I’m getting pretty excited for the first meeting of the PDX-visualization group (which I convinced Ed to expand his R Language Study group into). One of the topics we’ll be going over is Graphviz. It’s old as dirt (ChangeLog goes back to 2000 at v1.7, but I’m guessing it’s at least a decade older) and [...]
The evening kicked off at Vidoop, a good open (and well-disguised) place just off Burnside. Started meeting some folks right away, and exchanging homely business cards. It was nice to see a few ladies there. I got to talk to about half the people. Very friendly and open group. An hour in, all 50 of [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, Eventbrite has kindly provided a list of all 50 SWPDX attendees, including their blogs. I also noticed an “OPML Feed” link there. Sweet! Unfortunately, that OPML is useless for Google Reader (lacking xmlUrls), and likely the same story for other readers. I had to manually load each one [...]
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Portland Startup Weekend starts tomorrow night at 6:00. I’ll be covering the event though my lens in upcoming posts here. It’s been a bit tedious to gather all the bits and pieces of the event. Here is a list of sites that participate in its organization: The Portland Startup Weekend Blog The “Portland” sub-blog of [...]
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There’s a lot going on around Portland, Oregon, to get hackers working together. Below is a list of groups/events I’ve discovered. I haven’t yet attended any of them, but I’m planning to hit most of them throughout this year. Not all are focused on entrepreneurship, but I bet that the attendees are the right types [...]
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