Esri R&D Center (aka Geoloqi HQ)

It's March Mapness!

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners are very welcome!

Our goal is to be inclusive no matter your tech level, so bring your questions, geoprojects, and mapping curiosities. If you want to get hands-on, we'd also encourage bringing a laptop.

If you have any questions about the group or have something you'd like to show/teach send us a message on Twitter @MaptimePDX.

Use the power of technology to make our community a better place with Code for Portland, a new Code for America Brigade.

This is an exciting chance for people who know and love technology to come together with people who know and love urban issues to use technology and their collective skills to build solutions that matter to our city.

We welcome the skills and talents of software developers, designers, entrepreneurs, city staff, local organizations, and community leaders.

Code for Portland is part of Code for America's Brigade network and is an ongoing effort to deploy, maintain and sustain civic technology and open data infrastructures.

Please RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-portland-kickoff-meeting-tickets-10729996709

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

Read about the last meetings:

• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-02-12-homebrew-website-club
• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-01-29-homebrew-website-club
• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-01-15-homebrew-website-club#Notes

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

Read about the last meetings:

• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-01-29-homebrew-website-club
• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-01-15-homebrew-website-club#Notes
• http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2013-12-18-homebrew-website-club

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners very welcome. The best maps are made together. :)

Welcome to MaptimePDX, a monthly hack and learn meetup for map nerds, geo-geeks, and the spatially inclined. Beginners very welcome. The best maps are made together. :)

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the previous meeting.

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

This will be held concurrently with the Homebrew Website Club meeting in San Francisco with a remote video link between the two sites!

See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the previous meeting.

Google's Jenny Murphy will be in Portland to share time with the Glass Explorers here! Bring your projects and your trickiest API questions. She'll see what she can do to help.

There's room for about 15 to 20 people, so please RSVP as soon as possible. Jenny will share the venue details and how to access it with those who RSVP 'yes' closer to the time of the event.

Note: Due to interest, this event is limited to Glass Explorers and those actively in progress building or collaborating with an Explorer on an app for Glass.

Private event: RSVP on Google Plus. https://plus.google.com/events/ccglompcou8p3f3ct1ddatu2clg

Hey map nerds, geo geeks, and the spatially curious: MaptimePDX is having a November meetup, and we want you to come hack with us!

MaptimePDX is a monthly/bi-weekly hack and learn event for the geographically inclined. November's event will be a hack night! Come out and work on your map project, or work on one of the exercises we will have for you to do. If you're brand new to maps and code, we will also have a group of people working on building their first web maps, with lots of people there to help!

Beginners are very welcome and encouraged to attend! Please bring a laptop if you can. If you're at all interested in casual mentoring at the event (a.k.a. answering questions or sharing what you do), please shoot us a message on Twitter.

We all use maps every day. Let's learn how to make them even better... together.

Come hack on your mapping project at MaptimePDX!

This month we'll have dedicated space for folks wanting to hack on their own projects as well as a guided exercise to learn about building simple web maps with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap data.

All skill levels, especially beginners, are very welcome. Please bring a laptop if you can!

MaptimePDX is a monthly meetup of geo-nerds, developers who work with spatial data, and anyone who is interested in learning more about maps and technology. Spatial is special!

Let's start the new year off with the folks at Geoloqi (who were recently acquired by Esri)!

Geoloqi can only handle 85 attendees at a time, so we'll be breaking it up into two shifts with 85 people per.

Please select the time that is best for you!

Let's start the new year off with the folks at Geoloqi (who were recently acquired by Esri)!

Geoloqi can only handle 85 attendees at a time, so we'll be breaking it up into two shifts with 85 people per.

Please select the time that is best for you!

Join us on Sunday, Nov 4th at 10am at Geoloqi HQ for an all-day wearable computing and Crisis Commons Data Hackathon.

More info here: http://portland.cyborgcamp.com/2012/10/wearable-computing-and-open-data-hackathon-sunday-nov-4th/

It’s free! You can participate as an individual or a team. Breakfast and coffee will be available in the morning, and we’ll head to the food carts for lunch. We’ll have a Makey Makey and some Lily Pad Arduinos. The wearable computing hackathon is for those comfortable with soldering and working with electronics. Bring your own equipment for best results.

Don’t have your own equipment? Join the Crisis Commons hackathon. Use various tech such as the Geoloqi SDK and Portland open gov data to build useful apps for emergencies like Hurricane Sandy.

Update: due to demand we opened an additional 20 slots!

RSVP: http://cyborgcamp2012.eventbrite.com/

--Schedule--

Doors open at 10:00am with breakfast and coffee.

Coding will stop at 5:30pm, and teams and individuals will demo their apps.

Cleanup and after-events. Likely at the Lotus.

--Location--

Geoloqi HQ 920 SW 3rd Ave #400 Portland, OR 97204

--Who Should Attend?-- Hardware hackers, Ruby, Python, PHP, web developers, coders, interaction designers, graphic designers and anyone who has a passion to code, hack or conceptualize applications that will free (or otherwise enhance) the accessibility and usefulness of government-shared data or wearable technology.

Although the sprint takes place on Nov 4th after CyborgCamp Portland, you don’t have to be attending the conference to join us.

Participation is free and open to anyone with an interest in design or coding… we just ask that you register in advance so we know how many we need to accommodate.

Register at: http://cyborgcamp2012.eventbrite.com

CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.

Three scheduled speakers will give talks on biomedical engineering, cybernetic control systems and the stock market, and quantified self. The rest of the day will be unconference sessions.

Contact @caseorganic for more details and to volunteer, speak or sponsor.

Register at: http://cyborgcamp2012.eventbrite.com

Event is $12 to cover breakfast and lunch. Scholarship tickets are available upon request.

IMPORTANT: Please register for FREE at http://wherecamppdx5.eventbrite.com/

Join us for the Fifth Annual WhereCampPDX Kickoff Party this Friday at Geoloqi HQ. Beers and banter will be provided. With the growing numbers of geonerds this weekend, we're hoping to acquire more space just downstairs at either Lotus Room or Nedspace. Watch this space for details.

WhereCampPDX is a free, volunteer-created unconference for anyone interested in geography and technology. This year’s event will be happening October 12th-14th, with a full day of unconference sessions at Metro Regional Center on the 13th.

An unconference is a conference planned by the participants. We convene together, plan sessions, and break-out into the proposed session discussions and activities. This gives everyone an opportunity to bring to the table the things that interest them the most, and talk about emerging topics that are still new and exploratory. We value open participation, providing access to new voices, and lowering barriers to participation. As a result, the event is driven by the interests and talents of the participants.

To attend, you'll need to be signed up at http://wherecamppdx5.eventbrite.com/ by the party time!

It’s time for another Portland Data Visualization Meetup! We’ll have three to four main presentations and networking time.

We usually have some conversation and networking, so feel free to bring business cards and/or let people know if you’re hiring. (If you’d like to sponsor, see the section at the end of this post).

This time, Geoloqi will host us (see below for the address and entrance instructions). For best results, please arrive a little before 6:00 Pm.

---Speakers for Data Viz #7--- Periscopic -- New work by Periscopic.

Noah Iliinsky -- "How we think and talk about design, and how that can be applied to visualization."

Brennan Novak -- Tracking emotions.

Mohamed Alkady – TBD

---Want to Speak?--- We're looking for more speakers! 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--- Thursday, Sept. 20, 2011 from 6:30–8:30pm.

Geoloqi HQ 920 SW 3rd Ave. #400 Portland, OR 97204

---Entrance instructions--- We'll have a number posted on the door so you can get in when you arrive.

---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.

SORRY FOR THE LATE NOTICE BUT THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED! Jeff Jackson is stuck in DC and can't make it out to this!

He was going to show how Esri development teams use the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to build, test, and maintain scalable applications.

About Jeff Jackson @jeffjax is an Esri developer; arcgis.com; arcgis explorer; wpf; silverlight; mvvm from Portland, ME and will be in town for a day to visit with other Portlanders.

Join us in planning this year's WhereCampPDX, happening October 12th-14th.

WhereCampPDX is an annual unconference for all things related to geography, cartography, and how we interact with the world. Past topics have include strange maps, open source GIS tools, and geo-locative games.

We need your help to make this event happen! Please join us Wednesday to find out about volunteering, sponsoring, or otherwise participating in making this year's WhereCampPDX awesome.

Come find out about what Stumptown Syndicate is working on, and how you can get involved. We're a volunteer-run Portland nonprofit that puts on events like Open Source Bridge, BarCamp Portland, and WhereCampPDX, and we need your help to keep this next year of activities running smoothly.

Looking to improve your health, happiness or productivity? Or just gain more self-awareness? Then join our QS meetup! It's free and all are welcome.

The August meetup will be hosted by Geoloqi, one of Portland's hottest startup companies. We'll hope to have a look at their technology as well as enjoying show-and-tell presentations from several individuals who do self-tracking. Save the date -- more details to follow!

If you're game, bring by drinks and/or snacks for all to share!

Come make wearable heads up displays! Event will break for happy hour at the Lotus at 4, then more hacking will go into the night as we see fit. MyVu glasses, twiddler, and Bluetooth video cameras will be provided. Bring your own electronics!

Rather than posting content on many third-party silos of data, we should all begin owning our own data that we're creating. Publish short status updates on your own domain, and syndicate to Twitter. Publish photos on your own domain, syndicate to Flickr, etc, etc.

This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement. We'll get together for two days to talk about what has been done in the field, and where still needs to be done. There will be workshops and breakout sessions the second day.

For some reading on the subject, browse Tantek's documentation of his projects like Whistle and Falcon, two projects he created as an effort to begin owning his own published content.

Hosted by Tantek Çelik, Aaron Parecki, Amber Case and Crystal Beasley.

RSVP on the IndieWebCamp Wiki.

Portland is one of the original Gov 2.0 cities. Indeed, projects pdxAPI, GTFS, civicapps.org made Portland a cradle of civic technology. Come reclaim your civic clout this Sunday!.

Code for America Fellows Max Ogden and Jessica Lord are here to help.

WHO: Civic Hackers, City Reps, Developers, Designers, etc — anyone with the passion to make Portland better!

Code for America led project: Finding out information from city government shouldn’t be difficult.

Imagine a tool that allows citizens to stay informed about the city issues they care about most.The CfA team will focus on building an app that aggregates all public information—such as hearings, elections, city hall meetings and more—and allows individuals to easily digest and filter that information, and provide input on those topics that interest them. Ideally, the app’s functionality would allow you to: Get alerts about a specific location (like your house, a reoccuring nuisance in your neighborhood, or your neighborhood in general). Get alerts about specific policy outcomes that you care about. Ie. Bicycle policy. Get alerts about policy outcomes tied to a specific location (neighborhood)

Any Questions? Contact [email protected]

Come hack on open gov datasets and Geoloqi! We'll be providing more details soon.

Friday:

• 6:30Pm-9:00Pm – Hacking, planning and drinks begin!

Saturday:

• 9:30-10:00Am – Registration, breakfast and coffee.
• 10:00Am-10:15Am – Attendee short presentations. Groups and individuals set up to hack. Ideas are tossed around.
• 10:15Am – Hacking Begins!
• 12:00Pm – Lunch and snacks arrive!
• 01:00Pm – Hacking continues
• 05:00Pm – Presentations, and dinner on your own!
• 06:00Pm – Hack late into the night if you wish.

Sunday:

• 10Am – Optional day if you want to continue building your layer or app! We’ll be at the office until 6:00Pm to help you out.