WhereCamp PDX may be over for this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still get together once in a while. Come mingle with your fellow WhereCampers on November 18th, 7pm, at the White Eagle in N Portland. It’s right on the yellow MAX line. This is a great chance to find out what everyone’s [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Building a new Portland ; October 29th Event
October 27, 2008 – 4:20 pm
I’m not one of the organizers of this event, but will be attending and figured folks could be interested.
http://portlandpeakoil.org/content/building_a_new_portland
A number of local groups have heard from dozens of folks from all walks of life about your emotional responses to the economic “crisis”, and what you are doing or would like to be doing about it. [...]
Thank You WhereCampPDXers!
October 26, 2008 – 9:21 am
Thank you so much to the sponsors, volunteers, and attendees who made last weekend a success. We had a fabulous set of conversations about location tracking, sustainability, transportation, and more. If you’d like to find session notes, check out our virtual geocache on Drop.io. I’d also like to point you to the Ning site set [...]
Cache from the conference
October 18, 2008 – 6:27 pm
This morning the WhereCampers started a drop.io box at: http://drop.io/wherecamppdx (Feed). Session notes and photos are being posted there. You can pull a feed for up-to-the minute details on schedule, pictures, and the various documents that WhereCampers have put there.
The unconference has moved to Old Town Pizza for food and hacking. We will be back [...]
Anyone feel like taking a short run Sunday morning?
October 16, 2008 – 4:44 pm
While we will talk about location and orientation at WhereCampPDX on Saturday, we have a couple of games that will actively explore people moving through locations on Sunday.
On Sunday morning we will play Pac-Manhattan in the North Park Blocks. This is a chase game that is played by teams of runners and operators. The runners [...]
Arrivals
October 15, 2008 – 10:38 pm
On Friday evening, WhereCampPDX kicks-off with an art opening at Olympic Mills! The exhibition is called Equilibrium, the Human Mashup and presents artworks that explore the ways art and technology deal with Momentum, Maintenance, Multiplicity, and Mobility.
The WhereCampPDX group will be running a little party game at the reception to get people thinking and [...]
Making Maps
October 15, 2008 – 7:46 pm
What are some of the tools that map makers use to make maps?
It’s a question that not only concerns developers but also concerns managers and project leads. Many projects, ranging from that small website for a restaurant, or for say a small eco-roofing company, to say a corporate intranet mapping the location of company vehicles, [...]
Local motives
October 14, 2008 – 11:56 am
Local Motives
It’s not the geography of the place -it’s the interactions that happen in that place. — Gail Ann WiIliams @ the Well [ quoted from her talk at the isite @ love at first website event here in Portland October 14th 2008 ]
What do you call a group of folks interested in place? A [...]
Equilibrium
October 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
It’s not just about the techno-geekiness! We are excited to be supporting SAO and the Portland Working Artists Network in bringing about Equilibrium, the Human Mashup, using the synergy of art and technology to revolutionize society. Equilibrium kicks off WhereCampPDX on Friday Otober 17th from 4 – 7 PM, at the Olympic Mills Building, 107 [...]
Saturday Dinner and Hackathon
October 8, 2008 – 9:40 am
After sessions on Saturday, the 18th, we’ll be heading over to Old Town Pizza for dinner and hacking. We’re asking attendees to RSVP and pre-pay for dinner with the form below. Join us to continue talking about ideas from the day’s sessions, and collaborate on projects.
Cost: $10
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