Justin C. Houk
Contributor at ProgrammableWeb.com, Community Organizer, Online Activist, Content Curator, Geolocation and data standards

WhereCampPDX is an annual unconference for anyone interested in geography and technology.   Schedule: Friday 10/7 - Opening Party Saturday 10/8 - Unconference Sessions and evening hackathon Sunday 10/9 - Games and excursions

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON.

A participant-driven event where attendees discuss, debate and explore topics near & dear to the hearts of community leaders (hashtag: #cls11)

When everyone is gone and god's not looking, we need to pick up some sweet stereo equipment and maybe some new furniture for the mansion we're going to squat in.

http://ogw.ticketleap.com/open-gov-west-2011/

Two days to bring a region together, exploring opportunities to open government, increase civic engagement, and coordinate projects across governments. Now is the time to move from old models and technology to finding innovative, cost efficient, and transparent methods for accomplishing...

April 20 at 1:45pm PDT / 4:45pm EDT

WHAT'S HAPPENING
President Barack Obama will hold a special "Facebook Live" townhall to connect with Americans across the country.

WHERE & WHEN IT'S HAPPENING
Where? Well, everywhere! The event at Facebook's headquarters, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg & COO Sheryl Sandberg, will be...

Full details at http://bit.ly/paulbingman

A free Open Source Geospatial Unconference put on by the Portland OS-Geo User Group.

Come celebrate the holidays and good beers with the Taplister and Migration crews. Migration Brewing will be getting some of the best local holiday beers on tap to celebrate this festive season. The event will be at Migration Brewing (2828 NE Glisan Street, Portland, OR) on Saturday December 18th from 7pm-Midnight and is free. Don’t forget to...

For now, please visit the EventBrite site (http://www.esri.com/events/dev-meetup/index.html) to officially sign up for this event.

5:00-5:45 PM Registration and Social

6:00 - 6:30 PM Keynote speaker Scott Hanselman

6:30 - 8:00 PM Lightning talks

Al Pascual: Consuming OSM with ArcGIS
Dorothy Mortesnon: Interactive Water Resource Maps
...

Coders unite! Come hack on community oriented applications, such as the ones listed on the Civicwebs Wiki!

Who should come?
Those interested in making awesome, dorky, useful, and experimental technology that benefits those in the neighborhoods around them. Coders, graphic designers, interaction designers, or even activists or community members...

If you had five minutes to talk to GOSCON attendees, what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they advanced automatically after 15 seconds?

Here's another chance to share your burning idea about open government, open source software and accelerating strategies which help everyone do more with less. The Ignite format is an fun...

GOSCON 2010: The Year of Open Government extends its annual open invitation to join the conversation by submitting a proposal for this fall's event. The conference will focus on open source applications, tools, and collaboration models enabling leading Open Government, Open Data and Government Transparency initiatives throughout the US and...

Research Club is proud to host our community coders meetup Civic Webs. This Sunday (October 24) Civic Webs will meet again!

At CivicWebs a multi-faceted group of developers, coders and community oriented minds comes together to discuss the Civic Web. The Civic Web is a term coined by Max Ogden to describe a web that facilitates real life social...

Join us after CyborgCamp Portland on Sunday, October 3rd, for an 8-hour hackathon to see who can build the best open government application in just one day! Participation is free and open to anyone. There will be free breakfast, coffee, lunch, and beer!

Who should attend?

Ruby, Python, PHP, web developers, coders, designers and anyone who has...

Come hang out at PIE (Portland incubator experiment) and work on open source software projects using Portland open data!