Portland Building

The City of Portland's Broadband Strategic Plan wants to have you over for lunch to talk about "Connecting to Our Future," and the initial draft of the strategic plan to provide Portland with citywide broadband.

Here's some backstory if you're wondering, what the Broadband Strategic Plan is.

Are you vegan or vegetarian? Please leave a comment so we can plan food accordingly. Thanks.

Wondering what Lunch 2.0 is?

Lunch 2.0 is a phenomenon that began in Silicon Valley. You can read about their current events and the history behind Lunch 2.0 at lunch20.com.

We imported the concept to Portland in 2007, and you can follow all things Portland Lunch 2.0 at the Silicon Florist.

CivicApps Ideas is a two-hour discussion of ideas and datasets between data providers and citizens. As a precursor to the CiviCode Day Event, scheduled one week later at Open Source Bridge, this meeting is your chance to initiate the discussion surrounding your project ideas and data needs with others.

CivicIdeas Day is dedicated to the sharing of your ideas with your peers.

• Share and Discuss your project ideas with others
• Get Your Questions Answered on readily available datasets and/or inform data providers first hand of what type of datasets you need to turn your ideas into reality
• Discover or Recruit Others to collaborate with on interesting projects

To learn more about the related CiviCode Day event, please see http://civicapps.eventbrite.com

Registration is limited, so register today and connect with your peers!

SPECIAL NOTICE:

The City of Portland and other stakeholders have decided to postpone this event to better coincide with a number of other open source events, including Open Source Bridge and OSCON scheduled for later this year. More information will be posted pertaining to the replanning of the CiviCode Day event as soon as it's determined.

PDOT's Bicycle Brown Bag series: Bikes in China

Portland's bike map guru Jeff Smith talks about what he learned across the Pacific in the land of the Flying Pigeon.

Thursday, June 19th, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Portland Building
1120 SW 5th Avenue, 2d floor, Room C
(bring your lunch!)