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MondayJul 28 2025Startup Train to Seattle
Come join us on a leisurely ride up to Seattle from Portland as we connect and learn from founders working on remarkable startups.
How this works: - Buy a coach ticket from Amtrak for the 8:30am departure from Portland's Union Station to King St (usually around $27). - We will all meet in the bar car once the train is underway. - About an hour into the trip we will have founders pitch their startups. - Each company will get 5 minutes with 5 minutes of Q&A/Feedback
This event is part of Seattle Tech Week. Hopefully, you will be hanging out in Seattle for the rest of the week's events. We may book a return trip, so keep an eye open for that.
All travelers are responsible for their own ticket costs and travel. Organizers are not affiliated with Amtra, so we cannot guarantee tickets, discount costs, or provide any other services related to this event.
This event is being put together by UpStart Collective.
Tomorrow
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TuesdayJul 29 2025Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup (PDX A11Y UX) - Accessibility summer social
Note: Rescheduled to Tuesday, July 29th, due to a heat advisory on the original date.
What to Expect
Bring yourself and your curiosity about accessibility to The Zipper, located at NE 27th and Sandy Boulevard. The Zipper features a vibrant food court with bars, restaurants, indoor and outdoor seating, and nearby fire pits. The food options vary, from fried chicken to tacos. Our summer social is an opportunity to informally connect with like-minded individuals who share a passion for digital accessibility. We can't wait to meet you!
What to Bring
Feel free to bring some cash or a card to purchase food and/or drinks. Please note that it is not necessary to buy food or beverages to attend our meetup.
How to Find Us
Look for our Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup sign and table toppers.
Accessibility + COVID Safety
The location is wheelchair accessible, is conveniently located near public transit, and offers street parking for both bikes and cars. This event will be held outside in the covered patio space, which has outdoor ventilation.
Inclement Weather Plan
If high temperatures occur, we have set Tuesday, July 29th, as a backup date. Update: A heat advisory has been issued for Tue July 15th so this event has been moved to Tue July 29th.
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RainSec - PDX Information Security Meetup
RainSec is an informal group of like-minded security professionals who meet to network and discuss topics of interest in a non-work, non-vendor setting.
While our target audience is experienced information security professionals, this is a public event open to any interested parties. If you have a friend or colleague who might benefit, please pass an invite along.
Please follow us on Bluesky (@rainsec.org) or Mastodon (rainsec@infosec.exchange) for any last minute updates.
COVID-19 Precautions:
- We meet outside under a covered patio area to reduce transmission risk.
- There are overhead heaters if it's cold, but dress comfortably!
- If you are feeling sick, stay home!
- If you've had a recent COVID exposure, stay home!
You can also find us on Meetup.com and Smoke Signal (AT Protocol).
If you're looking for more security-focused community meetups in the Portland area, check out pdx-infosec.com
- We meet outside under a covered patio area to reduce transmission risk.
Next two weeks
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ThursdayJul 31 2025FOSSY 2025through
PSU Smith Memorial Student UnionFOSSY (Free and Open Source Software Yearly) is focused on the creation and impact of free and open source software, uplifting contributors of all experience.
Taking place in Portland, OR, we hope FOSSY will be a community focused event that invites local community, as well as the wider internet and global communites we have formed over the years. Whether you are a long time contributing member of a free software project, a recent graduate of a coding bootcamp or university, or just have an interest in the possibilies that free and open source software bring, FOSSY will have something for you.
With around ten tracks with talks over four days, for community building, development and legal and licensing issues, the conference will provide ample learning and networking opportunities for contributors of all levels of experience. There will be hands on workshops, lightning talks and traditional 50 minute talks.
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FridayAug 1 2025Creating Environmental Soundscapes: A participatory Science/Datawalking Project
Research has shown that natural sounds (birdsong, rain, insects) have beneficial physical, mental, and cognitive health impacts. Starting with this prompt, we hope to (over the next year), collaboratively gather sounds in our environment (natural, built, and human-influenced). We will use these recordings as data for research, for mapping, and for creative installations. And design and implement these research and creative projects together.
In this session, we'll think about what we want to record and why, learn (in about 15 - 30 mins) how to record using various devices and how to share, and brainstorm what we want to research, and analyse and interesting ways to create and tell stories.
Over the course of this participatory science project,
participants will learn to design and implement research projects to gather, tag, analyse, interpret, and visualize data in a variety of ways. We will combine these sound maps with other maps and datasets to find patterns and correlations learning to use more complex data analytic tools like machine learning. we will have collaboratively created a rich dataset as a community resource and built new expertise in designing and implementing impactful research.
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SaturdayAug 2 2025Zig Day Portland #0
from the website:
Hello everyone, I’m pleased to announce our first Zig Day, less than one month away. We have 40 subscribers on the mailing list and we have booked a beautiful room in the Multinomah County Library (Central).
What to bring:
A laptop and/or other hardware An idea for something to work on that is open to collaboration from others, or something you want to learn together.
What to expect:
10:00 - 10:30: gathering and chit-chat 10:30 - 11:00: explain projects, form groups, setup workstations 11:00 - 01:00: work on stuff together 01:00 - 02:30: lunch break 02:30 - 04:30: work on stuff together (continued) 04:30 - 05:00: show others what you built and what you learnt
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TouchDesigner +: Interaction in TouchDesigner
Instructor: Skye Estes
In this workshop, we will build fluency on how to create interactive multimedia content. And how one can integrate TouchDesigner in to a workflow with other software (MadMapper, VDMX, etc.) and hardware/devices—projectors, lasers, microcontrollers, MIDI. Building expertise in creating exciting interactive installations.
Materials: Bring a laptop with a free version of TouchDesigner installed (we have a few to lend in the lab)
Prerequisites: An introductory knowledge of touchdesigner
Part of CETI's Enchanted Technology Summer 2025
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New Life Asher House Dog Rescue Fundraiser
We are hosting a fundraiser to support a cause we hold near to our hearts. New Life Asher House is the rescue where owners Steve and Flora adopted their beloved Stanley and Shireen. Bring your furry friend and come out Saturday, August 2nd to support this local dog rescue.
We will have photographer Laura Coyier here to take portraits of your four legged friend, proceeds from the event will go to Asher House to support the pups. We welcome friends, family, and dogs—let’s make a difference together while enjoying a great time at Ruby Vineyard!
RSVP with our tasting room — we’d love to see you there.
Phone Number: (503) 628-7829
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HTML DAY 2025: Portland
Do you like HTML? HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE! The backbone of the web! If you couldn't tell, we do too.
On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML.
This event is an HTML freewrite, where we get together and write some new HTML sites together, for fun.
small questions and their answers:
- what should I bring?
- yourself
- something you can write html on
- some excitement or ideas
- maybe some art supplies?
- what should I do?
- start with an empty html file!
- build a website for [your dog/a friend/some plants/a poem you like/something else]
- if you're particularly savvy, maybe write some javascript???
- what should I bring?
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SundayAug 3 2025You've got an idea for a startup. Now what? Measure it.
Quantifying and Refining a Startup Idea A good idea is the foundation of a successful startup, yet most founders struggle to characterize and enhance the strength of their idea — especially for startups without customers. In this 2-hour hands-on workshop, participants will walk through a case study applying “Nascent Methodology,” a novel, unique approach to identify the earliest signals of opportunity for startups without customers. Through guided exercises, participants will search for People in Pain (an initial indication of potential customers) and will quantify the Pain in dollars ($). By the end of the workshop, founders will be able to evaluate a startup idea in seconds. Participants will come away with a framework for evaluating and iteratively improving their own startup ideas.
Additionally, participants in the workshop will be eligible to join a cohort of founders who will receive regular support as they apply this methodology in August and September.
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TuesdayAug 5 2025Portland Geek Dinner - Beaverton! (Padnug)
Breakside has grown a bit too popular and we will be moving to have dinner at Ickabods for the foreseeable future. It worked great last month!
Be There and Be Square!
Geek and Nerd dinners are a great way to get to know your peers in the industry in an informal setting. We always have great food, beverages, and conversation!
We'll look to the RSVPs on here to guide our reservation. Please let us know you are coming!
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ThursdayAug 7 2025OBI's Accelerate Biotech Happy Hour
Join Us for OBI’s August Accelerate Biotech Happy Hour!
Summer may be winding down, but the energy at OBI is just getting started. Come mix and mingle with innovators, entrepreneurs, and bioscience professionals at our August Accelerate Happy Hour! Whether you're building a startup, supporting the ecosystem, or just curious about what's next in biotech and digital health, you're in the right place.
When: Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 5:30–7:00 PM Where: OBI Event Space | Suite 230
What to expect:
Great conversations with biotech, digital health, and medical device pros
New connections and potential collaborators
A casual, welcoming space to grow your network
Got something exciting in the works? We’re offering quick 2-minute speaking spots to share your startup, product, or idea. Interested? Email aklein@otradi.org to reserve your time.
RSVP now and join the momentum!
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Mapping Out Your Customers Who Care A Lot–
VirtualPortland Design Thinkers are excited to welcome Skipper Chong Warson: Mapping out your customers who care a lot
Most teams can describe their product perfectly but struggle to answer "Who cares about this most?" In this 30-minute working session, we'll explore Google Ventures bullseye customer framework and April Dunford's positioning canvas to help you think through who might need what you're building most desperately. You'll work with practical tools and leave with ways to test your customer focus.
••••••••• If you have any questions or would like to connect with other members of PDT, join our Slack community. https://join.slack.com/t/pdx-designthinking/shared_invite/zt-1pql9ftsn-nQOnsZNfGcWoma2qXMbxvQ
PDT is a volunteer-run Oregon nonprofit organization, and as you can imagine, organizing events can be expensive. We rely on sponsors and donations to help us offset these costs. If you would like to help, we accept donations through Venmo @PortlandDesignThinkers.
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SundayAug 10 2025Creating Panoramic and Cinematic Experiences with a 360 Camera
Part of the CETI Enchanted technology Summer 2025
Instructors: Bernardo Pantoja
Sunday, August 10 2025. 10:30am -- 12:30pm.
A tool for creation, documentation and exploration.The workshop aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills needed to explore the potential of 360-degree cameras for use in immersive and standard videos as well as a tool for 3D asset creation.
The workshop will be composed of an in-lab talk covering an overview of the 360 camera, filming best practices. . Followed by a hands on exploration of the gear on a short walk near the CETI lab capturing videos and stills.
12:30 pm (optional) Concluding with an overview of the app for post processing and export of media. And applications including, 3D scanning and recording live action. At the end, we will also experiment with our larger 360 camera exploring, streaming and recording live action. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid grasp of how to use 360 cameras to enhance their digital projects.
Prerequisite: A curiosity about 360 cameras. Required Materials: We will provide a 360 camera but you are welcome to bring your own if you have one. If you have a laptop, please bring one to save any files captured and created during the course. CETI has a few that can be borrowed during the course.