Time for another Code for Portland Hack Night!

The National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) is coming up and we're very excited to get started digging into some truly fantastic community projects.

We're planning a three day event for NDoCH at the end of the month and would love to get our community started thinking about ideas for projects. If you've got something you'd like to start work on (or are already working on and need help with), please let us know and we'll give you time to present and help you find like-minded civic hackers!

Please RSVP!

Please RSVP so that we know how much pizza we'll need!

Join our meetup group and RSVP for the event here:

http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Portland/events/182017672/

Civic Heroes of all types welcome!

This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a Laptop!

If you intend on getting any hacking done, it would be wise to bring the tools of the trade.

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about for the social and civic good, let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Jason Denizac (https://twitter.com/_jden) from Code for America is in town and has offered to stop by and tell us about some of his experiences as a Code for America fellow working with the city of Chattanooga in Tennessee.

Come by to learn more about Code for America, and bring a laptop if you feel like getting some work done too! Jason will be sticking around afterwards to do some hacking.

Code for Portland Hack Night

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here: the first Code for Portland hack night! This is an organic and unprogrammed night to come learn about or hack on new civic tools.

Please RSVP!

Please RSVP so that we know how much pizza we'll need!

Join our meetup group and RSVP for the event here: http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Portland/events/177731782/

Civic Heroes of all types welcome!

This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more open and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a Laptop!

If you intend on getting any hacking done, it would be wise to bring the tools of the trade.

There Will Be Pizza!

Pizza!!! We'll be getting some 'za from Sizzle Pie, so there will be vegan and vegetarian options.

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about for the social and civic good, let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Join us for the Portland Tech Meetup on the 3rd Monday of every month. Portland has one of the most vibrant tech communities in the country, and the more we support our tech ecosystem, the more we'll all experience and create together!

Join us to learn about the cool and amazing technologies being developed by Portland companies. You can arrive early (as early as 5:30) and network. Event volunteers are welcome! Let us know if you'd like to volunteer.

Entry to the St. Patrick's Day meetup and party is:

$10 per person until 4pm on 3/17. $20 per person at the door.

Agenda
6:00pm - Doors Open / Buffet / Drinks / Get to know your community
7:00pm - Event Begins!

• Community Announcements: Events, Jobs, etc. (20 seconds/ea)

• Pres. #1: Robert Caruso of BundlePost

• Pres. #2: Kelly White of Silvertail Software
• Pres. #3: Shashi Jain of Matter Compilers
• Pres. #4: Aaron Parecki of ESRI
• Pres. #5: Tony Falco of Orchestrate

8:00 - 10:00pm - St. Patrick's Day After-Party: We'll be staying at MercyCorps for this month's after-party with green beer, music, and lots of awesome networking!

PDXTechMeetup Sponsors:

Turnstone Immix Law Group Simple

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Links to better acquaint yourself with the PDX Tech Meetup:

1. PDX Tech Meetup Video Teaser
2. PDX Tech Meetup Videos Featuring Past Presenters
3. Follow the Twitter Hashtag #PDXTechMeetup
4. Follow @PDXTechMeetup on Twitter

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Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever!

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever!

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever!

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever!

This week's Portland meetup is part of PDX DevWeek, so we will be running it as more of an unstructured hack night rather than the traditional format.

CANCELLED: Sorry, Aaron is unable to host this week! If you were planning on coming, you should update this event with a new location, just pick a nearby bar or something!

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

This is the last Homebrew Website Club before IndieWebCamp 2014!

• (No writing hour this week)
• 6:30pm - 7:30pm - Broadcast & peer-to-peer

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

This is the last Homebrew Website Club before IndieWebCamp 2014!

• 5:30pm - 6:30pm - Writing Hour
• 6:30pm - 7:30pm - Broadcast & peer-to-peer

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

• 5:30pm - 6:30pm - Writing Hour
• 6:30pm - 7:30pm - Broadcast & peer-to-peer

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

• 5:30pm - 6:30pm - Writing Hour
• 6:30pm - 7:30pm - Broadcast & peer-to-peer

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Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

Read about the last meetings:

• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-01-29-homebrew-website-club
• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-01-15-homebrew-website-club#Notes
• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2013-12-18-homebrew-website-club

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners very welcome. The best maps are made together. :)

Come play MapAttack, a real-time urban geofencing game for iPhone and Android! Bring your device (iPhones running iOS 7 and new-ish Android devices). Teams will start at Backspace and collect points around the city blocks of Portland. Teams that get the most points win! Built on the Esri Geotrigger Service.

After much work, the game is working very well and is very fun to play. We'll have PacMan ponchos if it's raining out, but you should bring running shoes or warm clothes if you feel you need them. Come with phones pre-charged!

Meet at Backspace around 12:30pm! Game will start shortly after! We'll have multiple games, so don't worry if you can't make it at the exact time.

What to expect: Games will last from 20-30 minutes and can be played on bike, by foot, or even by public transit.

Forecast for Portland this Sunday! Partly Cloudy with a high of 66 and a low of 43 °F.

Developers and geo enthusiasts are invited to discuss geospatial technology and development, learn from each other, and socialize on us (Esri).

At GeoDev Meetups, you can demonstrate your application/framework, present an interesting concept or idea, share your experiences, and connect with other developers.

5:30–6:30 p.m. — Registration and Social (appetizers and beverages served)

6:30–7:30 p.m. — Keynote Presentation

7:30–8:30 p.m. — Lightning Talks*

8:30–9:30 p.m. — Networking and Raffle (1000 Service Credits for your ArcGIS Online Developer Subscription + a DevSummit registration)

Please RSVP http://www.meetup.com/DevMeetUpOregon/events/175383052/

*Submit a topic for a 5-minute lightning talk when you RSVP

Join us at Esri's R&D Center office in downtown Portland for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web!

You’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, WebMention and more.

The IndieWeb movement is a global community that is building an open set of principles and methods that empower people to take back ownership of identity and data instead of sharecropping on 3rd party websites. Homestead, don’t sharecrop! You’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, WebMention and more!

Register for your ticket here! https://ti.to/indiewebcamp/2015-portland

Join us at Esri's new R&D Center office in downtown Portland for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web!

You’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, WebMention and more.

The IndieWeb movement is a global community that is building an open set of principles and methods that empower people to take back ownership of identity and data instead of sharecropping on 3rd party websites. Homestead, don’t sharecrop! You’ll learn about ways to empower yourself to own your data, create and publish content on your own site, and only optionally syndicate to third-party silos. Along the way you’ll get a solid grounding in the history and future of Microformats, domain ownership, IndieAuth, WebMention and more!

In order to attend you'll need to sign up on the IndieWebCamp Wiki guest list for the event here: http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/Guest_List

It's been a year since we've joined Esri, and we've done a bunch of awesome stuff since then! Come celebrate with us!

Thanks to everyone who joined us last time! As usual, drinks on us!

We'll also play some games of MapAttack!

Our National Day of Civic Hacking event went great and we've got some fantastic groups working on projects together now. Come work on an existing project or bring your own!

Schedule

• 6:30-6:45: Pizza (Sizzle Pie) arrives. Time for participants to arrive, socialize, and eat.
• 6:45-7:00: Group introductions, announcements from participants & organizers.
• 7:00-8:30: Hacking! Project teams break out to work. New participants can join teams, circulate, or seek out organizers for orientation (Nate (G. or W.), Erica, or Mele).
• 8:30+: Everyone reconvenes and shares reactions and progress made over the last two hours. Show and tell if time/resources allow it. Thank you and goodnight!
• Optional Happy Hour for stragglers after everything's wrapped up :)

Please RSVP!

Please RSVP so that we know how much pizza we'll need!

Civic Heroes of all types welcome!

This event is for coders and non-coders alike -- as long as you're interested in making government more transparent and building interesting things for our city, you're more than welcome!

Bring a laptop if you intend on getting some hands-on hacking done (it’s ok if you can’t).

There Will Be Pizza!

Pizza!!! We'll be getting some 'za from Sizzle Pie, so there will be vegan and vegetarian options.

If you have something you'd like to work on or are excited about for the social and civic good, let us know via the meetup or at the hack night itself. We are growing our initiative and the energy comes from the community.

Let's start the new year off with the folks at Geoloqi (who were recently acquired by Esri)!

Geoloqi can only handle 85 attendees at a time, so we'll be breaking it up into two shifts with 85 people per.

Please select the time that is best for you!

Let's start the new year off with the folks at Geoloqi (who were recently acquired by Esri)!

Geoloqi can only handle 85 attendees at a time, so we'll be breaking it up into two shifts with 85 people per.

Please select the time that is best for you!

Use the power of technology to make our community a better place with Code for Portland, a new Code for America Brigade.

This is an exciting chance for people who know and love technology to come together with people who know and love urban issues to use technology and their collective skills to build solutions that matter to our city.

We welcome the skills and talents of software developers, designers, entrepreneurs, city staff, local organizations, and community leaders.

Code for Portland is part of Code for America's Brigade network and is an ongoing effort to deploy, maintain and sustain civic technology and open data infrastructures.

Please RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-portland-kickoff-meeting-tickets-10729996709

In coordination with the Oregon and Southwest Washington URISA GIS in Action conference, we will be hosting an Esri Dev Meet Up on Wednesday, May 1st. Food and beverages will be provided at the meet up.

The Esri Dev Meet Up is a social gathering for developers to discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., Silverlight, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Presentations run the gamut of our community: from Web development to mobile location development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 to automating tasks with Python.

Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial development.

Meetup Schedule:

*6:00 - 7:00 PM Registration and Social (Appetizers and Beverages served)

*7:00 - 7:30 PM Keynote Speaker

Jim Walter - Kimerasystems.com: Real World Experiences Creating Intelligent Mobile Devices Through Contextual Awareness and Persistent Location

*7:30 - 8:30 PM Lightning talks

Theresa Valentine from the USDA Forest Service "GeoNIS: Automating the Process of Integrating Spatial Data for 26 Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites, and Making Data Available via Map and Image Services"

Paul Ferro is a GIS Analyst for DOGAMI. He will be presenting "Tips, Tricks, and Scripts for Planning Your Migration to ArcGIS Server 10.1." It will cover how to mine and archive 10 Web service properties for a 10.1 deployment and use Python to stage 10.1 service definitions in advance.

Dana Maher is a Mobile Application Developer who works on Web and mobile applications, primarily relating to Emergency Management, Urban Planning, and Operational Support will present "Architecting a Mobile Common Operating Picture for Emergency Management." She will cover the architecture of an app that pulls from a disparate group of spatial data sources and formats to provide a common operating picture for Oregon emergency management.

*8:30 - 9:30 PM Raffle, Networking and Social.

Follow us on Twitter: @Al_Laframboise and @AmyNiessen

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners are very welcome!

Our goal is to be inclusive no matter your tech level, so bring your questions, geoprojects, and mapping curiosities. We also highly encourage bringing a laptop so you can get hands-on!

Agenda

• Lyzi Diamond will lead a Map Basics session
• Show and Tell - Show us your cool maps and mapping apps!

Let us know if you have something you'd like to teach, ask, show, or hack:

• Twitter @MaptimePDX
• MaptimePDX Google Group.

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners are very welcome!

Our goal is to be inclusive no matter your tech level, so bring your questions, geoprojects, and mapping curiosities. We also highly encourage bringing a laptop so you can get hands-on!

Agenda

We have a little project for the FOSS4G 2014 website to hack on! They want to map out some entertainment options (restaurants, bars, other POIs) for a Portland guide and are looking for some assistance.

Some of the Esri PDX folks may do some presentation practice runs in preparation for the Esri UC as well.

Let us know if you have something you'd like to teach, ask, show, or hack:

• Twitter @MaptimePDX
• MaptimePDX Google Group.

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners are very welcome!

Our goal is to be inclusive no matter your tech level, so bring your questions, geoprojects, and mapping curiosities. We also highly encourage bringing a laptop so you can get hands-on!

Agenda

• Tillmill 101 - writing CartoCSS, mustache templating, using your own data, and previews of TM2, the next iteration of TileMill.

Let us know if you have something you'd like to teach, ask, show, or hack:

• Twitter @MaptimePDX
• MaptimePDX Google Group.

It's time for the May Maptime! Mayptime!

Same Map-time, new Map-place.

Note that we're meeting at the NEW Esri R&D Center office off SW 6th Ave this time around.

Agenda

• State of the Map (SOTM) Recap
• The State of Maptime
• Develop list of tools and libraries and what they're good at
• Develop best "recipes" for webmaps
• Overview of using PostGIS with QGIS
• Mapping Reed Canyon in OSM
• Intro to Tilemill 2
• General map hacking time

Let us know if you have something you'd like to teach, ask, show, or hack:

• Twitter @MaptimePDX
• MaptimePDX Google Group.

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Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners are very welcome!

Our goal is to be inclusive no matter your tech level, so bring your questions, geoprojects, and mapping curiosities. We also highly encourage bringing a laptop so you can get hands-on!

The National Day of Civic Hacking is a nationwide event to build innovative civic projects and a lasting community that is passionate about finding technological solutions to shared problems in our communities.

Portland is hosting two Civic Hack-a-thons in celebration of this national day. Join us for a joint kick-off event to celebrate, get inspired, and hear more about each hack-a-thon. There’s all kinds of dreaming, creating, and hacking you can be part of!

Kick-off Party Details:

Date: Friday, May 30th
Location: Epicodus, Time: 6pm - 9pm
Please RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/kick-off-party-code-for-portland-national-day-of-civic-hacking-tickets-11593744201

• Northwest Hack-a-thon Details http://calagator.org/events/1250466358

• Southwest Hack-a-thon Details http://calagator.org/events/1250466359