Abstract: The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used with the Linux kernel, specifically to make these freedoms possible.

The Portland State University Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Science Department are proud to welcome Richard Stallman to PSU for this general-interest talk. Mr. Stallman is the father of the free software movement and the concept of 'copyleft', the original author of GNU Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and many of the utilities used in the GNU/Linux operating system.

This event is free and open to the general public. Mr. Stallman will be available for a brief Q&A session following the talk.

Doors open at 7pm, the talk begins at 7:30pm.

Ever wondered about how to use that cryptic software called emacs? Have you wanted to know if emacs really is Lisp in disguise? Would you like to wow all your classmates when you know how to use the cool software? Come to the talk and let Rob teach you how emacs works in an interactive workshop format. Bring a laptop, as you will want it.

Rob Werfelman is is a student of Computer Science at Portland State University, an active member of the PSU chapter of the ACM, and a CS tutor. Hosted in the ACM room inside the CS tutoring lounge.

Are you Linus Torvalds? If so, let's hang out and discuss git or Linux or your micro emacs configuration.

Clojure hack night at Puppet!

Show up at 5.30 if you want to form a team for a focused Dojo session, or later if you want to hack on your .emacs.

Closed: Puppet is reportedly closing at 3pm today due to snow.

This Chef Introductory Workshop is a hands on training class for getting familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks. In this workshop, we will cover:

Set up a local workstation with Chef and connect to a Chef Server. Use Chef to automate installation of a Nagios server as a real world example. Automate other common system tasks with Chef:

Each exercise will be instructor-led, and introduce new Chef concepts along the way. We'll cover the Anatomy of a Chef Run, Chef's Authentication Cycle, how to build roles, manipulate configuration through data in attributes, use Chef's search API for dynamic configuration, and more. WORKSTATION REQUIREMENTS Attendees should bring a wifi-enabled laptop to the workshop. The following operating systems have been tested as workstation systems with the hands on exercises:

Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04 Mac OS X 10.7.3 Windows 7

Other platforms and platform versions may work without modification. Due to time constraints we will not be able to troubleshoot issues with unlisted platforms. Attendees should install non-Chef required software before the workshop starts.

SSH/SCP (OpenSSH, puTTY/WinSCP or equivalent) Programer's text editor (Vi/Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text 2 or equivalent)

On Unix/Linux/OS X systems:

C/C++ compiler, build environment (build-essential, Xcode, or platform equivalent).

If Chef is not already installed, use Opscode's Full Stack Chef installer

Curious about Clojure? Have questions about Emacs or Cursive or Vim or Spacemacs or anything else? Come on out and we'll help.

Office hours are a great place to chat with other developers and help or get help with any questions that come up.

Everyone is always welcomed regardless of skill or experience. If you are curious come on out.

Zach Tellman wrote an interesting piece on successful strategies for the self-organizing Clojure meetup:

http://blog.factual.com/clojure-office-hours Let's try this model! There will be a whiteboard, Puppet will graciously host and those who want to learn can come to learn, those who want to hack can come and hack, and those who are willing to share their wisdom are welcome to do so.

See you at Puppet!

Office hours are a great place to chat with other developers and help or get help with any questions that come up.

Everyone is always welcomed regardless of skill or experience. If you curious come on out.

This month we'll have a special newcomers focus where we'll start with introductions, have lighting talks, discuss somethings we like about clojure and some things we find confusing and help each other install a dev environment.

Curious about Clojure? Have questions about Emacs or Cursive or Vim or Spacemacs or anything else? Come on out and we'll help.

Office hours are a great place to chat with other developers and help or get help with any questions that come up.

Everyone is always welcomed regardless of skill or experience. If you are curious come on out.

Curious about Clojure? Have questions about Emacs or Cursive or Vim or Spacemacs or anything else? Come on out and we'll help.

Office hours are a great place to chat with other developers and help or get help with any questions that come up.

Everyone is always welcomed regardless of skill or experience. If you are curious come on out.

Curious about Clojure? Have questions about Emacs or Cursive or Vim or Spacemacs or anything else? Come on out and we'll help.

Tonight, our Emacs Hangout will feature two lightning talks (one oriented to less experienced Emacsians):

• Introduction to customizing Emacs with Emacs Lisp, by Matthew Hoselton

• Show and tell for using Emacs to give Demonstrations, by Howard Abrams

These will be followed by a Hack Night, where we can all get together and hack on new or existing projects, or work on some of the ideas we learned about tonight. If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, bring it, and pair up with someone who may have some experience in that area.

Hope to see you all there!

Tonight, our Emacs Hangout will feature a Hack Night, where we can all get together and hack on new or existing projects that members bring. Not sure what this may entail? Check out these initial thoughts on the subject. Not sure what to hack? We'll begin our evening of hackery with a brief 5-minute trick: This week will demo the organization capabilities of use-package.

If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, bring it, and pair up with someone who may have some experience in that area.

Hope to see you all there!

Tonight, our Emacs Hangout will feature a Hack Night, where we can all get together and hack on new or existing projects that members bring. Not sure what this may entail? Check out these initial thoughts on the subject. Not sure what to hack? We'll begin our evening of hackery with a brief 5-minute trick: This week will demo how to get started with your own personalized mode-line.

If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, bring it, and pair up with someone who may have some experience in that area.

Hope to see you all there!

For this month, our Hacker Meetup will be hacking a personalized breadcrumb tool. Many breadcrumb-like tools and functions already exist (using find-tag and pop-tag is one of these), but writing your own breadcrumb functions with marks from your own favorite commands, could be both fun and useful when jumping around a large code base or document. We’re planning on pair programming to come up with a couple of implementations and share our implementations and discoveries.

Time permitting, we will have lightning talks about anything interesting our local hackers have found or made. If you have something to share, by all means, come along.

This will be followed by Office Hours, where we can all get together and discuss, fix or hack on new or existing projects. If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, bring it, and pair up with someone who may have some experience in that area.

Hope to see you all there!

Note: We've started a PDX-oriented Emacs Slack group, pdx-emacs.slack.com. Interested? Contact someone in the group to get an invitation.

Tonight, our Emacs Hangout will feature a series of lightning talks about anything interesting our local hackers have found or made. If you have something to share, by all means, come along.

This will be followed by Office Hours, where we can all get together and discuss, fix or hack on new or existing projects. If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, bring it, and pair up with someone who may have some experience in that area.

Hope to see you all there!

Note: We've started a PDX-oriented Emacs Slack group, pdx-emacs. Interested? Contact someone in the group to get an invitation.

Tonight, we're gathering over sharing a collection of lightning talks show-casing new things we've learned or built...essentially, live demos of our #cool-til Slack channel 😄

Feel free to attend or participate, and if you can't make it physically, please join us virtually: http://meet.jit.si/pdxemacs

After our show and tell session, we'll retire to a nearby restaurant for food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

Tonight, we're going to celebrate with a collection of lightning talks show-casing new things we've learned or built...essentially, live demos of our #cool-til Slack channel 😄

This includes a demo of Howard's new keyboard.io and his hacks to make it work well with Emacs.

After our show and tell session, we'll retire to a nearby restaurant for food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

Our last Emacs get-together of the year will be hosted at Workday’s new offices in Beaverton. We're going to celebrate with a collection of lightning talks and show-casing new things we've learned or built...essentially, live demos of our #cool-til Slack channel 😄

After our show and tell session, we'll retire to a nearby restaurant for food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

Tonight we'll be hacking on Emacs' own shell, eshell. We'll begin with a overview of its capabilities and how it compares to better known, but not-as-extendable, shells. We'll then see how this "REPL with File System Controls" can be easily hacked and crafted into a most-amazing tool of awesome.

This evening, Howard Abrams will kick off our new Emacs Hackery season by showing off some Emacs features for hacking Emacs Lisp…. that’s right, using Emacs to program Emacs Lisp (what a concept). This will be followed by some interesting ways to look up Emacs functions, which includes the illustrious suggest.el project.

With our environment initialized, we’ll start to hack on a new project (a game) that uses some of the new data structure libraries that have showed up in the Emacs ecosystem lately.

This month, the Emacs Hackers assemble for lightning talks demonstrating the results of last month’s project. Followed by a session of Hacking on Org Mode Tasks.

Due to a posted tweet about automatic refiling of old tasks, we figured we could hack Emacs to analyze the timestamps associated with tasks and archive or delete tasks that are too old to be relevant.

Our hack nights are collaborative group programming and quite a bit of fun, especially if you know little about Emacs Lisp. We pick simple projects that can be started during our hack night, but that can be polished and personalized afterwards.

Hope to see you there!

Tonight, our Emacs Hangout will feature a presentation by Howard Abrams on "Some" Emacs Lisp Best Practices ... Details of this:

While I'm not, by any means, an expert on what the community, after 30 some-odd years, agrees to regarding the best way to write Emacs Lisp, I will walk through some of what I've learned in creating a ELPA project. These tips should be applicable for any one writing Emacs Lisp whether or not they will be submitting that code to as a community package project.

The presentation will be followed by "Office Hours", where we can all get together and discuss, fix or hack on new or existing projects. If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, bring it, and pair up with someone who may have some experience in that area.

Hope to see you all there!

Note: We've started a PDX-oriented Emacs Slack group, pdx-emacs. Interested? Contact someone in the group to get an invitation.

This month's Emacs Hack and Meet Night is more special, as we will be joining the San Francisco Bay Area Emacs group via the miracle of modern telecommuting technology. We'll be alternating between members from both communities in a series of lightning talks. Come and learn something new. Got something to share? You are especially invited to come and join in the fun.

By the way, if you like VI's editing interface, we especially encourage you to come, as Logan Barnett will be demonstrating how to get started with Evil and leader keys (even if you don't want to start out with something like Spacemacs).

Afterwards, we'll be retiring to our favorite nearby Thai haunt for food and drinks.

Tonight, we're gathering over sharing a collection of lightning talks show-casing new things we've learned or built...essentially, live demos of our #cool-til Slack channel 😄 ... including showing a system running EXWM (the Emacs X Window Manager) where Emacs runs regular applications inside an Emacs buffer. Why? Well having a full featured, but light-weight and essentially mouseless window manager would work well on older systems.

Feel free to attend or participate, and if you can't make it physically, please join us virtually: http://meet.jit.si/pdxemacs

After our show and tell session, we'll retire to a nearby restaurant for food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

Tonight, we're going to celebrate with a collection of lightning talks show-casing new things we've learned or built...essentially, live demos of our #cool-til Slack channel 😄 Watch the @howardabrams Twitter channel for a URL if you want to join remotely...we may be a local diocese, but we're open to visitors.

After our show and tell session, we'll retire to a nearby restaurant for food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

As the Ultimate Nerd Battle for Editor Anecdotal Mindshare (UNBEAM) closes in on forty years, the VI forces has taken over the Emacs Cathedral in Portland threatening the diocese. But during an intense battle of differing perspectives, a metallic ship emerges from space. Aliens beamed a message to the surface of the planet:

Nerdy Earthlings, can we call you Nerdlings? You need not fight anymore! The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it’s Emacs and Vim. Combine your ideologies and merge your effort, and please end this useless conflict.

This month’s Emacs Meetup has been pre-empted for a full discussion about combining Emacs and VI using the Spacemacs system (see www.spacemacs.org). We are planning on three separate presentations:

1. Introduction to Spacemacs, and how to use it as either an Emacs or VI user.
2. Customizing Spacemacs using their Layer approach.
3. Vi-like Spacemacs features that neither Emacs nor VI offer, .e.g. a Lisp “modal” State for manipulating s-expressions using Paredit, and how this can be applied to other programming languages.

Hope to see you all there!

Our scheduled Hack Night has been cancelled due to lack of a place, so this evening, we are just meeting for drinks at the Lotus, and talk about a Hack Night for next month.

The virtual conference, EmacsConf 2019 is coming soon, and Howard Abrams will be presenting a talk about completely replacing a Terminal Shell with Emacs. This evening, he'll be doing a dry-run with us, and trying to convince us that the Shell is a relic of the past and should go away, along with all those Termcap entries. We'll also be having office hours and our regular round-table of lightning talks, so come and join us at our new meeting location.

(Thanks www.nwea.org for hosting us!)

abstract: Idris is a pure functional language with full dependent types. In this series of tech talks, Idris contributor David Christiansen will provide an introduction to programming in Idris as well as using its development tools. Topics to be covered include the basics of dependent types, embedding DSLs in Idris, Idris’s notion of type providers, a general outline of the implementation strategy, the C FFI, and the effects library. Each talk has an associated set of exercises as well as suggested projects for further learning. Participants are expected to be familiar with functional programming in either Haskell or an ML.

bio: David Raymond Christiansen is a Ph.D. student at the IT University of Copenhagen. For the last few months, he has been an intern at Galois, working on verifiable elections and better user interfaces for DSLs. His interests include functional programming languages, domain-specific languages, and environments that make them useful. David has contributed features such as type providers and error reflection to the Idris language as well as significant parts of the Emacs-based IDE. Additionally, he is a co-host of The Type Theory Podcast.

abstract: Idris is a pure functional language with full dependent types. In this series of tech talks, Idris contributor David Christiansen will provide an introduction to programming in Idris as well as using its development tools. Topics to be covered include the basics of dependent types, embedding DSLs in Idris, Idris’s notion of type providers, a general outline of the implementation strategy, the C FFI, and the effects library. Each talk has an associated set of exercises as well as suggested projects for further learning. Participants are expected to be familiar with functional programming in either Haskell or an ML.

bio: David Raymond Christiansen is a Ph.D. student at the IT University of Copenhagen. For the last few months, he has been an intern at Galois, working on verifiable elections and better user interfaces for DSLs. His interests include functional programming languages, domain-specific languages, and environments that make them useful. David has contributed features such as type providers and error reflection to the Idris language as well as significant parts of the Emacs-based IDE. Additionally, he is a co-host of The Type Theory Podcast.