Ristretto Roasters (N Williams)

Come hangout, drink coffee, and chat with other geonerds. Just look for the mappy people. This week, we're at Ristretto Roasters on Williams Ave.

MaptimePDX is the Portland, OR offshoot of MaptimeSF, a weekly meetup of mappers in San Francisco hacking on maps and doing mappy things. In the same tradition, we're aiming to provide meetups for hacking on map projects of all sorts. But most of all, beginner's and those new to mapping are encouraged to join!

Shaking things up a bit for a Saturday AM thing. Come hangout, drink coffee, and chat with other geonerds. Just look for the mappy people. This Saturday, we're at Ristretto on Williams around 10am.

MaptimePDX is the Portland, OR offshoot of MaptimeSF, a weekly meetup of mappers in San Francisco hacking on maps and doing mappy things. In the same tradition, we're aiming to provide meetups for hacking on map projects of all sorts. But most of all, beginner's and those new to mapping are encouraged to join!

Come hangout, drink coffee, and chat with other geonerds. Just look for the mappy people. This week, we're at Ristretto on Williams.

MaptimePDX is the Portland, OR offshoot of MaptimeSF, a weekly meetup of mappers in San Francisco hacking on maps and doing mappy things. In the same tradition, we're aiming to provide meetups for hacking on map projects of all sorts. But most of all, beginner's and those new to mapping are encouraged to join!

Come hangout, drink coffee, and chat with other geonerds. Just look for the mappy people. This Friday we're at Ristretto Roasters on N. Williams Ave.

And don't forget April's evening meetup: http://calagator.org/events/1250465867

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MaptimePDX is the Portland, OR offshoot of MaptimeSF, a weekly meetup of mappers in San Francisco hacking on maps and doing mappy things. In the same tradition, we're aiming to provide meetups for hacking on map projects of all sorts. There's no board or leadership - just some people who are enthusiastic about maps and sharing knowledge. We'll post upcoming events here and summaries of things we learn along the way. Join us!

A few of us are getting together to do work sprinting for Open Source Bridge. It's a beautiful day, so our plan is to occupy the patio at http://ristrettoroasters.com - Ristretto (3808 N Williams Ave) until my battery runs out, and then enjoy a pint at the http://www.newoldlompoc.com/5thquadrant_home.html - Fifth Quadrant in the early afternoon.

I'll head over to Ristretto at 11am. Come join us if you'd like to work on a few things for the conference, or if you'd just like to hang out on this fine day. We'll be working on sponsorship-related things, checking over the schedule, writing blog posts about talks we're really looking forward to seeing, and shoring up details for the Hacker Lounge, parties, and generally fun stuff around the conference.

Leslie Hawthorn (formerly program manager for Google Summer of Code), and a few people from the OSU Open Source Lab are also coming out today.

We hope you're having a lovely day and hope to see you!

Whenever we attend an Open Space conference, the sessions on Agile Learning Games are always among the most fun and best attended. This will be a self-organized play party hosted by Chris Sims of the Technical Management Institute and Elisabeth Hendrickson of Quality Tree Software. There will be refreshments, and plenty of room to spread out and play.

Agenda

At 6 pm, Willem Larsen will demonstrate "Where are your keys?" a revolutionary language learning game.

At 7 pm, we'll all share--and play--our favorite Agile learning games. This evening is a preview and warm-up event for our daylong workshop, "Creating Agile Learning Games for Coaches & Consultants," to be held on Friday, May 1 at the Kennedy School.

Join us to work on one or more of the following tasks to help the Open Source Bridge conference:

1. Code: Add features and specs to the OpenConferenceWare conference app. Our task list and source code are online. Join in if you've got Ruby on Rails coding experience, such as contributing code to Calagator.

2. Text: Compose documents for outreach to user groups, educational institutions, open source projects, and the like.

3. Outreach: Contact user group leaders, educators, open source projects, mailing lists, etc to encourage them to spread the word about the conference and submit proposals.

We'll meet up at Ristretto[1] at 10am, then move on to a working lunch nearby at the Lompoc 5th Quadrant[2]. Some members will leave as soon as 2pm, but others will stay on later. Join us for however much of this you can.

Thanks!

-igal

[1] Ristretto Coffee: 3808 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR 97213 -- http://ristrettoroasters.com/2008/10/dylans-photo-tour/#more-111 [2] Lompoc, 5th Quadrant: 3901 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR -- http://www.newoldlompoc.com/5thquadranthome.html