BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140331T083930Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140402T190000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140402T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140331T083930Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140521T025310Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465941 DESCRIPTION:This month we'll hear from several local orgs using apps to h elp meet their mission. During this facilitated panel discussion\, staff from Know Your City\, RACC\, and Oregon Nikkei Endowment and their app developers will chat about the development process\, successes\, and pit falls. Celebrate Portland and come prepared--download these awesome free apps: • Know Your City - PDX Social History • Regional Arts &\; Cult ure Council - Public Art PDX • Oregon Nikkei Endowment - JapanTown PDX \ n\n\nKnow Your City is a nonprofit organization that connects people to place. To fulfill our mission\, we organize tours\, lectures\, publicati ons and youth programs. Our programs engage the public through experient ial learning\, creative placemaking\, policy-making and culture. More on line at: knowyourcity.org. The Regional Arts &\; Culture Council (RAC C) provides grants for artists\, organizations and schools\; manages an internationally acclaimed public art program\; raises money for the arts through workplace giving\; provides workshops and technical assistance for artists\; and oversees a program to integrate arts into the curricul um in public schools. To create a new form of access for the public art collections RACC manages for the City and County we partnered with Elsew ise Media’s Matt Blair who was introduced to us through the City’s “Civi cApps” program.  Matt’s wonderful Public Art PDX app for the iPhone is p owered by the Filemaker database that RACC’s Public Art Collections Depa rtment constructed and maintains. The mission of the Oregon Nikkei Endow ment is to preserve and honor the history and culture of Japanese Americ ans in the Pacific Northwest\, to educate the public about the Japanese American experience during World War II\, and to advocate for the protec tion of civil rights for all Americans. Japantown PDX is a GPS-enabled a pp which guides users on a walking tour beyond the walls of our museum\, the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center located in Portland’s historic Old Town neighborhood\, and into the heart of the city’s pre and post-war Japane se American community. GammaPoint is a the Portland based mobile app dev elopment company. GammaPoint’s expertise lies in creating navigation app s. GammaPoint has also created a web based platform App4Tour.com where a nyone who is interested in creating a field tour or city tour guide app can sign up  and submit the content to create a native customized geo-lo cations based app without any knowledge of computer programming. Japanto wn PDX app was a pilot project between UofPortland students\, Oregon Nik kei and GammaPoint. With its expertise in navigation apps\, GammaPoint c reated a geo-aware app for Oregon Nikkei and also was able to test their App4Tour.com beta platform.  Explore Portland Oregon’s historic Japanto wn with this user-friendly walking tour app. Also check out some of the other popular apps from GammaPoint such as Extra Mile and WeatherRun. Ma tt Blair creates apps and websites that enrich our connections to cultur e\, place\, and each other. He led development of iOS apps that were sel ected by Apple for their iPad Apps of the Year collections in 2012 and 2 013\, and also designed and built a poetry editor for iPad called Line & amp\; Verse. His Portland-based work includes projects around heritage t rees\, public art\, history\, and poetry boxes. All four of these projec ts aspire to use technology to encourage the exploration of the real wor ld. \n\n\n\nPresenters Todd Mayberry currently serves as the director of collections and exhibits at the Oregon Nikkei Endowment. He has fourtee n years of experience in the cultural sector having worked at Japanese C ultural and Community Center of Washington\, Burke Museum of Natural His tory and Culture\, Minnesota Historical Society and Walker Art Center. T eena Jain is the co-founder of GammaPoint. She has over 18 years of soft ware development experience. She has been working in mobile apps industr y long before the apps became household name. Teena has worked for PalmS ource and many startups before venturing out for entrepreneurship. She a lso brings UI/UX experience to GammaPoint team. Marc Moscato is responsi ble for directing the organization\, managing program committees and gui ding the organization’s mission. Previous to KYC\, he has worked for Mus eum of Contemporary Craft\, City Club of Portland\, Microcosm Publishing \, Peripheral Produce and Squeaky Wheel. He received his MS in Arts & \; Administration from University of Oregon. Keith Lachowicz and his tea m oversee a collection of 1900 artworks—everything from small prints and drawings to 170+ large scale outdoor sculptures. As technology expands to provide new ways to interact with art collections\, museum and public art professionals have become the on-point staff for gathering\, organi zing and supplying the data that search and access applications are cons tructed with. Matt Blair has been a technology consultant for seventeen years. When not staring at screens\, he spends his time reading old book s on paper\, and stomping through the mud in Forest Park. He is also a v olunteer writing workshop facilitator for Write Around Portland\, and jo ined their board in 2013.   Agenda Networking and refreshments 6pm-6:15p m/6:30pm Presentation 6:15pm/6:30pm-8pm   Accessibility Mobility Access:  This venue is wheelchair accessible. There are no steps to climb. Heari ng Access: We will have access to a PA system at this venue. Sight Acces s: We will use a projector at this venue. We want everyone to be able to participate in the PDXTech4Good community and events. Please don't hesi tate to let us know what we can do to accommodate your needs.   Parking &\; Transportation Street parking.   What you'll get out of PDXTech4G ood events Nonprofit staffers will find a friendly\, welcoming atmospher e for those not experienced with technology\, and many chances to ask qu estions of tech-experienced nonprofits and experts. Techies will find op portunities to hear the real-world stories of nonprofit clients\, and pu t their own expertise to social good — as well as the potential for last ing relationships (be they paid or volunteer) with leading organizations in our community. Activists and community organizers will see and be gi ven the chance to present on successful uses of technology for social ch ange. We'll explore how technology can help support activism and where a ctivism can push it forward.\n\nTags: meetup:event=154231502\, meetup:gr oup=pdxtech4good-nonprofit-activist-tech\n\nImported from: http://calaga tor.org/events/1250465941 URL:http://www.meetup.com/pdxtech4good-nonprofit-activist-tech/events/154 231502/ SUMMARY:Apps for Good LOCATION:ADX: 417 SE 11th Ave\, Portland OR 97214 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR