If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you might not know that we are holding our second annual BarCampPortland this weekend. Here are a few things you should know:
Logistics
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BarCamp Portland is happening just two days from now, starting May 2nd, 6pm, at CubeSpace.
If you’re not familiar with BarCamps in general, this is an unconference, an event with set times…
Not that you can tell from the post, but I’m the software developer quoted here. And I do think our local tech industry is getting better all the time. OPB should do a show about that.
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Too tired to cook again/still. So frustrating.
There will be BarCamp: http://tinyurl.com/6adlo6
This week, we’re going to help set up BarCamp at CubeSpace.
Awesome list of behaviors that tend to make people (especially women) run the other way, including the subtle ones that slip by without comment.
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There’s explaining something in a truly helpful way, and then there’s this.
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—An earthquake.
—UEFA has the foresight to hire a panel of Chinese and Romanian judges to decide the diving competition between Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo.
—Petr Cech takes the field in a…
Jeremiah Owyang claims that people don’t trust bloggers. To back up this claim, he cites three market research studies showing that when given a choice, people would choose to listen to their…
For some reason they didn’t quote me by name, but here’s the post for the OPB show about the state of the local economy: http://twurl.cc/116
More lazy tweet: Know of a web-based service for building marketing emails?
I wonder if you could apply the bridging/bonding idea to regular work, not just social capital.
I’m nearly out of hard drive space. Must fix soon. Anyone have brands to look for or avoid for external drives?
Talk to enough startups and the conversation eventually turns to that of funding. And the search for that seemingly elusive operating capital.
Ultimately, this discussion devolves into a lament…
Already looking forward to spending my evening reading Pratchett. Quietly. With minimal feline assistance.
Directed him toward @kveton for more info on companies moving here.
Just got off the phone with someone from OPB about the health of the local tech industry.
Buying tickets to go to SF in a couple weeks.
