We're at a  place in our lives where we want to play hard and have FUNNN.   We're about making new acquaintances, some of which may evolve into true friendships.   Both singles and those with partners are part of our group Since age is generally a state of mind anyway, if you're heading toward fifty or over, it really doesn't matter. If you have a partner who also wants to participate, each person should become a member since some of our events do not include guests. You'll find our group welcom …

"Content Strategy" describes the strategic approach to identifying, planning, collecting, creating, distributing and governing content. People interested in "Content Strategy" will likely be involved in the fields of communication, marketing, advertising, web design, web development, interaction design, information design, copywriting, search engine marketing, and... perhaps others... I would like to meet other like-minded Content Strategists in the Portland area. Open to all. Focus on discussin …

The Portland Sitecore CMS User Group meets once each month in the downtown Portland Oregon area, for networking and learning. We may meet in a board room on occasion for practical training, and other times in a pub. The user group is led by the ISITE Design technical staff, and open to anyone using or considering the Sitecore Content Management System, or who has an interest in .NET CMS platforms, regardless of technical proficiency. Programmers, marketers, content authors, agencies, CMS users …

Love WordPress? Us too! Our User Group meets on the fourth Monday of every month, and our Developer Group meets on the second Monday of every month. We strive to connect you to your peers in the Portland area, and provide continuing education opportunities for you to grow your knowledge.

This Dev Meet Up is a social gathering for developers to discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., Silverlight, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Presentations run the gamut of our community: from Web development to mobile location development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 to automating tasks with Python. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial d …

We're talking about design, building and employing elearning successfully. Join us!

We are part of the movement to revolutionize the way small businesses market and are fanatical about Infusionsoft. This group is for sharing ideas, methods, tools and inspiration among Infusionsoft users in the Portland Metro area. If you're an Infusionsoft user or just curious about how Infusionsoft can help you grow your business, this is the place for you!

The PDX Selenium & Test Automation Meetup is a group for Test Automators of all skill levels to come together to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. Our focus is in Selenium ( http://seleniumhq.org/ ) and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as any type of Test Automation, Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Mobile Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, building maintainable automated test scripts and much more. You can follow us on Twitte …

Drupal is the best Content Management System, for multi-site and multi-language available in the open source community. I would like to start a meet-up group to discuss all things drupal from custom websites like the lab-connector ( dataservices.co ) project my company created to deliver laboratory test results online to smaller projects, blogs or community websites. I have an office at NedSpace downtown where could meet!

Welcome to Portland's first ExpressionEngine Meetup group. Are you a Portland area-based web designer and/or developer already working in EE or considering EE as your next CMS? This group is for you. If you're new to EE or want to expand your knowledge a bit, join us and learn from others. If you're an EE veteran, join us and share your wealth of knowledge! If you've never really worked with a CMS, come find out why EE might just the right fit for you.

This group is for PSU's Professional Development Center's meetings, events and activities such as the Digital Marketing Strategies quarterly breakfasts, HR's breakfasts and other program events and open houses

Meet with other developers, web operations, system administrators, designers, and business professionals who are looking to making their site and application faster, enhance the user experience, and lower abandonment rates and make more money.

A meetup group for developers to discuss and share expertise in Facebook development, maybe even do a few HACKs together once in a while.

Atlassian user groups are informal gatherings of users, developers and enthusiasts for honest discussions about common interests, challenges and best practices. AUGs are great for connecting with like-minded people who are passionate about Atlassian tools and technology. Events can be anything from a few members chatting over coffee, to a product release party at a pub or a seminar with multiple speakers and product demos. AUGs are like group study sessions in college, except there are no tests …

A closely knit community of Chief Technology Officers, empowering each other to grow in their astute leadership of Portland's hottest Internet companies.

Are you looking to redesign your website, change career paths or just want to learn about something new? Then this meetup is for you! We are excited about Drupal and will be posting training opportunities both at a cost and for free, along with Drupal met ups in Portland, Oregon. Drupal is a free community supported framework for creating, organizing, presenting and managing a website. Most commonly referred to as a content management system, or CMS, Drupal has much more to offer. Millions of we …

A social/professional group for women who are Python programmers at every experience level, in the Portland, OR area. Developers and aspiring developers, please! Join us on IRC - #pyladiespdx or find us on Twitter @PyLadies_pdx We have three types of meetings: Women-only Women and their invited guests All are welcome Please check the meeting description to determine which type of meeting we're having. We typically meet every other Wednesday and most Saturdays.

RubyNest aims to provide a safe, inviting, and supporting community to women who want to take the leap into computer programming. With a focus on programming in Ruby and creating web applications with Ruby on Rails, we hope to help you attain skills necessary for you to feel comfortable leaving the nest and joining Portland's larger software development community.

This is a group for anyone interested in building a cleantech community in Portland. You can be a computer engineer, an innovator, a web developer, an entrepreneurs, a coder, a hacker, a marketing guru, an angel funder, a VC so long your goal is to create the best applications to improve and solve the environmental issues.

PDXCloud is a Portland, Oregon user group that welcomes programmers interested in all aspects of working with cloud-based services. Topics include, working with vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace, etc, working with open-source implementations such as OpenStack, and developing cloud-based services, sites, and tools in both vendor-specific and vendor-agnotic ways. We welcome developers at all skill levels - in particular web devs and devops - so please join us!

Salem, Oregon, let's get our geek on -- this group is for anybody programming in or interested in learning dynamic languages (for example, Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, Javascript...) We'll meet once a month (time & location TBD) in downtown Salem for general chatter, technical presentations, and social networking.

At PDX Tech+Pong, we believe that the conversations sparked over a (sometimes) friendly game of ping- pong can lead to amazing things. We want to be a catalyst in the PDX tech community that facilitates these conversations within a social environment. Welcome to PDX Tech+Pong.

This is a place for developer and devops professionals to learn more about the open source, high-performance, NoSQL database, MongoDB.

Oregon's premier resource for technology connection, advocacy, education, and innovation.

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

Did you miss out getting in on this year's Ruby on Ales 3 and now it's sold out? Don't despair! New Relic is partnering to live stream the entire conference on Thursday, 3/7 & Friday, 3/8 at our office. So why not join us? Come by for an hour or all day. It's Ruby on ALES so of course we'll have some. Check out the schedule for each day: http://ruby.onales.com/ By the way, you must join the meet up to attend -- the elevator guards won't let walk-ins upstairs, so join now!

Demolicious shines a well-deserved spotlight on some of the best work from Portland's web and mobile tech communities. Each event includes about five demos on the stage of the Mission Theater. Judges provide feedback, critique and questions. Then the attendees determine a winner. Previous presenters have gone on to raise money from PIE, the Portland Seed Fund and other investors.

This group is hosted at LaunchSide, a local web development company helping established and startup companies launch new web-based products and services. The focus of this group is networking and knowledge sharing around the topics of: Building Software-as-a-Service based products (both web and mobile) Acquiring customers through direct response and online marketing Adding web-based business models to your established offline business Funding strategies for your start up Building that mobile ap …