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UpdatePDX
With new databases springing up faster than new food carts this meetup aims to cut through the hype and disseminate knowledge from people who have been using, scaling, and getting-paged-by databases and other systems in production environments. Meetups will be a presentation on someone's experience with a database or related technology in pro...
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Portland SCORE - Service Corp of Retired Executives
Portland SCORE provides FREE and confidential one-on-one business consulting, workshops, tools and resources. SCORE is not focused exclusively on technology companies, but has information and services that could benefit them.
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Cascade SIGGRAPH
We exist to serve the needs of the Oregon and Southwest Washington computer graphics community. Through meetings, workshops, conferences, and other activities, the Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter works to promote an increased knowledge of and greater interest in the educational, artistic, and scientific aspects and applications of modern technology...
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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, and others.
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Open Source Bridge
An all-volunteer run conference for open source citizens.
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BrainSilo
BrainSilo is a Hackerspace in Portland, OR. Our space is always open to members and their guests, and the general public is welcome during scheduled events. We are dedicated towards education, hacking, and maker culture. Our mission is to sustain an environment where people can educate themselves and others in order to create and expand junct...
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Portland Werewolf
Portland Werewolf is a monthly gathering where participants can eat, drink, and play Werewolf.
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PDXTech4Good
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.
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PDX11
The next step toward making Portland the most awesome place in the world to start and run your software business. We're here to keep you informed about the City's initiative to promote and enhance our local software industry. Mentoring & Learning pilot program: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3956973&trk=anet_ug_hm
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PDX Visualization
Topics will include: * Vis languages: R, Processing, Flash/Flex, Javascript * Toolkits/APIs: VPython, Google Maps, Google Visualizations, UUorld * Interesting demos/presentations (TED and elsewhere) * Howto/experience sessions * Trends/discoveries in vis * Data mining * Analytics
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Portland Area Open Source Geospatial
All are welcome! Our group ranges from the geo-curious to researchers, analysts, and überhackers that use GIS and mapping in their work. Have a problem you're trying to solve? tool/business you're developing? Website you need some help with? Come tell us about it! We are an official user group of OSGeo (http://www.osgeo.org/) and a speci...
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Oregon SQL Developers
Oregon SQL Developers (OSQL-d) provides opportunities for SQL Server developers, .NET, and other developers accessing SQL Servers, as well as SQL Server administrators, to meet and discuss SQL Server technologies that are of specific interest to developers. Discussion topics include 'Best Practices', T-SQL code, Query Optimization, Reporting, ET...
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ContinuousWeb
Continuous Web- Portland is a community for startup entrepreneurs and tech professionals building sustainable web products and businesses. Members connect and learn from professionals what it takes to start, build, and lead a great web business. For the startup at all stages: idea, seed capital, angel/venture funded, profitability and beyond.
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Portland WordPress User Group
Portland WordPress users - authors, administrators, developers, and more. Anyone who uses or works with WordPress is welcome.
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PDX Groups (it's meta)
A mailing list for user group organizers to talk about issues related to organizing user groups. Also responsible for planning the Summer and Winter Coders' Socials.
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Oregon Computer Consultants Association (OCCA)
The Oregon Computer Consultants Association is a not-for-profit association established to provide a structure and forum for independent computer consultants working within the State of Oregon to share their knowledge, skills, and resources; to promote the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct; and to promote the common interests...
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PDX Girl Geek Dinners
An international community working to #ChangeTheRatio in Technology & STEM industries through networking & outreach reach.
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Girls In Tech - Portland, OR
Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion...
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Starve Ups
Starve Ups is an exclusive founders-only group serving idea and early stage entrepreneurs who provide each other their insights, resources and networks at no cost in order to provide peer mentoring at the highest level. In turn Starve Ups is a virtual incubator and accelerator with its cornerstone as peer mentoring, which is exactly what Starve...
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Agile PDX
We see Portland as a world class leader in software development. By "world class" we mean profitable, sustainable, and joyful. Our mission is to create a vibrant, successful Agile community of practice that shares real-world experiences, distilled wisdom, and innovative ideas for Agile done well.
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ACM @ PSU
As a student run organization under National ACM guidelines we strive to academically, socially, and creatively enrich the lives of our members and the student body. We have been known to host events and presentations. We also provide tutoring to fellow computer science students. We get our funding through tutoring. We encourge members or non-m...
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Code 'n' Splode
Supporting the participation of women in the Portland tech community.
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Portland JavaScript Admirers
Portland JavaScript Admirers is a group that meets monthly to discuss topics on JavaScript and ECMAscript ranging from client-side web frameworks, to functional and prototypal programming theory.
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PDXCloud
PDXCloud is a Portland, Oregon user group that welcomes programmers interested in all aspects of working with cloud-based services. Topics include, working with vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace, etc, working with open-source implementations such as OpenStack, and developing cloud-based services, sites, and to...
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Personal Telco Project
The Personal Telco Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Portland, Oregon dedicated to the idea that people have a central role in how their networks are operated. We do that by building our own networks that we share with our communities, and by helping to educate others in how they can too. To date, we have done this using ...
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PDXScala
Scala in the lovely Pacific NW (Portland, Oregon, to be precise)
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Portland Code Camp
Since 2005, Portland Code Camp has produced a community event that provides the developer community opportunities to talk with, and learn from each other. Any developer may propose a presentation to share his or her tips and tricks on using technology, understandings of new programming paradigms, and approaches to problem solutions. Any develope...
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Portland Ruby Brigade
The Portland Ruby Brigade is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. We're a friendly group that freely shares knowledge about the Ruby programming language, its libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails.
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Ubuntu PDXTeam
PDXTeam is the Ubuntu user group for the city of Portland in the state of Oregon in the United States.
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ALT.NET PDX
The alt.net group is a a group that gets together to discuss practices, patterns, and design that generally falls outside the normal flow of systems and into the extreme. We discuss architecture and technological points, to agile ideals and lean, extreme, or other processes. Come join us, always a good time.