Now that Portland is the best place to live, some people may want to move here. Because of that (but really because a couple people have asked recently), here are the various technology/entrepreneurial groups around town. This is by no means a complete list.
- PDX Web Innovators (cross between developers, designers, entrepreneurs)
- DevgroupNW (design focused)
- PDX UX (cross between designers and developers)
- SAO – Software Association of Oregon
- OEF – Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum
- IPN – Internet Professionals Northwest (now part of SAO)
- PADNUG – .Net User Group
- PDX CFUG – ColdFusion User Group
- PJUG – Java User Group
- POSSE – Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs
- PDX.rb – Portland Ruby Brigade
- PDXPHP – PHP User Group
- Internet Strategy Forum
- CHIFOO
- pdxMindShare
- OregonStartups.com – Great collection of resources for local entrepreneurs
- Starve Ups
- Northwest Entrepreneur Network
- nPost.com
There are others like Mac, Linux and PC user groups, Podcasting Meetups, Entrepreneur (general) meetups, but these are the main ones I’ve come across. What others do people know of or enjoy?
I was just looking at the PDX Web Innovators wiki and thinking to myself “someone should compile a list of all of the tech groups in portland…” Then I click, and here it is. Since there’s a few language-oriented groups on that list, you might want to add PDX PHP (http://www.pdxphp.org)
Thanks for the link Reid, I’ve added the PHX PHP group.
The local eXtreme Programming group isn’t too bad – http://www.xpdx.org/
I also should have mentioned the local Perl Mongers group. Lots of big names attend this group. They’re going through a transition in leadership right now. In fact, there is a meeting on 12th of April at Free Geek. – http://portland.pm.org/kwiki/
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I set up a wiki to track technology-related groups in Portland at http://pdxgroups.pbwiki.com. Please feel free to add any of these that you think might be relevant.
@Audrey – Cool, great idea. It helps to have a more permanent home for this stuff.