Come out for a night of live, experimental music! Hermit Crab and Gladys are on tour from Eureka, CA. Local acts, Barb and Cobly and Feral Drollery, are opening up for them. This is a free, 21+ show.

Brews & Books Event🍺📚

Portland horror book and craft beer fans ~ mark your calendars! Macabre Mama Books will be at Fortside Brewing Company on Saturday, October 24th at 6:00 PM for a special Brews & Books event celebrating my novella ~ Blood for Beer Money! 🩸🍺

This spooky story was originally conceived right here over pints at Fortside, so I'm bringing it back to where it all began. Come hang out, grab a fresh brew, pick up a signed copy, and enter our spooky book raffle!

Whether you're a hardcore horror fan or just looking for your next atmospheric autumn read, we’ve got a seat saved for you.

📍 Fortside Brewing Co. — 2200 NE Andresen Rd, Ste B, Vancouver, WA ⏰ Saturday, Oct 24 @ 6 PM

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. 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.

---- Schedule ----

You're welcome to drop in anytime during the event. We understand that everyone may have external commitments and challenges - join us when you can!

We have informal unscheduled introductions - practice your personal elevator pitch, or take things slower to build your confidence.

---- Venue ----

Fly Chai allow us to informally and freely use their space. If within your budget, we'd appreciate your help to sustain our use of the venue, by purchasing something tasty, whether Chai or otherwise.

Find us at tables with a Code&Coffee sign - or a clump of laptop-users!

Wifi and power outlets are available. Our meeting area should be accessible - please let us know if not.

---- What to expect ----

Smaller events than you may be used to, with a mixed crowd week-to-week. We expect this is likely due to us meeting weekly, at a less central location.

These may result in what you're looking for:

A smaller, less intimidating, lower pressure, cozy atmosphere.
A mix of regular and new faces.
A simpler schedule - every week, same time, same place - that you can drop into when you like.
Being closer to you than other events.

Whether those are generally or partly to your liking, we hope you'll consider dropping by sometime!

---- Getting to the venue ----

Look for the venue on the meetup Google map, or alternatives like OpenStreetMap.

-- Driving --

There are limited parking spaces on a lot outside the venue (4+1 accessible), with more in the surrounding area.

-- Transit options --

Beaverton Central (Red/Blue MAX), then walk~ 8 minutes

Beaverton Transit Center (Red/Blue MAX, bus, WES) then walk ~11 minutes

For a shorter walk to the venue, take a bus from Beaverton Transit Center (52 to Farmington/Hall, 76 to Watson/Broadway, 57 to Canyon/Watson)

Join us for a Virtual Lunch & Learn presented by Terry Smith as he explores the importance of intentional company culture and how it influences your success.

One of the most succinct definitions of company culture is, “how things get done around here.” It’s a deceptively simple statement, and captures a wide range of behaviors, practices, processes, and rituals. For the founder and entrepreneur, that culture starts with the way you work and get things done. Being intentional about your culture means understanding and memorializing how you work and is essential to how you grow your business. If you succeed as you hope to, you will need to think about hiring and developing your team to help you achieve your vision. Are you ready for that? And, are you prepared to put in the work today that will build that foundation for success?

In this webinar, we’ll discuss the importance of intentional culture and how it influences your success. We’ll look at some practical approaches to being intentional, and we’ll discuss the long-term value of intentionality for your company. We will also talk about what happens when you don’t address your culture, and you find out your culture is addressing you. We’ll also review real world examples of successful intentional cultures, and at the hard data around those cultures. This is not “fluffy” stuff that can “wait until we’re not so busy;” this is real strategic action that won’t wait for you to get around to it.

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Join the Portland AWS User Group for an evening of technical learning with other cloud and security professionals!

📍 Location: ProFocus Headquarters 📍 Address: 10200 Eastridge St, Ste 100, Portland, OR 97225 🥂 Food & Drinks: Enjoy drinks provided by ProFocus Technology, Food is NOT provided this time.

Agenda

Kickoff @ 5:30 PM: Networking & introductions Tech Talk @ 6:00 PM: 10 deployments in 10 minutes, zero dropped packets! A tech talk by Lee Harding, where he shows how serverless datagram backends are really easy to operate and iterate on.

The Portland Linux Kernel Meetup for October 2026 will be at...

• Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
• Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM US/Pacific
• Location: Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St, Portland, Oregon 97209 US

Come enjoy a beverage and chat with other people who are interested in the Linux kernel. All experience levels are welcome. This is a friendly and casual meetup. Look for a table with a plush Tux penguin.

To get timely reminders of Portland Linux Kernel Meetups, see https://ikluft.github.io/pdx-lkmu/subscribing-to-pdx-lkmu-events.html.

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Join us for OBI’s Accelerate Biotech Happy Hour on Thursday, November 5, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM.

Fall is in full swing, and we’re bringing the OBI community together for an evening of conversation, connection, and good company. This month’s happy hour is made possible with support from Davis Wright Tremaine.

Take a break from the busy season to catch up with colleagues, meet others working across Oregon’s bioscience community, and make a few new connections along the way.

Whether you’re new to OBI or a familiar face, we’d love to have you join us!

When: Thursday, November 5 | 5:30 to 7:00 PM Where: OBI Event Space | Suite 230

RSVP and join us for a relaxed evening of connection, conversation, and good company.

Thanks to Roseline Coffee for providing a physical location! Find inside the hotel and to the right, likely on the couches

Coffee, bagels and people working on their careers and code! We have 2-5 mentors every month ready to help people get started in the industry, get help with a particular problem, or get career advice. We offer resume reviews, portfolio reviews, and sometimes mock interviews (time permitting).

Online Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTljOWRlMDAtNThmZS00NzljLWE1YTEtZDhlODMyYzI0OTRi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2282ea9e81-6f10-49e0-a1f1-d75b0b4c2e7c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22143ee9d3-21a4-4da7-a1e8-2472c358110e%22%7d

Or call in (audio only)

+1 872-240-8681,,882162595# United States, Chicago

Phone Conference ID: 882 162 595#

Thanks to Capital One Café for providing a physical location!

Discord https://discord.gg/nSCxgbcG7U

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Join PDX Women Coders for a back-end study session, where we read and discuss Designing Data-Intensive Applications (2nd edition) (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781098119058/) by Martin Kleppmann. We plan to go over one chapter (or so) each session, and we will be meeting every two weeks for 7-8 months to finish the book. Each session, we'll go over that we learned in that chapter, and explore key concepts in distributed systems, data storage, and scalable architecture. We hope this will be a good opportunity to learn and connect with fellow engineers.

Before our reboot* meeting, please read the first chapter.

Some additional details: - We are meeting every two weeks @ 10AM PT on Zoom - The Zoom event link willl be shared 2-3 days before the event - Anyone can attend, regardless of gender, as long as you support our mission - Reading is not required for attendance (but you'll get more out of this session if you read along 😉) - The event photo comes from Martin Kleppmann's blog post: Drawing a map of distributed data systems (https://martin.kleppmann.com/2017/03/15/map-distributed-data-systems.html)

*This event series was created and organized by Kat K. starting in February 2024. We read the first edition of the book back then; we will be reading the second edition this time around.

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/wf629e9l

Address: Hawthorne Asylum Food Cart Pod Portland, Oregon United States

Hosted by Erin M Miles Rasmussen

Monthly community campaign meeting to coordinate actions toward building a public broadband option in the City of Portland. Open to all. This meeting is open to everyone interested in campaigning for a public broadband option for the City of Portland! Bringing community-owned internet infrastructure to Portland is a community effort! We need your help! No technical skills necessary.

This is a recurring community meeting happening every 2nd Thursday of the month.

We are gathering in the CETI Lab located on the 4th floor at 111 SW Columbia Street in downtown Portland. The Lab is easily acessible by public transporation. There is parking in the building garage on the 4th floor for $5.

Thank you to the CETI Institute for hosting Community Broadband PDX monthly meetings!

RSVP

A free, student-run 12-hour hackathon for Oregon high schoolers (grades 9-12). Build in hardware, software, or both, solo or in teams of up to 3. No experience needed. Free food, snacks and swag, mentors, workshops, and $10,000+ in prizes. Hosted by Oregon Unlocked, a student-led STEM nonprofit. Register at https://unlockedhacks.org

Working with data that's too large, too slow, or too messy for regular CSVs? Join us for an introduction to the {arrow} package in R. We'll explore how Arrow and Parquet files can make large datasets faster to store, read, and analyze, all while using the familiar dplyr workflows you already know and love. Using Portland's Biketown data, we'll convert, query, and visualize millions of rides without breaking a sweat (or our laptops).

Bring your laptop if you want to follow along.

No need to RSVP via Meetup, but we might share info ahead of time in the event comments!

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Details

What to Expect:

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 at Roseline Café, who is graciously allowing us to host a space. WIFI, power outlets Recommended Parking: Smart Park, $7 all day https://www.portland.gov/transportation/parking/smartpark

Coffee:

Roseline Café has drip coffee and fixings available for it

Agenda:

10 AM - Arrival 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 AM - Wrapping Up: You can stay longer, but we'll officially be done! We usually grab lunch as a group at near by food carts

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

Thanks to Roseline Coffee for providing a physical location! Find inside the hotel and to the right, likely on the couches

Coffee, bagels and people working on their careers and code! We have 2-5 mentors every month ready to help people get started in the industry, get help with a particular problem, or get career advice. We offer resume reviews, portfolio reviews, and sometimes mock interviews (time permitting).

Online Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTljOWRlMDAtNThmZS00NzljLWE1YTEtZDhlODMyYzI0OTRi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2282ea9e81-6f10-49e0-a1f1-d75b0b4c2e7c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22143ee9d3-21a4-4da7-a1e8-2472c358110e%22%7d

Or call in (audio only)

+1 872-240-8681,,882162595# United States, Chicago

Phone Conference ID: 882 162 595#

Thanks to Capital One Café for providing a physical location!

Discord https://discord.gg/nSCxgbcG7U

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Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/waifbpzl

Address: Hawthorne Asylum Food Cart Pod Portland, Oregon United States

Hosted by Erin M Miles Rasmussen