Open Sourcing DBIx::Class::Events

Andrew Hewus Fresh will be giving a trial run of his TPCiP talk

While I will explain a bit about what DBIx::Class::Events does and how it works, this talk is primarily about open source contributions being driven by the folks in a company who care about them and how it is up to those people to provide the resources and knowledge to everyone else in order to create an open source culture in the workplace. As far as I know, no request to open source something has ever been denied by my employer, Grant Street Group, and while the company has always had the same "go for it" attitude, the folks writing code are only just starting to gain momentum releasing things publicly. I'll talk about showing other folks in the company the benefits of sharing code internally, how that exposed the benefits of open-source in general, and how we as a company progressed to getting DBIx::Class::Events onto the CPAN.

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

Portland Functional Programming Meetup: http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

Portland Functional Programming Meetup: http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

We'll discuss Chapter 3 of Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design. Please read it beforehand. You may wish to try running the code examples from the book. At the meeting anyone will be able to present and contribute to the discussion.

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Info at https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Functional-Programming-Study-Group/

PDXFunc is a study/user group exploring functional programming in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers with any level of experience or interest in any functional language, including Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scala, Idris, Agda, as well as using functional techniques in not explicitly functional languages.

We have two kinds of meetings: theory and practice, that each meet twice a month.

Please sign up for the mailing list for more announcements, discussions, meeting notes, etc.:

http://groups.google.com/pdxfunc

Come celebrate the 10th anniversary of PDX Func! The first meeting was on 11/15/07. There'll be food and drink and cake! We'll also discuss the new format for meetings based on the survey results. We will also go over the Applicative Functor lesson from CIS 193, which will be our final lesson from that track.

Echo will present Brent Yorgey's CIS 194 Lesson 9 on functors in Haskell.

Brian Ginsburg will give a short presentation on Minima (https://brianginsburg.com/minima/), a playground for experimenting with minimalist musical patterns, which he wrote in Elm.

We will have extra time in this meeting for hands-on learning. You are encouraged to bring a laptop or work together with someone else. You can practice working with functors, hack on Minima, or ask any other questions you might have.

Lyle will present Brent Yorgey's CIS 194 Lesson 8 on IO in Haskell.

Then Lyle will present Vintage BASIC, a BASIC interpreter he wrote in Haskell some years ago but has recently revised.

This month, we'll be meeting in a new location! Collective Agency has moved to 511 SW 10th Ave. We'll be meeting in the main area.

First, we'll cover Lesson 7 on Folds and Monoids from Brent Yorgey's CIS 194 Haskell lectures.

Then, Jamon Holmgren will explain his implementation of the A pathfinding algorithm in Elm. A is used in games to calculate the least-cost path for a computer character to move from one spot to another. Elm is a language similar to Haskell (but simpler) that compiles down to JavaScript, used for apps that run in web browsers.

RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/events/251270102038723/ and https://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/events/241345711/

Community Mission Statement: Cozy places to work alongside people doing what they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency's new Downtown location (511 SW 10th Ave, Suite 1108, opens August 1st), and join an optional lunch (we'll get it at the big block of food carts outside).

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

There are 2 requirements for people here free: First, RSVP (before you come) with: your name, what time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for.

Then while you’re here in the workplace, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total. And most of the time you'll be working on something.

Schedule: 9am: Open for free. 12pm: Optional potluck lunch. 5pm: End of Open House.

People here for free will have access to everything except: locker storage and can make short phone calls in the conference rooms (up to 30 minutes; members get 3 hours per day). You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines Membership info is on the website.

P.S. We've been open exactly 6 years and this is the start of a 7-year lease. If you want to bring artwork/paintings or plants for our Downtown or Division locations, that'd be great!

This month, Leif will present Lesson 6 on Lazy Evaluation from Brent Yorgey's CIS 194 lectures.

Then, Rob Norris will talk about free things.

Meeting is on the 8th floor of the Tiffany Center. If you arrive before the meeting starts, there will be someone in the lobby to open the front door for you. If not, there will be a sign posted with a phone number for you to call, and someone will come down to let you in. Take the elevator on the right to the 8th floor, and exit to your right. The sign next to the space says Forge Portland. We meet in the large open area there. 

Join us for another fun-filled evening of learning and discussion!

Tonight, Lyle will present Lesson 5 from Brent Yorgey's CIS 194 lectures: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures/05-type-classes.html, as well as reviewing the homework from Lesson 4.

Then, Matt Rice will talk about the 1ML language, a variant of ML which unifies the main expression/type language with the language of the module system (signatures, structures and functors). He's also been creating his own language derived from it.

We will continue our Haskell lesson series with Lyle delivering Lesson 4 on Higher-Order Programming and Type Inference from Brent Yorgey's CIS194 course.

Then Michael Beidler will present on full-stack "isomorphic" web apps with Haskell (REST APIs in servant and GHCJS front-ends with react-flux).

The 8th-floor elevator has been restored to operation, so there are no longer stairs to climb.

Sergey Kolychev will give an overview of AI::MXNet, a Perl interface to the MXNet machine learning library. https://metacpan.org/release/AI-MXNet

We may find a pub or suitable source of refreshments after.

Please join us for a night of conversation on self-tracking and monitoring where you share ideas, tools and experiments with the Portland Quantified Self community.

If you are self tracking in any way – life logging, biometrics, athletic performance, mood, sleep, medical symptoms, happiness, energy, etc. – come and share your methods, results and insight.

Here's our agenda:

Intro and Announcements - 6:10 sharp!
We'll have a round of introductions, and then Steven will give a quick primer on QS as a movement and recap some of the most interesting self-tracking projects he's seen in the past couple of months.

Presentations* - 6:20 to 7:30 (Confirmed talks with more to come) -Steven - Using smell to improve flashcard performance -Mark - Update on my metric-collecting exercise chair

If you have a project you can talk about, let us know when you sign up!

Post-talks Social Time - 7:30 to 8 pm
After some amazing presentations, we will have some time to converse with those around us.

*Where our talks come from: Our talks come from you! Do you have a personal self-tracking story to share? Please let us know in your RSVP. You can let the three prime questions guide your presentation:What did you do? How did you do it? What did you learn?

Here are some examples from previous Quantified Self events:
http://vimeo.com/groups/quantifiedself/videos/27380858
http://vimeo.com/28734230

Parking: Lots of 5-hour metered street parking and nearby parking lots (for weekdays check out 1602 SW Taylor and 1201 SW Yamhill), and free 2-hour parking north of Burnside.

This meeting continues our Haskell lesson series with Echo delivering Lesson 3 on Recursion Patterns, Polymorphism, and the Prelude from Brent Yorgey's CIS194 course (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html).

Lyle will give an introduction to category theory, a theory about mathematical structures and their relationships, which has applications in functional programming.

The meeting will be at Collective Agency in the Tiffany Center - the same place as the February meeting. The elevator is expected to be restored to operation by then. (UPDATE: Elevator service to the 8th floor has not yet been restored, so you will have to walk from the 4th floor.) Someone will wait in the lobby to let you in as the front doors are locked after 6. The meeting is on the 8th floor.

Lyle Kopnicky will present a work in progress:

Funk, a library for functional programming. This currently includes a datatype for linked lists, option types, and generic functions for displaying and equality testing that work on both the new types and Perl data structures. Type constraints can also be imposed on the lists. He is soliciting feedback as to the architecture and functionality of the library.

We may find a pub or suitable source of refreshments after.

This is the first month of our new format, based on discussion following the survey: The first half will be geared toward beginners, and the second half will be geared toward more advanced material.

For the next several months the beginner material will be a series of lessons in the Haskell programming language. We will be following Brent Yorgey's CIS 194 syllabus (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html). So bring a laptop, or just follow along. Between months you are encouraged to work on the assignments and we will review them. Lyle will be leading the lecture this month.

This month's advanced talk will be delivered by Leif, who will be following up his discussion of data parallelism in Spark (Scala) and Haskell.

The holiday party got rescheduled to January 12th because of the snow day.

It’s potluck-style. Bring food and drink. The disco ball will be on.

RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1800463503507540/ and https://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/

Join Us for the Cinema 4D Roadshow 2016 Enjoy food, drink, prizes*, community and learning 3D

Take part in this rare opportunity to hang out with and learn from industry-leading 3D animation profesionals. Attend and you'll discover how easy it is - with virtually no experience - to create impressive motion designs. Then, a special guest artist dives deeper to share favorite tips and techniques. This event is designed for artists of all skill levels. RSVP for this limited-capacity event and you'll enter a raffle to win from thousands of dollars worth of prizes. Food and drinks are included. You won’t want to miss this.

The holiday party got rescheduled to January 12th because of the snow day. We did have a mini-party, with multiple courses of: pizza tarts, pizza puffs, and onion tarts, with wine. We had a paper airplane contest (for distance). The disco ball was on, and we listened to James Brown. But January 12th will be the actual holiday party.

It’s potluck-style. Bring food and drink. The disco ball will be on.

RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1800463503507540/ and https://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/

Community Mission Statement: A cozy place to work alongside people doing what they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

There are 2 requirements for people here free: First, RSVP on Facebook, Meetup, or on our event page (before you come) with: your name, what time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for.

Then, while you’re here, aside from lunch, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total. And most of the time you'll be working on something.

Schedule: 9am: Open for free. 12pm: Optional potluck lunch. 5pm: End of Open House.

People here for free will have access to everything except: locker storage and member car parking, and can make short phone calls in conference rooms (up to 30 minutes; members get 3 hours per day). You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Membership info is: http://collectiveagency.co/membership

Bring your functional problems, success stories and questions.

Let's get together and discuss anything related to Street Epistemology (SE). The topic for November will be "Mistakes Were Made - Learning From Failure". As Dr. Peter Boghossian said, failure is an expected part of the process of learning to use Street Epistemology effectively.

We'll be looking at our mistakes in a positive light, as a beneficial tool for optimizing our technique and improving in the future. Bring your stories (or audio/video) of errors both big and small and share what you think you might have done better so we can all learn from each other. Afterwords we'll head to Deschutes Brewery.

This is a fun and casual social get-together for people who are interested in Street Epistemology. Why SE? Because beliefs that are not based on sound reasoning and evidence, including those in religion, pseudoscience, politics, and more, can occur at an alarming rate in our friends, family, community, and ourselves. While debate and presenting evidence can be effective when one is open to it, in other cases it can backfire, strengthening the belief even more (Nyhan & Reifler, Political Behavior, 2010: 32,[masked]).

Street Epistemology is an approach for having meaningful, respectful, and productive conversations that help people re-examine the processes they use to come to knowledge, become more reflective about their beliefs, and break through dogmatism.

See https://streetepistemology.com/

We're mostly skeptics and atheists, but all are welcome and encouraged to join us.

The Container Summit City Series comes to Portland on October 20th to continue the conversation surrounding containers in production!

Join the growing Portland container community and hear how innovative enterprises are leveraging the power of containers to solve common pain points, to increase the velocity of their development cycles, and to redefine how their organizations work together to build modern applications.

Learn from companies that have been running containers in production for years and have experience with what solution stacks work best, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to get optimal performance without breaking the bank.

We'll also look to key players in the ecosystem to share insights on how a containerized future will change application development and operational processes.

AGENDA:

6pm-7pm = Networking and Cocktail Hour (Dinner Provided) 7pm-9pm = Container Best Practices from Expert Users

The majority of companies in the food space set out to answer one simple question: how can we feed consumers better, faster, and healthier? However, often overlooked are the workers and producers that make our food system run.

Learn why building a mission-driven organization that values and empowers its workers can be critical for your impact on the world as well as the sustainability of your business.

Join Jason Skipton from Growing Gardens, Julia Niiro from Let Um Eat, and Charley Wang from Josephine for a night of civic discourse, community discussion and, of course, food.

We'll discuss what Haskell is good for and why you should care, the ever popular "what's a monad" and anything functional related people want to talk about.

Community Mission Statement: A cozy place to work alongside people doing what they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

There are 2 requirements for people here free: First, RSVP on Facebook, Meetup, or on our event page (before you come) with: your name, what time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for.

Then, while you’re here, aside from lunch, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total. And most of the time you'll be working on something.

Schedule: 9am: Open for free. 12pm: Optional potluck lunch. 5pm: End of Open House.

People here for free will have access to everything except: locker storage and member car parking, and can make short phone calls in conference rooms (up to 30 minutes; members get 3 hours per day). You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Membership info is: http://collectiveagency.co/membership

The Portland Ag Tech Panel brings together founders, investors, educators, and government officials who are building the future of Agriculture Technology. Join us for a fun evening of networking, panel discussions, and AgTech pitches.

Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 - Food / Networking 6:30 - 7:30 - Panel Discussion 7:30 - 8:30 - AgTech Pitches 8:30 - 9:00 - Networking

Panelists:

Rich Thornton, Moss Adams LLP, Partner Jeff Freeman, Marion Ag Service, Inc., Director of Sales & Marketing Jim Huston, Portland Seed Fund, Managing Partner Erica Riel-Carden, Royse Law Firm, Associate Roger Royse, Royse Law Firm, Founder Scott Sandler, Oregon Angel Fund, Fund Manager

Event Sponsors & Supporters: Moss Adams LLP Rabobank Oregon BEST Oregon Angel Fund (OAF) Royse Law Firm PC Marion AG Service, Inc
Portland Seed Fund

Pitching Companies: 25 Hours Hargol FoodTech Let Um Eat Smart Vineyards Oregon Dulse Try Eco DroneOn AirStream Innovations

Anthony Magnabosco is coming to the first Portland Street Epistemology (SE) Meetup. He will be giving a short presentation about SE and then doing Q&A with the audience afterwords. Dr. Peter Boghossian is planning to attend and may even participate in a joint Q&A Session after Anthony's talk.

Date: Saturday, September 24th, 2016 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Collective Agency

If you haven't seen Anthony's videos, check out the top 5: https://t.co/YoenIaqADL

For everyone who is planning to attend, please answer this one poll question about how familiar you are with SE: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Street-Epistemology/polls/1230863/

This is a casual social get-together for people who are interested in Street Epistemology. We'll learn more about SE, share our successes and failures, and have fun.

Why SE? Because beliefs that are not based on sound reasoning and evidence, including those in religion, pseudoscience, politics, and more, can occur at an alarming rate in our friends, family, community, and ourselves. While debate and presenting evidence can be effective when one is open to it, in other cases it can backfire, strengthening the belief even more (Nyhan & Reifler, Political Behavior, 2010: 32,[masked]).

Street Epistemology is an approach for having meaningful, respectful, and productive conversations that help people re-examine the processes they use to come to knowledge, become more reflective about their beliefs, and break through dogmatism.

See https://streetepistemology.com/

We're mostly skeptics and atheists, but all are welcome and encouraged to join us.

Echo Nolan will be presenting the paper "Generic Constructors and Eliminators from Descriptions: Type Theory as a Dependently Typed Internal DSL" by Tim Sheard and Larry Diehl. The authors describe a method of encoding inductive types via descriptions that are ordinary terms, rather than each inductive type adding a new set of axioms to the theory. They go on to contribute a generic eliminator function that works for any type defined in this way.

Community Mission Statement: A cozy place to work alongside people doing what they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

There are 2 requirements for people here free: First, RSVP on Facebook, Meetup, or on our event page (before you come) with: your name, what time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for.

Then, while you’re here, aside from lunch, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total. And most of the time you'll be working on something.

Schedule: 9am: Open for free. 12pm: Optional potluck lunch. 5pm: End of Open House.

People here for free will have access to everything except: locker storage and member car parking, and can make short phone calls in conference rooms (up to 30 minutes; members get 3 hours per day). You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Membership info is: http://collectiveagency.co/membership

Bring your functional problems, success stories and questions.

Collective Agency turned 5 years old on June 15th (first planning meeting) and August 1st (opened as our own location). A lot has happened in 5 years: we've been an experiment in workplace democracy with optional participation, making here like our ideal city or village. We've hosted more than 200 tech events open to the public listed on Calagator (more than any venue except Free Geek, Lucky Lab and New Relic), and many more non-tech events (over 1,000 paid meetings, and around 1,200 member lunches). We've won awards as a coworking place and a workplace democracy.

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck birthday celebration lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it’ll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

If you RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/groups/collectiveagency/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/ or Twitter @CollectiveAgenC with the time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for, then that's great.

Schedule: • 9am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional potluck lunch • 5pm – End of Open House

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms or locker storage. You can come in groups of up to 14 people. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/576112569215781/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/events/231889333/

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it’ll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

Comment below with the time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for, and more people will be here for you.

Schedule: • 9am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional potluck lunch • 5pm – End of Open House

People here for free will have access to the loft room, the kitchen, conference rooms, computer monitors, and restrooms, but not locker storage. You can come in groups of up to 14 people. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

This group's MAIN purpose is for you to get your burning cloud questions answered. So please bring along your questions, your answers, and your willingness to discuss.

In addition, we'll have an approximately 30-minute presentation.

SCHEDULE

5:30 - arrive and have food, etc.

6:00 - presentation (see below)

6:30 - presenter will answer questions and we'll open it up to general questions

7:30 - we'll start winding down

PRESENTATION

Lessons Learned: City of Portland’s Move to the Cloud

Over the last few years, the City of Portland has slowly moved a variety of services to cloud providers. The most prominent move was its transition to Microsoft Office 365. Come hear about what motivates, as well as paralyzes, organizations like the City from embracing the cloud. Logan Kleier will discuss how to handle organizational bureaucracy, limited internal technical skills, and budget concerns as part of the process of moving large organizations to cloud services.

SPEAKER

Logan Kleier is the CEO and Founder of SecondSight, a software analytics startup based in Portland. Prior to this, he was the Information Security Officer for the City of Portland where he managed policy and operational security for the City’s infrastructure and applications. He has also worked for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) as well as several wireless and broadband startups in the DC area. Logan has a BA from Trinity University and a Masters from Georgetown.

Bring your functional problems, success stories and questions.

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it’ll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

If you RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/groups/collectiveagency/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/ or Twitter @CollectiveAgenC with the time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for, then that's great.

Schedule: • 9am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional potluck lunch • 5pm – End of Open House

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms, locker storage, computer monitors. You can come in groups of up to 14 people. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Bring your functional problems, success stories and questions.

Some possible topics for this month:

• The relationship between applicative functors, arrows, and monads.

• An experience report on debugging an IO related crash in Haskell.

• Do covariance and contravariance apply in Elm and Haskell?

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it’ll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

There are 2 requirements: 1) RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/groups/collectiveagency/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/ or Twitter @CollectiveAgenC with the time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for. This will be posted on our website, RSVP pages, and here on the wall. 2) While you’re here, aside from lunch, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total.

Schedule: • 9am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional potluck lunch • 5pm – End of Open House

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms, locker storage, computer monitors. You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Members and people here free share what you’re working on or thinking about. What will you share, and what’s something you want to learn by sharing? Comment below, thanks.

Each talk is 5-8 minutes (2 to 10 minutes sometimes). Afterwards, mingling and feedback and conversations.

Fun, inspiring/energizing, informal, learning, skill-sharing, supportive, is the goal. We’ll meet on the sofas in the big loft room.

If you're not a member, RSVP for free days. http://collectiveagency.co/event/lightning-talks-4-430pm/

RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/collectiveagency/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/ or Twitter @CollectiveAgenC

First Fridays Free Days were a success so we're expanding to every weekday. Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our Free Days (Monday through Friday 10am-4pm each day).

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it has been but with more people here.

All new members and free people are making history or generally being great; take the quiz to see if you qualify. http://collectiveagency.co/quiz/ (we lowered the passing score from 20 to 17)

If you qualify, then there are 3 requirements:

1) RSVP commenting below with: your name, what days and times you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for. This will be posted on our website, RSVP pages, and here on the wall.

2) While you’re here in the big loft room, each day you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total.

3) Every day you're here free after the first day you're here, we ask for you to do 5-30 minutes of helping out Collective Agency in addition to being here and having conversations here. The simplest way is writing about us online. A Requests/Needs List is shared here.

The goal is potluck/stone-soup community gift-economy sharing for people here free, so we all contribute and grow (as a saying goes, "not free as in beer, but free as in kittens").

Schedule: • 10am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional lunch • 4pm – End of free day

Wednesdays 2-2:45pm are civics; you can participate in a group Q&A about here, and plan what you want to happen here. As we grow, we will keep room for free access here and expand to additional locations/satellite offices.

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms, locker storage, computer monitors. You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service, linked from the quiz.

Bring your functional problems, success stories and questions.

Some possible topics for this month:

• A functional programming library in Perl, providing lists and an option type, utilizing mixed-in "roles" similar to type classes.

• The relationship between applicative functors, arrows, and monads.

RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/collectiveagency/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/ or Twitter @CollectiveAgenC

First Fridays Free Days were a success so we're expanding to every weekday. Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our Free Days (Monday through Friday 10am-4pm each day).

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it has been but with more people here.

All new members and free people are making history or generally being great; take the quiz to see if you qualify. http://collectiveagency.co/quiz/ (we lowered the passing score from 20 to 17)

If you qualify, then there are 3 requirements:

1) RSVP commenting below with: your name, what days and times you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for. This will be posted on our website, RSVP pages, and here on the wall.

2) While you’re here in the big loft room, each day you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total.

3) Every day you're here free after the first day you're here, we ask for you to do 5-30 minutes of helping out Collective Agency in addition to being here and having conversations here. The simplest way is writing about us online. A Requests/Needs List is shared here.

The goal is potluck/stone-soup community gift-economy sharing for people here free, so we all contribute and grow (as a saying goes, "not free as in beer, but free as in kittens").

Schedule: • 10am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional lunch • 4pm – End of free day

Wednesdays 2-2:45pm are civics; you can participate in a group Q&A about here, and plan what you want to happen here. As we grow, we will keep room for free access here and expand to additional locations/satellite offices.

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms, locker storage, computer monitors. You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service, linked from the quiz.

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

All new members and free people are making history or generally being great; take the quiz to see if you qualify. http://collectiveagency.co/quiz/

If you qualify, then there are 2 requirements: 1) RSVP by emailing [email protected] with: your name, what time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for. This will be posted on our website, RSVP pages, and here on the wall. 2) While you’re here, aside from lunch, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total.

Schedule: • 10am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional potluck lunch. • 4pm – End of Open House

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms, locker storage, computer monitors. You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service:

The following applies to the entire Collective Agency community. It is a simple statement of the expectations within which we all work. Please read it with care.

Every society has rules of conduct by which the members of the society agree to abide. - Collective Agency is a society of creative persons who inhabit a common space. - In Collective Agency, individuals are prized for their individuality, but no individual has the right to inflict harm upon others or to destroy or lessen that which should be available to all. - To these ends, the following apply, in the physical workspace and, as applicable, online:

1. OWN responsibility for your actions.
2. HOLD each other accountable.
3. BE an active participant in your membership.
4. IF needed, confront with respect (how you’d like to be confronted).
5. HAVE a considerate level of voice (and language). Place cellphones on vibrate.
6. CLEAN up after yourself.
7. HELP to keep common areas tidy.
8. BE mindful of valuables; yours and others.
9. WHEN informally meeting in common areas, be considerate of other members. Book a meeting room if in doubt.

Bring your functional problems, success stories and questions. Topics TBD

Come work and have conversations at Collective Agency during our First Fridays Free Days, and join an optional potluck lunch.

Members, come as usual, and you can bring guests, it'll be the same for you as it is every day but with more people here.

All new members and free people are making history or generally being great; take the quiz to see if you qualify. http://collectiveagency.co/quiz/

If you qualify, then there are 2 requirements: 1) RSVP commenting at https://www.facebook.com/events/1686703284930942/ or http://www.meetup.com/Collective-Agency-community-workplace/events/229048733/ with: your name, what time you expect to be here, what you’ll be working on (you can include a link to a website or social media), and what you’re looking for. This will be posted on our website, RSVP pages, and here on the wall. 2) While you’re here, aside from lunch, you’ll find ways to talk with at least 2 people here for at least 30 minutes total.

Schedule: • 10am – Open for free • 12pm – Optional potluck lunch. • 4pm – End of Open House

People here for free will have access to the big loft room, the kitchen, and restrooms, but not: conference rooms, locker storage, computer monitors. You can come in groups of up to 14 people but everybody has to qualify and do the actions described above. There are no age restrictions.

The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service:

The following applies to the entire Collective Agency community. It is a simple statement of the expectations within which we all work. Please read it with care.

Every society has rules of conduct by which the members of the society agree to abide. - Collective Agency is a society of creative persons who inhabit a common space. - In Collective Agency, individuals are prized for their individuality, but no individual has the right to inflict harm upon others or to destroy or lessen that which should be available to all. - To these ends, the following apply, in the physical workspace and, as applicable, online:

1. OWN responsibility for your actions.
2. HOLD each other accountable.
3. BE an active participant in your membership.
4. IF needed, confront with respect (how you’d like to be confronted).
5. HAVE a considerate level of voice (and language). Place cellphones on vibrate.
6. CLEAN up after yourself.
7. HELP to keep common areas tidy.
8. BE mindful of valuables; yours and others.
9. WHEN informally meeting in common areas, be considerate of other members. Book a meeting room if in doubt.

Talks/discussions TBD.

Have something cool you'd like to share or discuss? Have a pressing problem or question about functional programming? Send a message to the meetup group!

See the mailing list or the Meetup event (linked above) for details on this month's agenda, or to talk to us. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

Talks/discussions TBD.

Have something cool you'd like to share or discuss? Have a pressing problem or question about functional programming? Send a message to the meetup group!

See the mailing list or the Meetup event (linked above) for details on this month's agenda, or to talk to us. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

The fifth annual holiday party at Collective Agency is on Tuesday December 8th, from 5-8pm, for members, friends, co-workers, partners, families, kids, and visitors.

Bring a food or drink item of your delight to share with the community.

There will be a White Elephant Gift Exchange. Bring an interesting gift to participate. Funny, weird, and nice gifts are great. Rules for the game can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/white_elephant_gift_exchange

This will be a social/non-work event in the big loft room.

The Community Guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1513582625606922/ or by emailing [email protected]

Echo Nolan will be presenting "Haskell, the Bad Parts".

There was desire expressed last time for a Haskell talk focusing on practical work. I wrote a tiny - 103 lines - utility for setting up port forwarding last April. It's an example of a working program and I have all kinds of complaints about how you have to do things in the language.

I do love the language though.

See the mailing list or the Meetup event (linked above) for details on this month's agenda, or to talk to us. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

YOU: are interested in programming but have limited or no experience.

Perhaps you're an artist who wants to work with digital tools including Processing and Arduino.

Perhaps you're a machinist who would like to write software to direct a laser cutter or CAM system.

Maybe you want an edge for you spreadsheet macros.

Or you'd like to start a small business on the web and would like to do some of the work yourself.

The goal of this course will be to give a solid foundation in theory and practice so that you have the context to pick up and use any individual programming environment.

The goal of this meeting, is to determine a course format, length, and structure based upon student goals.

In any case, at the end you will have a software project you've created, and can show off to your friends!

Bring:

(1) Note taking ability.

(2) Laptop computer, if you have one.

(3) Food or snack to share.

(4) Friends, anybody who you think may be interested.

(5) This meeting is free, but if you want to enroll (and weigh in on class format) bring $5.

(6) Adherence to this code of conduct. This class is not affiliated in any way with the Plone project, I'm just borrowing their code of conduct. https://plone.org/foundation/materials/foundation-resolutions/code-of-conduct

Agenda:

(1) Class format, several alternatives will be presented.

(2) Discussion of student goals.

(3) Discussion of time line and homework requirements.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

This month: No talks planned yet. Lyle Kopnicky has been coming to grips with a lot of things about functional reactive programming, applicative functors, arrows, and monads lately, and would be happy to discuss these, but doesn't have a talk prepared. There are several talks on YouTube, blog posts, papers, and software tools (such as Elm) that may be worth looking over in the meeting.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

From 5-7pm on Wednesday August 5th we’ll have a happy hour and mixer at Collective Agency. It’s open to the public, and part of Portland Coworking Week. It’ll be in the big loft room here.

Earlier in the day from 9am to 5pm we’ll be open for anyone seriously considering membership or here as part of Portland Coworking Week (the link above). From 2-2:30pm there'll be an optional member meeting, where members plan upcoming events. Non-members can sit in, and share your name and something you're passionate about.

Information on membership is here: http://collectiveagency.co/membership

The Community Guidelines are the core of the Terms of Service here: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Collective Agency, co-working in Portland Oregon turns 4 years old this month! This Tuesday July 21st is the open house from 9am to 5pm. Lunch is at 12pm (bring your own), drinks are at 4pm (we'll provide). The disco ball might turn on for a bit. There will be cupcakes. We'll be open to the public for the workday. For people interested in membership, you'll get a sense of the cozy workplace community here and can sign up, and for people who just want to visit for the day and share with their friends and co-workers, that's great too.

We've hosted more open-source related events in the past 4 years than almost any other venue in Portland, are rated one of the best co-working places in the U.S., and have won awards as one of the world's most democratic workplaces.

Community: Members here value socializing and community activities at their workplace. There’s desire expressed by members to have people here and community activities. Openness, socializing, inspiration, and friendships are largely what defines a successful event and a great day here.

Many of us eat lunch and talk on the sofas here each day. There are weekly activities. Most of the time people are productively working.

Neighborhood Notes wrote an article about the open house: http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/events/2015/07/collective_agency_celebrates_4_years_of_work_space_collaborations/

RSVP for the open house on Facebook (the link at the top of this page) or just show up. The community guidelines are the core of the terms of service. http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines Sharing info about Collective Agency with people you know who might be interested is great.

Membership is open. $250 per month or $2,400 per year per person includes: 24/7 access to the big loft room, conference room access (3 hours for each person each day for phone calls and meetings), and community activities. Companies can have up to 20 members here. Full info on membership is at: http://collectiveagency.co/membership

Come and work here!

Contact: Alex Linsker | Business Owner | (503) 517-6900 | [email protected]

This month: Jon Sterling will give an introduction to Computational Type Theory and its proof refinement logic, and show off some super cool stuff in JonPRL and Nuprl, like how to get coinductive types for free from intersection types and general recursion. And of course, answer a ton of questions.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?

Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. Our hackathon will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools to help deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.

We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. Along with technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools.

You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!

Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekend's agenda: Day 1 6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation. 7PM - Speakers present (please see below for list) 8PM - Pitch ideas and form teams 12AM - The facility closes for the night. Go home get some sleep or continue hacking away at home.

Day 2 09AM - The fun continues with breakfast served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec’d. Senseis will be available throughout the entire day to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 6PM. 01PM - Lunch is Served 06PM - Pencils down. Please be sure to sign-up to present at the link provided at 12PM on Day 2. Pitches start promptly at 6PM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. No powerpoints unless you are only presenting an idea.

Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge: Best Hackathon Overall App 1st Place - $500 in Gift Cards for the team Best Use of AT&T M2X APIs 1st Place - $500 in Gift Cards for the team Community Choice Award 1st Place - $500 in Gift Cards for the team Most Useful Feedback 1st Place - One (1) Sphero Ollie

Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.
33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does 33% Weight - Originality of idea 33% Weight - Technically creative and/or challenging implementation Social Media. Follow us @attdeveloper for live updates and photos from the event

RSVP at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/att-mobile-app-hackathon-portland-tickets-16053435257

Levent Erkok will be giving an informal talk on the SBV library that he's been working on for quite some time now (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/sbv), and a possible brief intro to SAT/SMT solving.

Hoping to hear about Haskell and Clojure versions of small command-line programs, such as one for parsing and displaying data from a weather API.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

Collective Agency members Tom and Eric host an informal event on public data with Pentaho ETL.

Collective Agency members Eric Youngson and Tom Wall host an event on data hacking with ETL software.

We have some interesting content lined up this month: Robert Dodier, a developer and project administrator on the Maxima project, has offered to give us a talk on it. Maxima is a computer algebra system written in Common Lisp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_(software)

Also, time permitting, we'll hear about Haskell and Clojure versions of small command-line programs, such as one for parsing and displaying data from a weather API.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

See the mailing list for details on this month's agenda. Attendance is limited at this venue. RSVP via the Meetup group.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming, based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Lisp, Clojure, Scala, Oz, Agda, Idris, and others. The group meets regularly on the second Monday of the month for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts.

The holiday party will be December 11th, 5pm, at Collective Agency. This is traditionally the biggest member event of the year! It's for members, family and friends.

This will be a potluck style party. Please bring something (food and/or drink) you'd like to share with the community.

There will also be a White Elephant Gift Exchange lead by Dan. Bring an “embarrassing” gift to participate. Ideally something you already own, that you don't want to see yourself going home with, but that you want to see someone else going home with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange

Website: http://collectiveagency.co/event/collective-agency-holiday-party-expect-drinks-and-food-bring-friends-and-family/ RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1520855261517755/ or email [email protected]

The quest of every organization is the same: to rapidly acquire customers, grow their lifetime value, and convert them into loyal advocates who in turn, influence new customers.

PIZZA. BEER.

Marketers are now faced with new challenges in this dynamic, ever-changing, customer-driven world. The key to success is one thing: engagement. Join us to learn how best-in-breed marketers are mastering the art and science of digital marketing by leveraging seven key tenets of engagement marketing and engaging their audience:

• As individuals

• Based on what they do

• Continuously over time

• Wherever they are

• Always directed towards a goal

• With measurable impact

• At the speed of digital

PIZZA. BEER.

We are excited to welcome two Marketing Automation thought leaders from this Meetup's Sponsor, Marketo:

• Allison Dyer (@DyerAllison), Sr. Solutions Consultant, Marketo

• Joseph Benoit (@JNBenoit), Associate Solutions Consultant, Marketo

Did I mention we will also have pizza and beer?

Portland has long been known as a bastion for creative people and innovative projects. But how might that creative energy be channeled toward social change work and nurturing justice? SJF leaders will jump-start this conversation and you take it from there!

RSVP at http://www.socialjusticefund.org/tech-savvy-social-justice-innovator

"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

The digital marketing landscape is changing rapidly, with new technologies emerging and existing platforms evolving. And it can feel overwhelming unless you put a personal focus on education.

In this PTI styled discussion (sans the yelling), Product Strategist, Ellen Valentine and Agency Marketing Director, Brian Rants will share their perspectives on what you need to do to stay ahead of the digital marketing technology curve and avoid becoming an obsolete marketer.

Learn how to:

• Stay ahead of the technology curve

• Keep up with trends and best practices

• Make a name for your self at your company and beyond

Grab a drink and be ready to jump into a roundtable discussion in and among the top marketing minds in Portland!

About the panelists

Ellen Valentine has more than 20 years experience as VP of Marketing/CMO for a number of technology companies. She has deep expertise in launching new products, evaluating product and market positions, designing go-to-market strategy, and managing all digital marketing initiatives. She believes that great people, and effective technology are foundations for success, but great execution is the ultimate differentiator. In her role at Silverpop, she is focused is coaching and mentoring Silverpop clients to adapt and thrive in the changing role of marketing. She is also a sought out speaker at industry conferences and events.

Brian Rants is a veteran of digital agencies, and founded the digital division of DMX. He has prototyped, constructed and brought to market a variety of products and services for agencies and their clients. He was featured in IBM Silverpop's CEO keynote for mobile marketing innovation, and speaks at marketing conference on technology enabled marketing.

Wednesday September 24th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House! http://collectiveagency.co/

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/705211839547045/

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like):

• 9am - Open • 12pm - Some of us will get lunch from the local food carts. • 12:30pm Most of us will eat on the sofas in the big loft room. • 2-2:30pm - Optional Member Meeting - for members to organize upcoming events for the community, suggest new ideas and continue to guide our collective agency. Visitors can sit in. • 5pm - End of Open House

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access.

Often people try us out and become members before the end of the day, then get to stay after 5pm for 24/7 access with a key fob, alarm code and tour, locker storage, etc. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Wednesday August 27th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House! http://collectiveagency.co/

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/745447115512749/

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am - Open

• 12pm - Lunch from the local food carts. Arrive before noon to join us.

• 2-2:30pm - Optional Member Meeting - for members to share updates/events, goals, and questions/suggestions, and to get feedback from other members if there are things they'd like to organize here. We love having a variety of events, groups and activities here and want more of that.

• 5pm - End of Open House

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have just over 60 members and 2 staff, with room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Become even more efficient by writing site-specific add-ons

One of our Eugene-based members, Eli Van Zoeren, joins us again to continue to teach us how to write/create plugins and extensions to solve your templating roadblocks. Instead of dropping into inline PHP code (messy, insecure, incompatible with certain add-ons) or using the Query module (hard to read, potentially slow), you can create a custom helper add-on for your website. Some specific topics we will cover include:

• Getting started with EE add-on development

• The difference between Plugins, Extensions, and Modules

• Use plugins to write your own template tags

• How to use Hooks to modify ExpressionEngine's default behavior

• Creating new global variables using database queries

• Caching data so it can be reused without additional processing overhead

Some familiarity with PHP is helpful, but not necessary.

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Eli is a web developer currently living in Eugene, OR who likes his websites to be clean, direct, and functional. Which is not to say they aren't attractive and memorable as well. Eli has also written several add-ons for ExpressionEngine, such as VZ Bad Behavior, VZ Members, VZ URL Extension, and a slew of others. All of his add-ons can be downloaded from Devot:ee.

Wednesday July 30th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

“Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!”

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1481236122120319/

Schedule (come when you like):

• 9am – open

• 12pm – potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch — It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!)

• 2-2:30pm – Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they’re passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise, to be followed by light yoga/stretching.)

• 5pm – end of open house

The open house is for everybody who’d like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you’re interested in membership; it’s a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have around 60 members and 3 staff, with room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community Guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

How to score with marketing automation Were you ever curious about how others always seem to score?

CMO’s that implement lead scoring see 138% lead gen ROI. But only 21% of companies do. This need not be.

Drink some Widmer Brothers beer, carb binge with a Voodoo donut, and channel your inner marketing guru as we give you the roadmap to lead scoring paradise:

• Persona: we’ll show you how to identify and score your ideal prospect

• Plan: we’ll give you a content planning matrix for matching content to your buyer’s path to purchase

• Prioritize: we’ll demonstrate how to alert sales to the hottest leads through lead routing and alerts

• Pull back the curtains: we’ll show you our own live scoring models and how we built them

"Lead scoring and ROI go together like beer and donuts,” said no one, ever. But they will now.

Presented by

John Zaterka of IBM Silverpop (Marketing automation platform)

Brian Rants of DMX Engage (Marketing automation agency)

Wednesday June 25th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

“Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!”

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/306065929569418/

Schedule (come when you like):

• 9am – open

• 12pm – potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch — It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!)

• 2-2:30pm – Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they’re passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise, to be followed by light yoga/stretching.)

• 5pm – end of open house

The open house is for everybody who’d like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you’re interested in membership; it’s a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have around 60 members and 3 staff, with room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community Guidelines are the core of the terms of service: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Paulo Elias joins us again as a presenter to further teach us a thing or two about Mark Croxton's awesome EE add-on, Stash.

Stash allows you to use the template partials concept in ExpressionEngine which helps to make your code DRY and your templates efficient.

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Paulo hails from the Bay Area but (not so) secretly wishes he lived in the Pacific Northwest. He's been working in the web industry since the dawn of time (he ages well). His expertise lies in ExpressionEngine, Craft, and general bulls**t, and is usually thinking of the next time he can come to Portland for his dose of hipsterism and Lardo. You can follow Paulo on Twitter, but I'm not sure why you'd want to. ;)

Wednesday May 28th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch --- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise. A member will share a short film he's made, and we'll have yoga/stretching.) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have around 60 members and 3 staff, with room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/712192602170264/

Wednesday, April 30th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch --- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have almost 60 members, with room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/632633636830053/

Wednesday, March 26th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like):

• 9am – open

• 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!)

• 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise)

• 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have around 50 members and room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/692952134076855/?source=1

RSVP and info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zilino-road-show-portland-or-tickets-10894498739

Meet Zilino, the web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated participatory processes.

The Zilino Road Show is an opportunity for our friends and colleagues in various cities across the US to learn about Zilino, discuss our roadmap and explore opportunities for collaboration.

Agenda:

Arrival and mingling The Intellitics approach to digital engagement (5 minutes) Zilino overview, live demo and recent project examples (20 minutes) Q&A BYO lunch. Non-alcoholic beverages will be served.

See you there!

RSVP and info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zilino-road-show-portland-or-tickets-10894498739

Questions? Contact us!

To schedule a custom demo or to discuss any other questions, please contact us at [email protected] or call +1 (877) 945 4666. Thanks!

Online demos

Can’t make it? Attend an online demo instead. Please check the road show calendar for a list of upcoming events. Duration for the overview and live demo is usually around 30 minutes, followed by Q&A.

Meet Zilino at the 03/20 IAP2 Cascade “PI Network” event

We’ve been invited to give a 5-minute Zilino quick intro at the IAP2 Cascade chapter’s “PI Network” event, Thursday evening, March 20. Check our blog for details.

About the presenter

Tim BonnemannTim Bonnemann is the founder and CEO of Intellitics, Inc., a digital engagement startup based in San José, CA (USA). Tim is a long-time member of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2 USA).

About Intellitics

Intellitics, Inc. is a digital engagement startup based in San José, CA (USA). Intellitics helps organizations in the public, private and non-profit sector apply technology to drive collaborative governance, public participation and other dialogue-centric processes. Intellitics provides digital engagement consulting, training, and other related services.

About Zilino

Zilino is a web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums. Zilino enables practitioners to design and manage well structured, well facilitated group conversations and other participatory processes.

Have questions about Zilino Road Show Portland, OR? Contact Intellitics, Inc.

Wednesday, February 26th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like):

• 9am – open

• 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!)

• 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise)

• 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. We have around 50 members and room to grow to around 100 members. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/746867448659776/

Wednesday, January 29th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/184987988365717

Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

Collective Agency staff are trying an experiment: additional to everything else we have, we’ll be staffed on the Third Saturday of the month, 9am-5pm (this coming Saturday January 18th, and next month February 15th).

The reason why is for Collective Agency to be open for tours (and work here for a day) for people who wouldn’t be available during the week and would like to try membership.

There will be a holiday party at Collective Agency Thursday December 12th, from 5-8pm, for members, friends, co-workers, partners, families, and visitors.

Bring a food or drink item of your delight. Many members have kids -- kids are welcome too. Partners, spouses, family, and friends, co-workers...

This will be a social/non-work event in the big loft room.

Bring anybody you'd like, and especially bring yourself. (As with all after-hours events here, members who want to work during the event have unlimited access in conference rooms.)

Logistics: Visitors who've been here before or heard about us but haven't yet visited are welcome; bring a decorative or functional gift for the Collective Agency community (books, objects, technology, art), or a food or drink item.

To do: a party music playlist, visually warm/light/fun decorations, visuals to project onto our spinning disco ball, what else? Comment below to volunteer. Questions? Suggestions? Email Alex Linsker and Resh at [email protected] call (503) 517-6900 or write a comment below.

Website: http://collectiveagency.co RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/751459928214592/ or email [email protected]

Open House at Collective Agency (Wednesday, November 27th)

Wednesday, November 27th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/722885731074160/

-- Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

Open House at Collective Agency (Wednesday, October 30th)

Wednesday, October 30th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

People are invited to wear costumes for Halloween.

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access, and you can come try us out for a week if you’re considering membership to get a feel for the place and the people that work here. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/739841152699458/

-- Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

Matt Weinberg of New York-based Vector Media Group joins us via Google Hangouts to talk about e-commerce for ExpressionEngine. He'll discuss options, best practices, and that nasty thing called PCI compliance.

Join us for what will no doubt be a super-informative presentation!

PS - If time allows, we'll talk about the recent ExpressionEngine Conference (which by the way, was awesome).

Open House at Collective Agency (Wednesday, September 25th)

Wednesday, September 25th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access, and you can come try us out for a week if you’re considering membership to get a feel for the place and the people that work here. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/158754014324910/

-- Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

In preparation for the ExpressionEngine conference next month, Eric Lamb is going to do a run through of his presentation on Security in Depth. The overall goal (for him) is to elicit feedback on what worked (and didn’t) and, hopefully, improve on everything so the conference can be as informative and helpful as it can possibly be.

The points Eric will cover include:

• Who’s Evil?

• The Solutions. To Avoid.

• The Solutions. To Embrace.

• How to talk to your host.

This will be a casual introduction to the Objective-C language.

We will cover the basics and give you a good foundation to the language and have plenty of time for questions.

No specific experience necessary but this will be a technical talk and it may help to review other introductory C and Objective-C material.

Afterwards we'll go to Pints Brewing around the corner at 412 NW 5th Ave.

Wednesday, August 28th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day, regardless of whether or not you're interested in membership; it's a good day to work with friends.

Members have 24/7 access, and you can come try us out for a week if you’re considering membership to get a feel for the place and the people that work here. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/

Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

Got an EE problem you're stumped on? Curious about a particular technique? Want to review some code you wrote? This is the meetup to come to!

For two hours, we'll be doing group peer reviews in a workshop style where you can pick the brains of your fellow EE devs.

Don't have a problem or technique to solve or learn? Come anyway! We'll need your expertise!

Neo Technologies will be hosting an official Neo4j Tutorial that'll cover the core functionalities of Neo4J. The full day of training (9am-5pm) will include hands on practice sessions that will teach you the basics of graph modeling, query languages and more!

Meals and refreshments will be provided.

Only $99.00 for the entire day, and use portland4j for an additional 10% off the registration price!

We hope to see you there!

Open House at Collective Agency (Wednesday, July 31st)

Wednesday, July 31st, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day. Members have 24/7 access, and you can come try us out for a week if you’re considering membership, to get a feel for the place and the people that work here. Visit our website for details on how to become a member.

To RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/521472474575070/?context=create

-- Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

Marcus Neto of Blue Fish Design Studio joins us via Skype to cover how to sell EE, especially when prospects are asking about other CMS solutions. If you're a freelancer, web shop owner, or are in charge of sales in your web/marketing company, this is the meetup for you!

Neo4j is a powerful and expressive tool for storing, querying and manipulating data. However modeling data as graphs is quite different from modelling data under a relational database. In this talk, Michael Hunger will cover modelling business domains using graphs and show how they can be persisted and queried in Neo4j. We'll contrast this approach with the relational model, and discuss the impact on complexity, flexibility and performance.

We will also be showcasing our new tool GraphGist, and whiteboarding your particular use cases during the session. As always, beer/grub is provided by Neo4j.

*Do you want us to model your specific domain? Ping the PDX organizers and we will use your domain as an example during the meetup!*

Lets start with a simple intro to native iOS development. We'll have an overview of the process and an introduction to Xcode and Objective-C while building a simple "Hello World" style app.

Space is limited to please RSVP on the meetup web site.

http://www.meetup.com/PDX-iOS/events/124340512/

Thanks.

Julio

Open House at Collective Agency (Wednesday, June 26th)

Wednesday, June 26th, 9am to 5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during our Open House, and join us for a potluck lunch!

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): • 9am – open • 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (Best to come before lunch--- It’s great if you do bring food, but it’s fine not to, also!) • 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise) • 5pm - end of open house

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day. Members have 24/7 access, and you can come try us out for a week if you’re considering membership, to get a feel for the place and the people that work here. Visit our website for details on how to become a member.

To RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/521472474575070/?context=create

-- Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

Jim Manico has offered to come and give us another great talk. Topic will either be "Top Ten Web Defenses" or "Securing the Software Development Lifecycle".

We will serve Pizza! Please RSVP by emailing {tim . morgan at owasp.org} so we can better estimate how much to order.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Chapter meetings are free and open to the public.

Like with any site, backups are critical. Come join us in May to learn some tips and tricks on how to backup your EE site on a regular basis.

Update: Eric Lamb of Mithra62 will be presenting via Skype. After all, with an add-on like Backup Pro, Eric knows a thing or two about backing up EE sites! :) You can buy Backup Pro and Eric's other add-ons on Devot:ee.

Wednesday, April 24th, 9am-5pm, come and work at Collective Agency during the Open House. http://collectiveagency.co/

Community Mission Statement:

"Collective Agency is a cozy place to work alongside people doing work they’re passionate about and committed to, where 80% of people say hi. Come and work here!"

Schedule (come when you like): 9am - open 12pm - potluck lunch here on the sofas (best to come before lunch) 2-2:30pm - Lightning Talks (like TED Talks, members talk for 2-8 minutes about something they're passionate about and committed to, whether work or otherwise). 5pm - end of open house.

The open house is for everybody who'd like to work here for the day. Members have 24/7 access. You can try us out for a week if you're considering membership. http://collectiveagency.co/membership/ Community guidelines: http://collectiveagency.co/community-guidelines

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/155030127990843/

Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209 Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected] http://collectiveagency.co/

Learn how to integrate the Structure module into an ExpressionEngine site. Kristen will go over basic concepts, best practices, and helpful tips & tricks. What you'll learn:

Why use Structure? Difference between a Structure-managed page and a native, template-based page. Using "listings" for large channel groups like blogs and news. Using "assets" for non-page content, like sidebar touts & notifications. Useful tags & techniques for your templates. Dealing with category & archive listings. Hope to see you there!

This Wednesday March 27th, there is an Open House at Collective Agency. Our business is commercial sublease to members for 24/7 access.

Collective Agency is the cooperative/democratic/co-working cozy workplace located in Old Town, Portland.

Our community mission: Come work with passionate commitment in a democratically governed community.

Arrive as early as 9am to work (buzz "200" on the door). At 11:45am we’ll go to the food carts and sit indoors to eat and chat.

Every Wednesday at 2pm members give Lightning Talks, which are 2-4 minutes long and can be about anything the member giving the talk would like to learn about by sharing with people here. (A project they’re working on or anything under the sun that they’d like us to hear about, that they are passionately committed to.)

Stay as late as 5pm. Bring friends and co-workers, and expect to meet friendly people.

Collective Agency

Phone: (503) 517-6900 Fax: (503) 517-6901 Email: [email protected]

322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland Oregon 97209

http://collectiveagency.co

Big Data Prospecting: Staking a Claim – Presenter: Scott Swigart/Cascade Insights Tuesday, March 19, 2013 = 6:00PM – 7:30PM – The Collective Agency/Portland, OR

We Thank our Venue Host – The Collective Agency

Scott Swigart of Cascade Insights will talk about how the collection of Big Data will affect businesses and also their competitive intelligence professionals. The good news is, it’s already at your fingertips and the kinds of key intelligence questions that can be answered from public Big Data repositories is only increasing. Get ready to stake your claim. Answers to the following questions are buried in petabytes of data that you have at your disposal:

• What topics actually got traction at the competitor’s conference? • Are you losing employees to the competition? • What’s morale like at a certain company? • How is a competitor organized in terms of R&D, sales, and marketing? • How rapidly is a competitor’s product being adopted? • Who should you interview to get insights on an industry, trend, or competitor?

Find out what is Big Data all about and what can it do for you and your business. Scott Swigart, Co-Founder – Cascade Insights, informs his competitive intelligence projects with tech industry insights gained from a career that began decades ago with coding low-level UNIX hardware diagnostics and continues today with programmatic social media mining and cloud-based projects. Scott is well recognized for his contributions to the competitive intelligence community and regularly speaks at national conferences for marketing research and competitive intelligence associations. He co-chaired the Oregon SCIP chapter and co-wrote Going Beyond Google: Gathering Internet Intelligence, listed as a must-read for 2009–2010 by SCIP.

LOCATION The Collective Agency – 322 NW 6th Ave #200 – ortland, -Directions: http://goo.gl/maps/KDgmC

AGENDA 6:00PM – 6:30PM Registration and Networking // 6:30PM – 7:30PM Presentation, Q&A, Networking

CONTACTS Jeremy Brahm, SCIP Oregon Co-Chair/ATI Wah Chang/541.967.6961/[email protected] Kirk Richardson, SCIP Oregon Co-Chair/RMC/541.937.2389/[email protected] Robyn Reals, Education & Chapter Mgr. SCIP/ 703.739.0696 X 107/[email protected]

CANCELLATION POLICY Cancellations received in writing on or before Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 will be honored.

ClojureScript training is organized by Relevance, Inc. and takes place the day before Clojure/West.

ClojureScript: Up and Running with Stuart Sierra & Luke VanderHart

When & Where? Sunday, March 17 from 9-5pm. Lunch break (not provided) from 12-1pm.

Venue Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Avenue, Suite 200 Portland, Oregon 27209

The workshop venue is just a short walk away from the Clojure/West conference hotel, The Courtyard Portand City Center. The conference room rate of $124 will be available Saturday, March 16 for folks who are arriving early.

Who Should Attend? This course is, broadly, for anyone who has an interest in learning more about ClojureScript. This course is geared toward participants with some level of Clojure knowledge.

The workshop will alternate between lectures and lab work, and you should expect several hours of direct programming practice with instructors circling through participants to answer questions and encourage new practices.

What’s Included?

Breakfast, Coffee and Soft Drinks Snacks Internet connectivity and power during the workshop What Will I Learn? Material will include:

Setting up a ClojureScript project - Using the Leiningen build tool - Understanding the ClojureScript compiler - JavaScript interop and libraries - Working with the Google Closure Compiler - Using the Google Closure Libraries - Manipulating HTML in a browser - Building event-driven applications - Communicating with a Clojure server

Recommended reading: Sierra and VanderHart’s recent book, ClojureScript: Up and Running.

What Should I Bring?

Your own laptop (computers are not provided) Software installed prior to the class: This information will be emailed to attendees one week prior to class

Trainers

Stuart Sierra is the author of several popular open-source Clojure libraries, including clojure.test, various I/O utilities, and an HTTP client. He is the co-author, with Luke VanderHart, of the book ClojureScript: Up and Running and Practical Clojure.

Luke VanderHart believes that simple code leads to robust applications. Especially if it’s Clojure. He is the co-author, with Stuart Sierra, of the book ClojureScript: Up and Running and Practical Clojure.

Refund/Cancellation Policy

Unavoidable events happen and we understand that. You may cancel your ticket for full refund up until February 17, 2013. After February 17, 2013 you can send someone in your place if you cannot make it to training. Please note that a student ticket can only be transferred to another student. Confirmed and paid attendees who do not attend or who cancel after the deadline are liable for the entire fee.

Inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel "The Glass Bead Game", the Glass Plate Game, is essentially a conversation in the trappings of a board game. The idea is to spark creative and interesting dialog as the players explore connections between ideas against a dynamic mosaic map. There are no winners or losers. There is no order of play. Conversation flows throughout, and the end result is an artifact of the conversation, which can, itself, become a subject of further discussion. The topic of the game begins as The Math and Science in Sci-Fi

(the meta-game). We will begin with an introduction to the Game then launch right into playing. If you can't make it on time or stay the whole time, come anyway! It's better to see you briefly than not at all. The Game can last as long as we want it to, and go in any direction. After playing, there will be time for interested parties to talk further.

Matt Fordham, Principal & Technical Director at WINTR, a Seattle-based digital creative company, will give a presentation on automating ExpressionEngine – project bootstrapping and deployment using Git, Capistrano, and some other fun stuff!

In the first hour, Pete Forsyth will give a presentation and Q&A about Wikipedia: what is it, how did it come to be, how does it work? And, what's with Oregon's special kinship with Wikipedia and all things wiki?

After the first hour will be an open "edit-a-thon" - you can pair up with experienced Wikipedians to improve any Wikipedia article you like. Some suggestions: Portland's food scene, stuff that "keeps Portland weird", Portland area businesses and startups. Or even zombies. If you have reference materials, bring them along!

Event sponsors: Wiki Strategies and Prichard Communications.

Do bring a laptop, if you possibly can! If you don't have one, that's OK -- we may have a few loaners on hand, or you can just work with somebody else who has one.

See here for more details -- and feel free to edit this page with your ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/February_2013 (You can sign up either on Meetup.com or on this Wikipedia page).

Collective Agency, a dynamic, democratic coworking space in Old Town has openings for members, and is available for meeting rentals. You can join us at this open house, or stop by anytime between 9-5 to check us out.

The Tax and Conversation community does statewide legal work which comes out of civics events and outreach.

The work is a constitutional amendment on income tax reform for Oregon 2014, because we want everybody in Oregon to have enough:

-The most basic healthcare (a place to live, food to eat, and a little money for things like clothes).

-Human understanding of tax (better trust, empathy, appreciation, courage, positive actions).

-Jobs (Oregon state government is the biggest employer. Hire at least 30,000 jobs, and treat all businesses and all humans equally).

RSVP: https://taxandconversation.com/events/

Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation https://taxandconversation.com

Featured speaker - Steve Wyshywaniuk of Small World News (http://smallworldnews.tv/)

Lets stop asking for a faster horse in journalism. Point 1. Big Data isn't even here yet Point 2. We need to reinvent the way we work

Note: the conference room only holds 16, so I've set a limit on the number of spots. Please - if you sign up and can't attend, cancel so a waiting list person can get in.

The Tax and Conversation community does statewide legal work which comes out of civics events and outreach.

The work is a constitutional amendment on income tax reform for Oregon 2014, because we want everybody in Oregon to have enough:

-The most basic healthcare (a place to live, food to eat, and a little money for things like clothes).

-Human understanding of tax (better trust, empathy, appreciation, courage, positive actions).

-Jobs (Oregon state government is the biggest employer. Hire at least 30,000 jobs, and treat all businesses and all humans equally).

RSVP: https://taxandconversation.com/events/

Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation https://taxandconversation.com

Join us for a How to (FLOSS)Hack tutorial, which will introduce several common classes of web application vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL injection, and XML External Entities flaws. The goal of the session is to bring novice FLOSSHack participants up to speed on how to identify new vulnerabilities that are likely to appear in the target software for this week's FLOSSHack. FLOSSHack is an experimental workshop project designed to bring together those who want to learn more about "hacking" (secure programming and application penetration testing) with those who are in need of low cost or pro bono security auditing.

NOTE: For best results, please bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on exercises.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Meetings are free and open to the public.

Glass Plate Game, preceded by the video, "Alternative programming interfaces for alternative programmers", setting the theme for a directed Glass Plate Game. The game is a loosely structured conversation. Everyone is welcome.

Screening of some of the most recent and outstanding TEDtalks. Spread and share ideas.

Matthew Lapworth will present a talk on static code analysis.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Chapter meetings are free and open to the public.

The Freelancer’s Bible is a collection of freelance wisdom that I hope will serve as a guide for the growing independent workforce. It’s the insights I’ve gathered on the journey I’ve taken over the last two decades – being introduced to the freelance life, becoming part of this growing community, and working to create an infrastructure to unite freelancers and empower a movement.

On Friday, Nov. 30, I will be coming to Portland as part of a conversation with freelancers around the nation in the month of November. I will be sharing insight and expertise from the book, as well as opening up a discussion about ways we can all forge stronger freelance lives through solidarity and community.

The Freelancer’s Bible is the product of the conversations, experiences, and relationships built along the way. It is a vehicle for independent workers to make freelancing a sustainable reality and show that#WeAreWhatWeNeed.

I invite you to join the conversation and hope to see you November 30th.

Best,

Sara Horowitz

Founder and Executive Director, Freelancers Union

Author, The Freelancer’s Bible

the separate self - what we become at work will be the theme for a Glass Plate Game

The Glass Plate Game, inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel ,The Glass Bead Game, is essentially a conversation in the trappings of a board game. The idea is to spark creative and interesting dialog as the players explore connections between ideas against a dynamic mosaic map. There will be a 5 to 10 minute introduction for new players.

Every last Wednesday of the month, Collective Agency has an open house, and everyone is welcome. Come by anytime 9-5, get lots of work done, and meet us!

We will be having our regular Wednesday Lightning Talks 2:00 - 2:30pm when two or three people here will give short presentations on something they are working on.

We have a lot of passionate, interesting, and interested people here, so these casual brief presentations and conversations are always very interesting.

There are some cultural myths around income tax. We'll talk through frequent questions, and see whether the fact-based answers are relevant. We'll start by choosing the 3-5 most relevant questions to us in view of a constitutional amendment for Oregon in 2014 on income tax reform.

Some questions include: "Why government?" "What about rich people?" "Doesn't the tax law need to be nuanced to incentivize people to work?" "Is this income tax reform political?" "How do we know we can we trust the tax reform to be good for everyone in Oregon?" (These are all real questions I've been asked which touch on core issues where the answer is not obvious.)

What would you like to learn? What are you concerned or excited about? Areas for questions will include tax, membership, and/or this organization (at least one of each).

Agenda 6-7pm Tues Nov 13: 1. Intro who we are, what we're working on. 2. Choose three or five questions, talk through, share perspectives, learn. 3. Review what did we like, what can be better next time.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/366214123469511/

“By simplifying income tax laws for people to have more equal lives, everyone will be more comfortable, able to live more humanly.”

Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation Twitter: http://twitter.com/taxconversation taxandconversation.com

If you could choose to live in a world where you'd feel more of an emotion, which would you choose? Happiness? Fear? Excitement? Contentment? Comfort? Something else?

When you think about income tax, what do you feel? What do you think? What would you prefer? What questions do you have about emotions and the economy? We'll talk in a structured Q&A, share perspectives, and learn a lot.

Open to the public and members of Tax and Conversation. RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/424700254246488 Agenda: https://taxandconversation.com/2012/11/01/tues-nov-6th-6pm-anthropology-of-emotions-and-the-economy/

-Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation Twitter: http://twitter.com/taxconversation

This meetup is for people of all experience levels, from no programming experience to curmudgeony basement-dwellers. Our format will be slightly different from what you are use to in a user group, optimized for fun.

“By simplifying income tax laws for people to have more equal lives, everyone will be more comfortable, able to live more humanly.”

Our weekly Tuesday civics meetings are a structured Q&A, hosted at Collective Agency, open to the public to ask questions and share-and-learn perspectives about this membership organization and about tax in Oregon overall, and the real effects of the real numbers on people’s lives.

Many people don’t understand anything about tax in society, including myself four months ago before I started learning. Many people do. We’ll learn together. The end result will be an amendment to the Oregon constitution.

Event info: https://taxandconversation.com/2012/10/22/why-tax-work-civics-meeting-tues-oct-30th-6-7pm/ Amendment draft: https://taxandconversation.com/amendment/ Membership: https://taxandconversation.com/

-Alex Linsker [email protected] (503) 369-9174 Twitter: @alexlinsker Facebook: http://facebook.com/taxandconversation Twitter: http://twitter.com/taxconversation

The Glass Plate Game, inspired by Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game, is essentially a conversation in the trappings of a board game. The idea is to spark creative and interesting dialog as the players explore connections between ideas against a dynamic mosaic map. There are no winners or losers. There is no order of play. Conversation continues throughout, and anyone can make a move at any time. The end result is an artifact of the conversation. The "game board" makes it easy to follow the twists and turns of the conversation.

This time the game will be played with a theme: Arts.

Jonathan "Duke" Leto will talk about The Rise of Social Coding. Where it's been, where it is now and where we are going.

http://labs.leto.net/2012/10/10/the-rise-of-social-coding.html

I noticed that the PyLadies SFO are doing meetups for folks to attend a Intro to Python programming Coursera class: http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesSF/events/81327512/

It would be super cool to do a Portland version of this. The course starts on Oct 15th. I would be willing to ask my employer for meeting space, but first I want to see if people are interested.

For the meetup:

• Try to watch the videos for Section 1a. https://class.coursera.org/interactivepython-2012-001/lecture/index

• Come with your questions!

• Think about whether you'd like to host a Girl Scout troop that's interested in meeting women who program. :)

The Secret, described as a self-help film, uses a documentary format to present the Law of Attraction. As described in the film, the "Law of Attraction" principle posits that feelings and thoughts can attract events, feelings, and experiences, from the workings of the cosmos to interactions among individuals in their physical, emotional, and professional affairs.

sign up here http://doodle.com/ndyphppy2yewarzt

Hosted by Andrejka Coklyat Sustainable Wellness: Iridology, Graphology & Feng Shui 503-974-4848

IMPORTANT: Space is limited to 150 participants, so please register to reserve a spot. The event is free, but a donation is suggested.

CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, is a world-wide series of free Open Spaces events for developer-testers, tester-developers and anyone else with an interest in Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it.

CITCON provides a forum to connect with other people on topics you care about, to learn from their experience and share your own. Past topics include:

• What is Continuous Integration?
• What CI Tools can learn from the Rubber Chicken
• What Is The One True Language For Writing Tests?
• The Future of Build Languages
• BDD is not TDD
• How Far is End-to-End?
• Fit for Fun and Profit
• Overcoming Barriers to Adoption

How Can Speaking Made Easy Help Me?

1. Become relaxed with your audience
2. Recognize your unique qualities through genuine positive audience feedback
3. Develop ability to communicate effectively with your audience

I have done Toastmasters already.. why Speaking Made Easy? Speaking Made Easy: Is supportive rather than corrective - this is about connecting with your audience & being authentic with yourself Cultivates win-win interpersonal relations - realize your audience is supportive and benign Offers valuable & practical results - naturally pausing & being silent while engaged with your audience is ok and even powerful! Helps you create a sense of Well Being when in the center of attention

Who participates in Speaking Made Easy?

Anyone who has to interact with others may need or want to develop improved public speaking skills. You will experience the beneficial effects of the workshop with the first minutes in front of your supportive audience. Speaking Made Easy is the most effective vehicle for developing rapport with groups and individuals. Through the positive and supportive environment of Speaking Made Easy, you realize you enjoy connecting and communicating with groups and individuals.

Let's get together and share some worthy ideas. Beer will be provided for the number of people who RSVP: http://doodle.com/xsfux3dkmbz5ecrh Your headcount is appreciated!

Do you really want to screen a specific talk? Submit a comment in the doodle form!

One way to engage social good with games is through careful consideration of meaningful design. In this presentation, Corvus Elrod highlights occurrences of meaningful game design throughout history, as well as in video games.

Please join us for this exciting discussion and meet fellow members. We also will have a brief update on the status of Portland Games for Change including upcoming events and the next steps on setting group priorities.

Corvus Elrod is a Semionaut and Play Designer. He is the co-founder of a Zakelro!, a two-person, one-poodle creative studio in Portland, OR. He is also the creator of Bhaloidam, an independently published tabletop storytelling platform.

Corvus has been designing participatory experiences for the better part of two decades, beginning with his exploration of improvisational theater. As he incorporated more and more game mechanics into his performances, he turned his attention to how game mechanics communicate meaning and began formalizing a semiotic theory of game design. He has contracted for a broad spectrum of clients, from major videogame studios and publishers--including THQ, EA, and Playdom--to installation artists and theater directors. He is also working on several small game projects in collaboration with other independent developers and artists.

Come discuss data journalism, whether you're a hacker/developer or a hack/journalist, we want to hear about your ideas and experiences.

An RSVP is required. There are 6 positions are available plus 3 positions for observers (due to conference room size).

Sign up for a "console" at this link. Dont worry too much about who gets what console. We can play timed games and trade spots at least once. http://doodle.com/fe58swtuseqvvt8b

Positions: Captain, Helm, Weapons, Comms, Engineering, Science

You can download a demo of the game at the Artemis website - http://www.artemis.eochu.com/

I will be providing a licenced copy of the game to each station, which is allowed by the license.

In order to play you must bring a laptop that is capable of running the Artemis software. It works on Windows, and will work on OSX using Wine emulation.

We must be out of the space by 7:45pm.

Chip in for some snacks here: http://www.everythingfunded.com/projects/artemis-snacks

This is going to be a continuation of our June topic (social media identity) discussion as it naturally evolved towards our July Topic Social Media Branding.

Come discuss data journalism, whether you're a hacker/developer or a hack/journalist, we want to hear about your ideas and experiences.

We're sprinting to create a draft of the Data Wrangling Handbook, which is a supporting text for the School of Data. The School of Data will be a place where anyone anywhere can learn how to find, clean, analyze, and communicate with data.

If you plan to attend please sign up on the etherpad.

The School of Data is a partnership between the Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University, with the goal of making open data accessible to everyone.

Come discuss data journalism, whether you're a hacker/developer or a hack/journalist, we want to hear about your ideas and experiences.

As the use of video games becomes more pervasive--think Angry Birds to Farmville to Wii Fitness--it becomes useful to consider their wider impact on our lives. Are they merely useful for entertainment, or can games help create change through creativity, imagination and play? Can games be valuable for mission-based groups like non-profits, NGOs and community organizations? How can game development connect students to real-world problems?

We’ll kick off the evening with a panel discussion including speakers at the intersection of gaming and game development for education, non-profit enablement and youth outreach. Our panelists will explore how gaming and the creation of games can positively impact our local communities and wider world mission-based efforts. Following audience Q&A, everyone is welcome to continue the discussion over networking, food and soft drinks.

Join us to discuss how creating games and game development can benefit the social good!

What: Meetup and Panel Roundtable
When: Thursday, June 21st 6-9pm
Where: Collective Agency, 322 NW Sixth Ave (between Everett and Flanders)
Who: Game Developers and Designers, Creatives, Educators, Non-Profits, Programmers, Entrepreneurs, Businesses

Please RSVP through Eventbrite http://gaming4good.eventbrite.com/ or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/189704944489416/

Moderator

Erik Wecks, Author of How to Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any and contributor to GeekDad on Wired.com

Panelists

Keld Bangsberg, Academic Department Director at the Art Institute of Portland including Game Art & Design, Media Arts & Animation, Visual & Game Programming, and Design Visualization.

Chris Brooks, VP of Technology at WebMD and Director at TechStart Education Foundation, which hosts the Oregon Game Project Challenge.

Scott Crabtree, HappyBrainScience. Video game designer, producer, and entrepreneur with over 10 years of professional experience managing the development of video games and has published games on PCs, consoles and the iPhone.

Jason Galbraith, Robotics and Programming Instructor at Sunset High School, Saturday Academy Instructor and coach for the Oregon Game Project Challenge.

Brian Jamison, founder of OpenSourcery, which specializes in Drupal for non-profits and hosts Donor Rally (http://donorrally.com), a free social fundraising game that has helped non-profits raise nearly a million dollars online.

About the Hosts:

PDXTech4Good People and technology creating social good.

Social changemakers and technological forerunners come together at PDXTech4Good events to mix, swap stories, share ideas, build new relationships, and reinforce the online communities of NetSquared and the NTEN 501 Tech Clubs. This group is organized/supported by volunteer efforts and open to all to attend.

Pixel Arts A social entrepreneurship that empowers groups to address social and economic issues through video games. We support innovative collaborations for social good through game development, education, entrepreneurship and community building.

Whether you're a social media personal user, an in-house marketer, a brand manager, a social minded professional for hire, or a social media newbie, join us for the June Social Media Users Group Meeting open discussion on social media identity.

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Collective Agency in NW Portland (Old Town). No need to RSVP, all are welcome - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints.

This month: CartoDB Hack Session

this month we don't have a talk lined up so we thought we would shake things up a little bit and do a little hack session as a group with one of the newer kids on the block, CartoDB. It's data management, map styling/publishing and an API for vector/raster spatial queries all rolled into one without needing to muck with server management. A researchers dream and built on open source goodness. What's that you say you're not a software developer? Perfect because you don't need to be to get started. We can roll up our sleeves and work together, ask lots of silly questions and learn lots of new things.

They offer a free account and tutorial to get started. Should be fun, see you tomorrow.

This meetup is for people of all experience levels, from no programming experience to curmudgeony basement-dwellers. Our format will be slightly different from what you are use to in a user group, optimized for fun. Learn you some Erlang.

Did you help plan BarCamp Portland 6? Come give your feedback on the event. Let's discuss what went well, what didn't and what we can do better for next year's event.

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Collective Agency in NW Portland (Old Town). No need to RSVP, all are welcome - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints.

Two talks this month, jam-packed with mapping goodness:

When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade - Wm Leler - @wmleler

Google Maps has long been the choice for embedding maps on your website, or building map mashups. But Google's recent announcement that they will start charging for maps (or including ads on maps) has people looking at other options. As an added bonus, many of the alternative solutions have significant advantages over Google Maps. If you are a website owner with an embedded simple map, this talk will show you how you can dump Google Maps and switch over to other solutions in minutes (both free and paid). If you are a web designer, you'll see how you can customize maps so they will look the way you want them to look, not the way Google wants them to look. If you are a programmer building map-based webapps, you'll see how open source mapping APIs like Leaflet and Modest Maps make it faster and easier to build map mashups and have them work the way you want.

Bio - Wm is a principal engineer at Flightstats, where he draws lots of airplanes, airports, weather, and other things on maps, and a Fellow at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he has worked with some amazing artists on web-based, virtual reality, and location-based mobile projects

MapBox - Justin Miller - @incanus77.

Justin is all things iOS for the MapBox team. He'll be joining us again to show us what MapBox has been up to lately (and they've been busy) including their strategy in the Google Maps space, their new iOS SDK, MapBox streets layer, custom styled maps, what Artem from Mapnik is doing now that he's joined the team and what they're doing with open source in general. Something for everyone and a great follow-up to Wm's talk.

Bio - Justin brings a wealth of mobile application development experience to MapBox. He has expertise in client-side programming on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, as well as server-side programming and administration on UNIX platforms.

Topic: Addie (@demew) will present on how software teams can utilize Gerrit for code reviews.

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All self-identified women and genderqueer persons are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

CANCELLED due to geolocation

Jim Manico has offered to come to Portland and do a presentation on Top 10 web coding defenses. Jim has many years experience in the web application security space and currently works with WhiteHat Security & SANS.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

Chapter meetings are free and open to the public.

The Social Media Users Group's home and cooperative venue is Collective Agency (a democratic coworking cooperative in PDX) and as a supporting organization of Collective Agency (CA) SMUG wanted to contribute to the coworking space by leading an open collective strategy meeting to further the development of CA's collective social media and general strategy. Anyone can come share ideas and contribute to CA's strategy during this open strategy session and the group will co-create a mindmap to organize ideas that come from the meeting.

This will be a casual get together for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women. All types of projects (software and hardware), languages, platforms and experience levels are welcome.

Don't have anything to work on? Come, and we'll help you find a project!

What you should bring:

• Your laptop or other equipment
• Your lovely self!

We'll provide:

• the space, including lots of seating and tables
• internet
• some snacks, including gluten-free and vegan options.

Our goal is to support local women hackers (and aspiring hackers) by providing a safe, welcoming environment in which you can connect with and learn from each other.

We're kid-friendly, too, so feel free to bring your children with you.

Women Who Hack is open to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons, as well as accompanied children of all genders.

All participants of Women Who Hack agree to follow the Citizen Code of Conduct.

Questions? Get in touch: [email protected].

Our Google Group is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-who-hack.

Back by popular demand, it's the Dorkbot PDX Introduction to Pure Data. This course is geared at students new to Pd or those who have tinkered in the past and would like another primer.

Details:

When: Sunday, April 1st, 2012 Where: Collective Agency (322 NW 6th Ave, Suite 200) in Portland, OR Time: 1-5pm Instructors: Collin, Alex, Jesse, Jason Cost: FREE

About Pd:

Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Collective Agency in NW Portland (Old Town). No need to RSVP, all are welcome - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.

Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints.

This month:

• Share your projects!
• Additional agenda TBD

Topic: Conference Proposal Sprint.

Thinking of submitting a talk idea to a technical conference? Bring your ideas and drafts to this evening's Code 'n' Splode for feedback and advice. We'll follow a casual workshop format.

This sprint is geared towards Open Source Bridge, whose proposal deadline is this Friday, but you can work on and get feedback on proposals for any conference.

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All self-identified women and genderqueer persons are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for a volunteer orientation and an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Brunch 23

Featured talks: Gina Altamura - Wild Combination Redux Gina Altamura talks about the recent collaboration with Research Club and other goings-on at Holocene.

Joe Burgess - Animation and Mega Fauna CUT PAPER ANIMATION - I stand around with scissors and Exacto knives trimming little pictures of rocks and making silhouette Characters. I spend an enormous amount of time battling it out with my collaborating Artist Erik Valentin. It is all creative and in good spirit. We sing songs we move little transparent fish.

Alex Linsker and Fitz - Collective Agency Learn more about this co-working environment and how democracy is being introduced to all facets of the organization.

Noah Manger - Rebooting Democracy: Politics, Creativity and Getting It Done I'm the Creative Projects Director for the Bus Project. The Bus Project builds power for the public interest by getting new and young people engaged in our local democracy.

As the Creative Projects Director I'm responsible for making politics cultural and culture political. I work with our volunteers to design massive events and am responsible for the visual creative content we generate as an organization. Our events are designed to bring an ever-wider audience of people who give a shit closer to democracy by giving them tools, opportunities and know-how in a fun, accessible package.

Information for the good of the order: The deluxe accommodations at Collective Agency allow us to offer you actual dishes, although we may bring cabbage bowls for the sake of maudlin sentimentality. Bringing your own dishes is still approved/appreciated, and if you help to clean up afterward, well!

PORTLAND Wednesday 21 March, 7-10pm

The City of Roses has just under 600,000 inhabitants and a quite high concentration of coworking spaces compared to cities around the same size. Half of these spaces are networked coworking facilities, proving that the market is right and people are embracing the movement. Meet, share, and learn from the established spaces and other members of the coworking community when Joel Dullroy, co-founder of Deskmag & Deskwanted, brings the Coworking Space Ship to Portland.

Mini-Conference Program

7-8pm – Joel Dullroy, co-founder of Deskmag & Deskwanted, will present a detailed analysis of the 2nd Global Coworking Survey, 4 new trends seen in coworking worldwide, and a report from the Global Coworking Unconference GCUC in Austin (Anyone who was in Austin is welcome to add insight).

8-9pm – We invite everyone involved in the collaborative workspace movement in Portland to bring ideas to the table for this ‘Unconference’ style portion of the night. Building community, finding common goals and discovering how to share experience till be at the heart of this discussion

9-10pm – Mix, mingle, and have a drink on us.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

This will be a casual get together for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women. All types of projects (software and hardware), languages, platforms and experience levels are welcome.

Don't have anything to work on? Come, and we'll help you find a project!

What you should bring:

• Your laptop or other equipment
• Your lovely self!

We'll provide:

• the space, including lots of seating and tables
• internet
• some snacks, including gluten-free and vegan options.

Our goal is to support local women hackers (and aspiring hackers) by providing a safe, welcoming environment in which you can connect with and learn from each other.

We're kid-friendly, too, so feel free to bring your children with you.

Women Who Hack is open to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons, as well as accompanied children of all genders.

All participants of Women Who Hack agree to follow the Citizen Code of Conduct.

Questions? Get in touch: [email protected].

Our Google Group is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-who-hack.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Come to a meetup of social changemakers in PDX! This will be a relaxed and informal gathering with a focus on how you fund and launch a social impact initiative. Our speaker guest is Tom Dawkins (@tomjd), co-founder of social good crowdfunding site StartSomeGood.com who will share what they have learned in their first 12 months of supporting social startups to raise funds and launch. While crowdfunding is the buzziest buzzword going at the moment, what does it really mean and how does it open up new opportunities for social entrepreneurs? How can you succeed when more than half of all crowdfunding campaigns fail to reach their goals? Tom will share lots of practical advice and suggestions for how you can raise the funds you need directly from your community in order to start good. The event will be hosted by the new Collective Agency Work Group - SocialMediaUserGroup.org (@SMUGPDX)!

Libations will be provided. BYOB and sharing welcome.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

About Joe

This chapter meeting feature guest speaker Joe Basirico, Director of Security Services at Security Innovation. Joe is responsible for managing the professional services business at Security Innovation. He leverages his unique experience as a development lead, trainer, researcher, and test engineer to lead the security engineering team in their delivery of high-quality, impactful assessment and remediation solutions to the company’s customers. His ability to blend his technical skills with risk-based contextual analysis and unwavering customer commitment makes him an invaluable asset for each Security Innovation client.

Joe is an active member in the security and open-source communities, having contributed technology, training, utilities, expertise and methodologies. He manages the company’s engineering blog and has written several publications that focus on vulnerabilities at the source code level. Joe holds a B.S in Computer Science from Montana State University.

About the Talk - Thinking Like the Enemy

In this talk I will help you get into the Hacker's mindset from my ten years of experience as a penetration tester, assessing some of the most exciting applications in the world.

This talk will cover the most important qualities of a hacker or security tester, Top Vulnerabilities that you can't afford to miss as well as more difficult to tackle vulnerabilities that have caused tons of headaches and pain. By the end of the hour you'll better understand how to cause your application true pain, find a tiny weakness and cause the walls of security to crumble around it. After that we'll also talk about how to rebuild those walls to be more robust.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Amye Scavarda (@msamye) and Leslie Hawthorn (@lhawthorn) will present The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All self-identified women and genderqueer persons are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

First ever meeting for the PDX Erlang user group. We will cover some basic getting-started stuff, then dive in to what I am tentatively calling ErlangGames. This meetup is for people of all experience levels, from no programming experience to curmudgeony basement-dwellers. Our format will be slightly different from what you are use to in a user group, optimized for fun.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Featured talks: Leo Daedalus - The Late Now Leo hosts the thinking mammal’s live late-night-style variety-cabaret-talk show. A considered fiasco for the avant set.

Vivian Hua In 2005, I started a publication called REDEFINE, which began with no particular focus. It grew to become a music and arts publication dedicated to covering lesser-known and independent musicians. In the past year (2011), a series of extraordinary [personal] circumstances has led to the complete thematic and conceptual overhaul of REDEFINE. The music industry is not even close to what it was in 2005, and the site's new mission, moving forward, is one that I hope will be predictive of changes to come in the industry.

Sara Mirk - Oregon History Comics In 2009, I started on what I thought would be a quick, fun educational project: Creating 10 small comic books about Oregon’s history. My friends, myself, and the majority of Portland didn’t grow up in the state, so researching and writing these comics was a way to help build understanding of our surroundings in a relevant, accessible medium. Local arts and culture nonprofit theDill Pickle Club joined on as a collaborator and over the past two years we’ve raised $2,500, hired nine local artists, and published six of the ten comics. The box set of comics is finally being released this March 5th at Powell’s!

Ezra Spier - Where Coffee Comes From Ezra has traveled far and wide, to plantations in South America and Africa, to see every step of the process of making coffee. Follow one of our favorite beverages from berries on the plants to our greedy, greedy mouths.

A conference for anything and everything ØMQ!

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Collective Agency in NW Portland (Old Town). No need to RSVP, all are welcome - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.

Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints.

This week:

• Gift for OpenSourcery. If you were able to enjoy our old meeting space with them consider bringing a contribution of $5 or more.
• Share your projects - UTFGrid support for openlayers, spatial surveys on the windows tablet
• GIS in Action conference talk proposals. Give your talk or let's brainstorm for them. Do we want to do an unconference day?

The format this month will be each participant bring a one-page writeup of your vision, with questions you'd like feedback on, half an hour total per vision.

Areas of questions could be pretty much anything:

Vision Market Need Team Marketing Operations Legal Budget

This event is open to the public.

Organized by: Alex Linsker (503) 517-6900 [email protected] Twitter: @alexlinsker

This will be a casual get together for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women. All types of projects (software and hardware), languages, platforms and experience levels are welcome.

Don't have anything to work on? Come, and we'll help you find a project!

What you should bring:

• Your laptop or other equipment
• Your lovely self!

We'll provide:

• the space, including lots of seating and tables
• internet
• some snacks, including gluten-free and vegan options.

Our goal is to support local women hackers (and aspiring hackers) by providing a safe, welcoming environment in which you can connect with and learn from each other.

We're kid-friendly, too, so feel free to bring your children with you.

Women Who Hack is open to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons, as well as accompanied children of all genders.

All participants of Women Who Hack agree to follow the Citizen Code of Conduct.

Questions? Get in touch: [email protected].

Our Google Group is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-who-hack.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Live in PDX? Love Git? This is the group for you!

Our first meeting will be a combination of a short presentation, socializing and deciding what future meeting topics should be.

There might be cupcakes! You won't know unless you show up.

http://lanyrd.com/2012/pdxgit/

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

You are invited to a night of merry-making, fun-seeking, and general geekery celebrating the volunteers of Open Source Bridge! Enjoy some food and holiday grog, watch a slide show of photos previous years and listen to a short talk about volunteering. There will even be some celebratory piñata whacking.

Will you be able to sign up to volunteer for OSB 2012? Yes! Core team members will be on hand throughout the evening to answer your questions and help you sign up to help out with Open Source Bridge 2012.

This invitation is open to all volunteers of Open Source Bridge; past, present and future. Please bring yourself, a friend and anyone else interested in volunteering.

For half an hour, Bill Burcham (and maybe others) will skill-share on juggling.

Have bean bags balls, squishy balls, bowling pins? Bring them. Don't have them? That's fine too, we'll make do with what we have.

This event is open to the public.

Organized by: Alex Linsker [email protected]

We meet the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Collective Agency in NW Portland (Old Town). No need to RSVP, all are welcome - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers.

Beer at nearby pub to follow.

This week: Share-one-thing. It's been a long hiatus so no official agenda. Just bring something you've been working on or ideas you would like to share.

This is kind of a weekly Agile meeting: what's happened, what are we working on, what's blocking us from moving forward that we'd like support or advice on? It focuses on "Collective Agency" overall, and also on people here working on their own thing.

"Collective Agency" is a cooperative group in the form of an unincorporated association, and is the name of a place.

There is a Constitution, members have voting rights, people self-organize here, there is a Coordinating Council, with the main Community Organizer term-limited, and there are community workgroups that create educational events free of charge and open to the public.

Meeting new people and being around people doing a variety of work is why 95% of people are here.

Come to the new weekly civics meeting: the second ever is January 11th. It's called "Own Collective Agency" because that's what the goal is. Responsibilities you can have, ways you can be here, actions you can do, long-term planning, things you can know (want to know the budget, not just numbers but the context of what they mean? we want to share that with you). By learning and doing, you'll support what happens here overall.

Coordinating Council members Alex, Fitz, and Emanuel will be there.

What is ownership? Fitz says about what we have here: "To do these things requires ownership." Alex says that the good meaning of ownership is "responsibility." Ownership by who? For what? What does it mean to own the equivalent of a very small city, which is a workplace? What might you want to assist with, to give advice on, to do, to own?

As we have grown from tens of people to hundreds of people, how does the structure grow to support that?

What's the catch? It's that you can own part of this: you can be responsible for this place and group-of-groups staying and growing.

main organizer: Alex Linsker (503) 517-6900, Twitter: @alexlinsker or [email protected]

Crystal Beasley (@skinny) will present "15 Signs Your UX is Busted"

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All self-identified women and genderqueer persons are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

UPDATE 1/23: We're postponing this meeting until 1/30 due to family emergency.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Again, we'll be meeting for technical discussion and a lot more. So far, this is what is on the agenda. We'll start this meetup off with a presentation on Git, pair programming, and code katas and koans with .NET. The presentation will cover what these things are, how they're implemented, and what the best usage and benefit of each is. TDD/BDD Pair

Programming Session! Ever wanted to pair program? Wanted to learn about ping pong style, promiscuous pair programming or some other style? Well after the presentation, for those interested bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2010 with the latest services packs and MVC tools and we'll be stepping through exactly what these techniques are and how they're implemented with the .NET stack (and a few open source components too).

Learn about operations and ownership/responsibility here. Ask questions. Volunteer to work/participate on something. Then learn and give advice. Then be responsible for it / own it.

This is an educational, free of charge, open to the public meeting, weekly 10am-10:45am on Wednesday mornings.

This is kind of a weekly Agile meeting: what's happened, what are we working on, what's blocking us from moving forward that we'd like support or advice on? It focuses on "Collective Agency" overall, and also on people here working on their own thing.

"Collective Agency" is a cooperative group, and is the name of a place.

There is a Constitution, members have voting rights, people self-organize here, there is a Coordinating Council, with the main Community Organizer term-limited, and there are community workgroups that create educational events free of charge and open to the public.

Meeting new people and being around people doing a variety of work is why 95% of people are here.

Come to the new weekly civics meeting. It's called "Own Collective Agency" because that's what the goal is. Responsibilities you can have, ways you can be here, actions you can do, long-term planning, things you can know (want to know the budget, not just numbers but the context of what they mean? we want to share that with you). By learning and doing, you'll support what happens here overall.

Coordinating Council members Alex, Fitz, and Emanuel will be there.

What is ownership? Fitz says about what we have here: "To do these things requires ownership." Alex says that the good meaning of ownership is "responsibility." Ownership by who? For what? What does it mean to own the equivalent of a very small city, which is a workplace? What might you want to assist with, to give advice on, to do, to own?

As we have grown from tens of people to hundreds of people, how does the structure grow to support that?

What's the catch? It's that you can own part of this: you can be responsible for this place and group-of-groups staying and growing.

main organizer: Alex Linsker (503) 517-6900, Twitter: @alexlinsker or [email protected]

Open to the public, 9am-5pm.

Do you often consider the underlying motives behind your small business or career, whether that be a website, open source project, discussion group, visual arts, nonprofit, startup, or any other kind of work? Vision planning answers the question of "why am I doing this?" and ultimately keeps a project on track. We're working together to develop phrasing for our vision plans that describes the reason we're doing whatever it is we're doing. However, instead of our previous fifteen minute, one-on-one coaching sessions, this meeting is hosted by Cheri Anderson, whose expertise on business advisement is highly sought after.

Cheri is a holistic coach for small businesses and startups as well as an executive coach for Nike. She's a familiar face here, having coached two previous sessions, and will be introducing an important, and often forgotten, concept: "What is my vision?" We will have a brief meet-and-great before Cheri is introduced to people participating for the first time. Beginning by writing down our ideas or current vision statements, Cheri will then break us into smaller groups to discuss why we're interested in our projects and where those projects are going. Cheri will be coaching the groups on how to collaborate to refine each other's statements. It'll be fun working in groups and ending up with a complete vision statement, which we will reconvene and share, everyone leaving with a greater understanding of how to build their business.

Past vision planning coaches have included: Mark Grimes (NedSpace), Catherine Poole (social services & e-textiles) and Russ Finkelstein (formerly Idealist Portland). This event is free of charge and open to the public. Professional follow-up is available.

Questions? Contact Alex Linsker at (503) 517-6900 or [email protected] Twitter: @alexlinsker

Low key, 2 to 8 minute presentations by members here, on something you're working on and a question for feedback from people here. Our projector and screen hooked up to your computer. 30 minutes total, from 2 to 2:30pm. Mingling and feedback afterward. Open to members and visitors here.

Presenters (will be added here):

1. Kevin Covey. "NASA Hubble Fellow in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. I am working to clarify how low-mass stars, and the planets they host, form and evolve." http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~kcovey/

2. Fitz Ryland. "I'd love to present the redesign of my website that I'm working on to see what people think of the user interface. It is a bit of an experiment in terms of layout and functionality, so it would be really nice to have some feedback. It is a portfolio site of my art and design work."

and others, based on who's here...

Organized by Alex Linsker: (503) 517-6900 [email protected]

This is kind of a weekly Agile meeting: what's happened, what are we working on, what's blocking us from moving forward that we'd like support or advice on? It focuses on "Collective Agency" overall, and also on people here working on their own thing.

"Collective Agency" is a cooperative group in the form of an unincorporated association, and is the name of a place.

There is a Constitution, members have voting rights, people self-organize here, there is a Coordinating Council, with the main Community Organizer term-limited, and there are community workgroups that create educational events free of charge and open to the public.

Meeting new people and being around people doing a variety of work is why 95% of people are here.

Come to the new weekly civics meeting: the second ever is January 11th. It's called "Own Collective Agency" because that's what the goal is. Responsibilities you can have, ways you can be here, actions you can do, long-term planning, things you can know (want to know the budget, not just numbers but the context of what they mean? we want to share that with you). By learning and doing, you'll support what happens here overall.

Coordinating Council members Alex, Fitz, and Emanuel will be there.

What is ownership? Fitz says about what we have here: "To do these things requires ownership." Alex says that the good meaning of ownership is "responsibility." Ownership by who? For what? What does it mean to own the equivalent of a very small city, which is a workplace? What might you want to assist with, to give advice on, to do, to own?

As we have grown from tens of people to hundreds of people, how does the structure grow to support that?

What's the catch? It's that you can own part of this: you can be responsible for this place and group-of-groups staying and growing.

main organizer: Alex Linsker (503) 517-6900, Twitter: @alexlinsker or [email protected]

The January 2012 meeting will change things up. A conference room in Collective Agency[1] has been reserved so we can do presentations.

The headline event for January is Tristan Worthington and Grant Thomas of Dark Horse Comics who will be presenting the newly released Comic Reader app[2] for Android. There is time for another short presentation if someone would like to show off something they have worked on recently[3].

The start time is the usual second-monday at 6:30pm.

Collective Agency is in oldtown/downtown portland and they provide "co-working" style office space for telecommuters, entrepreneurs, etc.. They graciously provide meeting space for free to groups such as ours.

Like most tech user group meetings in Portland, a walking-distance pub will be selected so that afterwards folks can mingle and chat.

This week we are combining our meeting with this event:

http://calagator.org/events/1250461742

or visit:

http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

Location: Collective Agency 322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209

Meeting is 6:30 - 8:00 pm

This is a special meeting with Dark Horse Comics

Buzz "200" when you arrive. The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up. Elevator access available. Indoor bike parking available upstairs. Located on the Green and Yellow MAX lines. Car parking within a few blocks.

Tristan Worthington and Grant Thomas of Dark Horse Comics who will be presenting the newly released Comic Reader app for Android.

http://www.darkhorse.com/

Download the app here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.darkhorse.digital

Happy New Year!

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

This will be a casual get together for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women. All types of projects (software and hardware), languages, platforms and experience levels are welcome.

Don't have anything to work on? Come, and we'll help you find a project!

What you should bring:

• Your laptop or other equipment
• Your lovely self!

We'll provide:

• the space, including lots of seating and tables
• internet
• some snacks, including gluten-free and vegan options.

Our goal is to support local women hackers (and aspiring hackers) by providing a safe, welcoming environment in which you can connect with and learn from each other.

We're kid-friendly, too, so feel free to bring your children with you.

Women Who Hack is open to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons, as well as accompanied children of all genders.

All participants of Women Who Hack agree to follow the Citizen Code of Conduct.

Questions? Get in touch: [email protected].

Our Google Group is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-who-hack.

You've likely heard of Collective Agency: the place and the group-of-groups. Did you know it's a representative democracy? Want to know how that benefits you and your friends?

Come to the new weekly civics meeting: the first ever is January 4th. It's called "Own Collective Agency" because that's what the goal is. Responsibilities you can have, ways you can be here, actions you can do, long-term planning, things you can know (want to know the budget, not just numbers but the context of what they mean? we want to share that with you). By learning and doing, you'll support what happens here overall.

Coordinating Council members Alex, Fitz, and Emanuel will be there. Alex will start the meeting conversation by saying, "Sometimes people ask me, 'Do you own Collective Agency?' and I hate that question."

What is ownership? Fitz says about what we have here: "To do these things requires ownership." Ownership by who? What does it mean to own the equivalent of a very small city, which is a workplace? Ownership by citizens: by Coordinating Council Members, by Community Workgroup Organizers, by Volunteers ("I can be there for free? What's the catch?"), and Paid Members. We also have paid meetings, visitors, and associations and independent community organizers in Portland, all of whom sometimes become citizens.

Ownership not just by one person who hires employees and makes all the decisions, because that's the simplest way. But ownership (responsibility and autonomy, checks and balances) by each of us, within a structure called a Constitution, with a Bill of Rights called the Community Guidelines, with the workplace layout and signage, and with the website.

You might have heard that you can work here for free, Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm. What's the catch? It's that you can own part of this: you can be responsible for this place and group-of-groups staying and growing.

main organizer: Alex Linsker (503) 517-6900, Twitter: @alexlinsker or [email protected]

Happy New Year!

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Random Hacks of Kindness in PDX y'all!

Everybody come on out!

On December 1st, First Thursday, from 4-7pm, come celebrate the individuals, groups, and activities at "Collective Agency".

It will be a potluck-style party for up to 210 people.

The purpose is: to celebrate the 5-year lease, the additional coordinating council members, and especially for people here to mingle and meet and greet and get to know each other even better.

Contact: Alex Linsker or Fitz Ryland, (503) 517-6900, [email protected], Twitter @CollectiveAgenC or Plancast (see below)

Interested in helping make BarCamp 6 happen? Join us for an open planning meeting.

Can't wait until the meeting? Let us know you're interested by completing our Volunteer Interest Form: http://bit.ly/bcp4volunteer

What is BarCamp?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Mathematics is a powerful language used in such popular applications as The Known Universe. However, the documentation is notoriously terse.

The Mathematics User Group (MUG) will serve the Portland tech community by bridging the gap between abstract mathematical language and concrete problems that programmers come across in the coding trenches.

This first session will be for coming up with topics of interest, and for working specific problems that come up in our projects. We hope to have future sessions each 3rd Wednesday.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

brunch, interesting speakers, networking, diversity, creative

I've known Cory Johnson for years and have watched her turn businesses and careers around. I have been so impressed with what she's been doing that I asked her to come to Portland to deliver her program to our Startup Founders meetup.

Cory Michelle Johnson is one of the most effective business and executive coaches in the country. She will be sharing with us tools and techniques for attracting all of the right elements to our businesses.

How cool is it that these tools and skills are applicable to any area of business, and life outside of our businesses?

What you’ll leave with:

You’ll learn how to change the energy in any room to your advantage. You’ll step into BE-ing your magnetic self, anytime, anywhere. You’ll destroy and uncreate the limitations and “yeah-buts” that stand in your way. You’ll learn energy tricks to become the one in the room everyone wants to know. You’ll know exactly what to say and when to say it so that people want more of you!

This Mojo-Shop is NOT for people who…

want to play small in life and business think they know it all, yet don’t have a life they love are not interested in growth, expansion and consciousness are resigned, uninspired, cynical and like it that way don’t like to have fun are not interested in using wild and wacky techniques to change anything.

This will be one of the most powerful business events of the year, so don't miss out! Join us for networking afterward.

Registration is required for this event. You can register at http://TheThrivingEntrepreneur.com/idealclients.

Whether a website, open source project, discussion group, visual art, nonprofit startup, or any kind of work, the main focus of the people who show up will be for the benefit of a group or groups of people (the "community"). We’ll have fun and develop a vision planning community of our own.

Do you not yet have a vision statement written out, or would you like to tweak or revise the one you have? Do you say things like, "I'm hoping someone will want to contribute to my project, it is for the public good after all?" Then this workshop is for you.

7-9pm Monday November 14th, but usually Third Mondays. Past coaches/consultants include: Russ Finkelstein (formerly Idealist Portland), Mark Grimes (NedSpace), Cheri Anderson (executive coach for Nike, startups, and small business owners), Cat Poole (social services and e-textiles).

Many others, from UX consultants to sculptors, will be here. Come mentor and be mentored here! Free of charge.

The main questions about your vision: What are your underlying motives? What phrasing describes the reason why you’re doing this?

If related questions come up organically, we’ll explore. These questions of vision are where groups like “Collective Agency” began.

In 2 hours we will meet-and-greet (go around and say what we’re working on and what we’d like to happen with it), have a brief overview, then invest most of the time in one-on-one coaching in 15 minute sessions.

Please RSVP. Plancast is best, so people can see you're coming. Email [email protected] or tweet @alexlinsker with any questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

This month we're reviewing face-melting file formats!

Bring your most hideous, complicated, verbose, yak-ridden file formats for a lightening talk style show and tell.

Please sign-up here if you plan to present: http://etherpad.opensourcebridge.org/cns-10-25-2011

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

It’s time for another Portland Data Visualization Meetup! We’ll have three to four main presentations and networking time. The last one was in February, and we're overdue for the next one!

We usually have some conversation and networking, so feel free to bring business cards and/or let people know if you’re hiring. We won’t have a food or drink sponsor for this meeting, so feel free to bring your own snacks and things to eat! (if you’d like to sponsor, see the section at the end of this post).

This time, Collective Agency will graciously host us as their cozy coworking space (see below for the address and entrance instructions). For best results, please arrive a little before 6:30 Pm.

---Speakers for Data Viz #6--- 1. Dino Citraro of Periscopic will be presenting some new visualization work!

1. Kevin Lynagh will give a talk on Mike Bostock's D3 library: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ which is a declarative way to map data to DOM elements, so you can very easily make complex visualizations for the web with what you already know: HTML, SVG, and CSS.

2. Open Source Rocket Scientist Nathan Bergey will be talking about his open source tool chain (mostly python and bender) for his recent rocket data viz, ISS-Notify, Tri-met data and more!

3. We're looking for one more speaker! If you'd like to speak, contact me at caseorganic at gmail dot com or simply tweet @caseorganic!

---Who Should Go?--- Portland Data Viz Group is open to everyone interested in or working in the field of data visualization. This means designers, programmers, information architects, data miners, anthropologists, ect. We usually attract around 20-30 people, and you're welcome to bring guests, food and drinks to the event.

---Location and Time--- Wednesday, October 19, 2011 from 6:30–8:30pm.

---Where?--- Collective Agency 322 NW Sixth Ave (between Everett and Flanders) Suite 200 Portland, Oregon 97209

Entrance instructions: Buzz “200″ when you arrive. The phone will ring once or twice, then you’ll be buzzed up. Come on in: we'll be on the second floor. Walk on back to the main loft and you'll be welcomed in!

---Interested in Sponsoring?--- We welcome food and drink sponsors for our meetings, and if you know someone who might be a good sponsor feel free to contact me at caseorganic at gmail dot com!

---Google Group--- If you're interested in getting updates for for future meetings, simply join the the pdx-visualization Google Group! As the name implies, it is a group for Portland-area people interested in languages and techniques for visualization of data. http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-visualization.

Whether a website, open source project, discussion group, visual art, nonprofit startup, or any kind of work, the main focus of the people who show up will be for the benefit of a group or groups of people (the "community"). We’ll have fun and develop a vision planning community of our own.

Do you not yet have a vision statement written out, or would you like to tweak or revise the one you have? Do you say things like, "I'm hoping someone will want to contribute to my project, it is for the public good after all?" Then this workshop is for you.

Third Mondays: October 17th, 7-9pm. Mark Grimes (NedSpace), Cheri Anderson (executive coach for Nike, startups, and small business owners), Cat Poole (social services and e-textiles), will be here, and last time included Russ Finkelstein (formerly Idealist Portland). Many others, from UX consultants to sculptors, will be here. Come mentor and be mentored here! Free of charge.

The main questions about your vision: What are your underlying motives? What phrasing describes the reason why you’re doing this?

If related questions come up organically, we’ll explore. These questions of vision are where groups like “Collective Agency” began.

In 2 hours we will meet-and-greet (go around and say what we’re working on and what we’d like to happen with it), have a brief overview, then invest most of the time in one-on-one coaching in 15 minute sessions.

Please RSVP. Plancast is best, so people can see you're coming. Email [email protected] or tweet @alexlinsker with any questions.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

The Syndicate has a lot going on this Fall and we want to tell you all about it! Come by Collective Agency on Monday, October 10th from 4-7pm to enjoy some refreshments and hear what we have to say.

We'll do a short presentation around 5:30pm and will cover the following:

• Our mission, strategic initiatives and how you can help
• Progress on events like Ignite Portland, BarCamp Portland, Open Source Bridge and others
• Volunteer needs and opportunities

Board Members will be on hand to answer your questions.

See you there! -Stumptown Syndicate

Self organizing groups for the win!

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

We're kicking things off with a party at Collective Agency in Old Town! Join us for an evening of geographically-inclined conversation, snacks, and activities.

Two sessions of Glass Plate Game play:

4pm-5:50pm, A session game exploring the subject of how and where technology and culture interact; an hour to mingle and discuss ideas; and 7pm-9pm in the evening an open Game.

Join us for either or both sessions. Email Dunbar Aitkens at [email protected] to RSVP for the first game, or just show up later- it’s easy to join in.

The Glass Plate Game, inspired by Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, is a conversation in the trappings of a board game: as players explore connections between ideas the game sparks creative and interesting dialog between the players. There are no winners or losers, and no set order of play. Conversation continues throughout, and anyone can make a move at any time. The end result is an artifact of the conversation that makes it easy to follow the twists and turns of the conversation.

Both sessions begin with an introduction to the game followed by a period of card creation to bring concepts from players’ own projects and interests into the game, then launch right into playing.

Come for fun, friends, and stimulating conversation.

Topic TBD

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Vision planning for people who want to do something for a community.

Do you not yet have a vision statement written out, or would you like to tweak or revise? And do you say things like, "I'm hoping someone will want to contribute to my project: it is for the public good"? Then this workshop is for you.

Saturday, September 20th, 10am-12pm. Alex Linsker, Catherine Poole, and Russ Finkelstein will be the main facilitators and coaches of the workshop.

The main questions about your vision: Where are you coming from? What phrasing describes the reason why you’re doing this?

If related questions come up organically, we’ll explore. These questions are where groups like “Collective Agency” started.

Whether a website, open source project, discussion group, nonprofit startup, or something else, the main focus of the people who show up will be for the benefit of a group or groups of people (the "community"). We’ll have fun and develop a vision planning community of our own.

In 2 hours we will meet-and-greet (go around and say what we’re working on and what we’d like to happen with it), have a brief overview, then invest most of the time in one-on-one coaching in 15 minute sessions.

Coaches will each bring a vision plan for something they’ve done.

This event is free of charge. Coaching/mentoring/skill-sharing will be available here in the future with both free and paid options.

Please RSVP. Plancast is best, so people can see you're coming. Email [email protected] or tweet @alexlinsker with any questions.

Want to rub shoulders with some of the coolest coders and most sought after mentors in Portland? Come join us for the second PDX11 Mentor Network Code Sprint, hosted at Collective Agency. The first code sprint produced a viable minimum product - come put your fingerprint on what will become the engine for the Mentor Network's matching software! Refreshments provided.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday (and really every Mon-Fri, 9-5). Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

Come help plan this year's WhereCampPDX! This meeting is open to anyone who would like to contribute to the event, whether or not you've been involved before.

WhereCampPDX is an annual, free unconference on geography and technology. It will be taking place October 7th-9th.

Join the mailing list to find out more: http://groups.google.com/group/wherecamp-pdx

The Glass Plate Game, inspired by Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game, is essentially a conversation in the trappings of a board game. Hesse's game us alluded to as a The idea is to spark creative and interesting dialog as the players explore connections between ideas against a dynamic mosaic map. There are no winners or losers. There is no order of play. Conversation continues throughout, and anyone can make a move at any time. The end result is an artifact of the conversation. The "game board" makes it easy to follow the twists and turns of the conversation.

Co-creator Dunbar Aitkens will be visiting to help lead the session. We will begin with an introduction to the game followed by a period of idea card making to especially bring concepts from players' own projects and interests into the card deck, then launch right into playing. Stay for the 3rd hour, and we'll build Glass Plate Game sets for everyone who'd like one to take with them. The sets contain "idea cards" for composing the mosaic and wooden cubes and colored transparencies for tracking the thread of thought.

Come for fun, friends, and stimulating conversation.

Also, "Collective Agency" will be open continuously to the public, from 9am-9pm on September 1st. Regular hours are 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday. Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved. Press release here: http://bit.ly/pQOaye

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

If you can't make the Monday Jelly, feel free to come by any time during the week, 9-5, Monday through Friday.

Come help plan this year's WhereCampPDX! This meeting is open to anyone who would like to contribute to the event, whether or not you've been involved before.

WhereCampPDX is an annual, free unconference on geography and technology. It will be taking place October 7th-9th.

Join the mailing list to find out more: http://groups.google.com/group/wherecamp-pdx

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby and those interested in helping them. Come by to ask questions. Answer questions. Hack.

This is a bonus beginners' meetup, specifically aimed at the then-to-be-alumni of the Intro to Programming workshop on the 19th and 20th.

In this episode of Code N Splode, Sarah Sharp will lead an exploration of an Android App called Garden Weather Alert. We'll cover some of the basics of Android App structure: intents, activities, and services. Sarah will also show the app development workflow in the Eclipse Android SDK, and how to debug apps. If time permits, we'll talk about storage and background services.

The git repo for the app is here:

https://github.com/sarahsharp/gardengeek

The android app source code is under the src/android-get-temp/ directory. Feel free to browse the source code history to see how Sarah has added functionality over time.

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday. Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved. Press release here: http://bit.ly/pQOaye

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

If you can't make the Monday Jelly, feel free to come by any time during the week, 9-5, Monday through Friday.

Free beginning programming workshop for women. This inaugural workshop will focus on web development with Ruby and Rails. The workshop is free. You must attend both the Friday evening install fest and the Saturday workshop.

Register here: http://pdxdevwrkshp.eventbrite.com/

If you would like to help plan, join our Google group here: http://groups.google.com/group/lot-workshops

A note about our audience:

These workshops will be a series of events meant to increase gender diversity across the spectrum of the Portland software development community. Each workshop will familiarize participants with a programming language and its ecosystem through tutorials, practice exercises, and one-on-one help from volunteer guides. Attendees will learn the basic skills and vocabulary needed to start participating in the relevant user groups and open source projects.

In keeping with our goal of increasing gender diversity, we open these workshops to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons. Men are welcome to attend when invited by an attending member of these qualifying groups.

Free beginning programming workshop for women. This inaugural workshop will focus on web development with Ruby and Rails. The workshop is free. You must attend both the Friday evening install fest and the Saturday workshop.

Register here: http://pdxdevwrkshp.eventbrite.com/

If you would like to help plan, join our Google group here: http://groups.google.com/group/lot-workshops

A note about our audience:

These workshops will be a series of events meant to increase gender diversity across the spectrum of the Portland software development community. Each workshop will familiarize participants with a programming language and its ecosystem through tutorials, practice exercises, and one-on-one help from volunteer guides. Attendees will learn the basic skills and vocabulary needed to start participating in the relevant user groups and open source projects.

In keeping with our goal of increasing gender diversity, we open these workshops to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons. Men are welcome to attend when invited by an attending member of these qualifying groups.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday. Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved. Press release here: http://bit.ly/pQOaye

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

If you can't make the Monday Jelly, feel free to come by any time during the week, 9-5, Monday through Friday.

ABOUT THE GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of functional programming based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Scala, and others. The group meets regularly and provides presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on the second Monday of the month.

VENUE: This space is kindly provided to us by Collective Agency (http://collectiveagency.co/), which offers affordable meeting and work spaces, and Stumptown Syndicate (http://stumptownsyndicate.org/), a non-profit supporting technology education and professional development.

Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday. Come and work here! Alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing, or having conversations.

Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved. Press release here: http://bit.ly/pQOaye

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace, indoor bike parking available upstairs. On the Yellow and Green MAX lines.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

If you can't make the Monday Jelly, feel free to come by any time during the week, 9-5, Monday through Friday.

This is the first day that "Collective Agency" will be the place name of 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209. Tell your friends and groups. Look at the homepage of the website and see who we are and how you'd like to be involved. Press release here: http://bit.ly/pQOaye

To celebrate (and we will celebrate often), there is a potluck lunch at 12:30pm. Bring from your favorite food carts, local eateries, or from home. We have plates and bowls here, and contributions are welcome. The main thing is to bring yourself. There will also be coffee walk-and-talks at 10am and 3pm.

And. Jelly in Portland continues, every Monday. You're invited. Work alongside others. Bring friends.

Open to people who are friendly and doing some kind of work they care about, no matter what kind of work it is. Most people are usually working on website-related work or writing.

Info on Jelly coworking: http://workatjelly.com

Logistics: Wi-fi, Stumptown coffee, beautiful workplace.

Expect to get as much work done as you want to, and to ask and give advice as much as you and others want to. "What are you working on?" and "What do you think of this?" (while showing a screen) are favorite questions.

If you can't make the open house, feel free to come by any time during the week, 9-5, Monday through Friday.

Indoor bike parking available upstairs.