Portland State University

Time for another PIGSquad general meeting! Join us to talk about indie game endeavors everywhere!

We will be welcoming new friends and fellow Jammers that we met this past weekend at Global Game Jam 2012, having a tiny little post-mortem to see a bit of each others' games, and discussing the larger, open-to-the-public post-mortem that will take place within the month! Feel free to bring other creative projects that you're working on, suggestions for future events, a gamer's attitude for the night's subsequent "Hackett's Game Attack," and we'll see you there!

This is the Nineteenth annual conference hosted by the Columbia Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and Portland State University (PSU). Each year, ASPRS and URISA collaborate to hold this informational conference on current issues in the Geospatial Information Community. The Portland State University Geology Department will join us again this year to host the conference at the PSU campus. Last year’s conference at PSU was a great success. Join us again this year for what will be another successful opportunity to meet colleagues in the geospatial industries and organizations, to learn about emerging topics and recent advances in GIS applications and to discuss our problems and solutions together. This event features a one-fee, two day format, packed with information presented in concurrently running workshops and sessions on both days. There will be three tracks each day consisting of panel discussions debating hot topics, traditional sessions with 2-3 presentations per session and technical workshops providing in-depth discussion of issues and training in applications most relevant to the geospatial community.

On-site registration opens at 7:30AM on Tuesday, March 29th and will remain open through 11:00AM on Wednesday March 30th

The conference opens at 8:30AM on Tuesday with an opening address by Jim Geringer, former Governor of Wyoming and will be followed by concurrent sessions and workshops . The Annual Vendor Social will be held Tuesday evening from 5:00PM to 7:00PM. The conference will continue on Wednesday beginning at 8:30AM with concurrent sessions and workshops followed by a closing session.

Conference Highlights: The Exhibit Hall will open on Tuesday at 8:00AM and remain open until Wednesday at 2:00PM. The hall will feature as many as 20 vendors in GIS related technology and services. This is an opportunity to see and discuss the latest advances in the industry.
The Vendor Social will be held on Tuesday evening from 5:00PM to 7:00PM in the Exhibit Hall. Join your peers in a more relaxed atmosphere with music, food and beverages. You will also find two free drink tickets in your registration packet.

The Poster Session will be held during the Vender Social. Ballots for the People’s Choice are included in your registration packet. Please take it to the Exhibit Hall and vote

Early Registration (until March 21st) Regular: $195.00 Student or Unemployed: $35.00 On-Site and Late Registrations

Regular: $225.00 Student or Unemployed: $45.00 One Day: $125 Half-Price registration discount for presenters (discount applicable to primary presenter only).

Vendor Social The Vendor Social will be held on Tuesday evening from 5:00PM to 7:00PM in the Exhibit Hall. Join your peers in a more relaxed atmosphere with music, food and beverages. Music will be provided by the Cleveland Jazz Combo http://clevelandband.pps.k12.or.us/. You will also find two free drink tickets in your registration packet. Open Source GIS (Un)-Conference

Thursday and Friday, March 31 & April 1 (more information will be posted, as available.)

Portland State University, in partnership with the University of Portland Entrepreneurship Center, is proud to host this upcoming innovation education experience focusing on the basics of technology entrepreneurship.

The workshop is intended primarily for college and university students, but is also open to anyone who wants to know more about what it takes to commercialize a technology or new product idea. Presentations will focus on new venture planning, prototyping, marketing, intellectual property, open source development, funding, and related topics. Guest speakers are experts drawn from the region, who will share personal successes and lessons learned.

Invention to Venture workshops are held in cooperation with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA).

Cost: $25 Students, Faculty Members, & Staff, $50 Business Community & Other. Students from sponsoring schools may receive free registration.

Participant guide, Friday night reception, Saturday lunch and continental breakfast are all included in the fee.

To register, visit the Invention to Venture Portland 2011 Registration page.

Date: Saturday, February 12 Time: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway 3rd Floor Portland, OR 97201 Students, Faculty Members, & Staff Registration: $25.00
Non-member Registration: $50.00

Presented by the Developers Forum

What's driving mobile application development? Why should you consider developing mobile applications? Interested building an application for today's mobile devices? Come hear why companies are developing mobile applications. Learn from experienced developers about the platforms and how to get started.

Speakers: Jason Grigsby Mobile Strategist, Co-Founder Cloud Four Steve Romero, President, Critical Path Software, Inc.

Register: http://sao.yourmembership.com/events/event_details.asp?id=76797

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1899640/ ] The VBS Certification Program will CERTIFY (on 1 of 4 levels of competency) Your Sales Team's Ability To: # Improve Their Lead-to-Close Ratio # Produce ROI-based Proposals of Their Software/Service # Maintain Critical Operating Margins By Selling Value Over Price # Eliminate Discounting to Get the Deal # Avoid Commoditization # Find and Invest Their Time in QUALIFIED Opportunities # Increase Competitive Wins through Professional Differentiation #SAOpdx #OTN #Sales

Internet Professionals SIG Cost: $10 for members $30 for non members

Content Management Systems (CMS) provide ever improving platforms for collective authoring of Website information. What are the opportunities, issues, and myths surrounding them?

No longer do authors need Web design skills, or have to wait for the Webmaster to post their information. Instead, they can use powerful and easy to use CMS to create, edit, post and remove content. CMS based websites may support a multi-national enterprise with mission critical applications, and huge libraries of documents. Or an entrepreneur can use a free CMS to set up an online ecommerce site, rich with online store, forums, blogs, glossaries or WIKIS. Universities use them for event calendars, on-line registration, class schedules, and faculty biographies.

But what are the issues? Does the "container" fit the contents? Does the software support the work flow? Will it rank well with search engines? Do the applications perform as needed? How do you plan and execute an enterprise level project?

Moderator Stanford M. Davis, Search Engine Optimization Consultant Portland

Speakers George Ross, Director of Technology, ISITE Design Scott Hendison, CEO, Search Commander, Inc

The First Year in Computer Science Matthias Felleisen Northeastern University 2nd June, 16:40–18:00 Location: Hoffman Hall Rm 109, Portland State University Abstract

My team and I have developed an alternative approach to the first-year courses on programming and computing. Unlike conventional approaches, ours focuses on designing programs in a systematic manner. The syntax of the chosen programming languages (both Java and Scheme) is only discussed as needed to support design principles. Field tests with over 500 high schools and a dozen colleges have shown that the approach produces better students than conventional approaches that use a single language. In several controlled studies, we could also show that students find our curriculum more appealing than the AP curriculum.

In my talk, I will provide an overview of the project, especially its intellectual premises and principles. My goal is to encourage you to think about the first year in a different way. The old ones are of questionable value. If we want our beautiful discipline to survive, we must find a good way of teaching it."