Brennan Novak
Future Positive, Designer, Musician, Developer, Freelancer, Goofball, Saver of Souls, Believer of Magic

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

Join us in celebrating the ribbon-cutting ceremony and launch of the Portland Incubator Experiment with Mayor Sam Adams, at our First Thursday Block Party.

We'll be welcoming the new class of start-ups and the esteemed mentor group with drinks, entertainment, and of course... PIE.

API Hackday PDX brings developers together the Saturday after OSCON in downtown Portland for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on existing projects, start new ventures, and find out about new APIs to play with. Brought to you by: SimpleGEO, Twilio, SendGrid,...

PhoneGap Goes 1.x! Celebrate With Us at PhoneGap Day!

Celebrate everything PhoneGap at the first-ever PhoneGap Day on Friday, July 29th in Portland!

After OSCON we’ll be heading over to Urban Airship where we’ll have phones, apps, js frameworks, tools and delicious beers for all to enjoy. In addition to some hacking with other PhoneGap...

Here is a good link to what typically happens in a QS meetup: http://quantifiedself.com/how-to-start-your...

I am excited about meeting other people and learning what other people are tracking or are interested in tracking and why.

Aaron Parecki @aaronpk from Geoloqi.com is going to talk about his self tracking experiments using Geoloqi and...

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Rather than posting content on many third-party silos of data, we should all begin owning our own data that we're creating when we create it. Publish short status updates first on your own domain, and then syndicate to Twitter. Publish photos on your own domain, then syndicate...

  Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Open Source Bridge is not a typical technical conference It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology agnostic; the conference content is based...

Come join the node.js community for one day of talks, food, and drinks in Portland, Oregon.

This is a free event, but, we do ask everyone planning to attend to RSVP in advance.

WhereCamp is an unconference for people fascinated by place. We are an eclectic crowd ranging from urban cartographers, environmentalists, locative media artists, augmented reality developers, simulations and modeling theorists. Often people wanting to simply...

Want to practice your startup pitch in front of people who've done it before? Crave the harsh criticism of your peers? Need the validation of seeing what works and what doesn't in other pitches?

Bring your 3 minute pitch. Put your name in a hat and if it gets picked, you're on. Powerpoints discouraged - just pitch. Then, answer...

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Design, hack and field test locally focused civic geo mobile applications! Anyone at any skill level can come learn how to make mobile apps. We will design and code all night and then go out in the morning and field test the apps.

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* CatMapper - geolocate cats: code, screenshot,...

Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness.

More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the...

SXSW Interactive is very excited to announce our first confirmed pre-event parties happening on the West Coast in January. We have a plan to throw a bash in as many cities as we can before the event happens in March. What does this mean to you? If you are a current SXSW badgeholder (or are just interested in SXSW Interactive) and you live on one of...