Portland State University (PSU) - Smith Memorial Center

Free Bar-camp unconference on all things geospatial, geographic, location-aware, and maps.

Hosted by the Portland Open Source GIS Users Group (http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo), this "unconference" will follow a 2-day traditional GIS conference, GIS In Action (http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action), which includes an open source track on Wednesday May 1st. Attendance at GIS in Action is not required to attend the unconference, but there is a single day rate for those who would like to attend that.

Schedule 9am - Registration 9:30 - Put sessions in rooms based on votes 10:00 - Sessions start 12:00 - Lunch on your own 5:00 - Adjorn for Geo-beers

Please register at Eventbright (http://pdxosgeo2013.eventbrite.com) so we know how much coffee and pastries to order!

Tickets here: http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/

This is a free Open Source Geospatial Unconference put on by the Portland OSGeo User Group. The unconference takes place the day after the GIS in Action conference and is registration is free (though we request you sign up for a ticket here to assist us in planning). The unconference will begin with registration at 9:00am and end at 5:00pm. Coffee, tea, and water will be provided, however participants are on their own for lunch (there are numerous dining options within close proximity).

The unconference will take place in PSU's Smith Memorial Student Union building, on the third floor, in rooms 327, 328, 329, 333, and 338. Registration in room 338 (the VanPort room). Maps of PSU Smith Memorial Student Union are available here.

This is a participant-driven event! If you've never been to an unconference before (Portland's WhereCamp is an excellent example), the format and sessions are determined on the day of the unconference by the people attending. No idea is too big or too small.

A hackathon is planned for Friday so check the wiki as plans materialize for this.

Please feel free to contact the PDX OS GIS User Group (Google group) with any questions.

More info here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011

MEET IN: Room 236 - The Cascade Room

The Master of International Management forum & social networking event

Due to the high demand/popularity on the Oct 20th forum- We are extending another forum discussion on November 17th.

Do you have what it takes to become the next global leader? Join us as we premier an exciting and new forum to learn more from the Master of International Management experts. Find out what it takes to become the next global leader in today’s competitive market. Mingle with some of the emerging global leaders and experts in Asian business and culture.

The Master of International Management forum will help you:

1. . Gain perspective on globalization and international leadership
2. . Cultivate effective cross cultural management relationships, liaisons and partnerships
3. . Learn more about the importance of Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability/Global Marketing/Global Supply Chain Management/International Finance to further enhance your marketability
4. . Get an overview of top-rated professional training and education on emerging language, culture and politics
5. . Network with current working professionals, alumni and graduate business students who are industry leaders

Who should attend: Working professionals who aspire to be leaders of Global Marketing, International Social Entrepreneurship & Sustainability, Global Supply Chain Management and International Finance.

Where:

Smith Memorial Student Union

1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201

Room 236 - The Cascade Room

When: Wednesday, October 20, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Forum will start at 6pm sharp- *RSVP/pre-registration is required as seating is limited to 30. http://mim.eventbrite.com/

The forum will include:

* Brief info session

* Panel discussion with experts in International Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability/Global Marketing/Global Supply Chain Management/International Finance

* Q&A

* Complimentary hors d'oeuvres + drinks

check out the panelist bio here: http://mim.eventbrite.com/

Your future as the next global leader starts right now

The world is constantly changing…What does it takes to be the next global leader? Come join us for an amazing forum, discussion and social event brought to you by the Master of International Management (MIM). Learn more about the current and emerging global business trends in a competitive market through the personal stories of thought leaders from MIM as well as Fortune 500 corporations including DHL and LG International.

RSVP for this free event before it fills up -- limited to 25 seats!

When: Wednesday, October 20th, 6 p.m. Where: Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201 Room 236 - The Cascade Room

Don’t miss the discussion that may help you become a global leader! RSVP now: http://psumim.eventbrite.com/

CLICK HERE to register for free on EventBrite

Oregon/SW Washington URISA (http://www.orurisa.org/) presents:

KOOL APPS 2010 FEATURING OPEN DATA AND OPEN SOURCE

This all day event is free to the public. It is co-sponsored by the PDX-Open Source GIS users group, a special interest group of OR-URISA.

This event is coordinated with WhereCampPDX, and attendees are encouraged to attend both events!

Attendees should plan on bringing a laptop to participate in the hands-on portion and a three-hour walk-thru of selected open source GIS applications.

Agenda: * 9am - 11am : OpenStreetMap - Presented by Cloudmade * 11am - Noon : The Open Source GIS stack - Presented by PDX-OSGIS * Noon - 1pm: Lunch on your own * 1pm -3pm : The Open Source GIS stack * 3pm - 5pm : Invited demos of projects solved with open source gis tools.

Beverages and light snacks provided by OR-URISA

This event takes place at Portland State University, in the Smith Center's VanPort Room (#338). Registration is free but space is limited to 72 participants.

• PSU Campus map
• PSU on Google Maps

Please feel free to post any questions to the PDX-OSGIS user group!

CLF Summit: Building Alliances to Get Results

Coalition for Livable Future 2010 Annual Regional Livability Summit Building Alliances to Get Results Where: Portland State University Smith Center, 1825 SW Broadway, Third Floor

When: April 29, 8am – 4pm

April 29 Highlights (8am – 4pm)

KEYNOTE: A New Story: Moving Hearts, Minds and Policy in the 21st Century a keynote address by Alan Jenkins, Executive Director of The Opportunity Agenda.

Plenary Panel of Community Leaders, Breakouts, Caucuses & Multimedia Experiences

Participate in “Green Jobs for an Inclusive, Just & Sustainable Economy Panel Dialogue” lunchtime discussion and one or more developmental or action-ready break-out sessions taking place at this year’s Summit.

DATES Days of Equity Action (April 17 – May 13 - Various Locations): Participate in one or more “done-in-a-day” service or advocacy activities hosted by Coalition for a Livable Future member and partner organizations across the region.

For more details and registration, go to http://www.clfuture.org/events/2010summit

Room 238

Dale Jamieson is Director of the Environmental Studies program at New York University, where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law. He is also the current Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon. A prolific presence in his field, Professor Jamieson has authored Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002) and Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2008); and edited or co-edited seven books, including the forthcoming Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2010). His research has been funded by both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Rasmus Lerdorf will be in town for Open Source Bridge and has graciously offered to lead a meeting for PDXPHP. So the Tuesday before the OSBridge festivities kick off, He (and possible a few other speakers in town), will lead a discussion on various PHP and web topics. Rasmus is of course know for creating the PHP language but is also an expert in application security, and is currently employed with Yahoo as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, so there will be no shortage of interesting topics for this meeting.

• event is in room 338

Pizza and Beverages provided so show up hungry *Note this meeting is the 3rd Tuesday of the month (not the regular 2nd Tuesday)

Special thanks to our sponsor:

Fine Design Group

Course Dates: June 15-19, 2009

  This 5-day course immerses learners in the practical aspects of the ITIL® v3 Service Lifecycle and processes associated with the Service Offerings and Agreements of services and service delivery. The main focus of this course is on the operational-level process activities and supporting methods and approaches to executing these processes in a practical, hands-on learning environment. This training is intended to enable the holders of the certificate to apply the practices during the Service Management Lifecycle. This course is designed using an engaging scenario-based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice and positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam.

  #saopdx #itil

Course Dates: June 3-5, 2009

  This exciting and dynamic 3-day course introduces learners to the lifecycle of managing IT services to deliver to business expectations. As well as an engaging, case study based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice, this course also positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam, required for entry into the future ITIL v3 intermediate level training courses.

  The ITIL Version 3 best practice is composed of five core disciplines: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operations and Continual Service Improvement. These disciplines represent a service life cycle framework that further enhances alignment to the business while demonstrating business value, ROI and enabling IT to solve specific operational needs.

  #saopdx #itil

Course Dates: May 27-29, 2009

  This exciting and dynamic 3-day course introduces learners to the lifecycle of managing IT services to deliver to business expectations. As well as an engaging, case study based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice, this course also positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam, required for entry into the future ITIL v3 intermediate level training courses.

  #saopdx #itil #otn

May 20th Day of Mobilization Highlights (8:30 - 3:30)

"Toward a Just Sustainability?" Keynote Address by Julian Agyeman From London to Australia to the US, Julian has been a government advisor, academic, and activist. Currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, Agyeman adeptly navigates the intersection of environment and society, expanding our thinking about the possibilities for a just sustainability.

Mobilizing for Regional Equity - Plenary Panel of Community Leaders, Breakouts, Caucuses & Multimedia Experiences Participate in one or more developmental or action-ready sessions focused on campaigns and projects that aim to address systemic causes of inequities to built environment resources and opportunities for prosperity.

May 21st and May 23rd: Days of Equity Action (Specific times and locations TBA): Participate in one or more "done-in-a-day" service or advocacy activities hosted by Coalition for a Livable Future member and partner organizations across the region.

For more details and registration beginning April 6, 2009, go to http://www.clfuture.org/events/2009summit

Course Dates: May 18-20, 2009

  This 3-day course immerses learners in the overall concepts, processes, policies and methods associated with the Service Strategy phase of the Service Lifecycle. The course covers the management and control of the activities and techniques within the Service Strategy stage, but not the detail of each of the supporting processes. This course is designed using an engaging scenario-based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice and positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam.

  #saopdx #itil #otn

Course Length: May 11-15, 2009

  This 5-day course immerses learners in the practical aspects of the ITIL v3 Service Lifecycle and processes associated with the Release, Control and Validation of services and service delivery. The main focus of this course is on the operational-level process activities and supporting methods and approaches to executing these processes in a practical, hands-on learning environment. This training is intended to enable the holders of the certificate to apply the practices during the Service Management Lifecycle. This course is designed using an engaging scenario-based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice and positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam.

  #saopdx #otn #itil

Room: Portland State University, The Vanport Room (rm 338), Smith Memorial Student Union. The building is at Harrison and Broadway; enter via door on Harrison and take stairs to 3rd floor.

Content: Series of presentations by distinguished members of the FP community from around the world:

• Algebra of Programming using Dependent Types. Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica)
• Realizability Semantics of Parametric Polymorphism, General References, and Recursive Types. Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen)
• A Compiler on a Page. Kristoffer Rose (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
• A Proof Theory for Compilation. Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku University)
• Data Parallelism in Haskell. Manuel Chakravarty (University of New South Wales)
• Push-down control-flow analysis of higher-order programs. Matthew Might (University of Utah)
• Slicing It: indexed containers in Haskell. Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde)
• Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research)
• Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology)
• Taking the monad laws seriously. Andrzej Filinski (University of Copenhagen)
• A compiler front-end for Mini-ML and its Coq proof of correctness. Xavier Leroy (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt)

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1899630/ ] The 1/2 day v3 Awareness course provides learners with the unique opportunity to receive an introduction to the concepts of ITIL and ITSM. It provides an overview of the concepts within the ITIL best practices domain while also introducing the key ITIL processes. This non-certificate course explains how ITIL processes are driven by a Service Lifecycle to provide smooth functioning of organizations, thus ensuring high-quality services to their customers. It has been designed for learners who need a basic awareness of ITIL v3 as a general interest, as part of a larger program initiative as opposed to the full certification Foundation course or for those who may not be sure of their future v3 training path and want to assess ITIL / ITSM viability in their organization. Instructor: Ray Anessi, PanglossIT #SAOpdx #OTN

The 8th Annual Portland Zine Symposium will be on AUGUST 23rd & 24th, 2008 in Portland, Oregon at Portland State University in the Smith Memorial Ballroom.

Portland Zine Symposium hours will be:

Saturday from 10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M.
Sunday from 10:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M.

Please e-mail any questions to pdxzines@gmail.com

To get all the latest Portland Zine Symposium information, join our new google group: http://groups.google.com/group/portlandzinesymposium

On July 31 & August 1, 2008, Portland State University is hosting IP3, Inc. for a comprehensive Information Assurance and Information Technology Security seminar. Ken Kousky, CISSP and CEO of IP3 (and former president of Wave Technologies, a NASDAQ publicly-traded company) will present “Strategy to Reality: Don't Look Back”, the nation’s leading IT security forum addressing issues on the cutting edge of compliance, information assurance, human capital and risk management. Go to http://www.ip3seminars.com to read our brochure.

During this two-day lecture style seminar for CEO's, Risk Management IT Executives, CPAs, Physical Security Professionals, IT Auditors, Forensic Specialists, IT professionals and students entering the IT field, you will learn about how the technologies, threats and deployment environments have changed, even since 2007.

http://www.postgresqlconference.org/

PSU Smith Center, Room 294

http://pdxlinux.org/