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Zissou Society for Programming Language Exploration
The Society is a forum for discussing programming languages: new, old, quirky, and especially the thought-provoking and mind bending.
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WeMake
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Portland Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a...
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PDX DITA
Local DITA users quarterly meeting to learn from each other.
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PDX Photoshop + Illustrator users
A group with monthly no-charge meetings. For the users, BY the users, of the users. Join us for an expert presentation OR a "share and ask" meeting (alternating months). This is an official Adobe group, with book giveaways and twice-a-year giveaway of Adobe Creative Suite (see site for eligiblity requirements). To get announcements, su...
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New Tech Society
Ever notice how fragmented the Portland tech community is? We did—and we’re doing something about it! The New Tech Society was founded to bring together a diverse group of individuals; technologists from a variety of disciplines and industries within the Portland community. We will meet for one night a month to make new connections, exchange ...
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SEPoCoNi
Come hang out and write code in a nice uncrowded environment with your fellow nerds, drink beer and eat nachos! The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome! The place is small so finding the nerd herd shouldn't be too difficult. We're usually at the long tables by the door.
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Portland Oregon Selenium Users Group
The PDX Selenium Meetup is a group for Selenium Test Automation users of all skill levels to come together to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. Our focus is in Selenium ( http://seleniumhq.org/ ) and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Mobile Testing, Continuous In...
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Women Who Hack
Women Who Hack are casual get togethers 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 you’ll find a project! Our goal is to support local women hackers (and aspiring hackers) ...
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CASH Music
CASH Music is a nonprofit organization that builds open source digital tools for musicians and labels. Our mission is to help educate and empower artists and their fans to foster a more viable and sustainable future for music.
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Stumptown Syndicate
Our purpose is to support technology education and community-building through events, space and resource coordination, and other activities. We produce events such at Open Source Bridge, Barcamp Portland, Ignite Portland, PDX Tech Workshops and more!
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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.
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Ubuntu Oregon
Ubuntu Oregon is a group of volunteers who advocate and promote Ubuntu and Free Open Source Software in Oregon. We attend and plan events statewide and remain committed to educating others about Ubuntu and Free Open Source Software through these events and partnerships within our community. The group is open to everybody in the state with an ...
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PDX-UX
PDX-UX is a group for user experience professionals who want to network, discuss ideas, learn from each other, share expertise, and vent (but only a little). Meetups are likely to be a mix of formal and informal gatherings including talks, happy hours, and interactive learning sessions in varying locations around Portland.
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Portland Tech Workshops (pdxtechworkshops)
Creating new technologists, connecting new people with the local tech community, and increasing the participation of under-represented groups.
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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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Collective Agency
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! Where? 3050 SE Division, Suite 245, and 1410 SW Morrison, Suite 850. When? Members have 24/7 access at both locations. We’re staffed Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm. What els...
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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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Portland Open Source Geospatial User Group (PDX-OSGEO)
The OSGeo PDX-OSGEO Chapter strives to promote the local use of Open Source Geospatial software, particularly new users in the Oregon/SW Washington area. The group hosts monthly meetings providing presentation, discussion, and educational opportunities and focuses on materializing an annual Open Source GIS unconference.
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52 Mobile Apps
52 Mobile Apps is a year-long, week-by-week mobile app marathon which will take place throughout 2012. Once we've got our website up and running, people will be able to form teams, submit proposals for apps, and reserve a week during 2012 to develop the app. A Tutorial section will feature articles by various professionals in the categorie...
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OTBC - Oregon Technology Business Center
The Oregon Technology Business Center, provides coaching, networking events, entrepreneurship programs, and shared office space to help tech, biotech, cleantech and opentech start-up ventures succeed. We can help you: Avoid common problems in setting up your company. Validate your market. Protect your intellectual property. Develop your busines...
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PSU Business Accelerator
The PSU Business Accelerator is an entrepreneurial community like none other in Oregon. Home to more than 30 promising technology and science startups, including spinouts from all major Oregon research universities, the Accelerator provides office and lab space plus a menu of services designed with the fast-growing startup's needs in mind. Th...
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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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PIE - The Portland Incubator Experiment
The Portland Incubator Experiment is a joint venture between Wieden + Kennedy and the Portland startup community.
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TIE Oregon
TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. TiE provides a supportive platform for mentoring, networking, and education for both entrepreneurs and other professionals interested in economic value creation. The Oregon chapter was launched...
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Learning for Leverage
Learning for Leverage offers a different kind of training – one that meets the exact business challenges you face at a highly affordable price. Originally started as a partnership with Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski to better train Oregon’s technology workforce, we have evolved into an independent training network for professionals at organizati...
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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 Semantic Web Interest Group
A community for discussion of topics related the use of Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data for application development in Portland, Oregon.
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OEN - Oregon Entrepreneurs Network
OEN is the largest entrepreneur assistance organization in the state of Oregon. OEN fosters the flow of entrepreneurial ideas, services, and capital to entrepreneurs and helps connect emerging Northwest businesses to growth-stimulating expertise and valuable resources. Individual members $125, student $75.