Our friends at the Portland Open Source Geospatial User Group (PDX-OSGIS) are organizing the PDX Open Source GIS Unconference on April 16-17, 2010. This event is free, but requires registration because space is limited. This event will be a great place to learn about open source GIS tools, meet fellow practitioners, share your geo-related topic or project, [...]
Volunteers are meeting up at Willamette University in Salem this weekend to assist worldwide disaster relief efforts for Haiti, Chile and Sumatra. This effort will bring together community and student volunteers with a collaborative vision to continue the global CrisisCamp effort launched days after the January quake in Haiti, and applying it to new in-need [...]
CrisisCamp will bring together volunteers to collaborate on technology projects which aim to assist in Haiti’s relief efforts by providing data, information, maps and technical assistance to NGOs, relief agencies and the public. This event is free and open to the public. You don’t have to be technical to volunteer time. There will be projects [...]
Thank you so much to all of the WhereCamp organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and attendees who helped make the weekend fabulous. We had people traveling from as far away as Washington, D.C., as well as a great set of local Portland GIS users, planners, and geo-nerds. Here’s a few highlights from around the web. Kate Chapman [...]
Short notice but if you’re looking for something fun and outside to do on a Portland Saturday – come join in the Open Street Map Mapping Party: http://calagator.org/events/1250456097 Saturday November 8, 2008 – Sunday November 9, 2008- 11:00 AM Start BridgePort Brew Pub 1313 Nw Marshall St Portland, Oregon 97209 Category: Social Website: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Portland Mapping [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Time is running out! WhereCampPDX is only sixteen days away, so we’re coming into the homestretch now. I can’t tell you how excited we are about this. The ideas, the technologies, and the confluence of people that are coming together for this event runs the gamut from health care to gaming, and we are anticipating [...]
To kick off WhereCamp PDX, on Friday night, October 17th, we’ll be taking part in an interactive art installation entitled “Equilibrium: The Human Mash Up” taking place at the Olympic Mills Building at 107 SE Washington St Portland, OR 97214 View Larger Map “In the spirit of disruptive ideas and breaking down barriers we ask, [...]
