awesome-portland-oregon-tech

June 18, 2017 · View on GitHub

Cool tech/geek things in Portland Oregon.

Non-tech pointers to other lists

Awesome - the canonical list of awesome lists
Portland on Top Regional Repositories - list of popular repositories in Portland, Oregon

Blogs and forums

Reddit Portland aka 'preddit'
PDX Startups Switchboard - great "ask and offer" forum
Silicon Florist - longrunning blog covering startups and tech

Calendars

Calagator - unified calendar for the tech community.

Physical spaces

OMSI - our science museum, lots of events and cool things for adults and kids and a submarine.
workfrom.co Portland - coffeeshops and meeting spaces that are remote-worker-friendly. Discounts, meetups, and realtime occupancy too.
XOXOPDX - coworking space coming soon from the XOXO team (related: see Andy Baio below)

Big Yearly Events

Delight (Oct 5-7 2015); @DelightConf
Open Source Bridge, aka OSBRIDGE
OSCON
Portland Design Week (April 15-16 2016); @DesignWeekPDX
Portland Mini Maiker Faire at OMSI (next: Sept 12-13 2015)
PyCon (2016 and 2017)
TechFestNW (Aug 20-21 2015)
WebVisions Portland (May 2016)
XOXO Festival
Monitorama
PuppetConf (Oct 5-9 2015)

Previous events

These don't appear to have future events scheduled in Portland.

BADCamp
TedX Portland
WordCamp Portland - WordPress conference in 2013. @wcpdx
Pacific NW Drupal Summit - Drupal conference in 2014. Next in Portland in 2017?

Groups

PDX Tech networking group/mailing list; @PDXTechnology
Technology Association of Oregon; @TechOregon

Meetups

Ansible Portland - monthly meetup for Ansible (configuration management) peeps
AWS Portland - discuss AWS, the magical cloud.
Code for Portland - We're uniting hackers with the city, and working on projects that make a difference in our communities.
Coffee w/ Co-Founders - Monthly meetup for area Co-Founders
Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon - aka CHIFOO. #needsdescription
Girl Develop It Portland - language-agnostic meetup focused on learning to code
Hacks/Hackers Portland - #needsdescription
MaptimePDX - Monthly meetup for map enthusiasts of all levels; @MaptimePDX.
New Relic Futuretalks - speaker series by New Relic at the top of Big Pink
PDX Python - includes a "programmer peer mentoring night" and monthly presentations
PDX R - monthly presentations
PyLadies PDX - weekly meetups for women
Techies on Bikes - #needsdescription
Workfrom Portland - casual weekly coffeeshop meetups for remote workers (including techies and creatives)
Women Who Code Portland
Portland ReactJS
PDX.rb
PDXFunc
DorkbotPDX
Portland Puppet User Group
pdx devops - Presentations and discussions on Development Operations and related technologies.
PDXCloud - Presentations and group discussions on cloud technologies hosted at Elemental.
OpenStack Northwest User Group
RainSec - Informal meetup of security professionals in a non-work non-vendor setting.

Women/minority in tech resources

Industry luminaries

This section should contain names (and especially Twitter accounts) of Portlanders who are smart, engaging, and worth following. List their topic areas too.

Amber Case, @caseorganic, cyborg anthropologist, human-computer interaction, geo, "We are all cyborgs now"
Andy Baio @waxpancake, creator of XOXO, early Kickstarter techie, waxy.org, lots of brilliant projects.
Max Ogden, @maxogden #needsdescription
Selena Deckelmann, @selenamarie, blog, PyLadies, Open Source Bridge, Ada Initiative, Mozilla. Willamette Week article, Geek Feminism Wiki entry.
Ward Cunningham, @wardcunningham, personal pages, Wikipedia - inventor of the wiki, XP pioneer
Steven Frank @stevenf + Cabel Sasser @cabel, co-founders of Panic, Inc.

Bootcamps and Education

PDX Code Guild - teaches Python.
Code Fellows
Treehouse - tech education, especially related to web/app development. Oregonlive news article; Wikipedia article.

Lists

Oregon Startups - startup resources (office space, lawyers, networking, microloans).
Portland's Business Incubators and Accelerators - blog post with a large list of incubators and resources for startups.

Portland tech businesses

Alma - K-12’s first Holistic Student Engagement Platform.
AltSource
Elemental Technologies - Video conversion and streaming hardware, software, and cloud platform systems.
Esri R&D Center
FlightStats - Aviation information and data services, mobile and web based flight tracking apps.
GlobeSherpa - Transit Ticketing mobile apps and services platform. Customers include TriMet and Portland Streetcar.
Idealist - Job and project listing services for NGOs, non-profits, etc.
Jama Software
Jive - Social networking platforms for businesses.
Jolby & Friends
Kongregate - Online gaming platform.
Mozilla
New Relic
OnTheGo Platforms - Wearable computing platform systems.
Opal
Portland Incubator Experiment - run by Wieden+Kennedy, startup accelerator. OreognLive article; Wikipedia article.
Panic - Software developer of fine Mac and iOS software like Coda, Transmit, and Prompt.
Planet Argon
Plunk - Digital Marketing Agency. Mobile/Web Development Firm
Puppet Labs
Quick Left
Simple
Switchboard
Treehouse - tech education, especially related to web/app development. Oregonlive news article; Wikipedia article.
Uncorked Studios
Urban Airship
Vadio - Online video services.