PLUG Advanced Topics Is Back!

Who: Beth Dean and Otavio Pontes
What: System Stacks Usecases and Swupd Client
Where: Intel, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Building 3 Auditorium, Hillsboro
When: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 at 6:30pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live (Hopefully)

Beth Dean will present a System Stacks Usecases demo, and Otavio Pontes will talk about Swupd Client, the Clear Linux OS core update system.

https://calagator.org/events/

It will be at the Hawthorne Farms auditorium at 6:30pm. Afters will be at Orenco Taphouse, 1198 NE Orenco Station Pkwy, Hillsboro.

PLUG is open to everyone but does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings.

See you there!

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting

Who: The Clear Linux Team
What: Beyond the Introduction to Clear Linux OS
Where: Intel, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Building 3 Auditorium, Hillsboro
When: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 at 6:30pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live

Intel's Clear Linux OS team will talk about their operating system!

Many will head to the Orenco Taphouse, 1198 NE Orenco Station Pkwy, Hillsboro

Ride shares available

PLUG is open to everyone but does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings.

Presenter: Paul Fryer, Software Architect at Fiserv

Paul started buying Sonos speakers for his home a couple months ago to get around the need to run wires for his home stereo. He was fascinated by the music streaming system, mainly the software used to synchronize the playing of music across multiple devices. So he started peeking under the hood to see how it all worked and if he could possibly learn to control it with custom code.

Paul ended up reverse engineering Sonos and in the process learned about the Upnp protocol. He eventually created a C# library that can be used to turn any device into a node on the Sonos network.

But Paul didn't stop there. He also added Azure Event Hub for cloud processing and Akka.Net to allow for high speed parallel event processing. And all this deployed on a raspberry pi!

Paul will have a live demos and plenty of code. This will be the perfect follow on presentation to Jeremy Fosters talk on the "Internet of Things".

Links:

Blog – http://fryerblog.com

Github – http://github.com/paulfryer

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-fryer/7/b01/a18

How Agile is Agile Enough?

Join us for a format introduced at the Intel Agile & Lean Conference: Lean Coffee++

Participants will actively brainstorm and prioritize the agenda and become part of the conversation. Up-votes will continue the discussion, while down-votes mean move on to the next sub-topic.

To guide the conversation we'll seed the topic, and also seed the audience with expert contributors. This is the ++ portion of our take on the LeanCoffee(tm) format.

Seed Topic: How Agile is Agile Enough?

Seed questions: Do large organizations need to accept the same definition of agility as small ones? Is it possible to accept some known impediments and still be considered 'agile'? How do we measure when we have become 'agile enough'?

Scaled Agile - Too Big to Fail?

Join us for a format introduced last month at the Intel Agile & Lean Conference: Lean Coffee++

Participants will actively brainstorm and prioritize the agenda and become part of the conversation. Up-votes will continue the discussion, while down-votes mean move on to the next sub-topic.

To guide the conversation we'll seed the topic, and also seed the audience with expert contributors. This is the ++ portion of our take on the LeanCoffee(tm) format.

Seed Topic: Scaled Agile - Too Big to Fail?

Seed questions: Why do large organizations embrace SAFe? Is it possible to 'get off' the release train? How to scale the human factor.

This is the culmination of TYE Oregon 2014-2015! In this competition, the teams that were formed during the program will present their business concepts, and judges from the world of entrepreneurship and investment will decide who will get to represent TYE Oregon in the Global Competition in June!

First prize of the local competition is an all expenses paid trip for the whole of the winning team, to Atlanta, GA, where they will compete in the TYE Global competition, against some 20 other global teams, for a prize package worth $15,000!

This competition is free and accessible to the public. Doors open at 2:30pm and the presentations start at 3:00pm promptly. If you would like to attend, please pre-registrer as tickets are limited!

Omer Raviv, coming all the way from Israel, will present on two topics. Part 1 – Testing the Untestable: Journey Tests? BDDfy? Subcutaneous Testing? And you thought you knew about unit testing! Part 2 – Becoming a Debugging Wiz with OzCode (http://www.oz-code.com/). If Visual Studio and debugging are in your job description then come just for this!

Choose Your Own Journey: How to Make Every Change Better

Presented by April Mills

Open free to the public!

Dates/Times: Monday, March 30th, 2015: Networking & Food: 5:30-6:30, Talk: 6:30-7:30 PM

Location: HF3 Auditorium, Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) Campus, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124

Directions: From Cornell, head South on NE Elam Young Pkwy (near Costco). Take the first left to turn into the Intel parking lot. The HF3 campus will be directly in front of you. The best parking will be to the left.

Abstract

Some changes you start. Others you’re one of many travelers, sometimes by choice and sometimes by force. Regardless, how can you make the change journey successful? April Mills will discuss the important difference between driving people and driving change. Then she’ll describe four archetypes of change journeys and strategies to make every one more successful. Come listen and learn quick tips to improve your change and the changes around you.

Bio

April led a guiding coalition for change at the U.S. Navy Naval Shipyard in Puget Sound based on Dr. John Kotter’s Leading Change 8-step model. She has a passion for creating positive change, highlighting how anyone can drive change for themselves and for their organizations and communities. April has struggled with and fought against the inertia and bureaucracy of large entrenched organizations and has practical advice for change agents based on the lessons she has learned. Today she is a Change Coach and Community Steward for Intel Corporation.

A Special Treat from PNSQC

Plan on coming early! In collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) the SPIN meeting will have pizza and pop provided by PNSQC beginning at 5:30 pm.

PNSQC is the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, a group of volunteers interested in Software Quality. The Mission of the PNSQC is to enable knowledge exchange to produce higher quality software. As a non-profit, it seeks to promote software quality by providing education and opportunities for information exchange within the software community.

How to Register

This is a FREE lecture sponsored by the Rose City SPIN. Please help us plan food and drinks by registering at: http://rosecityspinmarch2015.eventbrite.com

Rose City SPIN

The Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) is a monthly forum for networking, mutual support, and promotion of effective software practices. We exchange practical experiences, ideas, knowledge, wisdom, and war stories about the technical, business, and human facets of software process improvement. The Rose City SPIN serves the software development community of the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Whether you work for a large company or a small one, corporate or self-employed, industrial or academic setting, you are welcome at the Rose City SPIN.

Agile Terms from A to Z

What do Yaks, Rubber Duckies and Bike Sheds have to do with Agile?

Come update your Agile Terminology with an interactive conversation around the language we use every day in our Agile travels.

For those starting out, this is a great opportunity to learn both the common and less-than-common terms. Agile experts, this is a chance to contribute your best ideas and refine the common vocabulary.

Are you ready for a new fast-paced format idea? We are bringing in 5 speakers with fantastic stories around the use of Agile in non-traditional projects. Each speaker will offer a fast-paced 5 minute presentation, with another 3-5 minutes allocated for questions.

Please join us for a rousing round of lightning talks on the following topics:

Agile stories from the underground (sewers, that is) - Mark Liebe
Process Design using the 'Agile Periodic Table' Approach – Megan Miller
Applying Agile Mgt Concepts to a Complex, Multi-year, High Stakes Scientific Research Project – Alicia Lanier
Family Activity Planning Wall - Sarah Francaviglia
The Agile Attorney – John Grant III

We'll begin at 7:45 with "The Buzz". Bring your recent links, books, or other tibits to share and txt them to the facilitator. We will present them on screen and collect to send to the AgilePDX mailer.

Did you ever think you could change the world by pursuing your dreams? But how do you get there and reach your full potential? What does education have to do with all of this? Women can transform their lives by jumping in and getting involved in their dreams. At this event, you’ll see an inspiring movie called Girl Rising.

Want to understand the basics behind all the cool gadgets we use every day? It all starts with circuits! And we’ll have a fun activity for beginners.

What is this event? It’s a combination movie showing and hands-on activity. It’s a chance for high school girls to meet women in technology and a chance for women in technology to be inspired by high school girls!

Who's invited? We’re excited to have an Intel WIN and ChickTech event! If you identify with any of the following, we’d love to have you:

Current and past ChickTech: High School participants Current and past ChickTech volunteers ChickTech supporters Intel WIN members Women in tech and ChickTech supporters

Why should you come? It’s free! There will be snacks.

But seriously, this is an event to watch and reflect on women’s empowerment in tech by watching Girl Rising. We’ll also have an educational (and fun, we promise!) hands-on activity and create your very own circuit.

If you’re a ChickTech: High School participant, we’ll do our best to provide transportation to the event, free of charge.

Who’s hosting?

Intel WIN (Women in Intel Network) Oregon will be co-hosting this event with ChickTech.

Public Transportation HF3 is a 7 minute walk from the Hawthorn Farm MAX Station on the blue line and 4 minutes from the nearest bus stops on Cornell Rd on route 48.

Announcing the re-launch of AgilePDX Westside! It’s a new year... what do you want to accomplish? Bring your Agile New Years Resolutions for the coming year to the January session, and we will determine what topics to target for the coming year.

We are starting the new year in a NEW LOCATION. Intel has generously offered meeting space for this year…please note the new location at Intel - Hawthorne Farms. We will be in the Building 3 Auditorium.

Big shiny enterprise-sized tools all tend to suffer from a common weakness: flexibility. Flexibility sounds great when customers are evaluating a tool. But it can backfire and actually exacerbate the problems a customer is hoping to solve, if there is no process to underscore and manage the flexibility.

Team Foundation Server by Microsoft has this weakness in droves! Dustin will be presenting some concepts that they've put in place to manage the use of TFS that has elevated it from a painful free-for-all, to a highly effective tool that supports their specific business model perfectly. Yes, he will be discussing everybody's favorite topic …wait for it… PROCESS!

• WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/1s9UR5T

• WHEN: Tuesday 11/04/2014 6:00 p.m. Pizza and Networking 6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation 7:00 p.m. Main Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Thirsty Lion

The outstanding Jeremy Foster is hopping down from the Mother-ship in Redmond to visit this month!

There’s as much excitement around JavaScript these days as there is apprehension! You know the feeling. You remember trying to find DOM elements and do something meaningful with them and that dang JavaScript was failing silently, it wasn’t triggering your alert, and it was causing hours of mumble cursing. Well, JavaScript has grown up a bit since then. Many know enough to get in trouble, but are convicted that it’s high time to learn more.

In this course, we’re going to pass right on over the easy stuff – variables, control structures, and the basic concept of a function, and we’re going to dig right in to what makes JavaScript unique and powerful and show you why it’s just about everywhere! We’ll look at JavaScript environments; the developer tools and console; basic DOM manipulation; object notation; scope, closure, and the modular pattern; and the promise pattern.

• WHERE:
  Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3)
  5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy
  Hillsboro, OR 97124
  Map: http://binged.it/1s9UR5T
  

• WHEN:
  Tuesday 10/07/2014
  6:00 p.m. Pizza and Networking
  6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation
  7:00 p.m. Main Presentation
  ~8:30 p.m. After Words Thirsty Lion

Scott Hanselman will show us what's new for Microsoft developers since last year and thoroughly entertain us in his great style! It will be a bonus that this comes on the heels of our Xamarin month!

6:00 - Pizza and mingling
6:30 - Presentation intro
7:00 - Main Presentation
8:30 - After words gathering (location TBD)

It's been over 18 months since Windows Phone 8 was released and now Windows Phone 8.1 is finally here. However the question still remains, if you weren't previously building for Windows Phone, then why should you care about it now? The first of many answers to this question starts with Universal Apps.

Join me as I walk through building a Universal App for both Windows and Windows Phone. We'll be talking in depth about what they can and can't do, as well as some best practices you should follow. There is lots to talk about and you may have a few questions. Given what time is left, we'll also briefly cover some of the new features such as geofencing, live video editing, and - of course - Cortana. While there won't be enough time to go into depth on each of these, hopefully you will be inspired and walk away with ideas for the apps you can finally build using the tools you love the most!

Diana Larsen on Nothing but the Truth: Agile Perspectives from the Trenches‏

Come for an evening of dialogue with Diana Larsen, doyenne and sojourner in the many various fields of Agile. With no prepared slides or lecture, we’ll rely on everyone’s experience to hold a spontaneous dialogue with you and your colleagues about real challenges you face today. We’ll focus on your specific, real-time questions, challenges, dilemmas, and issues about agile, adoptions, teams, retrospectives, liftoffs, managing, leadership, complexity, learning, and more. Invite Diana to discuss whatever is top of your mind! Our moderator will collect and aggregate questions, sort them into topic areas, and invite the questioners to join Diana in a time-boxed conversation. We’ll get through as many topic areas as possible between networking and close. Join us!

• WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

• WHEN: Tuesday 04/01/2014 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation 7:00 p.m. Main Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Thirsty Lion

The ever popular and entertaining Chris Sells will speak about AngularJS. MVC in the browser, declarative programming, two way data binding and maintained by Google! If you are creating or thinking about single page apps then you may want to consider AngularJS.

WHERE: Intel Hawthorn Farms

WHEN: Tuesday, March 4th 6:00 - Pizza 6:30 - News, Events, Intros, etc 7:00 - Main event 8:30 - After Words, TBD (probably Morgy's Pub or Thirsty Line)

Please plan to join us Wednesday, November 13 for our monthly Chapter Meeting.

Date: Wednesday, November 13 Time: Check-in 4:30, Speaker at 5:00 Place: Intel - Bldg HF3 - Auditorium Speaker: Denis Barbini, PhD - Universal Instruments

Topic: Failure Analysis: Lessons Learned Manufacturing and Field Reliability With a Focus on Failure Analysis of Assembly Case Studies

When reviewed in conjunction with research, failures provide a unique perspective on design for manufacturability and reliability. This presentation will provide valuable lessons learned from practical experience through discussion of material selection, current electronics research and failure analysis case studies. Design considerations for advanced assembly processes and analytical techniques for materials characterization will also be covered. In addition, a review of lead-free laminate selection and testing procedures will shed some light on the question, “Can your board withstand 9x reflow?” Members of the SMTA Portland Chapter are encouraged to bring specific questions or examples of surface mount process difficulties to be shared in an open discussion at the end of the presentation. • Major difficulties in lead-free reliability testing • Mixed alloy assembly best practices • ENEPIG intermetallic formation morphologies • PCB plating considerations • Analytical testing techniques • Root causes of production failures • Failure analysis studies — Fine-pitch printing, PoP, 01005 defects and high Tg laminate failures

Denis C. Barbini, Ph.D.

Denis is the Associate Director of the Universal Instruments’ Advanced Process Laboratory. He started his career in the electronics manufacturing world after earning his Doctorate in Chemistry from Binghamton University. His current focus is identifying the critical needs in emerging technologies and electronics assembly processes in order to develop specific research and development projects. Denis has authored hundred’s of peer reviewed articles, several books and presented to thousands of his peers on the results of his research over the past 14 years.

Denis has travelled the electronics manufacturing world visiting over 30 countries providing guidance and solutions to people and companies designing and manufacturing devices such as cell phones and computers to pacemakers and aerospace devices. These companies look to implement cost effective, reliable and robust processes that deliver the specified functionality and reliability.

Denis volunteers his time serving on the board of the Surface Mount Technology Association. For the past 7 years, his focus has been on implementing new programs that deliver leading edge technology solutions for the user.

Dave Larson - President - Oregon Chapter SMTA (503) 780-5177

Please use the RSVP link below

To RSVP, please click here, or copy and paste the following address into your web browser:

http://www.smta.org/chapters/rsvp.cfm?BEE_ID=3238&BULK_EMAIL_NO=1

Jimmy Dickinson - "Making Money with Apps in Your Spare Time" Tips & tricks for generating profit-building apps for WP8/Win8. Jimmy will review what worked and what didn't for him. He'll display analytical data to support his findings and demo cross-platform efforts using HTML5 running at 60fps!

Scott Hanselman - In July, Scott provided a peek at what was coming in VS2013. This was one of the best attended and reviewed presentations ever! VS2013 is available and Scott will kick off our three month VS2013 Celebration by showing its goodness and how YOU can be more productive! NOT to be missed!

• WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

• WHEN: Tuesday 11/05/2013, 6:00 p.m. Pizza, 6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation, 7:00 p.m. Main Presentation, ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Morgy's Pub

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Bryan Costanich, Xamarin’s Director of Education, will be speaking about mobile development and the state of the mobile industry.

To start off the evening, Kelly White will be giving a brief demonstration of the new Nokia Imaging SDK for Windows Phone.

In Bryan's session we’re going to examine how to create cross-platform mobile applications using C# for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. We’ll look at the architecture necessary to support code sharing and reuse, as well as best practices for minimizing fragmentation across the various platforms. We’ll also examine how to handle platform divergence and take advantage of varying device capabilities. To illustrate these points, we’ll look at real world example applications and the architecture and patterns that power them.

• WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

• WHEN: Tuesday 08/06/2013 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at Morgy's Pub

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Jenkon | Transforming the Sales Organization

Microsoft | Helping you realize your full potential

New Relic | A developer's best friend

Omnibility | Helping organizations of all sizes manage their critical relationships

O'Reilly | Spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Pluralsight | Hardcore developer training

ServerLogic | We're Passionate About IT!

TEKsystems | People you can trust. Results you can count on.

Telerik | Deliver more than expected

VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc. | VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers.

Vircon, Inc. | Technical Solutions That Mean Business

Join Kirill Gavrylyuk of Microsoft to see how they've extended the Windows Azure cloud platform to provide a new service that makes it incredibly easy for mobile apps on all the major platforms, including iOS and Android, to leverage the power of Windows Azure. Kirill will explain just how easy it is to add structured storage, authentication, push notifications and more to your apps and how Windows Azure takes the pain and cost out of managing and operating a your backend services. There'll even be a live demonstration so you can see for yourself how easy it is for any type of business to connect their apps with Mobile Services.

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On May 4th, the Nanites will be hosting a TECH Talk event at the Intel campus in Hillsboro. Free and open to all who register, the event will be a student-driven technology conference: students will learn from professionals and present to each other. It will be an amazing opportunity for the young STEM community to see the amazing work their colleagues do, and to show of their own work to others. For any young people interested in technology who have done research in this field, we would love to have you come speak! If your work isn’t yet presentable, or your just beginning to cultivate your interest, please come to the conference to see and learn from your colleagues. See the RVSP page for additional instructions.