take place on a quarterly basis. If your business would like to showcase its sustainable practices through a Green Hour event, please contact Christine Gatlin, membership events manager, at cgatlin@portlandalliance.com, or 503-552-6742. Space is limited. Advance registration required at www.portlandalliance.com

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Is the global economic downturn impacting your company and IT organization? If so, you will NOT want to miss this SAO forum on Wednesday, January 7th at the Governor Hotel. Local CIOs Fred Pond, Chris Dill, and Lance Kidd will share some of their direct insights and experience in dealing with downturns, and how your IT organization can even thrive in tough economic times. Speakers: Fred Pond, CIO, North Pacific Group Chris Dill, CIO, Portland Trail Blazers Lance Kid, CIO, Halton Co

In today’s economic climate every dollar of additional revenue including recovery of underreported license income counts. Join us to:

• Learn the reasons for underreported royalties, license benchmarks, sublicenses, and the benefits of royalty auditing
• Find out if you have revenue seeping through the cracks as a result of sales credits, price protection and returns
• Learn how you can detect and prevent underreporting in the future

Before founding Cost Advisors, Bill Douglas held management positions in Accounting, Sales and Marketing at Tektronix, Inc. and FLIR Systems, Inc. He has also been an auditor with Deloitte & Touche and CFO of a software firm. Bill is a CPA, Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Startup Weekend is coming back to Seattle, Feb 6th - Feb 8th 2009. This will be the second Startup Weekend and it will be hosted at the Google offices in Fremont. (651 North 34th St. ) So, you want to get involved? A great team of 5 organizers have been hard at work making sure the event will be a memorable Startup Weekend. So what can you do? Tickets for Startup Weekend Seattle will be sold for $40. This is really a RSVP cost, and you will receive your fair share of food, swag and memories (all of the money from this will be used for local costs of running the event). Buy your ticket here! http://seattle2startupweekend.eventbrite.com/ There are 11 main areas of expertise that you can sign up for: Developer - Sys Admin Developer - Backend Developer - Architect Developer - Front End PR User Experience Designer Legal Business Development Project Manager Cook Make sure to get tickets early, there are a very small number of tickets this year and it will most likely sell out fast.

Agile Open Northwest, an alliance of agile practitioners in the US Pacific Northwest region, invite you to our 3rd annual conference Agile Open Northwest 2009 "Agile for Real". The Northwest has a wealth of practitioners with years of real-world experience with agile methods and self-organizing teams. Agile Open Northwest offers an opportunity to strengthen our community of practice and co-create the future for agile development in our region. Your hosts designed this event to allow practitioners like you to meet in self-organizing groups where we can share our latest ideas, challenges, hopes, experiences and experiments.

Brief history lesson: We started the Portland chapter of Lunch 2.0 in February 2008, and the first installment was hosted by AboutUs.

Fittingly, AboutUs will host their second Lunch 2.0 right around the one year anniversary of the Portland chapter.

Swing by their SE riverfront office and visit Ray, Ward, Mark, Steven and the whole AboutUs crew.

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

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

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

Capital Topic Panel members lead a discussion or experts in the field present relevant topics for emerging business professionals in the technology industry. These events are open to member and non-member companies.

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world people have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. For more information on Ignite, please take a look at the O’Reilly Ignite site. Ignite Bend will be held on Thursday February 12th at The PoetHouse Art, in the tbd loft (55 NW Minnesota St, Bend, OR - map). Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. Presentations start at 7:30 p.m.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

This month's topic: TBD

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PJUG meetings start with eat+meet+greet time (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then some time for Q&A, discussion, and sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

It is not necessary to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise; go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for drinks afterward, at a location decided on the fly (more often than not, Jax on 2nd).

Twitter: @pjug
Web: pjug.org
(feel free to join our mailing list, linked from the website!)
 

The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) is sponsored by the Linux Expo of Southern California Inc. SCALE's mission is to evangelize the advantages of Open Source software. Open Source software is any software that meets the litmus test of the OSI (Open Source Initiative). Examples of OSS are Linux and the various BSD operating systems, and applications such as OpenOffice.org and Firefox. Our target audiences are both current and potential users of OSS. Those users can be individual computer users, educational institutions, or businesses. The Expo's educational focus is composed of (but not limited to) technical seminars and booths where, among other things, both commercial software and hardware vendors, and local non-profit groups (for example, Linux Users Groups), participate in product display, and software demonstrations and tutorials, respectively. We are vendor- and distribution neutral in our outreach efforts.

[Full details at http://2009rcc.org/ and http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1248712/ ] RecentChangesCamp (RCC) is the unconference for the Wiki community. Born of the intersection of wiki and Open Space (an unconference facilitation method), it is named after the "recent changes" page found on many wikis. RCC is 100% free to attendees, and is open to everyone: from hardcore wikiholics to the mildly curious. No pre-registration is required, but it would be helpful if you could add yourself to our list of attendees on our planning wiki. RCC is held over the course of three days. Exact times have not yet been nailed down, but it generally starts Friday morning, continues all day on Saturday, and closes late Sunday afternoon. Feel free to come and join in for however long you please.

Beyond technical skills, Agile success depends on productive self-organizing teams. How do you develop, grow, and maintain a functioning self-organizing team? It's not magic, but it doesn't just happen either. Effective self-organizing teams rely on personal and interpersonal effectiveness. In this hands-on workshop, we'll discover the secrets to developing the skills you need to succeed and lead on a self-organizing team.
 

Leading and Succeeding in Turbulent Times. We invite you to take part in Business Leader Northwest, Feb. 25-26, 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Network with high-level peers and expert panelists as AeA enters the sophomore season for its successful Board of Directors education series that addresses the changing and sometimes challenging issues Boards face today...because AeA continues to believe that Good Governance Matters!

Presented by soundtraining.net and taught by veteran I.T. trainer, writer, and speaker Don R. Crawley.

Two intensive days of hands-on Cisco training including Cisco router installation, configuration, and troubleshooting using live in-classroom routers. You'll learn how to build a Cisco� router configuration from scratch. You'll learn different ways of monitoring your router, saving and restoring configurations, and how to design and implement access-control lists. You'll even learn how to encrypt your passwords and Cisco router password recovery procedures.

Learning Objectives:
The overall objective of this workshop is to help you become comfortable with viewing, editing, managing, and troubleshooting Cisco router configurations. By the end of this workshop, you will...

-Practice building a router configuration from scratch to full functionality
-Practice three techniques for saving configurations and for re-applying them (Perfect for disaster prevention and recovery)
-Understand how to upgrade your router's Cisco Internetwork Operating System (CIOS)
-Practice using CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) in troubleshooting
-Use the "show cdp neighbor detail" command to get information about remote routers, even when they're on a different subnet
-Practice converting and diagramming IP addresses and subnets, including decimal to binary conversion
-Practice properly designing and configuring IP addressing schemes
-Practice the step-by-step procedures to configure NAT to make your router an Internet firewall
-Practice configuring and deploying DHCP on a Cisco router for automatic IP address assignment
-Practice using local and remote router configuration procedures
-Learn how to configure static routes and practice building routing tables
-Gain hands-on experience in the basics of routing protocols with hands-on exercises in RIP version 1, RIP version 2, and OSPF
-Work as a group to control traffic with standard and extended IP access lists
-Practice recovering passwords (and learn how to protect against unauthorized password recovery!)
-Practice testing procedures using PING, traceroute, and debug

A complete course outline is available at the event homepage.

Pre-registration is required, also at the event homepage.

White Buffalo, 4040 Westcliff Drive, Hood River 5:30-7:30 PM Admission: $10 in advance; $15 at the door Information: 541-387-6863

Panel members lead a discussion or experts in the field present relevant topics for TIP professionals in the technology industry. These events are open to member and non-member companies.

Hooray, the Lunch 2.0 beat will go on well into 2009 with OpenSourcery set to host the eleventh iteration.

Did you know they're in a new space now?

To showcase the new digs, they're graciously opening their doors on March 11, 2009. I know it's a long time from now, but free lunch is worth the advance planning.

Here's the standard boilerplate:
You can follow all things Portland Lunch 2.0 an the Silicon Florist.

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

Oh, and it's free, if that matters to you.
 

Angel Oregon is the nation's premier entrepeneur-angel matchmaking event. A program of the Oregon Entrepeneurs Network, Angel Oregon brings together Oregon and SW Washington’s brightest entrepreneurial talent with qualified angel investors. Angel Oregon features the largest investment prize of any event of its type. Angel Oregon 2007 had 320 attendees, making it the largest event of its kind. Those attendees included 100 accredited investors. The 2007 sponsors included Capybara Ventures, Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley. Angel Oregon 2008 had $265,000 prize money, from 53 angels investing $5,000 apiece. There were three distinct investment tracks: Technology & Biotech Consumer/Active Lifestyle Sustainability Instead of just one prize winner, money was awarded to the winner in each track.

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/453651/ ] What is the SXSW Interactive Festival? The SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of panels, keynote discussions, Trade Show, and exciting evening events. Attendees benefit from hands-on, how-to training as well as long-term, big-picture analysis in an atmosphere that charges creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. More to the point, coming to SXSW Interactive is a great way to recharge your creativity. Where does the SXSW Interactive Festival occur? Daytime panel programming (as well as the Trade Show & Exhibition) takes place at the Austin Convention Center (500 E. Cesar Chavez) in downtown Austin. Evening events occur at various nightspots around the city. Who attends this event? SXSW Interactive appeals to uber-geeks and digital creatives who push the cutting edge of technological change. The event appeals to content developers, web designers, programmers, bloggers, wireless innovators, gamers, tech entrepreneurs, investors, and educators. Even if you are not a technical person, you will benefit from the outside-the-box thinking that thrives at SXSW. What kind of topics are covered at the event? Panel topics cover everything from web design, usability, and blogging to wireless innovation and new technology business models. Other panels focus on more general topics that are nonetheless relevant to the digital creatives who attend SXSW Interactive. Discovering new ideas that lead us to a better future is the underlying theme on all of this programming.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

This month's topic: TBD

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PJUG meetings start with eat+meet+greet time (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then some time for Q&A, discussion, and sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

It is not necessary to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise; go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for drinks afterward, at a location decided on the fly (more often than not, Jax on 2nd).

Twitter: @pjug
Web: pjug.org
(feel free to join our mailing list, linked from the website!)
 

Panel members lead a discussion or experts in the field present relevant topics for finance professionals in the technology industry. These events are open to member and non-member companies.

It's the largest sustainable lifestyle event in the Northwest. Find everything green, good and sustainable in one place - Portland, Oregon. The Energy Trust Better Living Home and Garden Show. If you are looking to live a more earth friendly life, this is the festival for you. Seminars, workshops and music add to the expo. Admission is free to this show. Contact Michael O'Loughlin for this and other trade shows.

Panel members lead a discussion or experts in the field present relevant topics for professionals with young companies in the technology industry. These events are open to member and non-member companies.

This month's topic: TBD

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PJUG meetings start with eat+meet+greet time (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then some time for Q&A, discussion, and sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

It is not necessary to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise; go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for drinks afterward, at a location decided on the fly (more often than not, Jax on 2nd).

Twitter: @pjug
Web: pjug.org
(feel free to join our mailing list, linked from the website!)
 

The two-day eMarketing Summit brings together marketers, business owners and internet professionals from throughout the Northwest. Now in its fifth year, the eMarketing Summit, a Special Event @ InnoTech, focuses on the strategies and concepts of eMarketing while demonstrating the latest tools and techniques used by the Northwest's top companies. Topics this year include successful social media case studies, search updates, online communities, lead generation, web analytics & more.

InnoTech is the region's largest technology & innovation event focused on enabling technology for your business. InnoTech sponsored by EasyStreet Online Services and SAO, includes the NW CIO Summit, Clean Tech Forum, ISSA-Portland Chapter Security Conference and topics on mobility, social media, infrastructure & much more.

Cisco ASA Training: Installing, Configuring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting the Cisco ASA Security Appliance

Presented by soundtraining.net and taught by veteran I.T. trainer, writer, and speaker Don R. Crawley.

This Cisco ASA training serminar is two intensive days filled with hands-on lab exercises where you'll learn how to reset the administrator password (even when you don't know it), how to build a basic firewall configuration from scratch in the command-line and in the GUI. You'll practice backing-up and restoring your configuration files and the firewall's operating system image. We'll show you how to set up centralized logging with a syslog server. You'll practice configuring login banners. You'll configure local usernames and privilege levels, plus you'll practice using Active Directory for authentication. You'll set up a DHCP server for automatic address assignment. You'll practice building three types of VPNs including site-to-site, remote access, and a clientless Web VPN. You'll build a DMZ with a Web server and a print server. You'll practice port-scanning to test for vulnerabilities. We'll show you how to configure various types of filtering and you'll actually practice configuring filters to block Java applets. In short, this Cisco ASA training seminar is a lot of hands-on exercises and not a lot of talking! Our instructors are there to show you how to do things, answer your questions, and help you troubleshoot your configurations.

Now upgraded with even more "hands-on" lab exercises (and less talking)!

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of soundtraining.net's Cisco� ASA training seminar, you'll...

-Practice password recovery techniques for the Cisco ASA security appliance
-Practice two techniques for building a basic firewall configuration from scratch
-Gain an understanding of logging configurations and practice using syslog with the security appliance
-Practice two methods of backing up and restoring device's configurations
-Practice two methods of backing up and restoring your device's software image (operating system), including how to recover the software in a catastrophic fault condition
-Practice configuring and using three methods of remote management
-Gain an understanding of Network Address Translation and Port Address Translation on the ASA Security Appliance and practice using them in your configurations
-Practice configuring three types of banners
-Gain an understanding of Cisco privilege levels and practice configuring local usernames and privilege levels
-Practice configuring your security appliance to authenticate via Windows Active Directory using RADIUS
-Practice buidling and troubleshooting a DHCP server
-Practice building three types of VPNs including site-to-site, remote access, and a clientless Web VPN
-Gain an understanding of DMZs and practice buidling one with a Web server and a print server
-Practice testing security configurations with a port scanner
-Gain an understanding of filtering techniques and practice blocking Java applets

A complete course outline is available at the event homepage.

Pre-registration is required, also at the event homepage.