Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Assistive Tech User Research

Join us as Cindy Merrill shares her work making technology more accessible to people with disabilities. Cindy conducts remote moderated research with people who use assistive technology, including screen readers and screen magnifiers. In this presentation, she'll discuss real-world insights from her research and share proven best practices for planning and conducting effective user research with people who rely on these essential tools.

This event is co-hosted by CHIFOO (pronounced ‘ky – FOO’), the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon, and PDX A11Y UX, the Portland Accessibility & UX Meetup.

Bio

Cindy Merrill is a Lead UX Researcher at Pluribus Digital, a consulting firm specializing in modern digital experiences for the federal government. With more than 20 years of experience in user research across government and industry, she is passionate about making technology more accessible and easier to use. She has conducted numerous research studies on websites, consumer products, and automotive systems while working at Intel, Jaguar Land Rover, Cvent, and various consulting firms.

Event is in person and online

We are in person at the Multnomah County Central Library (Large Community Room 1A) and online via Zoom for remote participation (Zoom link will be posted a few days before event). Introduction starts at 6:00 pm, and we need to leave the room by 7:45pm.

Accommodation requests

If you have any accommodation requests, don’t hesitate to contact us before the event to discuss.

Monthly community campaign meeting to coordinate actions toward building a public broadband option in the City of Portland. Open to all. This meeting is open to everyone interested in campaigning for a public broadband option for the City of Portland! Bringing community-owned internet infrastructure to Portland is a community effort! We need your help! No technical skills necessary.

This is a recurring community meeting happening every 2nd Thursday of the month.

We are gathering in the CETI Lab located on the 4th floor at 111 SW Columbia Street in downtown Portland. The Lab is easily acessible by public transporation. There is parking in the building garage on the 4th floor for $5.

Thank you to the CETI Institute for hosting Community Broadband PDX monthly meetings!

RSVP

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

Note: Your RSVP is required in order to attend this event.

Let’s get together for an informal BEAM PDX hangout: coffee, conversation, and light co-working.

This is a low-key monthly meetup for folks working with Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, and other BEAM languages, aimed at reconnecting the local community and rebuilding momentum after a long quiet stretch. We'll holding this on the second Thursday of each month.

There will be opportunities to:

• Ask questions about Elixir and other BEAM languages

• Share what you’ve been working on (or stuck on)

• Get help with programming or design problems

• Co-work: get things done with like-minded folks nearby

Brainstorm ideas for future talk-based meetups and identify potential speakers

Bring your laptop if you’d like. It's totally optional.

New to BEAM languages, or just curious? You’re very welcome.

Please RSVP so we know roughly how many people to expect. If your plans change, un-RSVP when you can.

This meetup is also part of our transition away from Meetup to a new home for the group, where we’ll be organizing future events.

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

Two halves tonight.

FIRST: show us what you did. Last month we went through nine ways to work with coding agents. Some of you went home and tried them. Bring what happened — the memory file that changed your week, the prompt that finally worked, the agent that confidently destroyed something. Wins and disasters are equally welcome; the disasters usually teach more. Five minutes each, laptop optional, no slides required.

THEN: everything that isn't text. We've spent two meetings on language models. Meanwhile image, video, music, and voice generation have quietly become genuinely good — and a surprising amount of it now runs on the laptop in front of you, with nothing leaving the machine.

We'll walk the current landscape honestly: what's actually worth using in October 2026, what got discontinued this year, and where each one still falls apart. Then we'll split the field the way that matters for a working developer — what you call an API for, versus what you can run yourself.

And we'll generate something live. On a laptop. Offline.

You'll leave knowing which model to reach for per modality, what your own hardware can run, how to set it up, and the three questions that decide hosted-versus-local for any of them.

Come curious. Beginners and veterans welcome.

SPEAKER Matt Duffield is President & CTO of Summit Software with 30+ years building enterprise software. A published author of six technical books and U.S. Navy veteran, he focuses on AI-assisted development, local LLMs, and cloud-native architecture.

EVENT DETAILS Food, drinks, and conversation beginning at 7:00. Show & tell at 7:30. Main talk around 8:00. Parking is free at the Gladstone Park SDA church.

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

Monthly community campaign meeting to coordinate actions toward building a public broadband option in the City of Portland. Open to all. This meeting is open to everyone interested in campaigning for a public broadband option for the City of Portland! Bringing community-owned internet infrastructure to Portland is a community effort! We need your help! No technical skills necessary.

This is a recurring community meeting happening every 2nd Thursday of the month.

We are gathering in the CETI Lab located on the 4th floor at 111 SW Columbia Street in downtown Portland. The Lab is easily acessible by public transporation. There is parking in the building garage on the 4th floor for $5.

Thank you to the CETI Institute for hosting Community Broadband PDX monthly meetings!

RSVP

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Happy Fall PDXOSGeo! 

Join us fourth Wednesday September 23rd for more of your favorite open source geo-goodness. Tonight's special guest is Regan Hutson who has worked with both Enterprise and Open-Source geospatial tools for over 15 years. This has included incorporating spatial analysis into various roles at Kaiser Permanente, as well as pro-bono work for groups like the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.

Regan’s presentation will outline decision points and development steps that went into building a mobile-focused web-map to support the first ever Portland Pastry 10K Walk event.

As always there will be pizza, and BYOB is available from across the hall at HotLips.

Time / Space Coordinates: Wednesday September 23rd, 6:30–8pm
Hot Lips Pizza @ the Natural Capital Center: 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland OR 

See you there!

Our mailing list is a google group: drop us a line with any questions: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo

Join us for the SNAP Specs PDX Meetup. The group focuses on the wearable AR glasses, SPECS 27 (https://www.specs.com), being released by SNAP in Q4 2026. The group is open to all - developers, designers, enthusiasts. All are welcome!

For this first meetup, we'll be covering the public launch event on September 16th in California. Several of the members of this meetup group will be in attendance and will provide an overview of the launch event and follow-up developer day. We'll also be discuss planning for the SPECS Hackathon after the release of the device.

This event is hosted by the Oregon Reality Lab at the University of Oregon Portland Campus. The intent is to meet monthly.

NOTE: The https://pdxr.org is presently down being built.

Vibe coding: tips, tricks, and the tool landscape

Everyone in the room is already coding with AI. Almost nobody agrees on how to do it well — and the gap between the developer getting real leverage and the one getting expensive rework is no longer access to the tools. It's technique.

Last month we put a model in the product. This month we point the models at our own codebases. We'll start with the one idea everything follows from — generating code got cheap, and checking it didn't — then walk through nine specific, usable tips: the twenty-minute memory file that makes every future session smarter, how to make an agent plan before it touches a file, why three failed corrections means restart instead of argue, and how to read a diff a stranger wrote. Each one comes with a line you can copy.

Then we stop talking and do it. We'll take a real prompt from the room and fix it live against an eight-point rubric, and I'll run a real task on a real repo on screen — including the parts where the agent does something dumb, because knowing what that looks like is half the skill.

You'll leave with three things to change on Monday morning, and a set of offline pages — the tips, the prompt rubric, and a ten-tool comparison matrix — to take with you.

Bring one prompt that disappointed you this week, and one task you have to do next week. We'll use both.

Come curious. Beginners and veterans welcome.

SPEAKER

Matt Duffield is President & CTO of Summit Software with 30+ years building enterprise software. A published author of six technical books and U.S. Navy veteran, he now focuses on AI-assisted development, local LLMs, and cloud-native architecture — and mentors the next generation of coders in his spare time.

EVENT DETAILS

Food, drinks, and conversation beginning at 7:00. The talk begins around 7:30. Parking is free at the Gladstone Park SDA church.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/full-stack-dev-pdx/events/316190567/

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

Note: Your RSVP is required in order to attend this event.

Let’s get together for an informal BEAM PDX hangout: coffee, conversation, and light co-working.

This is a low-key monthly meetup for folks working with Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, and other BEAM languages, aimed at reconnecting the local community and rebuilding momentum after a long quiet stretch. We'll holding this on the second Thursday of each month.

There will be opportunities to:

• Ask questions about Elixir and other BEAM languages
• Share what you’ve been working on (or stuck on)
• Get help with programming or design problems
• Co-work: get things done with like-minded folks nearby
• Brainstorm ideas for future talk-based meetups and identify potential speakers
• Bring your laptop if you’d like. It's totally optional.

New to BEAM languages, or just curious? You’re very welcome.

Please RSVP so we know roughly how many people to expect. If your plans change, un-RSVP when you can.

This meetup is also part of our transition away from Meetup to a new home for the group, where we’ll be organizing future events.

For September, we're taking advantage of a speaker in town for DevOpsDaysPDX, and making it an all-observability night, with FluentBit and OpenTelemetry.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Location: SteepleJack Brewing, Fireside Room, 2400 NE Broadway, Portland

Talks are typically recorded (opt-in by speakers)

A big thank you to SuSE for sponsoring catering at SteepleJack, as well as Eric's travel.

First Presentation: No C, No Opaque AI: Watch Your First Fluent Bit Contribution Happen Live

Speaker: Eric D. Schabell, SuSE

Contributing to a CNCF graduated project feels out of reach until someone shows you exactly how it happens. In this session, that someone is on stage doing it in real time — spotting a gap between what the Fluent Bit codebase actually does and what the docs say, opening a branch on a live fork, running the project's prose linter, writing a properly signed commit, and pushing a pull request that closes a real tracked issue. Every step, no shortcuts, no slides pretending to be a terminal.

You will leave knowing the two-repo mental model that makes Fluent Bit doc contributions work, the git habits that signal credibility to maintainers, and the AI guardrails that keep your name attached to work you actually stand behind. Your first PR does not require deep C knowledge. It requires knowing where to look, how to show your work, and when to keep your hands on the wheel."

Second Presentation: Devs, Transform (Your Data) and Roll Out!: Learning and Leveraging OTTL

Speaker: Reese Lee, New Relic

The OpenTelemetry Collector is OTel’s power tool for ingesting and processing your app and infrastructure data, but there’s even more you can do with your data before it reaches your backend! Learn how to start leveraging OTTL, or OpenTelemetry Transformation Language, to manage your data volume and quality. We’ll explore the syntax basics and its underlying architecture within the Collector, where its strength really comes into play, when to use it (or not!), and more.

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

People doing strange things with electricity (and code)!

DorkbotPDX is a laid-back meetup and show-and-tell for those who make, modify and use technical tools to weird and imaginative ends. You might run into creative coders, electronic artists, circuit designers, retro computing archaeologists, video game devs, modular synth gearheads and cyberpunk DIYers.

No featured speaker this month, but bring your electronic wonders, monsters, and works-in-progress to show off, or come see what others have been working on! Code or circuits, electronic creativity of all sorts is welcome here.

Table space with power will be available for project show-and-tell; we have a table for drinks and snacks, feel free to contribute to the communal cache/BYOB. We do this every month, usually on the second Monday night (check the site for upcoming dates to be sure)

Note: If you bring things to give away, please pack out anything that doesn't get claimed! We don't have the space to store unclaimed items.

You can subscribe to our calendar and mailing list, join the Discord and find our social links on https://www.dorkbotpdx.org (It also has our Code of Conduct, which we'd like you to check out while you're there)

This is a meeting of the local R-Ladies chapter, where R is the statistical programming language! join us on meetup if you like.

Let's get together, make some friends, and brainstorm ideas for what we want to see at future meetups! I'll bring nametags, index cards, post-its and sharpies. Bring a pen and some ideas!

This is also the first day of posit::conf - if you're doing the workshops, bring that energy and share what you've learned! Discuss with others about what talks you're most excited to see.

Tentatively, I'd like to meet at least every 2 months, and maybe find a regular day that works for a lot of people to plan around.

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

It's Friday evening. You're wiped. But you're still in the mood for something entertaining.

​Well, unfortunately, this ain't it.

​But it is an opportunity to join folks from the Portland startup community for a little watch party — all from the comfort of your own keyboard.

https://luma.com/1aqjcny8

Monthly community campaign meeting to coordinate actions toward building a public broadband option in the City of Portland. Open to all. This meeting is open to everyone interested in campaigning for a public broadband option for the City of Portland! Bringing community-owned internet infrastructure to Portland is a community effort! We need your help! No technical skills necessary.

This is a recurring community meeting happening every 2nd Thursday of the month.

We are gathering in the CETI Lab located on the 4th floor at 111 SW Columbia Street in downtown Portland. The Lab is easily acessible by public transporation. There is parking in the building garage on the 4th floor for $5.

Thank you to the CETI Institute for hosting Community Broadband PDX monthly meetings!

RSVP

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Join us at DevOpsDays Portland - September 8-10, 2026 at Portland State University!

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area. We welcome speakers of all backgrounds and experience levels. DevOpsDays Portland is about sharing real stories, practical lessons, and building community.

The CFP and registration are both open now, so go get your tickets now.

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

It's Friday evening. You're wiped. But you're still in the mood for something entertaining.

​Well, unfortunately, this ain't it.

​But it is an opportunity to join folks from the Portland startup community for a little watch party — all from the comfort of your own keyboard.

https://youtu.be/tgETCHBQ7q8

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

The Portland Linux Kernel Meetup for August 2026 will be at...

• Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
• Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM US/Pacific
• Location: Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St, Portland, Oregon 97209 US

Come enjoy a beverage and chat with other people who are interested in the Linux kernel. All experience levels are welcome. This is a friendly and casual meetup. Look for a table with a plush Tux penguin.

To get timely reminders of Portland Linux Kernel Meetups, see https://ikluft.github.io/pdx-lkmu/subscribing-to-pdx-lkmu-events.html.

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Happy tail end of summer PDXOSGeo! 

Join us fourth Wednesday August 26th for more of your favorite open source geo-goodness. Tonight's special guest is EJ Fox: a designer, developer, and journalist who most recently collaborated with Colin Miller to bring Subway Builder to Steam.

EJ's talk is titled "Gamifying GIS: From OpenStreetMap to Steam ", and the talk will share the technical and creative process of turning OpenStreetMap data, routing algorithms, and maplibre styles into gameplay. We’ll explore data sonification, interface design for spatial data, shipping with Electron, and lessons from supporting an active modding community.

As always there will be pizza, and BYOB is available from across the hall at HotLips.

Time / Space Coordinates: Wednesday August 26th, 6:30–8pm
Hot Lips Pizza @ the Natural Capital Center: 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland OR 

See you there!

Our mailing list is a google group: drop us a line with any questions: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

A meeting of folks interested in BSD operating systems and related technologies to get together, eat pizza, drink beer, and talk about what interesting things have been going on.

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)