Monthly, 3rd Friday meeting of the Extreme Programming user group conversation meeting to discuss all things Agile and Extreme Programming.

Monthly late lunch at a pub featuring, food, beers, and casual conversation to share our experiences with Agile methods/practices/approaches/events. A time for more discussion of the speaker meeting topic (or not) from Wednesday night.

Monthly pub lunch featuring our stories about "doing" & "being" Agile; i.e., using XP, Scrum, Lean, et al, for software development. Seasoned practitioners and new-to-Agile welcome. We're usually at one (or more) of the long tables in the middle.

Casual conversation over no-host lunch about all things relevant to Agile software development. Sometimes a few of us show up to talk, more often a dozen (or more) practitioners join the fun.

• If your business card says programmer, tester, project manager, product manager or coach (or would if you had one)
• If you use Agile methods, practices, principles or approaches
• If you seek opportunities to keep working for companies that prefer an Agile approach
• If you want to recruit dev team members who know how to work in an Agile environment
• If you're curious about any the above Come on over for lunch.

We welcome practitioners from all Agile flavors--Scrum, XP, DSDM, Crystal, FDD, AUP, Adaptive, EVO, etc.

Casual conversation over no-host lunch about all things relevant to Agile software development. Sometimes a few of us show up to talk, more often a dozen (or more) practitioners join the fun.

• If your business card says programmer, tester, project manager, product manager or coach (or would if you had one)
• If you use Agile methods, practices, principles or approaches
• If you seek opportunities to keep working for companies that prefer an Agile approach
• If you want to recruit dev team members who know how to work in an Agile environment
• If you're curious about any the above Come on over for lunch.

We welcome practitioners from all Agile flavors--Scrum, XP, DSDM, Crystal, FDD, AUP, Adaptive, EVO, etc.

AIGA Portland and 52 Limited invite you for an evening with Jelly Helm.

What’s happening with the business of advertising? What will the post-consumer economy look like? What is going on in sustainability? Jelly Helm is the first to admit that he doesn’t know. But that’s not going to stop him from speculating about it in public, to anyone willing to pay for it. In the spirit of Designspeaks, Jelly’s presentation will be full of cockamamie theories, wishful thinking and (at least some) poetry. He may also give us a sneak peek of the new work he’s done with the Oregon Council for the Humanities, and get all frothy about his newest client, Wikipedia. You’ll be anything but disappointed.

So be sure to join us, to engage with Jelly and others, and consider what has passed and what may come. Seating is limited, so please reserve your spot now.

Cost: Members: $8 in advance/$10 at the door Non-Members: $18 in advance/$20 at the door Students: $5

A selection of beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. ID required for beer and wine.

About Jelly Helm Jelly Helm is a writer, designer, film director, creative director, and teacher. His clients include Imperial Woodpecker, Oregon Humanities, Infectious Diseases Research Institute and Wikipedia. He is formerly an executive creative director at Wieden + Kennedy, and founder of W+K 12.

About Designspeaks The Designspeaks series, developed by Portland AIGA and in partnership with 52 Limited, showcases the most intriguing designers in the Pacific Northwest. Some of our guest speakers in this quarterly series will be stars and some will have managed to maintain a lower profile, but we can assure you; all will challenge you to think a bit differently about design and its impact on community. We’re continually tweaking this series as an intimate venue for the creative community to connect to others, to see what they are doing and how they’re doing it. There is no specific format for Designspeaks. Basically, it’s a small talks gathering intended to inform, inspire and engage.

Laugh. Cry. Ask questions, please. But whatever you do, join us! Won’t you?

We're meeting after the SAO day-long event,"Blurring the Lines between QA & Dev in an Agile Environment." Local Agilists will reflect on what we heard or said in presentations at the event, then we'll apply "personal kanban" to create table topic lists for the evening.

You don't have to have attended the SAO event to join us.

• If your business card says programmer, tester, project manager, product manager or coach (or would if you had one)
• If you use Agile methods, practices, principles or approaches
• If you seek opportunities to keep working for companies that prefer an Agile approach
• If you want to recruit team members who know how to work in an Agile environment
• If you're curious about any the above, Come on over.

We welcome practitioners from all Agile-related frameworks--Scrum, XP, Adaptive, EVO, Lean, Kanban, Scrumban, Crystal, FDD, AUP, DSDM, etc. And people who want to learn about same.

The Tax and Conversation community does statewide legal work which comes out of civics events and outreach.

The work is a constitutional amendment on income tax reform for Oregon 2014, because we want everybody in Oregon to have enough:

-The most basic healthcare (a place to live, food to eat, and a little money for things like clothes).

-Human understanding of tax (better trust, empathy, appreciation, courage, positive actions).

-Jobs (Oregon state government is the biggest employer. Hire at least 30,000 jobs, and treat all businesses and all humans equally).

RSVP: https://taxandconversation.com/events/

Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation https://taxandconversation.com

The Tax and Conversation community does statewide legal work which comes out of civics events and outreach.

The work is a constitutional amendment on income tax reform for Oregon 2014, because we want everybody in Oregon to have enough:

-The most basic healthcare (a place to live, food to eat, and a little money for things like clothes).

-Human understanding of tax (better trust, empathy, appreciation, courage, positive actions).

-Jobs (Oregon state government is the biggest employer. Hire at least 30,000 jobs, and treat all businesses and all humans equally).

RSVP: https://taxandconversation.com/events/

Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation https://taxandconversation.com

Let's get together and discuss anything related to Street Epistemology (SE). The topic for November will be "Mistakes Were Made - Learning From Failure". As Dr. Peter Boghossian said, failure is an expected part of the process of learning to use Street Epistemology effectively.

We'll be looking at our mistakes in a positive light, as a beneficial tool for optimizing our technique and improving in the future. Bring your stories (or audio/video) of errors both big and small and share what you think you might have done better so we can all learn from each other. Afterwords we'll head to Deschutes Brewery.

This is a fun and casual social get-together for people who are interested in Street Epistemology. Why SE? Because beliefs that are not based on sound reasoning and evidence, including those in religion, pseudoscience, politics, and more, can occur at an alarming rate in our friends, family, community, and ourselves. While debate and presenting evidence can be effective when one is open to it, in other cases it can backfire, strengthening the belief even more (Nyhan & Reifler, Political Behavior, 2010: 32,[masked]).

Street Epistemology is an approach for having meaningful, respectful, and productive conversations that help people re-examine the processes they use to come to knowledge, become more reflective about their beliefs, and break through dogmatism.

See https://streetepistemology.com/

We're mostly skeptics and atheists, but all are welcome and encouraged to join us.

Portland’s technology community has much to celebrate; however, when it comes to having an inclusive and diverse industry we must improve. Diversifying our workforce to include all from our community is the right thing to do, and the data shows it benefits us in terms of innovation, team functioning, and bottom line results. We know that greater diversity leads to greater innovation. Tech + Inclusion Community Conversation is an opportunity for companies who have joined the PDC Diversity Pledge and the community to come together. This event is open to those working in the tech sector, to students and prospective tech sector workers, and those interested in the tech industry. The Tech + Inclusion event will help create partnerships that can ultimately lead to hiring and career advancement of women and people of color in Portland’s Tech industry.

Topic

While Amazon introduced the serverless concept with Lambda, there are an ever growing number of solutions for running serverless-style apps on your own infrastructure.

This talk will define the fundamental properties of serverless architecture and cover a number of the DIY solutions available.

Presenter

Michael Schurter is a developer on the Nomad scheduler team at HashiCorp.