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, 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 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 😄 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.

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.

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 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, our Emacs Hangout will feature a presentation on using Emacs to develop Haskell projects (Thank you Cyd).

A partially completed project, Emacs config, and instructions will be provided before the talk. A Docker image will be provided for those who do not want to install all of the required tools. Packages (briefly) demonstrated will be intero, haskell-mode, haskell-snippets, hlint-refactor, flycheck, company, and projectile.

Topics covered will be: automatic type and style checking, type signature insertion, inspecting type and info of thing at point, automatic refactoring using compiler and lint suggestions, yasnippet templates, jumping to definitions (including 3rd party definitions), loading the current buffer into the REPL, and running tests.

Hope to see you all there!

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!

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.

If you have a little or big project or problem you'd like to solve, stop by for a bit of hackery and fun.

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!)

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!

Our first Emacs Hangout will have the following agenda:

• Main Talk. Overview of Magit, a Git Porcelain for Emacs presented by Will Clifford and Howard Abrams. This will be around 15 minutes, so it won't answer all your questions, but should get you started.

• Lightning Talks. Have something to share? Great! Each lightning talk with be around 5 minutes to show off something cool your learned, so come prepared! We don't know how many of these we'll have, but we're flexible.

• Office Hours. We'll have a white board where you can write down issues you want to resolve or projects you are working on, and others will come and work with you to solve them.

We may tweak this format in the future, but this is our plan. We'll publish notes about this meeting at our Github repository.

Couple of notes about this meeting:

1. Enter on SW 2nd.  Arrive by Max? Walk around the building.

2. Doors lock at 7, so people arriving after 7 will need to call the note on the door to let them in.
3. We will finish office hours at 8, and then continue at a local pub.

Note: Our monthly hangouts will be the third Wednesday of each month...however, we may alter this pattern for November and December.

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!

This Emacs Hangout will have the following agenda:

• Workshop for Literate Programming. Whether you hack in Clojure or JavaScript or something in between, we will demonstrate how to use the code blocks in org-mode to program the tough stuff using an updated variation on Donald Knuth's Literate Programming concept. We'll also cover some "Literate DevOps" (as shown in this demonstration ... or read up about it here). Note: This is a workshop, so to fully participate, please bring a laptop running your favorite editor Emacs.

• Lightning Talks. Have something to share? Great! Each lightning talk with be around 5 minutes to show off something cool your learned, so come prepared! We don't know how many of these we'll have, but we're flexible.

• Office Hours. At 8:00, we will retire to Kell's for libations and to nerd the place up with Emacs Office Hours. Bring your latest project or issues, and get someone to help out.

We'll publish notes about this meeting at our Github repository.

Note: Our monthly hangouts will be the third Wednesday of each month...however, we may alter this pattern for November and December.

At the moment, this Emacs Hangout will have the following agenda:

• Getting Things Done with Org Mode. This is a workshop designed to show many of the features of org-mode that will really help you get and stay organized. Corny as it sounds, but when people talk about org-mode changing how you run your life, this is it. Please have a running Emacs on a laptop in order to fully participate. If you need help getting started, please let us on the channel know and we'll be happy to do a screen sharing session with you.

• Lightning Talks. Have something to share? Great! Each lightning talk with be around 5 minutes to show off something cool your learned, so come prepared! We don't know how many of these we'll have, but we're flexible.

• Office Hours. At 8:00, we will retire to Kell's for libations and nerd the place up by pulling out laptops to help resolve issues or discuss projects you are working on.

We'll publish notes about this meeting at our Github repository (https://github.com/howardabrams/pdx-emacs-hackers)

Note: Our monthly hangouts will be the third Wednesday of each month.

This evening, we will be demonstrating setting up Emacs for Ruby by Will Clifford and Setting up Emacs for Python Development presented by Chris Freeman. We will also have Lightning Talks demonstrating cool tips and tricks. If time permits, we may also get a short Macro workshop.

After the meeting, we will be retiring to a local pub for drinks and "Office Hours" so bring your issues and someone should be able to help you out.

This week's agenda:

• Using Clojure. A presentation/demonstration on how to get Emacs to work with Clojure, Cider and the Clojure refactoring tools.
• Lightning Talks. Have something to share? Great! Each lightning talk with be around 5 minutes to show off something cool your learned, so come prepared!
• Office Hours. At 8:00, we will retire to The Lotus for libations and to nerd the place up with Emacs Office Hours. Bring your latest project or issues, and get someone to help out.

First Time Users: If you are new to Emacs, let us know, and we'll be happy to help get you set up and answer your questions.

Note: Our monthly hangouts will be the third Wednesday of each month.

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.

• Our main talk will be an Introductory Tutorial and Workshop on org-mode ... If you have ever wanted to learn how Emacs changes lives, this is the workshop to attend.

• Lightning Talks. Have something to share? Great! Each lightning talk with be around 5 minutes to show off something cool your learned, so come prepared! We don't know how many of these we'll have, but we're flexible.

• Office Hours. We'll retire to Kell's at 8:00 to continue the conversation, and start helping each other out with Emacs issues or features.

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!

per #clojure-pdx on irc.freenode.net on 5/12:

waynr: howdy folks

waynr: i might try to make the clojerks meetup on thursday

benkay: sweet!

benkay: i don't know what we're doing yet

benkay: do you want to talk about a thing waynr ?

waynr: maybe, i think i am going to try to help get lein-release into leiningen this week in the afterwork hours, not sure if there is much to say about that

waynr: maybe the thing at this meetup could be collaborating on getting lein-release into leiningen...technomancy mentioned in #clojure that this is a pretty big blocker for 2.4.0

waynr: i haven't delved too deeply into it but it seems like the existing plugin really does most of what technomancy mentions here:http://librelist.com/browser//leiningen/2014/5/1\release-task/

benkay: sounds great, waynr

benkay: would this be an active hacking session or...

waynr: yeah that sounds like a good use of the time

Leiningen is a very important component of the Clojurian toolchain, responsible for compilation, en-jar-ificaation, REPLs, running applications in production, many other things, and soon package release automation as well!

Please join us to hack on Leiningen this Thursday at Puppet Labs. Please also join us if you're dabbling in Clojure, want to engage in hifalutin' discourse about editors, or just want to hang out with other lispy programmery folk.

We also tend to go for food/drinks afterwards, where conversation ranges more broadly into war stories, philosophy and idle industry trend speculation.

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