The Portland, Oregon Lean Startup Circle Meetup. “A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/what...... "A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a product or service in conditions of extreme uncertainty" (Eric Ries) The number one reason that Startups fail is lack of customers (~90%), not product development failure (~10%). The Lean Startup is an approach that attempts to acknowledge this and create …

Atlassian user groups are informal gatherings of users, developers and enthusiasts for honest discussions about common interests, challenges and best practices. AUGs are great for connecting with like-minded people who are passionate about Atlassian tools and technology. Events can be anything from a few members chatting over coffee, to a product release party at a pub or a seminar with multiple speakers and product demos. AUGs are like group study sessions in college, except there are no tests …

RubyNest aims to provide a safe, inviting, and supporting community to women who want to take the leap into computer programming. With a focus on programming in Ruby and creating web applications with Ruby on Rails, we hope to help you attain skills necessary for you to feel comfortable leaving the nest and joining Portland's larger software development community.

Meet with other developers, web operations, system administrators, designers, and business professionals who are looking to making their site and application faster, enhance the user experience, and lower abandonment rates and make more money.

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 tools in both vendor-specific and vendor-agnotic ways. We welcome developers at all skill levels - in particular web devs and devops - so please join us!

This Dev Meet Up is a social gathering for developers to discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., Silverlight, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Presentations run the gamut of our community: from Web development to mobile location development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 to automating tasks with Python. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial d …

This is a place for developer and devops professionals to learn more about the open source, high-performance, NoSQL database, MongoDB.

PDX-UX hosts a monthly talk on UX design and development. Our conversations range from Data Visualization to Server-Side Platforms. From UX practices to HTML5/CSS. We want to foster a community & create a space to network.

Did you miss out getting in on this year's Ruby on Ales 3 and now it's sold out? Don't despair! New Relic is partnering to live stream the entire conference on Thursday, 3/7 & Friday, 3/8 at our office. So why not join us? Come by for an hour or all day. It's Ruby on ALES so of course we'll have some. Check out the schedule for each day: http://ruby.onales.com/ By the way, you must join the meet up to attend -- the elevator guards won't let walk-ins upstairs, so join now!

Talking about, working with, and hacking on MySQL in Portland, Oregon! This is the Portland MySQL User Group, a.k.a. PDX-MUG. Join us for all things MySQL.

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Are you looking to redesign your website, change career paths or just want to learn about something new? Then this meetup is for you! We are excited about Drupal and will be posting training opportunities both at a cost and for free, along with Drupal met ups in Portland, Oregon. Drupal is a free community supported framework for creating, organizing, presenting and managing a website. Most commonly referred to as a content management system, or CMS, Drupal has much more to offer. Millions of we …

AngularJS meetup group in Portland, OR.

Clojure user group in Portland. Meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of every month.

The UX Startup is a series of design workshops and demos for startups and entrepreneurs who need to boost their product creation process with user experience design. UX-empowered products are successful products. The UX Startup will have 4 types of meetup: 1. Monthly workshops We’ll focus on one UX tool or method and give you enough hands-on practice to go back to your startup or side project with a new skill. 2. Demo Days / Case Studies: This ‘show and tell’ event will be a forum for startups t …

This was a test group, but is not being used. Check out codescouts.org for more info! Thanks! Code Scouts is a friendly, supportive community for women to learn and practice software development together! Great resources to learn programming are out there on the web, but going through the projects and tutorials alone is much more difficult and way less fun. Code Scouts meet up in small and large groups to help one another learn about technology. The Code Scouts community welcomes all women, inc …

The PDX Selenium & Test Automation Meetup is a group for Test Automators 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 any type of Test Automation, Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Mobile Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, building maintainable automated test scripts and much more. You can follow us on Twitte …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Portland Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Portland to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

Create a forum for networking with other QA professionals in the Portland area Discuss relevant QA topics that affect our day to day jobs Provide a support group that can learn from each others experience