PortlandTech/Reoccurring Calendar
NOTE: Please check with the organization to be sure meeting times/locations haven't changed. Also be aware that many organizations change or cancel regularly occurring meetings around holidays.
Monthly Events
Every Wednesday
- Personal Telco -- 6:30 p.m. | Weekly small group meetings for Personal Telco Project, which aims to build public Wi-Fi networks covering the city. (Note they also hold smaller meetings weekly -- see their weekly listing.)
- Location: Varies, see their monthly meeting page for current info.
Every Friday
- Database Reading Group -- 10 to 11:30 a.m. | at Datalab-sponsored entity at Portland State University discussing papers related to database technology.
- Location: Portland State University's 4th Ave Building, room 115, 1900 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
- Info: Reading group announcement via group mailing list at
First Tuesday
- PDXFCPUG -- Final Cut Pro Portland User Group -- 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Experts to hobbyists discussing both the Apple Final Cut Pro software as well as video animation, compositing and authoring.
- Location: PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, 705 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217
- Info:
First Wednesday
- WikiWednesday -- 6:30 p.m. | Discussion of wikis and related online collaborative tools. For experts and novices alike.
- Location: AboutUs, 107 SE Washington St., Suite 520, Portland, OR 97214.
- Info: SocialText listing page or call AboutUs, 503-488-5763.
- PDX Web Innovators -- Designers, developers and entrepreneurs based in Portland.
- Locations and times vary. See their events schedule for more info.
First Thursday
- PDXLinux.org -- Portland Linux/UNIX Group (PLUG) -- 7 p.m. | General group meetings (see third Monday listing for their advanced topic meeting info).
- Location: Portland State University's Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland OR 97201
Second Monday
- PMUG - Portland Mac User Group -- 6:30 p.m. | General meetings, learn about computer setup, operation and maintenance, as well as a wide range of shareware and commercial software.
- Location: Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center (aka "Ecotrust Center"), 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
- Info: 503-616-4736
Second Tuesday
- Portland Plone Users Group -- 5:30 | Presentation, discussions and meetup for Plone beginners, seasoned pro or just the curious.
- Location: OneNW.org Portland office: 1306 NW Hoyt, Suite 406, Portland, OR 97209
- Info: http://portlandploneusers.org/events
Second Wednesday
- Portland Drupal Group -- 6 p.m. | General meetings.
- Location: Bus Project, 333 SE 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97214
- Info: http://groups.drupal.org/portland
- PPCUG -- Portland PC Users Group -- 7:15-9:15 p.m. | Open meetings, with guest speakers, info and raffles.
- Location: Varies, please see the meetings page for up-to-date info on location and schedule changes.
Second Thursday
- PDXLUG.org -- Portland Linux User Group -- Round-table discussions about Linux and Open Source related topics.
- Location: Fireside Coffee Lodge, 1223 SE Powell Blvd Portland, OR 97202.
Third Monday
- PDXLinux.org -- Portland Linux/UNIX Group (PLUG) -- 7 p.m. | Advanced Linux Talk, meeting follows a much more stringent format than the general meetings (see first Thursday listing for their general meeting info).
- Location: Jax, 826 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR
- Info: Advanced Talk meeting rules/format
Third Tuesday
- PJUG -- Portland Java Users Group -- 6:30 p.m. | Open meetings focused on Java technical issues: programming, APIs, tools and techniques.
- Location: Varies, see http://www.pjug.org/ for updated info.
Third Thursday
- Portland Adobe Servers User Group -- 5:30-7:30 | See their meetings page for each month's presentation topic
- Location: PCC Sylvania Campus, Library Building Room 112, 12000 SW 49th Ave, Portland, OR 97219.
- Info: meetings page
Fourth Wednesday
- Extreme Programming Portland -- 6:30 p.m. | People interested in the XP-style of software development.
- Location: CubeSpace 622 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214
- Contact: ArloBelshee on C2.com if you'd like to give a presentation, talk or lead an activity.
Fourth Thursday
- BarCamp.org/BarCampPortland: Informal meetups monthly at 5:30 p.m. (except for months with either a Ignite Portland or a formal BarCamp event. Meetings are for those interested in the Ignite and BarCamp events and for those just interested in chatting about technology.
- Location: Jive Software office, 317 SW Alder St. Suite 500, Portland, OR 97204.
Last Wednesday
- Personal Telco -- 6 p.m. | Monthly group meetings for Personal Telco Project, which aims to build public Wi-Fi networks covering the city. (Note they also hold smaller meetings weekly -- see their weekly listing.)
- Location: Varies, see their monthly meeting page for current info.
Regular/Monthly Meetings (Dates TBD)
- CascadeSIGGRAPH.org -- General meetings for the local chapter of Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Technologies (SIGGRAPH). All are welcome to come and meet like-minded computer graphics people.
- Info: events page.
- DevGroupNW.org -- A forum for developers to meet, share knowledge about what's happening in the web, multimedia and interactive communities.
- Info: events page
- DorkbotPDX.org -- Regular informal meetings every other week.
- Portland InDesign User Group -- Meetings every other month.
- Info: Portland Group Page
- PADNUG -- Portland Area .NET Users Group -- Meetings for software developers to discuss .NET and related technologies. Meets approximately once a month.
- Info: http://www.padnug.org/
- PDX User Experience -- 6:30 p.m. 3rd Tuesday of odd-numbered months | Meetings for both developers and designers.
- Location: Pop Art, 718 SW Alder Street, 2nd Floor Community Room
- PAGDIG -- Portland Area Game Developer Interest Group -- Local International Game Developers Association (IGDA) chapter generally meets monthly at a variety of locations.
- Info: http://www.pagdig.org/ for meeting dates, times and locations.