How will you change your career through Code Fellows? Come hear from US Navy veteran Ron Floyd, who went from airport baggage agent to professional web developer with a Code Fellows bootcamp.

You'll get to talk to Ron about his career switch and find out how you can do the same.

RSVP here: http://www.codefellows.org/events-calendar#pdx-october-info-session

Thinking about a new career in software development? Start here!

In this one-day workshop, you'll get a taste of a day in the life of a software developer (+ you'll get three square meals!)

Get a sneak peek into the Code Fellows learning experience, find out how websites are built, and code a webpage yourself using industry-standard tools and professional coding practices.

At the end of this workshop, you will: • Understand the basics of what it means to be a professional software developer. • Understand how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together to create the modern web. • Create a complete website. • Know how to deploy your website and be able to share your accomplishments with friends and family. • Know what whiteboarding is and complete a whiteboarding activity in collaboration with your classmates. • Be able to identify whether a career in coding and the Code Fellows program is right for you.

Thinking about a career change? Need to gain some skills for your current job? Come check us out!

Code Fellows is hosting an information session on Thursday, July 9 at 7PM.

Code Fellows is the Northwest's premiere code school, with both part- and full-time courses, five stacks to choose from, and a job offer guarantee.

Come share a beer with Code Fellows staff, instructors, and alumni. We'll give you a quick spiel to let you know what we're all about, and we'll plenty of time to mingle and ask questions

1 Year. 50 Cities. 100,000 Jobs. PORTLAND, OR – Tech Jobs Tour will convene thousands of influencers and innovators across all areas of technology. Come for the speed mentoring and product demos, stay for the high-fives and ultra-diverse networking. Learn more about your career development, recruiting and retaining non-traditional tech talent, and more. Learn More: bit.ly/TJTOUR

Speed mentoring == networking that doesn't suck! It's a great way to build relationships quickly and connect with other people in tech. We especially seek mentors and mentees in software development and design, QA, data science, and product management. To sign up, just tell us what skills you have and which skills you'd like to learn.

Past Participants: ​Make School, ​Dev Bootcamp, ​Hackbright Academy, ​Hack Reactor, Grace Hopper Academy, Coding Dojo, Telegraph Track, ​BLOC, ​MotherCoders, ​Floodgate Academy, The Iron Yard, Turing School, Galvanize, Metis, Designation.io, Fullstack Academy, MakerSquare, Rithm School, Epicodus, General Assembly, Apprentice.io by Thoughtbot, Grace Hopper Program, DevMountain, Sabio.la, UT Austin Coding Boot Camp, and more.

Previous partners: Accenture, Adobe, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Atlassian, Automattic, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Box, CA Technologies, Conde Nast, Credit Karma, Deloitte, Disney, DocuSign, Dropbox, eBay, Facebook + Oculus, GE, Genentech, Github, GoDaddy, Goldman Sachs, Google, Google, IBM, LinkedIn, Lyft, MailChimp, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Optimizely, Oracle, Pantheon, PayPal, Qualcomm, SAP, Slack, SpaceX, Spotify, Stripe, Symantec, T-Mobile, Target, Twitch TV, Twitter, Two Sigma, WorkDay, Zynga, and more. We recruit: front end developers, back end developers, mobile developers, graphic designers, UX + UI designers, data scientists, database administrators, tech journalists, product + project managers, IT professionals, full stack engineers, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Java programmers, social media professionals, marketing professionals, and more.

include.io is a recruiting platform that uses mini-mentoring to validate diverse and nontraditional technical talent allowing you to be intentional about inclusion and direct referrals. We make it easy for you to search by opt-in diversity data and by candidates that have been validated by your technical leaders.Video: bit.ly/includevideoDeck: bit.ly/includepitchdeck

Megan Smith, 3rd Chief Technology Officer, United States of America, Entrepreneur, Engineer, @smithmegan Tess Gilman Posner, Managing Director, Tech Hire, Opportunity@Work, @tessposner Lateesha Thomas, Director, Partnerships & Corporate Training, Dev Bootcamp, @lateeshathomas Tom Ogletree, Director of Social Impact at General Assembly, @tom_ogletree

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day event at our office this coming Thursday! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

Epicodus is hosting a Demo Day event at our office from 1-3pm on Thursday, August 1st. Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

We would like to extend an invitation to you to Epicodus's upcoming Demo Day on Thursday, May 23rd. Demo day will be held at Epicodus, located right downtown Portland: 400 SW 6th, Suite 800. Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring our graduates or partnering with Epicodus, we'd love to have you!

The event will be running from 1p.m. to 3p.m. Feel free to join us at any point to check out the open house. Additionally, for companies who are attending with the intent to hire, we will have on site interview space available. Demo day is entirely free to attend, but we do ask that you let us know if you're coming and how many people will be attending with you for logistical purposes.

Let me know if you have any questions at all! So that we can plan for refreshments, if you’d like to attend, please RSVP via the link below:

https://forms.gle/7uJVJGEfDJCuea2L6

NOTE: Location Change We'll be at Epicodus this month!

5:30 Mingle + Pizza 6:00 Nick Luallin has been both an external and an in-house recruiter (at Vacasa), and he'll be giving you a behind-the-curtain look at recruiters to help you navigate this very strange aspect of the technical job market.

Are you on our slack? https://epicodusalumni.slack.com is the place to get in touch with alumni from across classes. Check in with a co-organizer if you're not on it. Please read and follow our code of conduct for all Epicodus Alumni events: https://tinyurl.com/epiconduct

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, November 10th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, November 11th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday,October 6th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

*If you ride your bike, please do not bring it into the lobby or elevators. You may lock it up at bike racks on the street near our office.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day event at our office on Thursday, October 4th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

Demo Day is free to attend, but for planning purposes, please RSVP to our eventbrite link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/epicodus-demo-day-event-tickets-49957865320

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, September 8th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, September 8th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, July 28th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, July 28th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day event at our office on Thursday, July 26th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

This event is free, but for logistics purposes, please rsvp at the website link provided if you plan to attend!

ResearchOps, an outgrowth of DesignOps, is a new and fast-growing field focused on managing research at scale and reducing operational inefficiencies. The ResearchOps Community (https://researchops.community) is now 700+ strong.

Since its creation, the Slack Community has become a place for people from all walks of research and design life to exchange ideas, know-how, and, yes, frustrations, about the running of research teams and projects.

The ResearchOps Community is running a series of global workshops to produce some kind of actionable framework for ResearchOps, and we're representing team USA with this workshop in Portland!

Anything that we (and the global community) produce out of the workshops will be open-source: made by all who take part, shared back to you, and free to use.

Some of the questions we’d like to explore are:

1. What do you think ResearchOps includes?
2. What research operational challenges have you experienced?
3. What are your operational successes, if any?
4. Where do you see opportunities to improve research operations in your organization?
5. What should our Community do for its members?

If there are questions you’d like to explore in addition to these let us know and we’ll make time for them!

Learn more about the global workshop series here: https://medium.com/researchops-community/researchops-community-a-series-of-global-workshops-d48058ece814

AGENDA 5:30pm: Networking 6:00pm: Welcome, workshop overview 6:30pm: Explore ResearchOps and share stories (we’ll take breaks) 8:15pm: Wrap-up, next steps

Complimentary food and drinks will be provided!

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, June 23rd, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, May 19th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Epicodus is hostng a Demo Day free event at our office on Thursday, May 17th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates! If you're interested in attending, please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/epicodus-demo-day-event-tickets-44770507794

Please Note: We are back at Epicodus this month as eBay is doing work on their community lounge.

5:30: Meet & Greet & Eat

6:00: Introducing Microservices Maureen Dugan is a full-stack dev who's been at New Relic for the past 3 years. She'll be giving a high-level talk on microservices, explaining what they are and why microservice architecture has become so popular recently.

6:30-8: Hack/chat We'll have some time afterwards to chat about anything/everything. Working on a project? Now could be your time to get some contributions. Want to work on something BIG? Check in with Phil &/or Benjamin. We have ideas...

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, April 14th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, April 14th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, March 10th, 2018, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, February 3rd, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, February 3rd, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Registration through Eventbrite is required to avoid having to manually check-in at the event.

Interested in joining the stellar crew of PDXWIT volunteers? New to volunteering with us? Want to meet other capable, driven women and allies in tech? You'll be in the right place at our winter volunteer orientation. PDXWIT is a 100% volunteer-run organization, which means that volunteers are crucial to the success of our mission. There are plenty of ways to get involved. At the orientation, you'll learn about different volunteer roles, from regular engagements to occasional gigs, get an overview of expectations and processes, have any questions you bring answered, and catch up with other PDXWIT community members. We can't wait to welcome you!

Agenda

5:30 Doors Open

5:45 Program Begin

Introduce attendees to PDXWIT

Provide overview of:

Volunteer Agreement

Different types of volunteer roles

Example of some of the Regular teams

Review upcoming volunteer needs

7:00 Program Ends

Event FAQ Q: What is the parking situation? A: Off street parking only.

Q: Is there secured bike parking? A: Yes - The host can accommodate bike parking in the basement vault for the hours of the event only, and bikes would be stored at owner’s risk. They ask for advance notice to get an idea of space needed.

Q: Should I consider using public transportation? A: Yes

Purpose PDXWIT is a community-based non-profit organization. Our purpose is to strengthen the Portland women in tech community by offering educational programs, partnerships, mentorships, resources and opportunities. We are unifying a supportive environment for current and potential women in tech, all of whom are committed to helping each other. Our goal is to bring together and empower women in tech and to encourage others to pursue tech careers. This is our step towards reducing the gender imbalance in the industry and addressing the current negative effects of that imbalance on women.

Our events are inclusive. ALL people who support our purpose are welcome.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, December 2nd, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, October 21st, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, October 21st, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Epicodus is hosting a Demo Day event at our office on Friday, October 6th! Alumni will be showing off a variety of applications they've built from start to finish. If you're considering hiring a junior developer, are interested in partnering with Epicodus in other ways, or simply want to support the Portland tech community, we'd love to have you. Feel free to come any time during the open house hours to check out work put together by our graduates!

The event is free to attend, but please RSVP here for logistics purposes.

I (Epicodus's founder, Michael) am going to give a talk at Epicodus's Portland office on Tuesday, September 19, from 6-7pm called "Your Jobs Are Safe: Rebutting the Jobless Future Freakout". I've heard and read a lot of concern in the tech industry and more broadly that technology and automation threaten to leave our world with very few jobs and massive inequality. I'll explore the history of massive technology shifts and their impacts on jobs, the current situation of automation and people-replacement, and what the future might hold. I hope you can make it!

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, September 16th, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, September 16th, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Join us at Epicodus for our free Introduction to Programming Workshop on Saturday, August 12th, 2017, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. This workshop is intended for beginners interested in programming. During our workshop, you'll have the opportunity to meet some of our instructors, get a feel for Epicodus' unique classroom environment and gain a solid understanding of web design and web development. We look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule: Saturday, August 12th, 2017 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

What you'll learn: - Git, HTML and CSS objectives - Basic front-end development - JavaScript and jQuery

What to bring?: We will provide 27" iMac computers for you to use but please feel free to bring your laptop if you have one.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to generate a program that plays a game of rock 0, paper 1, or scissors 2. no random functions allowed! the program should be entirely deterministic. (in other words if your program plays against the same opponent program more than once the sequence of moves should be the same.) your program will receive a list of your opponent's previous moves, your previous moves, and the round number; there will be 1000 rounds per match. The tournament will be round robin format, the program with the greatest number of victories will be declared the rock paper scissors champion.

PDX Magic Night

Magic Night is a hands on, team oriented, Javascript coding lab, welcoming of all experience levels and backgrounds. We get together because coding is fun; fun to solve hard problems, and fun to work together. We organize into small teams to code up creative solutions to a common challenge, then after 3 hours of building, present to the group.