Lucky Labrador Beer Hall

Monthly get-together for people who hack on the Linux kernel.

Odd Months: Beering/Food at 6:30pm

Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 Northwest Quimby Street, Portland, OR

An Evening with MongoDB Portland

free

Agenda:

• 6:30-7:00pm: Networking ( A salad and pizza buffet will be out)
• 7:00-7:10pm: Welcome and Introduction
• 7:10-7:15pm: Sponsorship (Dice)
• 7:15-7:45pm: Building Your First App with MongoDB: Tyler Brock
• 7:45-8:15pm: Schema Design: Emily Stolfo
• 8:15-9:00pm: MongoDB at Gilt Groupe: Sean Sullivan

RSVP: http://mongodbportland-2013.eventbrite.com/

The April 2013 meeting for Android Enthusiasts. This is a casual setting to chat with other local android developers, fans, and other interested folk.

Monthly get-together for people who hack on the Linux kernel.

Even Months: Lunch at 12:30pm

Monthly get-together for people who hack on the Linux kernel.

Odd Months: Beering/Food at 6:30pm

Welcome to the PDX Mobile Workgroup.

Beginners are encouraged to join.

We welcome Software and Hardware Engineers working on Android, iOS, and all other mobile platforms.

Working on projects by yourself can be difficult because don't get the feedback or interaction you get in an office environment. Online sites such as stackoverflow.com are great resources for answering well defined questions, but don't have the benefits of personal interactions. When you are part of a community you get to know others with similar interests, get an immediate response to hard to describe problems, bounce ideas off of others, and learn by example.

The in person Weekly Workgroup is the main reason the group exists. It is designed to fill the void for engineers who would otherwise work on their projects in relative isolation from other engineers. This website is mostly used for discussion about meetings but posting questions about mobile development is good too.

The group is informal. Attendees stop by at various times after work and stay as long as they like.

For more information visit our website and show up for our next meeting.

Ahoy everyone! This shindig is going to be the first ever Meetup of the Portland MongoDB User Group. This event is going to be entirely about socializing, getting to know each other, and enjoying some savory spirits! In the future, I like to have a healthy mix of socializing, hands on coding, lectures and anything else you folks throw my way!

Hello all. It's PAGDIG time again! In a scant couple days at that. The next meetup will be this Thursday, January 31st 7pm at the "old" location: the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby, as the usual space is rented out this month.

The theme of this month's meetup is What Are We All Working On. Bring by and show off whatever you're currently working on that's game related: demos of any form and polish level, recent game jam entries, paper prototypes too! Even if you don't have something to show, come by, grab some pizza and beverages and get inspired by what your local dev and indie community is making.

We've had some cool stuff happen for PAGDIG peoples over the last couple months: Harold/Twyngo's game Amazing Ants came out. Also, two attendee games have made the Pax East Indie Showcase: John/Clutchplay's Little Chomp and Jared/PagodaWest's Major Magnet! That's a 2/7th of the entries lock down for Portland devs. Check it out at http://east.paxsite.com/peis. Nicely done all.

Hope to see you all Thursday!

We'll be discussing two questions: 1. Could we create ChickTech chapters in the schools to grow the movement in each high school and strengthen our connection with them?
2. What would that look like and who can we partner with to support it?

November Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

We'll be discussing several matters including:

1) An overview of our plans and volunteer needs.

2) A development schedule to complete the game summit prototype for Donate Life Northwest

3) Upcoming events: John Wilkes would like to offer some workshops in programming including C Sharp and a presentation by Donna Davis Nov 14, an Ethnography of Digital Social Capital in 3D online worlds.

4) Pixel Arts' educational group to development a game camp.

5) Supporting the OGPC with mentors and coaches.

If you would like to add an item to the agenda, pelase reply on our website. We welcome new collaborations and alignments.

October Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

We have secured two venues to have regular meetings on Wednesday and Thursdays. if you have an item for the agenda, please let me know. Our current agenda is:

1. Select a regular week to have meetups each month.

2. Return to visioning goals and plan a calendar of events.

3. Enroll volunteers for talks, events, and so forth.

4. Planning for an October Game Summit to create games for NGOs and NPOs.

Agenda will be followed by announcements and mingling with PAGDIG and PIGSquad.

Hello all! It's PAGDIG time this week, Thursday 9/27 at 7pm at the Quimby Lucky Lab.

It's a special night, as we will have Pigsquad and Games for Change joining us all in the same venue. There will be good food, good drinks and the good company of Portland's game developers! Bring stuff to work on and share, or just stop by to talk.

The roundtable discussion topic this week:

Staying Productive and Inspired: How Creative People Get Work Done

Anyone who does creative work (art, design, programming, music) knows there's a fine balance we have to maintain, splitting time between finding inspiration and buckling down and getting things done. When does looking for inspiration become detrimental distraction? When does working for hours on end become hazardous and counterproductive?

Let's all talk about how we deal with this in our daily work: how we stay focused, how we stay excited, how we budget our time and attention

See ya all there!

Let's all get together and work on our projects!

Feel free to bring your laptop, drawing tablet, paper, prototypes, etc. to work on some game code, art, reviews, or anything in between in the company of fellow local game devs and enthusiasts! Be open to giving or receiving feedback as well, as everyone will be curious as to what everyone else is working on!

The listed time restriction is only recommended; feel free to come earlier or stay later if you'd like. The venue is listed as 21 and over, but no one IDs unless you ask for an alcoholic drink.

Games For Change PDX and PAGDIG will also be having get-togethers at the same time and place!

E-mail us at pigsquad@gmail.com if you have any questions!

Stop on by and check out Portland's local game development scene.

We will start things off with an informal round-table discussion. This month's subject: Design Challenges and Triumphs. What kind of design challenges have we conquered while making games, be it a challenge in programming, art, level building, making music, etc? How did you figure out the solution? Bring a story from your own experience to share with the group, or just hang out and be part of the discussion.

The usual hanging out with beverages and pizza follows, of course.

Brewpal takes place on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5pm at the Lucky Lab on 1945 NW Quimby. We meet, work on our projects, and ask questions of our neighbors with no formal agenda.

No need to RSVP, the meetings are open to all.

We're also on IRC in #drupal-pdx on freenode.net

August Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

Join PIGSquad in an evening of getting together and working on our projects!

Feel free to bring your laptop, drawing tablet, paper, prototypes, etc. to work on some game code, art, reviews, or anything in between in the company of fellow local game devs and enthusiasts! Be open to giving or receiving feedback as well, as everyone will be curious as to what everyone else is working on!

The listed time restriction is only recommended; feel free to come earlier or stay later if you'd like. The venue is listed as 21 and over, but no one IDs unless you ask for an alcoholic drink.

E-mail us at pigsquad@gmail.com if you have any questions!

It's PAGDIG time again! This Thursday the 26th at 7pm, stop by the Quimby Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St and talk about all things game-development related over tasty pizza and beverages. If you've got a project you've been working on, bring it by to show off and get some free playtesting.

July Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

Lots of exciting annoucements at Google I/O.

What is this event? It's an informal meetup each month to work on our own individual Drupal projects in the company of other Drupalers. The idea is that you can work on your own project, ask a question to your neighbor if you're stuck, chat with others about your brilliant Drupal start-up idea, and then take a beer break whenever you want.

If you are bringing your laptop, don't forget to charge it ahead of time (since Lucky Lab's power outlets are minimal).

Here are the details:

Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Lucky Lab Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby St. Portland, OR 97209 (Yes, they have wifi.)

So get ready to pack up your laptop and see you soon!

I want to get people together and start building some momentum. We are a small group right now so I want to see if we can just crowd around the end of a pub table, shoot some darts, drink some beer and eat some Pizza and talk about what we see in AR and where we each want to take it.

Lucky Lab in the Pearl is a great wide open spot we can meet and if the group grows enough they have a meeting room we can rent out.

So please spread the word and bring along anyone who you know into AR, Design, App programming or just wants a beer in the earlymidweek.

Cheers

Dave Barcos

April Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

I want to get people together and start building some momentum. We are a small group right now so I want to see if we can just crowd around the end of a pub table, shoot some darts, drink some beer and eat some Pizza and talk about what we see in AR and where we each want to take it.

Lucky Lab in the Pearl is a great wide open spot we can meet and if the group grows enough they have a meeting room we can rent out.

So please spread the word and bring along anyone who you know into AR, Design, App programming or just wants a beer in the earlymidweek.

Cheers

Dave Barcos

PIGSquad is a community of game developers and enthusiasts based in Portland, Oregon, providing events, jams, networking opportunities, etc. to creative minds everywhere!

Bring your laptop, drawing tablet, paper, etc. to work on some game code, art, reviews, or anything in between in the company of fellow local game devs and enthusiasts! Be open to giving or receiving feedback, as well, as everyone will be curious as to what everyone else is working on!

E-mail us at pigsquad at gmail dot com if you have any questions!

The Portland Oregon Selenium Users Group will be hosting: Intro to Test Automation Using Selenium

Presented by Andy Doan Software Engineer in Test @ Cambia Health Solutions.

In January, We’ll hear from Andy Doan who will give a general overview and demo the suite of Selenium tools.

6:00-6:30 Network/Meet & Greet 6:30-7:30 Presentation

Outline:

• Flavors of Selenium o Selenium 1/RC o Selenium 2/WebDriver o Selenium IDE

•Why WebDriver?

• How WebDriver Works

• (Demo) Selenium IDE o Record a script o Playback o Export to WebDriver

• (Demo) How to write a test script in Java o Other Languages (c#, ruby)

• What’s next? Advanced Usage and Frameworks o JUnit vs. TestNG o Page Objects o Advanced Frameworks

• What else can Selenium do? Mobile Automation o (Demo) AndriodDriver o IPhoneDriver o NativeDriver

• I have too many tests! Scalability o Grid 2/Selenium Server

• (Demo) Sauce OnDemand

About the Speaker: Andy Doan is a software engineer and has been specializing in test automation frameworks for the past 2 years. He is a recent speaker on test automation at Software Association of Oregon events as well as IBM’s Innovate 2011 conference.

Android Weekly Workgroup

(503) 244-2537

http://www.luckylab.com/

Previous Locations: 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214 1945 NW Quimby St Portland, OR 97209 7675 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 18880 Southwest Martinazzi Avenue, Tualatin, OR 97062

Come and work on your personal Android software development projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Confirmation of attendance is suggested but not required. If no one shows by 6:30 pm, the meeting will be automatically canceled unless otherwise noted on the website. Please check the group's website for last minute updates.

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 6:30 - 9:00: Coding

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: pdx-android-workgroup@googlegroups.com

Discussion topics may be pre-suggested on the group's site, but the main focus of the meeting is coding personal projects.

The Portland Area Game Development Interest Group (PAGDIG) is back after holiday break, with a meetup Thursday 1/12 at 7pm at the Quimby Lucky Lab, located at 1945 NW Quimby St. It's almost Global Game Jam time, so we should talk about that. Stop on by, get some food and drink, see what everyone is working on, and talk to your fellow game developers. All are welcome!

NSCoder, getting together for iOS and Mac Development help.

Be part of the pdx Selenium inaugural meeting!

Come enjoy some beers, meet fellow developers & testers and help mold the future of the Portland Selenium user group.

Agenda:

Meet & Greets

Discuss Future:

• Topics
• Speakers
• Venues
• Frequency of meetups
• Sponsors
• Goals
• etc...

We hope to see you there!

ELC Technologies would like to invite you and a guest to a holiday party celebrating the upcoming launch of our cloud service solution, Maasive. Join us for FREE beer, FREE pizza, live demos on mobile programming with Maasive, and the chance to take home a hoodie at the end of the night!

Maasive is a mobile development platform unlike any other. We've developed an easy way for you to add cloud functionality to your iOS, Android and Windows Phone applications, including native object storage, push alerts, analytics and other services. Compared to other frameworks Maasive is easy to use and more flexible even across multiple platforms. And it's backed by ELC's unique history developing robust, scalable cloud based mobile apps for Fortune 500 companies.

Maasive is free during the beta period, and we're looking for YOUR feedback to help us make it even more reliable and easy to use. Come chat with us during the party and we'll set you up with your own account and show you how to integrate Maasive in your application. In the meantime, if you want to see how easy it is to get started check out this three minute screencast: http://vimeo.com/28125533

The party starts at 6pm December 14th, at Lucky Lab Brew Pub on 1945 NW Quimby Street. Hope to see you there!

P.S.- If anyone is interested in trying Maasive but can't attend, just send an email to mcharbonneau@elctech.com and I'll make sure you're set up with a user account and the SDK.

The Eclipse open source community is celebrating 10 years since it was launched. Join us for the party, see some Eclipse demos, eat cake and meet other Eclipse users

See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2011/Portland "Sorry, but we are canceling, since we didn't have enough people signed up."

Local objective-c / mac / iOS developers get together to help each other code.

Portland's monthly get-together of game developers and game development enthusiasts. Warm up with some pizza and drinks and talk about the ins and outs of creating games with your fellow game making type peoples. All are welcome.

It is about that time again: the next PAGDIG/IGDA meeting will be next Thursday 10/20 at 7pm at the Quimby Lucky Lab, located at 1945 NW Quimby St. Come on by and fill your stomach with nourishing warm pizza products and perhaps a beverage or two, as we all get together and talk about all things game dev related. It shall be good times. See you soon!

Hello local game developers, developers, enthusiasts, and other assorted great people. The rain has returned, and so has the time for the next PAGDIG/IGDA meeting, this Thursday 9/22 at 7pm at the Quimby Lucky Lab, located at 1945 NW Quimby St. Stop by, say hi, have a slice and/or beverage, and talk all things game development.

See you there!

The monthly meetup for September.

Topic:

Google's purchase of Motorola Mobile

Come on by and hang out with interesting people and talk about game development while stuffing your face with pizza and/or beer. PAX is coming up soon, so I'm sure there will be plenty to talk about. See you all there!

Are you a freelance software developer, or interested in freelancing? Join us to talk shop and meet others!

Presentation: Freelancing and Open Source, by Peat Bakke. This is an informal and (slightly) abridged version of the presentation for Linuxfest NW, Webvisions 2011, and Open Source Bridge.

Recreation: Beer, nerding, socializing, etc.

The presentation will start shortly after 6:00.

Normally on the fourth Wednesday of each month at OpenSourcery but rescheduled due to extreme flurry storm last week.

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Below is information about REGULAR MEETINGS, which happen at a different location and time:

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00 PM at OpenSourcery in NW Portland. No need to RSVP, all are welcome- our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. [Please arrive no more than 10 minutes early, as the developers at OpenSourcery are working up until the meeting time.] If our meetings are canceled or changed we will post this in Discussions, so please check there for the most recent information and activity.

OpenSourcery 1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209 [Or, if you prefer: 45.529986, -122.688206]

We are preparing to redeploy the first of our SkyPilots in a real network. The initial install is scheduled for this Saturday, February 12 adjacent to Arbor Lodge Park. This weekly will mostly center on preparation and planning for the install. We need warm bodies to help on Saturday, and coming early to help plan would help too. See you there!

Celebrate the release of Drupal 7! http://plancast.com/p/3amc

An evening about Mobile Development with Eclipse. There will be three presentations covering Android, Blackberry and iPad development:

• Android Development with Eclipse</li
• BlackBerry Application Development Options
• iPad development with Eclipse (using Java)

The event is scheduled for this Monday, Nov 8th at 6pm at the Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby (map).

Please RSVP on the wiki.

Hello all, it’s that special time again. The next PADGIG Meetup will be Thursday 10/28 at 7pm at the Quimby Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St.

Come grab some pizza and beer and hang out talking about all things related to game development. This includes some cool local news like Ngmoco/Stumptown’s recent acquisition :D

See you there!

What is this event? It's an informal meetup each month to work on our own individual Drupal projects in the company of other Drupalers. The idea is that you can work on your own project, ask a question to your neighbor if you're stuck, chat with others about your brilliant Drupal start-up idea, and then take a beer break whenever you want.

If you are bringing your laptop, don't forget to charge it ahead of time (since Lucky Lab's power outlets are minimal).

Here are the details:

Time: 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Lucky Lab Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby St. Portland, OR 97209 (Yes, they have wifi.)

So get ready to pack up your laptop and see you soon!

Hello all PAGDIG people. I hope you all had a great holiday season.

This month’s PAGDIG meeting will be held at the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on Thursday 1/21 at 7pm.

We have a couple topics that have come up on the mailing list that we can discuss on the agenda: Getting awareness of the game industry going for the Portland Economic Development Plan Global Game Jam

Also, we’ll have the usual talk about all things game dev related. Come grab some pizza and drinks with us!

See you all there

In today’s challenging job market, you need tools, not rhetoric, to help you plot your course of action. Take that first step on Monday, July 20, by attending an OEN & CareersPDX no-host happy hour/workshop.

The happy hour/workshop will be presented by nationally recognized career strategist, author and founder of VocationVacations®, Brian Kurth; and professional career and life coach, Will Wiebe.

Whether you are looking for a new job, a totally new career or thinking of starting your own business, these experts will offer specific, practical strategies to help you: • Explore, discover and pursue that “great job” or start the dream business • Address your fears • Create an action plan • Find a mentor in your desired career(s) • Test-drive a new job or career • Create a professional brand • Network • Establish thresholds A career transition doesn’t happen over night. But by following this proven step-by-step process, you can discover, pursue and attain career fulfillment and personal satisfaction.

Registration: No Cost

Instantiations and The Eclipse Foundation will co-host a pizza and salad buffet, including beverages. Come see what’s cool in Eclipse development, and network with your local Eclipse community!

Here are the official details and where to sign up:

Event Sponsors: Eclipse Foundation / Instantiations

Event Title: Eclipse DemoCamps Galileo 2009/Portland

Date: June 17, 2009

Time: 7pm – 9pm (Presenters set up at 6pm)

Location: Lucky Lab Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby, Portland

Cost: Complimentary; attendance is limited

Registration: To register, add your name as presenter or attendee to this wiki: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009/Portland

Feel free to pass this along to your colleagues, and be sure to sign up on the wiki if you would like to attend or present!

We look forward to seeing you there.

PAGDIG stands for Portland Area Game Developers Interest Group. It is the local IGDA chapter for Portland, OR. The group has been dormant for a while but is currently in the early stages of revitalization.

Anyone from an individual enthusiast working on flash games in their spare time up to EA-sized studios are welcome to participate.

We have several goals: * To meet like-minded developers in the area. We want to be a forum where we can meet other developers and enthusiasts. * To be a social/networking forum more than having structured meeting topics. We want to be a place you can meet like minded developers and discuss your work. There’s a strong focus on indies, which should be unsurprising for Portland. * To serve as the area IGDA chapter. There is not a huge game developer presence in Portland, overshadowed as we are by nearby Seattle, but we feel there are more than enough people in the area who would like to meet up and keep in contact. * To consume vast quantities of pizza and/or beer.

regular meeting.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Does your site scream out, "I haven't changed my image since 1995!" Or maybe, your pages are plagued by lengthy copy that just keeps going and going… Perhaps your web presence just doesn't really reflect all the great work your organization does.

Get at the heart of web issues and head in an effective direction to achieve your website goals. At this meetup, we'll delve into website hang-ups and problem-solve cures for the "common" website. Fodder for website problem-solving could include: - browser compatibility - unique identity and online presence - easy navigation - web-optimized images - color scheme and text/background contrast - title tags - any other number of web issues that get under your skin

Leading the discussion at this month's joint NTEN 501Tech Club and Net Squared MeetUp will be Eve Simon, Creative Director at Beaconfire Consulting. Eve brings 14 years of online visual design, user experience and creative management in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors.

With Eve leading the discussion, we'll delve into the web design process. And if you’re game, we'll jump into a discussion on the inherent or perceived conflict between IA and Design. Understand why Eve might tell you, "A wireframe is not a coloring book."

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to use technology to work smarter, look no further! We are working off a fabulous brainstorming session that occurred last November to bring you topics relevant to your work and give you a chance to network with your peers.

This meeting will be talking overall tech strategy. Do you have a technology plan in place? What types of things should you be thinking of? We're going to take a look at the big picture and help you see what ways you can be using technology to make your nonprofit's work more efficient.

This will be a joint meetup with the Nonprofit Technology Network's, Portland 501 Tech Club. Speaker details are still being finalized but be sure it will be some great local tech talent!

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Cancelled due to our resistors being frozen to our transistors.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Join us to talk nonprofit technology and how 2 organizations working for your better good want to collaborate to create more useful events for you in 2009.

The idea is to provide a fuller, more in-depth series of events. Our main goal is to provide a two monthly meetups that directly relate to each other, providing introductory information and hands-on engagement. But we want to see if that aligns with your goals!

We're going to dedicate our November meetup to a party of sorts to help us determine what it is you would like to know and learn... and how much you're willing to learn.

Come for this pre-holiday party with food, fun, good folks and conversation!

Email questions to Anna at anna@nten.org. Hope you can make it!

CONNECT ONLINE

Portland Net Tuesday at http://netsquared.meetup.com/13/

Net Squared, a product of Tech Soup, works to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available ? tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.

Portland 501 Tech Club - http://groups.nten.org/group.htm?mode=gvb&igid=5273

The 501 Tech Club is a monthly gathering of people working on or interested in nonprofit technology in the Portland, OR Area. Our meetings are opportunities for anyone interested in helping nonprofits use technology to get together and talk shop in a fun, informal setting, and our name refers to the fact that most of us work primarily with and for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

HumaniNet will present a status report on our Maps 2.0 initiative, which is exploring ready-to-use Web-based mapping tools for humanitarian and nonprofit organizations.

Dylan Myers, a digital mapping specialist at Google Maps, will also be there to answer your questions on the ever-expanding toolkit of Google Maps and Google Earth. Dylan was a key member of a Mercy Corps team that conducted a GIS (geospatial information systems) project in Indonesia following the 2004 tsunami.

Conversation ad networking begin at 5 p.m. At 6 p.m., Gregg Swanson and Matt Blair of HumaniNet will briefly discuss the initial findings of the research, which is based on interviews with aid and relief managers in Afghanistan, Sudan, Singapore, London, and – not least - Portland.

Among the topics: some notes from Matt on emerging Web 2.0 social mapping services, including the promise and pitfalls of 'crowd-sourced' geospatial data.

Following Q&A, you can meet Dylan, see demos, exchange ideas, practiceyour “geo-geek speak,” and learn more about what online maps can do for your project or organization.

The 501 Tech Club event is co-sponsored by NTEN.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

Hey you, yeah you with the OLPC, your fellow OLPCers are having a meetup on Thursday evening at Lucky Labrador Brew Hall in NW Portland. You should come on out, meet your fellow OLPCers and mesh. Earlier this year, Wayan of OLPCNews came to town to talk about the OLPC and we had a great time meeting others who were supporters of the technology and the vision.

For those of you wondering what I’m talking about, the OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child. Last Christmas they ran a special called Buy One, Get one which allowed you to buy an OLPC (pictured left) for a child somewhere in the world and you would get your own. Once it hit the geek market in America, the possibilities have been endless. I was amazed at how cool this little guy was and how simple it was to use. Too bad my sausage fingers couldn’t navigate the keyboard. Oh well, I’m no child either.

Come on down to Lucky Lab Thursday night and check them out yourself. The OLPCers are a good bunch and love to talk technology.

OLPC Meetup Lucky Labrador Beer hall, NW 20th/Quimby 6pm

You are invited to join the HumaniNet team on Monday, July 14, at the Lucky Lab NW (19th & Quimby) for an informal update and roundtable on the Maps 2.0 initiative and related projects with Google Earth/Maps, GPS, and GIS in general.

If you know of someone interested in these technologies, or any tech topic that might apply to the humanitarian space, please invite them too.

Following a team meeting at 5:15, we'll start with a short presentation at 5:45, followed by networking, socializing, and tech conversation.

Hope to see you there! (sorry for the short notice)

Gregg Swanson Executive Director, HumaniNet mobile 503-957-2960 gregg@humaninet.org www.humaninet.org

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/834270/ ] The first in a series of conversations with the Portland creative community to help each other understand how we can be more inclusive, collaborative and effective. We have been inspired by Portland's creative technology community (Legion of Tech and Silicon Florist to name a few) to help facilitate an environment where we share ideas and create a place that draws the best talent and the best clients to Portland to get the best creative work possible. This is the first of many conversations. We don't expect to solve the world's problems, let alone ours, over one beer (or two, or three...). But if we're going to start, it might as well be here and now. Location is the Lucky Lab NW Beer Hall

Come join us for an evening of socializing, talking about odd hacks and poking around with other people toys. Bring things for show and tell if you like, or just bring a willingness to share your interests. We'll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.

You know you've been sitting there thinking "why don't those two weeks go by faster? I NEED my DorkbotPDX fix, now!"

Well, I'm here to tell you that your wait is nearly over. In just 4 days time you can satisfy that need to hang out and socialize (a frightening concent, I know) with other freaks and geeks. Of course, I know there's a lot of newcomers out there, so don't be afraid -- we don't bite (well, Don might, but I'll leave that one for you to find out).

Bring your toys, your ideas and most of all your ability to have fun. We take all kinds and we don't turn anyone away.

* When: Monday, April 28th, 7pm<br />
* Where: Lucky Lab NW (not SE!)<br />
* Who: Dorkbot PDX and *you*<br />

Ok, sorry if this spiel sounds familiar... I'm going on fumes at the moment and just wanted to get this out:

It's time again to break out the breadboards, shine up the solder joints and light up the LEDs with your good friends in DorkbotPDX. We'll be meeting once again to mull over strange ideas (involving electricity, of course), hash out plans for world domination and, as always, drink beer. Come join us, bring along a project if you have one and can fit it in your preferred mode of transport, and make yourself known to your fellow Portland dorks.

• When: Monday, April 14th, 7pm
• Where: Lucky Lab NW (not SE!)
• Who: Dorkbot PDX and *you*

See you on Monday. Whoever is there first gets to make a grab for the outlets! ;~)

regular meeting.

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