API geeks come drink beers and talk API Craft at White Eagle Saloon in Portland during OSCON.

Wednesday night we'll be organizing out front of the convention center around 6:30 PM and walking over to the White Eagle.

API Hackday PDX brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps and mashups with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on existing projects, start new ventures, and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with.

Free admission: Lunch, Dinner and post-hack beer included.

Hackers will also hear from some of the country's top API-focused companies on tips, tricks, and tools for building the next big app. At the end of the day, teams and/or individuals get a chance to present their work to a panel of judges and win kickass prizes.

Brought to you by Twilio, SendGrid, Urban Airship, Cloudability & Mashery

API Hackday PDX brings developers together the Saturday after OSCON for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps and mashups with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on existing projects, start new ventures, and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with.

Free admission: Lunch, Dinner and post-hack beer included. Should you choose the charity: water hero ticket option, your $10 admission will be donated to charity: water.

Hackers will also hear from some of the country's top API-focused companies on tips, tricks, and tools for building the next big app. At the end of the day, teams and/or individuals get a chance to present their work to a panel of judges and win kickass prizes.

API Hackday PDX will be held at the offices of local event sponsor PHPFog.

Brought to you by SimpleGeo, Twilio, SendGrid, Apigee, PHPFog, Urban Airship & Mashery.

Tweet about it using #apihackday

SEE http://apihackdaypdx.eventbrite.com/ for details

Android Happy Hour

5:00pm Monday, 07/25/2011

Location: Double Tree Hotel bar

Join other Android developers for happy hour at Gather in the Double Tree Hotel on Monday evening. Meet face-to-face and share experiences with other developers working on Android. The first 100 people there get a free drink ticket.

It's a party!!! We're going to celebrate another year of moving the social web forwad & the forthcoming release of OpenSocial 2.5, get psyched about starting on 3.0, and think about building the next killer social app! Come and join us on for some good fun and networking. Oh, and if you want to show off your latest wares, bring along your laptop!

Make sure to RSVP (get a free ticket) so we can make sure we have enough beer for eveyone!

Portland devs, designers and OSCON attendees!

Join Orchestrate and Sendgrid for a fun, free happy hour at the classic arcade and pinball hotspot, Ground Kontrol. This is the place to pre-funk as you make your way from the convention center to the Puppet Labs' party at 8!

• Free arcade and pinball play
• Free drinks and snacks
• Swag from Orchestrate and Sendgrid
• Meet the teams and get a demo One of Portland's best DJs, Centrikal, will be spinning fun, groovy beats for your listening pleasure!

Interested in building apps using core web technology—HTML5, Javascript and CSS?

Then you don’t want to miss Mobile Portland this month as we take a look at three awesome tools and frameworks for mobile web development.

We’re pleased to welcome James Pearce, Brian LeRoux and Patrick Mueller to Portland. They’ve graciously agreed to take time out from their busy OSCON schedules to talk to us about:

• World Premiere! Client-side data-bound mobile charting with Sencha Touch
• Cloud-based app binaries using PhoneGap Build.
• Weinre: a remote debugger for web pages on mobile device.

If you’re doing any mobile web development work, these are tools you need to know about. And given the number of apps that include embedded web views, it means nearly everyone is doing some sort of mobile web development.

Special OSCON Note

Mobile Portland is a free monthly meeting open to anyone. If you are in town for OSCON, please feel free to join us. All that we ask is that you RSVP so we know how many chairs we need.

You can take the MAX train for free from the convention center and then take a short walk (.4 mi) to the meeting location.

If you’re a Portlander who isn’t attending OSCON, you should! Not only is the largest open source conference, but there are mobile tracks with detailed presentations from Patrick Mueller and two of Brian LeRoux’s Nitobi colleagues.

About the Speakers

Brian LeRoux, Nitobi SPACELORD!1!!, PhoneGap Contributor, Mobile Web Enthusiast, Tolerant of JavaScript, Trucker Mouth

Brian LeRoux is the lead at Nitobi Software with the prestigious title SPACELORD!1!! He also has the dubious distinction of being the creator of wtfjs.com despite a twisted love for the language of the web. To make matters worse he actually has a non-breaking space tattoo.

Aside all these ridiculous distractions he is also responsible for leading the direction on the wildly popular PhoneGap software project that has the audacious goal to provide a web platform complete with device APIs for all smartphone operating systems.

James Pearce, Senior Director of Developer Relations, Sencha

James is a technologist, writer, developer & entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy.

He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox.James led the development of mobiForge, DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, and is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, and WhitherApps. He has declared every year since 1997 to be "The Year of the Mobile Web" - and feels like he might finally be right.

Patrick Mueller, WebKit contributor, IBM

Patrick Mueller is a software developer at IBM in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. He’s been working on web software and mobile software for a long time. Don’t ask how long, unless you want to hear about how great it was to use Smalltalk for web and mobile software development.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Thanks to azad and Urban Airship for helping sponsor Mobile Portland this month.

There hasn't been a Beer & Blog in a while and with some extra people in town for OSCON, we thought it would be fun to do a little reunion! Since the Green Dragon isn't what it once was, we decided to hold it a few blocks away at the Loyal Legion! See you on Friday!

Hi friends! Rick Turoczy asked me if he and the Open Source Bridge crew could lead some discussion tomorrow @beerandblog. I think what they are up to is valuable to the Portland community and her tech scene, so I said yes. If you’re not yet familiar with Open Source Bridge, they are a group of local techies that want to continue OSCON now that they are not coming back to Portland. But, they’re growing into much more than that. Here’s what they say on their about page:

We are advocates, developers, and Portlanders making the world better with open source technology.

Open Source Bridge will bring together the diverse tech communities of the greater Portland area and showcase our unique and thriving open source environment. We will show how well Portland does open source and share our best practices for development, community and connectedness with the rest of the world.

We’re setting out to change the structure of conference planning: asking interested people to come together at a Town Hall meeting, and share their collective experience and wisdom. Following the lead of the Linux Plumbers Conference, we’re enlisting curators for our conference sessions, planning mini-confs for critical topics and including unconference sessions. The focus will always be on increasing interaction between participants and engaging everyone in the content. 

With the JavaScript Admirers meeting falling during OSCon, and there being a large contingent of JavaScript developers in town, it becomes obvious that a Beer.js needs to occur.

Someone set up an RSVP here: http://inv.ly/mPQf

You're invited to the year’s best OSCON after party hosted by Jive Software, Mozilla, OpenSourcery, OSL, Songbird, and Vidoop. Make the arduous 370 foot walk after the SourceForge Awards Party to keep the party going strong!

When: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Where: Bossanova Ballroom @ 722 E Burnside

Christian Höppler, bass, and Karl Fogel, piano, will perform Franz Schubert's famous song cycle Die Winterreise. The concert is free but donations are requested, all proceeds from which will benefit the Software Freedom Conservancy.

These guys, both amateurs who work in Free software, have been rehearsing at my house and they are AWESOME. Goosebumps. The lyrics are in German but there will be translations.

The 8:30 ending time is real - you will be able to attend the other parties, make it to dinner on time, etc.

The silo is open to any interested parties who want to hack or check out the space. This is an Open House meeting.

We're also welcoming any OSCON attendees who might be interested in stopping by - so if you're not doing anything else, swing on by!

NOTE: The entrance for the space is on the backside of the building in the alley -- NOT at the mailing address. See this satellite view for clarification: http://bit.ly/8Arvpt

The outside door is at the top of a set of stairs. The space is marked with a small sticker that is labeled "BrainSilo"

SPECIAL NOTICE:

The City of Portland and other stakeholders have decided to postpone this event to better coincide with a number of other open source events, including Open Source Bridge and OSCON scheduled for later this year. More information will be posted pertaining to the replanning of the CiviCode Day event as soon as it's determined.

REGISTER FOR FREE AT http://www.cloudcamp.org/pdx

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

OSCON is providing CloudCamp space to run CloudCamp @OSCON during the BOF sessions Monday night. This CloudCamp will be focussed on all-things Open Source and Open Cloud. For Lightning Talks, we invite the community to submit 5 minute talks (please send proposals to [email protected]). All talks must be related to Open Source or Openness.

The agenda for CloudCamp PDX is:

6:30pm Registration & Networking 7:00pm Welcome & Introductions 7:15pm Lightning Talks (5 min. each) 8:00pm Proposals for Open Space 8:15pm Round 1 of Open Space. Proposed sessions: - DevOps GameDay session 9:00pm Round 2 (TBD) 10:00pm (or possibly 9:15pm) Wrap-up

The Community Leadership Summit 2010 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 2010 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.

The event is entirely free but requires pre-registration. Go and register here.

The Community Leadership Summit 2011 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 2010 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.

The event is entirely free but requires pre-registration. Go and register here.

From the site:

The Community Leadership Summit 2018 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 2018 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.

Note from the person posting this:

This event is free, easy to pop into and check out, and great for anyone interested in community. There's a strong tech focus as this is right before OSCON in the same venue, so if you work in tech and are interested in anything related to communities, it's especially useful.

This is a placeholder for the Community Leadership Summit - more details coming soon!

A proposed agenda:

9:30am - 12:30pm formal presentations / keynote

12:30pm - lunch

2pm - 5pm break out sessions / unconference style

A new group of folks are taking on leadership of this event this year.

Here is a link to the Call for Papers: https://forms.gle/stL7v7dkGjWsSTsA6

Join New Relic, Rackspace, CoreOS and Docker for a special OSCON meetup on Wednesday, July 23, 6-9:00 pm at the New Relic offices. You'll learn more about CoreOS and Docker, mingle with some of the top CoreOS and Docker contributors, get your questions answered, try out craft beers from around Portland and snack on some tasty food. Thanks to our gracious host, New Relic, and to Rackspace and New Relic for providing the drinks and bites.

Space is limited. To confirm your spot, please RSVP on Meetup as well as on the Eventbrite page, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coreos-docker-oscon-meetup-brought-to-you-by-new-relic-rackspace-tickets-12202480949. See you at OSCON.

6:00-6:30 pm: Drinks, bites, networking

6:30-7:00 pm: A CoreOS Overview

Find out everything you want to know about CoreOS. CoreOS is a new Linux distribution designed specifically for application containers and running them at scale. This talk will examine all the major components of CoreOS including etcd, fleet, docker, and systemd; and how these components work together to solve the problems of today and tomorrow. Presented by Kelsey Hightower

7:00-7:30 pm: Docker 1.0 101: Intro to Docker, and what the stable release looks like

If you're not familiar yet with Docker, here is your chance to catch up. Engineers from the Docker team will give a quick overview of the Open Source Docker Engine, and its associated services delivered through the Docker Hub. Then, they will discuss the new features of Docker 1.0, and give you a glimpse at what's next in the Docker world. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session! Presented by Jérôme Petazzoni

7:30-8:00 pm: CoreOS and Docker on Rackspace OnMetal

Last month Rackspace announced OnMetal; a product to provision physical servers using the OpenStack APIs. Paul and Ev will explain how OnMetal works behind the scenes and demo CoreOS and Docker in action on physical gear. Presented by Paul Querna and Ev Konstevoy of Rackspace

8:00-8:30 pm: More drinks, bites, break out into groups for additional Q&A

PLEASE RSVP ON BOTH MEETUP.COM + EVENTBRITE.COM

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at OSCON last week. We received lots of great feedback on our new online engagement platform, aspiring to revolutionize the nature of political dialogue.

We’d like to invite you to join us for a hack session, led by founder Mark Frischmuth and lead developer Bjorn Freeman-Benson. We’ll describe our vision for the platform, get you set up with github, pair program to learn the technologies under the hood, and get you on your way towards being part of the project. The event will be held next Thursday, August 2nd, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Green Dragon at 928 SE 9th Ave in Portland.

Drop a line at [email protected] to let us know if you can make it. We hope to see you next Thursday!

Do you believe in open source democracy?

Do you want to help improve collaboration tools for building online engagement apps?

Then come to DemocracyLab's hack-a-thon at New Relic, this Tuesday, July 23 starting at 5 p.m.

Whether you're attending OSCON or just attending tandem events like ours, we hope to see you there!

It's OSCON - many notable supernerds will be here in Portland including O'Reilly author and tech industry figure Francesco Cesarini. Join us at the Erlang / Elixir BoF "Birds of a Feather" discussion:

Designing for Fault Tolerance: The Erlang Way

Fault tolerance. How much do you get out-of-the-box with Erlang / Elixir? We will explore The Erlang Way of thinking and building for maximum reliability. Real stories of real projects. Join us and share yours!

Wednesday July 22nd, 8-9pm Oregon Convention Center Room E147 / E148

This event is free. http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/schedule/detail/45331

Afterwards we will relocate to a pub for further discussion.

Interested in NoSQL databases? We've arranged for that BoF to be in the same room, starting at 7pm. Come for both!

http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/schedule/detail/45300

Hope to see you there!

In early 2009, several developers from Relevance and Viget Labs got together and starting talking about technical conferences. As we discussed our past experiences at regional, national, and international events, we began to realize something: large conferences are wonderful for a lot of things, but we wanted something that met a different set of goals. We came up with Developer Day, which was designed to:

• Build lasting relationships among local peers
• Bridge distinct technical communities

After a year of Developer Days, however, we decided a new look was in order, and thus was born DevNation. We've still got the same ideals, but we feel that the DevNation name better reflects that vision (and it's easier to Google!)

Relationships

The general pattern for a large conference runs something like this: you fly to a city, go to the event, have a great time, meet lots of great people, and fly home. More often than not, you don't see those people again until the next big conference, and that's a problem. We wanted our event to be different, so it's intentionally local. Speakers and attendees are overwhelmingly local to the conference, so when you meet someone doing something cool, you can connect with them a week later for lunch without a problem.

Technology-Agnostic

Sure, there are events that draw a wide range of developers (e.g., OSCON), but even then people tend to segregate; the Pythonists go to their sessions, the Rubyists to theirs, and the PHP devs to theirs. By having only one track, we give everyone the opportunity to see what's happening in other communities.

Hey Docker Portland! Gear up for our next meetup at New Relic! We nabbed Docker's Jérôme Petazzoni, Digital Insight's Kenny Bastani, and EMC's Jonas Rosland, all of whom will be in town for OSCON. See you there!

Agenda

6:00pm - Welcome/ Food & Beverage thanks to New Relic!

6:30pm - Kenny Bastani: Building Microservices with Spring Cloud and Docker

In this talk I will introduce you to the Spring Cloud platform for building cloud-native applications in Java. We will take a look at some of the common patterns for microservice architectures and how to use Docker to containerize multiple microservices as a part of a Maven build process.

We will then dive into a microservices example project of a cloud-native application built on Spring Cloud. Using this example project, I'll show you how to use Docker Compose to spin up a microservice cluster on a development machine. We will then perform a series of end-to-end tests without needing to deploy to a test environment.

By the end of the talk we will cover the following topics:

• Implementing service discovery using Docker containers

• How to use a config service to externalize environment configurations

• How to route REST API requests through an API gateway

• Building container images as a part of a Maven build

• How to do end-to-end testing using Docker Compose on a development machine

7:00pm - Jonas Rosland: Scale-out data persistence for all your stateful container needs

7:30pm - Jérôme Petazzoni: Deep dive into Copy-on-Write and Docker storage drivers

The first release of Docker only supported AUFS, and AUFS was available (out of the box) only on Debian and Ubuntu kernel. Then Red Hat wanted Docker to run on its distros, and contributed the Device Mapper driver, and later the BTRFS driver, and recently the overlayfs driver. Docker 1.7 has support for ZFS. We will present how those drivers compare from a high-level perspective, explaining their pros and cons. This will help the audience to make more informed decisions when picking the most appropriate driver for their workloads.Then we will see each driver in action, and look at low-level implementation details. We won't dive into the golang implementation code itself, but we will explain the concepts of each driver. This will help to better understand how they work, and give some hints when it comes to troubleshoot their behavior.

8:00pm - Wrap-up and Social

This crazy Portland heatwave must be getting to me, because we're totally mixing things up for the July Drupal user group!

1. We've got free pizza thanks to the fine folks at Lullabot & Drupalize.me and free beer & drinks thanks to OpenSourcery. So we'll start off the meetup with 30 minutes of socializing and eating (and even some pinballing!). If you or your company would like to sponsor pizza for future DUGs, drop a comment below.

2. No presenters at this months meetup. We'll be breaking up into teams and competing for 1 hour to make the most awesome, fun, random Drupal site using the mystery set of modules provided. Each site will need building, coding and theming of all levels in order to win, so everyone from the n00best-of-sitebuilders to the most experienced Drupal core contributor can help their team.

3. I know that fame and karma are pretty big motivators in the Drupal community, but in case those aren't enough, we'll also have prizes for the winners. The OReilly people have donated a 3 day pass to OSCon that we'll be giving away along with some other goodies.

So remember to bring a laptop and come hungry... for pizza and to win!

We'll still be heading to the Lucky Lab NW on Quimby & 19th after the meetup for continued socializing and revelry.

• Introductions (10 minutes) Be sure to sign up for the Open Source Bridge conference pass raffle on your way in!
• DrupalPDX Demo eliza411 (15 minutes)

We'll take a look at how to request presentation topics for future meetings and how to volunteer to present.

• DrupalCon / Drupal 7 Lightening Rounds (5 min. each / 45 minutes) For those who couldn't make it, or those who missed your favorite session, give a brief presentation on one or two highlights from the conference. Since much of the conference focused on Drupal 7, feel free to highlight a Drupal 7 feature that you're excited about, whether or not it corresponds to a specific session.
• OSCon Booth sarah_p (10 minutes)

Get the details on the DrupalPDX presence at OSCon.

• Announcements and Open Source Bridge Raffle (10 minutes) Open Source Bridge is June 1–4, 2010 at the Portland Art Museum. They have donated a conference pass to be raffled at this month's user group meeting, in addition to offering user group members a discounted registration rate of $200.

Logistics

We meet at the OpenSourcery offices at 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209. NOTE: Please be aware that the developers at OpenSourcery will be working right up to event time. We ask that you arrive no earlier than 5:50pm. Thank you!

After the presentation finishes we'll walk over to the Lucky Lab NW for food and drink.

(NOTE: OSCON Birds of a Feather sessions are open to all in the community. You do not need to be registered for the conference to attend.)

As part of OSCON Francesco Cesarini will be leading an Erlang Birds of a Feather gathering at the Oregon Convention Center.

It's an opportunity to meet and greet other functional programming people and discuss how to get things done in the real world that demands highly available, fault tolerant, never-stop systems in heterogeneous environments.

Come prepared to talk and learn!

Also in attendance will be Erlang co-creator Robert Virding and other notable Erlang experts.

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37674

FOSCON 2008: Cooking with Ruby

What: FOSCON is a free, fun gathering of Ruby fans held during an evening of O'Reilly's OSCON conference with cool presentations, food, discussions, and a live coding competition. Who: Anyone interested in Ruby, whether you're just curious or a seasoned pro. Where: CubeSpace, Portland, Oregon near the Oregon Convention Center (directions). When: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 from 6pm-9pm. Why: The Portland Ruby Brigade user group wants to share the joy of Ruby with you.

Presentations * IronRuby: John Lam * Selectricity and RubyVote: Benjamin Mako Hill * Ruby performance: Brian Ford * Musical glasses: Gregory Borenstein * Five minutes with Selenium: Ian Dees, author of "Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby" * Ruby culture: Audrey Eschright, Reid Beels and Igal Koshevoy of Calagator * Ruby server automation: Igal Koshevoy on AutomateIt * Ruby on Rails profiling: M. Edward Borasky on applying Linux OProfile * Ruby web development: John Labovitz on Gossamer, a microframework to spin websites out of distributed, lightweight, ephemeral resources * Live coding competition: Ruby on Rails, and hopefully Python Django, PHP Symfony, Drupal, and/or GemStone/S Smalltalk Seaside (details)