We are extremely excited to have Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso as our keynote speaker for this year’s WhereCampPDX — a free, volunteer-organized unconference for anyone interested in geography and technology. This year’s event will be held on September 24th-26th, with a full day of unconference sessions at the Metro Regional Center on the 25th. Nathaniel Kelso has [...]
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 [...]
Are you planning to attend WhereCampPDX this weekend? Here’s a guide to making the most of it. Friday night: View Larger Map The kickoff party starts at 6pm sharp at Gallery Homeland. Help us finalize our plans by RSVPing on Upcoming. You can earn bonus points by helping set up and tear down (we need [...]
Saturday night at WhereCampPDX, we’re having a pizza dinner before we move onto late night hacking activities, all hosted by the Portland Incubator Experiment. We’ll have Old Town Pizza, salad, chips, and beverages to fuel your brain for coding. Like last year, we’re asking dinner attendees to prepay, $10 to cover the cost. Use the [...]
WhereCampPDX kicks off Friday October 2nd with an opening night party at Gallery Homeland (2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland OR). This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow WhereCampers, discuss session ideas before the Saturday schedule planning rush, and try a round of our Arrivals game (shown above). The party starts at 6pm, and [...]
We’re pleased to announce we have a venue and a date! WhereCampPDX will be happening October 2nd through the 4th, with the main unconference session portion happening on Oct. 3rd at the Metro Regional Center. If you’re planning to attend, please let us know by adding your name to the attendees list on the wiki. [...]
WhereCamp PDX is an unconference, meaning that we define the sessions and schedule together at the conference rather than ahead of time. For this year’s event, we invited a keynote speaker to help kick off the conference, and connect the many topics and people that WhereCamp brings together. We’re pleased to announce that James Fee [...]
WhereCampPDX 2009 is coming this fall and we’d like you to be a part of it. Last year’s event was a big success and we’re working to finalize the date, venue and details for the next one. WhereCampPDX is a 100% volunteer-run unconference in Portland, Oregon focusing on all things geographical. It’ll be a great [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
