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SaturdayFeb 8 2025PyCascades 2025through
Revolution HallRegional Python-focused conference for the Pacific Northwest.
Tomorrow
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SundayFeb 9 2025PDX Code & Coffee @ Albina Press (On Albina Ave - In the back)
What to Expect:
Please RSVP ahead of time as we only have a limited amount of space.
Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. Drink some coffee, bring your laptop, and have engaging conversations. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work tasks.
Still uncertain? Let's chat on Discord!
Venue:
The Venue is Albina Press, who is graciously allowing us to host a space. Check them out here: https://tinyurl.com/9vddcj65
Street Parking is available. The 4 Bus takes you from Downtown to the Historic Mississippi Ave & Albina St.
Agenda:
- 10 AM - Arrival: Find a spot in the back.
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10:15 AM - Introductions:
- Share your name
- Discuss your current projects or interests. If you don’t have a specific project, share what intrigues you!
- Mention your expertise and how you can assist others.
- Are you job hunting or hiring? Let us know!
- Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too.
- 12:30 PM - Wrapping Up: You can stay longer, but we'll officially be done! After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized. Find a social circle or grab a desk and code.
Links:
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/JbGyY3bKTS If this link is down, visit the main site https://codeandcoffee.org/ click on the Discord button!
Next two weeks
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TuesdayFeb 11 2025Portland Power Platform Virtual Meetup
The Portland Power Platform User Group is a community of people excited about the Power Platform tools: Power Apps, Automate, BI, and Copilot Studio. We believe the platform offers rich possibilities, and we keep pace by sharing our learning and doing deep-dive explorations of topics. We run the gamut from new to experienced users and welcome anyone who shares an interest in custom apps and process automation for your business needs.
Some great perks to joining our monthly meetups are networking, knowledge transfer, and community building. We aim to foster a vibrant community that shares success in implementing best practices for the Power Platform.
Visit us on our Meetup page to get details on the presentation topic and speaker. We hope to see you!
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Startup founders: Where are they now…?
Remember that amazing founder you saw on stage a few years ago? Where are they now? We want you to know.
That's why Built Oregon, Pitch Black, PIE, and Vanport Studio are partnering to celebrate Black founders from our programs by learning more about the journeys of our alums since we last saw them on stage — even if that journey no longer involves startups.
Join us for an evening of fireside chats hosted by Stephen Green, founder of Pitch Black and Vanport Studio, as we all get up to date on the latest and greatest from founders in our community.
Graciously hosted by Instrument, a longtime supporter, sponsor, and host for Pitch Black and current home of Vanport Studio.
PLEASE NOTE: Space is limited. Only registered attendees will be admitted.
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WednesdayFeb 12 2025Startup Conversations in the Couve
Paul Anthony Troiano is an artist, entrepreneur, and investor. As an entrepreneur and investor, he’s had successful exits across the music, tech, manufacturing, hospitality, creative agency, and commercial real estate sectors. Artistically, Paul has collaborated with Grammy-award-winning artists, curated multi-million dollar art experiences, and exhibited his bespoke interactive music installations at festivals across North America.
Paul's philanthropic efforts include co-founding the startup accelerator Starve Ups, the TEDxPortland speaker conference, and the RAINMaker Fund at the University of Oregon, committing over $300,000 to provide annual $5,000 seed grants to student entrepreneurs. Currently, Troiano serves as the Co-Founder and President of Metrognome, a provider of music rehearsal facilities to thousands of musicians, scaling from the Pacific Northwest across the United States.
About the Startup Conversations Event Each month we host a local founder who will give a short presentation about their company. They will focus on how it all got started, where they are today, and their plans for the future including the challenges they face to make their goals happen.
Following the presentation our host, Dave Barcos will dig into the founder's background, the company's story, and other observations. After the interview, we will have an audience Q&A session to help attendees ask direct questions of the presenter. It has proven to be a great format to catalyze the local founders and the startups in the region. You won't want to miss it.
For more details on other North Bank events check our event calendar at https://www.northbankinnovations.org/events
About North Bank Innovations North Bank Innovations is an organization based in Southwest Washington, committed to building a thriving ecosystem that helps early-stage startups.
Please note, that we encourage genuine networking, not hunting for sales or leads. If you are genuinely starting or working with a startup, this is the right crowd for you. Thanks for helping us keep it real.
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Drupal Users Group Meeting
On the second Wednesday of every month join the Portland Drupal User Group meetup to talk about Drupal.
These meetups are for ALL levels of Drupal users, from those of us who have only briefly heard of it but are interested in learning more to those of us who know a lot of but are always looking to learn more! Come get involved!
Check out the official Portland Drupal Users Group site at http://groups.drupal.org/portland . The site has more information about local Drupal meetups, events and opportunities.
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ThursdayFeb 13 2025MergePHP (PHPDX)–
onlineMergePHP meets the second Thursday of every month at 16:00 Pacific
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Play pool. Talk tech
Details This is a fun networking event to play pool and talk tech. We will have free tables to play on and Happy Hour runs until 6pm. Everyone is welcome, you do not have to be great at pool to attend!
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PDXRust Meetup: Spidering Wikipedia Politely In Async Rust
How many pages are reachable from Wikipedia's page on the Rust programming language in two hops? Around 30,000, it turns out, including pages on wheat flour, Welsh orthography, and the zombie apocalypse.
As it turns out, it's super easy to do this exploration using asynchronous Rust code. Wikipedia offers a cute little REST API for querying links, and it's easy to use Serde to generate requests and parse replies. And if you're feeling guilty about flooding a precious public resource with silly API requests, it's also super easy to do rate limiting.
Jim Blandy will show how to wire up Tokio, Reqwest, and Serde to do the spidering, and whip up a mock server for testing using Warp. The techniques shown work nicely for all kinds of REST API scripting, including, say, GitHub.
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TuesdayFeb 18 2025Portland Microsoft User Groups Networking
We look forward to bringing the Portland Microsoft User Groups together including Fabric, Power Platform, and Azure IN PERSON for a lively evening of networking.
Whether you are a new or experienced user, or simply interested in learning more about working with Microsoft's tools and technologies, we'd love to have you join us for food, drinks, and merriment.
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WednesdayFeb 19 2025Portland Azure User Group
Azure Security Controls for Your Startup Journey
Building a secure startup doesn't mean sacrificing speed or burning through your budget. This talk offers practical guidance on implementing the right security controls at the right time along your journey. We'll discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and traps that create security vulnerabilities, and how to prioritize essential security measures without overspending. Leave with a clear understanding of how to build a secure foundation for sustainable growth.
Guest Speaker: Sean Lee Sean Lee, Principal Consultant at Online Business Systems, is an experienced Cybersecurity Professional with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and driving business growth. Skilled in threat intelligence, compliance, risk management, and incident response. Proven ability to develop and deliver innovative cybersecurity solutions to clients across various industries.
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Cocktails + Code (Portland Ruby Brigade)
Come join the most thrilling tech meet up in all of Portland. Chat tech projects or life stuff. Keep an eye out for nerds with name tags.
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ThursdayFeb 20 2025Data PDX: Data Governance by Design with Christina Burnett, T-Mobile
Speaker
Christina Burnett, T-Mobile
Christina has over thirty years of experience in consulting, data modeling, software integration, analysis, and programming. She came to Data Governance late in her career, but having a data-centric view of software has been a common thread throughout her work. Her software development background has given her a practical perspective on how to work with software development teams to improve Data Governance outcomes. Christina has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston, and an M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Washington Bothell. Christina is certified as a Collibra Expert Level 2.
Abstract
We have shifted our focus from governing data when an initiative is complete, to beginning data governance during the design phase of the software development lifecycle. We walk with our development teams to ensure that governance is baked into the plan, not an afterthought. We determine the level of governance that is needed for new data products during design. This ensures that the development teams are not surprised by our governance requirements, reducing remediation, and improving the quality of the data products from their inception.
This presentation will include:
An explanation of the Governance by Design framework Demonstrations of workflows in Collibra to support the process Change management for both the Data Governance team and the other impacted groups RSVP required for entry ticket. This is a VIRTUAL event
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Beers with Engineers
Details No agenda, no pitch, no bullshit. As always, come geek out, network, and have a good time.
Beers with Engineers is a diverse group of engineers from a variety of fields coming together to share a drink after work, commiserate with like-minded nerds, and learn more about our respective industries.
If it's your first time joining us, welcome! We strive to make our meetup welcoming for both newcomers and returning attendees and inclusive for all current or aspiring engineers, especially those who are often underrepresented in the field.
See you there!
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Demolicious - FEBRUARY 2025 (WESTSIDE)
FEBRUARY Demolicious will be at the NEW westside UpStart Collective location!
::::::: Please use the form below to apply to pitch for 2025!:::::::::
Demolicious is back! This monthly pitch event brings together founders and the community to learn about what is being built here and around Portland.
How this all works: If you are a founder, you will apply to pitch here. Don't worry. "Apply" simply means you want to pitch, but there's no real competitive process to be accepted. We just want to see what you're working on before we put you in front of a room full of people.
You will be given 3 minutes to pitch at the event.
The audience will be given a number to text and vote for their favorite one. The one with the most votes will go home with the Demolicious Championship belt.
The belt is not for you to keep as you will have to come back and "defend" it. However, you will be allowed to put your startup sticker (if applicable) on the belt for all to see and to live on forever in infamy!
We will post the projects/companies that will be pitching a week prior to the event. Which means you have until then to fill out the form.
Teams Pitching: TBD
Will you be the next founder to pitch!?!
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PDXPUG Meetup: OAuth Support in PostgreSQL
Postgres has a wide array of supported authentication methods. The strongest methods have trouble scaling across large numbers of database instances, though, and while organizations have ways to centralize user credentials -- for example by using LDAP or Kerberos -- those solutions come with their own large lists of caveats.I'm currently developing Postgres-native support for OAuth, which is a widely-deployed framework for authorizing clients using a third-party provider. I'll talk about the current state of the patchset, explain some of the elements of the design, and demonstrate what it might look like to deploy it yourself.
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BSD Pizza Night
A meeting of folks interested in BSD operating systems and related technologies to get together, eat pizza, drink beer, and talk about what interesting things have been going on.