Pizza Party for Friends of the FSF

The Free Software Foundation is hosting a pizza party for FSF members and friends. Come and bring along friends who are interested in software freedom.

There is no charge but we would love for you to sign up to become an FSF member if you aren't already.

Join online now or bring a credit card or checkbook to the event.

After hearing about all the exciting things going on at the FSF, we know you'll want to become an FSF member to support our work. Benjamin Mako Hill, FSF board member, and Joshua Gay, Campaigns Manager, are each going to address the crowd for a bit and then take some questions.

Refreshments include traditional cheese-covered pizza, vegan pizza, and beer.

Old Town Pizza is at 226 NW Davis, right next to the Old Town/Chinatown MAX stop.

Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards
8:00pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008
Event, Keynote
Location: Portland Ballroom

Come talk about what you did at or near OSCON. Free-form discussion, followed by beer at the Lucky Lab.

The Community Leadership Summit 2010 brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community.

The event pulls together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community.

At the heart of Community Leadership Summit 2010 is an open unconference-style event in which everyone who attends is welcome to lead and contribute sessions on any topic that is relevant. These sessions are very much discussion sessions: the participants can interact directly, offer thoughts and experience, and share ideas and questions. These unconference sessions are also augmented with a series of presentations from leaders in the field, panel debates and networking opportunities.

The event is entirely free but requires pre-registration. Go and register here.

If the first years of OSCON were about opening the minds of big business to the philosophy of open source, are the years ahead about opening the minds of the open source community to the possibilities of its future? As open source becomes fully integrated into the corporate environment, OSCON helps to define, maintain, and extend the identity of what it means to be open source.

OSCON focuses on the substance of technology, not the shadow, filtering the information that most merits attention and preparing participants for curves and challenges in the coming year and beyond. OSCON is the place to be inspired and challenged, renew bonds to community, make new connections, and find ways to give back to the open source movement. OSCON has also become one of the most important places to make open source related announcements, and to unveil projects and products.

Open source is a fundamental principle at the core of many established and emerging technologies, driving the future of the computer industry. OSCON explores the open source technologies that are here to stay, what will broaden the foundation, and what will lead the way to unexpected places and innovations.

"For those who have not been to OSCON, it's a great technical conference covering the whole spectrum of open source, including Linux, MySQL, the LAMP stack, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, middleware, applications, cloud computing, and more. OSCON always has great keynotes, tutorials, and evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. As with many conferences, a lot of the meat takes place in hallway conversations and impromptu sessions." - Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld

REGISTER FOR FREE AT http://www.cloudcamp.org/pdx

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

OSCON is providing CloudCamp space to run CloudCamp @OSCON during the BOF sessions Monday night. This CloudCamp will be focussed on all-things Open Source and Open Cloud. For Lightning Talks, we invite the community to submit 5 minute talks (please send proposals to [email protected]). All talks must be related to Open Source or Openness.

The agenda for CloudCamp PDX is:

6:30pm Registration & Networking 7:00pm Welcome & Introductions 7:15pm Lightning Talks (5 min. each) 8:00pm Proposals for Open Space 8:15pm Round 1 of Open Space. Proposed sessions: - DevOps GameDay session 9:00pm Round 2 (TBD) 10:00pm (or possibly 9:15pm) Wrap-up

Come join PDXScala, the Portland, Oregon Scala users group, for a night of geeking and socializing. We'd like to invite any Scala enthusiasts in town for OSCON and the Scala Summit to come join us at the Lucky Lab Brewpub (http://luckylab.com) located at 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, just a short hop from the Oregon Convention Center, on Monday, July 19th at 7PM.

If possible, please RSVP here. It's not necessary, but helps us figure out how many people to expect.

It's the third Wednesday of the month, so it's time for PDX Django! It's also OSCON, which means there are lots of visitors. So instead of a normal meeting, we're having a special PDX Django/OSCON Python/Django/Meetup/BOF/Drinkup.

Same time and place (mostly) as usual:

Wednesday, May 21st, 7 PM 1227 NW Davis St (across from the North Face store, look for the big leather chairs in the window). We'll either be downstairs in PIE, or upstairs in the Urban Airship offices.

There will be beverage.

Edit: The fine folks from the Emerging Languages Camp will also be joining us!

Rackspace is hiring and wants to meet you!

Rackspace, an awesome company that supports open source projects like the Drizzle and Cassandra databases is looking for a broad range of developers and system administrators.

Meet with their developers face to face at a recruiting Meet & Geek at 7PM before Linux Fund’s party.

Find out more about their opportunities involving open source at:

http://www.rackertalent.com/careers/

To get there from OSCON / Convention Center:

• Take the MAX light rail WESTBOUND • Cross the river - Past Rose Quarter Stop • Get off at Old Town/Chinatown • Walk West (away from the river) to NW 2ND Ave. • Walk South (the direction of the train) two blocks past Davis and Couch

See you there!

OSCON is back in town and Linux Fund is celebrating with food, drink and billiards!

Giveaways from books to a iXsystems server!

All members of the local open source community welcome. Face control courtesy of LPI and BSD Certification Group!

Many thanks to Rackspace, MindTouch and iXsystems for making this event possible.

Portland is the open source capital of America. Let's keep it that way!

21 and over - bring photo ID!

To get there from OSCON / Convention Center:

• Take the MAX light rail WESTBOUND • Cross the river - Past Rose Quarter Stop • Get off at Old Town/Chinatown • Walk West (away from the river) to NW 2ND Ave. • Walk South (the direction of the train) two blocks past Davis and Couch

See you there!

The Community Leadership Summit 2011 brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community.

The event pulls together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community.

At the heart of Community Leadership Summit 2010 is an open unconference-style event in which everyone who attends is welcome to lead and contribute sessions on any topic that is relevant. These sessions are very much discussion sessions: the participants can interact directly, offer thoughts and experience, and share ideas and questions. These unconference sessions are also augmented with a series of presentations from leaders in the field, panel debates and networking opportunities.

The event is entirely free but requires pre-registration. Go and register here.

Coming to OSCON? Be sure to come a day early and join us for another PgDay! This summer marks PDXPUG's 5th anniversary, and we want to see your smiling face! We will be celebrating at Gotham Tavern after the day of sessions. Sign up for sessions and afterparty here: http://bit.ly/f1F2Mz .

Yes, it's ok to show up just for the afternoon (or the party) if your flight arrives on Sunday.

We'd like a $30 donation to SPI for the sessions, but don't let lack of funds deter you from attending.

OSCON JVM Language Symposium

Sunday, July 24, 2011 from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (PT)

Portland, OR

Free.

Registration required.

The OSCON JVM Language Symposium is a free, open-spaces conference for implementers and users of different languages on the Java Virtual Machine. We will have several of the biggest names in JVM languages in attendance, and an open format where you can propose and lead sessions, or simply hang out and hack on a new or interesting language idea. This means we will have no planned agenda for the conference and it will be decided by the attendees.

Some of the languages you can expect to learn about include: Scala, Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Fantom, Gosu, and (insert your favorite JVM language here).

This is a free event happening the Sunday before OSCON Java (registration for the OSCON Java conference is not required).

We are holding this in the OSCON Java space at the Oregon Convention Center, so we will have plenty of space to hack and collaborate.

Android Happy Hour

5:00pm Monday, 07/25/2011

Location: Double Tree Hotel bar

Join other Android developers for happy hour at Gather in the Double Tree Hotel on Monday evening. Meet face-to-face and share experiences with other developers working on Android. The first 100 people there get a free drink ticket.

Kick off party for OSCON, please register your attendance at OSCON.eventbrite.com

With the JavaScript Admirers meeting falling during OSCon, and there being a large contingent of JavaScript developers in town, it becomes obvious that a Beer.js needs to occur.

Someone set up an RSVP here: http://inv.ly/mPQf

API Hackday PDX brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps and mashups with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on existing projects, start new ventures, and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with.

Free admission: Lunch, Dinner and post-hack beer included.

Hackers will also hear from some of the country's top API-focused companies on tips, tricks, and tools for building the next big app. At the end of the day, teams and/or individuals get a chance to present their work to a panel of judges and win kickass prizes.

Brought to you by Twilio, SendGrid, Urban Airship, Cloudability & Mashery

It's a party!!! We're going to celebrate another year of moving the social web forwad & the forthcoming release of OpenSocial 2.5, get psyched about starting on 3.0, and think about building the next killer social app! Come and join us on for some good fun and networking. Oh, and if you want to show off your latest wares, bring along your laptop!

Make sure to RSVP (get a free ticket) so we can make sure we have enough beer for eveyone!

API geeks come drink beers and talk API Craft at White Eagle Saloon in Portland during OSCON.

Wednesday night we'll be organizing out front of the convention center around 6:30 PM and walking over to the White Eagle.

In town for OSCON? Take timeout from the convention center to meetup + drinkup outside on the back deck at Momo's. PDX API Hour with your friends from SendGrid, Urban Airship, Twilio and Mashery lasts from 4:30pm-6:30pm, so you can make sure to get back before the State of the Onion at 7pm!

Getting there: From OSCON convention center, take (free as in beer) MAX rail system Red or Blue line heading west to the Galleria/10th Street station. Momo's is 1/2 block away!

There's a decently sized contingent of Hubbers living in Portland these days, and we heard a certain convention was happening. Join us Thursday night for a great time at Dig a Pony, just down the street from the convention center.

In town for OSCON? Take timeout to meetup with fellow hackers over drinks at Dig a Pony - a 15 minute walk straight down MLK, or a 5 minute streetcar/bus ride.

Big ups to awesome sponsors Mashery, Twilio, TokBox, SendGrid, Urban Airship, ESRI Labs, ProgrammableWeb and Silicon Florist!

apihour

Join us after OSCON for an HTML5 workshop and hackathon designed to introduce the new open-source Tizen OS for mobile. Are you a developer with a passion for mobile? Have an HTML5 app you’d like to port? Don’t have an app yet, but want to make one using HTML5 for Tizen? This hack’s for you!

We'll kick off with a short training session on Friday, July 26th at 6pm, followed by an informal pitch session by devs and hacking. Technical support and developer devices will be available for those who participate in the competition. Food and drinks are provided and there's $2k in cash prizes. Come pitch an app idea or bring an existing HTML5 app to port.

For more information, full schedule and to RSVP please visit http://public.bemyapp.com/tizenportland/ Note: We won't be staying overnight at the venue but will go on until late on Friday and come back on Saturday morning.

In honor of the upcoming OSCON, our guests this week are Francesca Krihely and Asya Kamsky of MongoDB.

"Inside the Developer's Studio" is a series where Cris Kelly, Director of Portland Code School, interviews a dev, or someone in the tech scene, to get to know the guest both personally and professionally. Through the interview, we hear their stories and experiences; we learn from their mistakes and successes; and we learn more about ourselves and our community, as we discover how they arrived in Portland's rousing tech arena, and how they're contributing to it.

Invite your friends and colleagues! Bring your questions and your lunch into our spacious classroom over Friday's lunch hour, Noon to 1pm. Q&A opportunities at the end of the interview.

Come out and play a few games of werewolf at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after CLS on Saturday (the night before the OSCON activities start).

Both new and experienced players are welcome. We will explain all of the rules that you need to know, and if you want a preview of the rules, you can find them on the Portland Werewolf website.

We'll start gathering in the private room around 6:30pm for drinks and food. The game starts at 7pm.

To get here from the Convention Center, go to the bus / streetcar stop right in front and take the CL streetcar or 6 bus south down MLK. Get off at the Hawthorne stop and walk east up Hawthorne. The Lucky Lab is near 9th (a 5-6 block walk).

Ticket Info: Donations appreciated, for the room rental. You also need to buy your own food and drinks :)

Portland devs, designers and OSCON attendees!

Join Orchestrate and Sendgrid for a fun, free happy hour at the classic arcade and pinball hotspot, Ground Kontrol. This is the place to pre-funk as you make your way from the convention center to the Puppet Labs' party at 8!

• Free arcade and pinball play
• Free drinks and snacks
• Swag from Orchestrate and Sendgrid
• Meet the teams and get a demo One of Portland's best DJs, Centrikal, will be spinning fun, groovy beats for your listening pleasure!

Want to give a Tech Talk and need some practice? Want to learn to give feedback on the fly?

Come to our west side Wrip City Toastmasters Open House, July 21, 2014 and learn about Toastmasters.

Guest speaker James Leon, Area Speech Contest winner will demonstrate the skills that earned him a spot at the International contest in Malaysia, August 2014. Guest Speaker Eric Winger, Area Evaluation Contest winner will give a workshop on feedback and evaluations.

Refreshments will be provided. It is in an air conditioned room!

Join us! The Toastmaster's mission is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop and practice communication and leadership skills at their own pace, which fosters professional and personal growth.

Note: This TA3M is on Tuesday to coincide with the OSCON Birds of a Feather sessions. You can register for a free (save $20) Expo pass by entering the code "FOSSFTW" here.

Event Description

This month's topic is: Leading in Technological Activism

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in 16 cities throughout the world, with many more launching in the near the future.

One year into the TA3M movement, we will be discussing the successes and failures from around the world.

Note: TA3Ms traditionally take place on the 3rd Monday of every month, but conflicts with OSCON events necessitate meeting later in the week.

This session will be lead by Jen Davidson, a Human-Computer Interaction researcher @Intel, and Sean McGregor, founder of The Privly Foundation and Machine Learning PhD student from Oregon State University.

What is it?

This is the Techno-Activism 3rd Monday event for Portland, Oregon! Read more about techno-activism 3rd mondays.

Who should come?

Anyone interested in techno-activism. We invite coders, geeks, artists, and anyone else. No technical experience required.

Who's hosting?

This month's TA3M is hosted at the Oregon Convention Center by O'Reilly's Open Source Convention.

The Privly Foundation will organize this and future TA3M Portland events.

PDXTech4Good

If you're interested in this event, you might also be interested in the PDXTech4Good meetup.

(NOTE: OSCON Birds of a Feather sessions are open to all in the community. You do not need to be registered for the conference to attend.)

As part of OSCON Francesco Cesarini will be leading an Erlang Birds of a Feather gathering at the Oregon Convention Center.

It's an opportunity to meet and greet other functional programming people and discuss how to get things done in the real world that demands highly available, fault tolerant, never-stop systems in heterogeneous environments.

Come prepared to talk and learn!

Also in attendance will be Erlang co-creator Robert Virding and other notable Erlang experts.

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37674

Join us at CtrlH for food, drinks, discussion and a talk by Juan Benet on IPFS during OSCON week!

What is IPFS?

IPFS is a distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, this is similar to the original aims of the Web, but brings in the latest ideas from P2P and cryptography to form a distributed, permanent web.

IPFS could become a new major subsystem of the internet. If built right, it could complement or replace HTTP. It could complement or replace even more. It sounds crazy. It is crazy! We also think it's the future of the web. Come see it in action, and meet the team of developers working on it.

Afterwards hang out, talk tech, hack, recharge your batteries, use our fast WiFi and get a tour of CtrlH, Portland’s newest and largest hackerspace.

See you there!

Celebrate another successful year at OSCON with Team Expensify!

Expensify is transforming our office into a summer soiree on Wednesday, July 17th from 7:30-11:30 PM — come and say hello, grab some food and drink, catch up with old friends, and enjoy some lawn games in our historic office downtown. All-white attire is encouraged, but not required, to celebrate the sumer.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Christian Höppler, bass, and Karl Fogel, piano, will perform Franz Schubert's famous song cycle Die Winterreise. The concert is free but donations are requested, all proceeds from which will benefit the Software Freedom Conservancy.

These guys, both amateurs who work in Free software, have been rehearsing at my house and they are AWESOME. Goosebumps. The lyrics are in German but there will be translations.

The 8:30 ending time is real - you will be able to attend the other parties, make it to dinner on time, etc.