WhereCampPDX 2010 planning is in full swing and organizers are meeting weekly. The geo-unconference is slated for September 25th at Metro Regional Center. Several other WhereCamp events including parties, app demos, hacking sessions, and geolocative gaming are also in the works. WhereCampPDX is designed and built by the local PDX community and all are welcome [...]
Join us to talk about CivicApps, the City of Portland’s open data project, this Saturday at NedSpace Oldtown. We’ll start at 10AM with a little show-and-tell session, then attendees can split into groups to look through the data or work on projects that use it. This is an unofficial meetup, not sponsored by the city, [...]
Adam DuVander, author of the upcoming Map Scripting 101 book, will be giving a number of talks of interest to those wanting to start creating and customizing online maps: April 22: A free talk at Refresh PDX about tools designers can use to customize their maps on the web. He’ll cover marker icons, image overlays, [...]
WhereCampers will be interested in another upcoming event: Details below copied from: http://www.thedirt.org/node/4112 The Transition Initiative in Portland invites you to meet with us to begin planning and organizing an effort to build community resilience in the face of climate change, rising energy costs and economic decline. Building on work started by many organizations, we [...]
D*A*S*H* – a multi-city, near-simultaneous, seven-hour, foot-accessible puzzle hunt
ARG Fest-o-Con, the premiere English-language convention for players and designers of Alternate Reality Games, will be held in Portland on July 17-19.
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 [...]
