Cool tech/geek things in Portland Oregon.
- Awesome - the canonical list of awesome lists
- Portland on Top Regional Repositories - list of popular repositories in Portland, Oregon
- Reddit Portland aka 'preddit'
- PDX Startups Switchboard - great "ask and offer" forum
- Silicon Florist - longrunning blog covering startups and tech
- Calagator - unified calendar for the tech community.
- OMSI - our science museum, lots of events and cool things for adults and kids and a submarine.
- workfrom.co Portland - coffeeshops and meeting spaces that are remote-worker-friendly. Discounts, meetups, and realtime occupancy too.
- XOXOPDX - coworking space coming soon from the XOXO team (related: see Andy Baio below)
- Delight (Oct 5-7 2015); @DelightConf
- Open Source Bridge, aka OSBRIDGE
- OSCON
- Portland Design Week (April 15-16 2016); @DesignWeekPDX
- Portland Mini Maiker Faire at OMSI (next: Sept 12-13 2015)
- PyCon (2016 and 2017)
- TechFestNW (Aug 20-21 2015)
- WebVisions Portland (May 2016)
- XOXO Festival
- Monitorama
- PuppetConf (Oct 5-9 2015)
These don't appear to have future events scheduled in Portland.
- BADCamp
- TedX Portland
- WordCamp Portland - WordPress conference in 2013. @wcpdx
- Pacific NW Drupal Summit - Drupal conference in 2014. Next in Portland in 2017?
- PDX Tech networking group/mailing list; @PDXTechnology
- Technology Association of Oregon; @TechOregon
- Ansible Portland - monthly meetup for Ansible (configuration management) peeps
- AWS Portland - discuss AWS, the magical cloud.
- Code for Portland - We're uniting hackers with the city, and working on projects that make a difference in our communities.
- Coffee w/ Co-Founders - Monthly meetup for area Co-Founders
- Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon - aka CHIFOO. #needsdescription
- Girl Develop It Portland - language-agnostic meetup focused on learning to code
- Hacks/Hackers Portland - #needsdescription
- MaptimePDX - Monthly meetup for map enthusiasts of all levels; @MaptimePDX.
- New Relic Futuretalks - speaker series by New Relic at the top of Big Pink
- PDX Python - includes a "programmer peer mentoring night" and monthly presentations
- PDX R - monthly presentations
- PyLadies PDX - weekly meetups for women
- Techies on Bikes - #needsdescription
- Workfrom Portland - casual weekly coffeeshop meetups for remote workers (including techies and creatives)
- Women Who Code Portland
- Portland ReactJS
- PDX.rb
- PDXFunc
- DorkbotPDX
- Portland Puppet User Group
- pdx devops - Presentations and discussions on Development Operations and related technologies.
- PDXCloud - Presentations and group discussions on cloud technologies hosted at Elemental.
- OpenStack Northwest User Group
- RainSec - Informal meetup of security professionals in a non-work non-vendor setting.
- ChickTECH Portland
- Girl Develop It Portland (@GDIPortland, facebook)
- PDX Women in Tech
- PyLadies PDX (@PyLadies_PDX, meetup, github)
- Women Who Code Portland meetup
This section should contain names (and especially Twitter accounts) of Portlanders who are smart, engaging, and worth following. List their topic areas too.
- Amber Case, @caseorganic, cyborg anthropologist, human-computer interaction, geo, "We are all cyborgs now"
- Andy Baio @waxpancake, creator of XOXO, early Kickstarter techie, waxy.org, lots of brilliant projects.
- Max Ogden, @maxogden #needsdescription
- Selena Deckelmann, @selenamarie, blog, PyLadies, Open Source Bridge, Ada Initiative, Mozilla. Willamette Week article, Geek Feminism Wiki entry.
- Ward Cunningham, @wardcunningham, personal pages, Wikipedia - inventor of the wiki, XP pioneer
- Steven Frank @stevenf + Cabel Sasser @cabel, co-founders of Panic, Inc.
- PDX Code Guild - teaches Python.
- Code Fellows
- Treehouse - tech education, especially related to web/app development. Oregonlive news article; Wikipedia article.
- Oregon Startups - startup resources (office space, lawyers, networking, microloans).
- Portland's Business Incubators and Accelerators - blog post with a large list of incubators and resources for startups.
- Alma - K-12’s first Holistic Student Engagement Platform.
- AltSource
- Elemental Technologies - Video conversion and streaming hardware, software, and cloud platform systems.
- Esri R&D Center
- FlightStats - Aviation information and data services, mobile and web based flight tracking apps.
- GlobeSherpa - Transit Ticketing mobile apps and services platform. Customers include TriMet and Portland Streetcar.
- Idealist - Job and project listing services for NGOs, non-profits, etc.
- Jama Software
- Jive - Social networking platforms for businesses.
- Jolby & Friends
- Kongregate - Online gaming platform.
- Mozilla
- New Relic
- OnTheGo Platforms - Wearable computing platform systems.
- Opal
- Portland Incubator Experiment - run by Wieden+Kennedy, startup accelerator. OreognLive article; Wikipedia article.
- Panic - Software developer of fine Mac and iOS software like Coda, Transmit, and Prompt.
- Planet Argon
- Plunk - Digital Marketing Agency. Mobile/Web Development Firm
- Puppet Labs
- Quick Left
- Simple
- Switchboard
- Treehouse - tech education, especially related to web/app development. Oregonlive news article; Wikipedia article.
- Uncorked Studios
- Urban Airship
- Vadio - Online video services.
- 52 Limited
- Boly:Welch
- Dorigan & Associates
- Mainz Brady Group
- Mathys-Potestio
- Scion Technical Staffing
- TEKsystems
- Triad Technology Group
- VanderHouwen & Associates
