CrowdCompass by Cvent

Millions of individuals interface daily with colleges and universities throughout the Northwest region, as students, employees, and members of the public. Thousands of these individuals have disabilities that impact the tools and methods they use for accessing websites and information technologies.

How are colleges and universities in Portland and throughout the Northwest region handling this challenge? What strategies are they employing internally and through procurement to ensure their websites and information technologies are accessible? What can the rest of us learn from higher education's examples?

At the October meetup, we will explore these questions including strategies for getting buy-in. Terrill Thompson from University of Washington, Kaela Parks from Portland Community College, Emiluz Lopez from CollegeNET and Gabriel Merrell from University of Oregon will share their strategies, stories and experiences in an informal conversation about IT accessibility in higher ed.

CrowdCompass is our event host. They are graciously providing refreshments for this event! Review their accessibility information and let us know if you have questions.

Lineup/Agenda:

• 6:00 gather/networking

• 6:30 panelists share their experience

• 8:00 time for Q&A and conversation

• 8-8:30 closing/networking

Our panelists:

Terrill Thompson - University of Washington

Kaela Parks - Portland Community College

Emiluz Lopez - CollegeNET

Gabriel Merrell - Oregon State University

See our Meetup page for bios on all of our presenters.

Google just announced that Google Play will now be supported on Chromebooks. The Chromebook is an inexpensive and lightweight laptop running the Chrome OS (and now apparently supports Android).

You can read more about it here: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html

Sounds awesome, right? So, let's get together and talk Chromebook Development.

Food will be provided. Please keep your RSVPs updated so that we know how much food to order.

Tentative Agenda
5:30 - 6:15: Arrivals, networking, and food 6:15 - 7:15: Presentation & Demo 7:15 - 7:30: Q&A and more networking

A peek at the future of software deployment, featuring Selenium 

Brought to us from Elson Rodriguez a reluctant crafter of digital ducttape

Come learn the latest in setting up Selenium Grids!  Hope to see you all there! 

Nathan Brenner - developing mobile apps with ionic

It will be Thursday!!! Sorry for cut paste error. For over 10 years, Selenium-Webdriver has evolved into the de-facto standard for automating UI testing for websites.

With the ability to use a multitude of browsers, mobile devices, and languages, it can also be daunting to use. Then to include it into a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipeline, the task can be almost impossible to fathom.

This session will looking at CI / CD as a whole and include Selenium-Webdriver into the mix to automation Website UI testing with zero coding. This approach helps shift left requirements, development, and testing of websites and additional features as they are being produced.

Shannon Atkinson is a Senior Quality Engineer at CrowdCompass

A Introduction to the World of Node, Javascript & Selenium by James Eisenhauer

We will discuss the following:

- What it takes to run Node.js
   - Node.js vs IO.js vs Node Foundation
   - NPM (Node Package Manager) 
   - NVM (Node Version Manager)

- Node Testing Tools like Jasmine & Mocha

- Node Build Tools like Grunt & Gulp

- Selenium Node.js many language bindings
   - WD.js, Webdriver.io, Webdriver.js, Nightwatch.js

- Other Selenium Node Frameworks
  - Protractor.js, TheIntern.js

- Testing Asynchronously 

A Introduction to the World of Node, Javascript & Selenium by James Eisenhauer

We will discuss the following:

- What it takes to run Node.js
   - Node.js vs IO.js vs Node Foundation
   - NPM (Node Package Manager) 
   - NVM (Node Version Manager)

- Node Testing Tools like Jasmine & Mocha

- Node Build Tools like Grunt & Gulp

- Selenium Node.js many language bindings
   - WD.js, Webdriver.io, Webdriver.js, Nightwatch.js

- Other Selenium Node Frameworks
  - Protractor.js, TheIntern.js

- Testing Asynchronously 

The entrance is on SW 2nd & Oak 

Jeromy and Andrew

Join us for our third Networking Night, this time at CrowdCompass by Cvent. This month, we will have four Lightning Talks about building products.

Speakers:

• Shiloh Frauen, Systems Analyst - "Shifting Perspectives: Moving from Client Services to Technology"

• Cami Dodson, User Experience Team Lead - "The Journey to Find CrowdCompass and their Expansive Product and Workplace"

• Andy Rosic, Senior Product Manager - "The Accidental Product Manager”

Program:

5:30-6:00 - Check-In and Networking 

6:00-6:45 - Lightning Talks: Building Products

6:45-7:00 - Wrap Up and Networking

Drinks and light snacks will be provided. Please arrive via the SW 2nd Ave entrance.

CrowdCompass is the leading mobile app provider for conferences and meetings.

For more info: http://www.crowdcompass.com/

Rose City Software Quality Engineers (RCSQE)

Empowering software professionals to build better software for tomorrow by championing quality today

Tonight's discussion: 'Multiply with Beaker' by Alice Nodelman (Puppet Labs)

Beaker is an acceptance level testing tool developed by Puppet Labs that supports both multi-platform and multi-virtualization techniques.  Beaker tests combine basic Ruby with a custom DSL and are designed to be executed no matter the operating system or cloud provider selected at runtime.  SUTs of a variety of platforms (linux, mac, windows, etc) are provisioned on a variety of virtualization systems and are then validated and configured.  The result is a SUT abstraction that allows automators to write understandable and powerful scripts.

Do you work for a tech company in any way, shape, or form (start-up, developer, marketing, design, admin, tech student, etc.)? Do you want to be more involved in the Portland tech community? Come by and play some Ping-Pong! Or, just come by for some good conversation and a beer. Headbands, wristbands, and other such attire are encouraged.

This event is free but please RSVP so we can get a head count for food and drinks

The Erlang Games continue!

Nathan Aschbacher will lead us through a series of hands-on programming problems that will get your hands dirty in code.

Designed to be instructive and entertaining for both the n00b and experienced erlangutang, join us and expand your skills!

• Steve

Appium is an open source, cross-platform, test automation framework for native, hybrid and mobile web apps on iOS and Android. It uses the WebDriver JSON protocol to standardize the automation API across the two platforms and three types of apps.

Documentation on how to use Appium on real devices is scarce. Meetup Co-Organizer An Doan figured it out recently and thought it would be a good idea to share what he learned. Boiled down to a few quick slides and a live demo on a real device.

Topics Covered

• What do I need?

• How do I use Appium?

• Does it really work?

• Does it work well? 

• What's hot and what's not? 

• How well does it scale?

Do you work for a tech company in any way, shape, or form (start-up, developer, marketing, design, admin, tech student, etc.)? Do you want to be more involved in the Portland tech community? Come by and play some Ping-Pong! Or, just come by for some good conversation and a beer. Headbands, wristbands, and other such attire are encouraged.

This event is free but please RSVP so we can get a head count for food and drinks

Sponsored and hosted by CrowdCompass by Cvent, you’ll have 48 uninterrupted hours to build the coolest, most effective tool you can dream up. The only rule? Keep it mobile.

Join CrowdCompass for our annual hackathon in our brand new office! We’re pumped to be gathering Portland’s top talent together for a weekend of innovation and camaraderie. We’ll keep you satisfied with local food, coffee and beverages so you can focus on the task at hand. Cost to participate is $50.

Space is limited; please follow the link and register in advance so we know how many pancakes to flip.

For Portland Startup Week (http://portland.startupweek.co/), our hosts will be CrowdCompass by Cvent. Join us in their new digs at Block 300 for lunch. This crew has hosted before, so it should be an awesome gathering.

A crash test dummy for your software.

http://newrelic.com/synthetics

Come join us as we kick off 2015!!

New location!  We are back downtown thanks to CrowdCompass by Cvent.  I can't wait to see their new digs!

Awesome speaker!  Patrick has been super busy since he moved back to Portland. Come join us has he tells the story of Synthetics and how to tackle the tough quality & test automation problems.

Patrick Lightbody  Vice President of Product Management

Patrick came to New Relic after founding several startups, most recently BrowserMob (acquired by Neustar), a cloud load testing and monitoring service. Previously he’s held management and engineering roles at Jive Software, Gomez (acquired by Compuware) and Cisco Systems.

Patrick is an avid open source contributor, most notably helping launch the Selenium browser automation project and Apache Struts 2.0. He’s also published two books on open source development. Patrick holds a BS in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.