From their website:

Hippnet is not your typical networking group. As a dynamic collective of dedicated professionals, we help one another succeed through qualified referrals, strong relationships and market education.

Our diverse list of members represents progressive thinking in business, and spans across a wide array of industries. By bringing this group of enthusiastic professionals together, Hippnet provides members with a powerful lead generating resource.

The topic for this month's PDXPHP meeting is: MVC testing with PHPUnit. For more information, visit the PDXPHP website.
PDXPHP is Portland's PHP user group.

"Portland LeTip is a professional organization of men and women dedicated to the highest standards of competence and service.

Our purpose is the exchange of business tips."

CHIFOO (pronounced ‘ky - FOO’), Computer-Human Interaction Forum Of Oregon, a local professional chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, serves practicing professionals, academics and students in the Oregon and Southwest Washington region through lecture series, workshops and networking in the areas of User Experience, Usability and Interaction Design.

Program
How Communities Straddle, Leap, and Land on Technology Choices

Can a community design its own digital habitat? Can a professional design a habitat on behalf of a community? Designing for a community is much harder than designing for a solitary individual. A digital habitat includes all the tools and the practices that enable a community to work and reproduce itself. It’s produced collectively, even though it’s experienced individually.

This talk will explore how digital habitats vary across different contexts such as a company intranet, a mostly face-to-face community like CHIFOO, and a mostly online community like Planet Ubuntu. We’ll discuss some case studies of communities and the evolution of their digital habitats, exploring fundamental design tensions, kinds of tool integration, and the nature of technology stewardship.

About the Speaker
John D. Smith is a coach, leader, evaluator, and technology steward for communities of practice. He helps communities, their leaders, and their sponsors with the design and production of community events, through community self-assessments and the selection, configuration, and use of technologies. John is the community steward for CPsquare, an international community of practice on communities of practice. His clients include corporations, universities, foundations, and non-profit organizations around the globe. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities, which he has been working on with Etienne Wenger and Nancy White for five years. He has been working full time with communities of practice and teaching online for the past 10 years.

John is trained in dialog, evaluation, and data analysis. He worked at the University of Colorado as a planner, institutional researcher, administrator, and technologist for 20 years. He received a Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College and a Master’s degree in planning and architecture from the University of New Mexico. He was born and raised in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

This weekly event, open to everyone, is a chance to exercise your writing muscles each week. Using a word or phrase as a prompt, we all write for 10-20 minutes, then read our work aloud. After everyone has read, we do it again, then again, for two hours. We do not critique each other's work, but we do listen and provide recall. Curious? Come join us!

From their website:

Hippnet is not your typical networking group. As a dynamic collective of dedicated professionals, we help one another succeed through qualified referrals, strong relationships and market education.

Our diverse list of members represents progressive thinking in business, and spans across a wide array of industries. By bringing this group of enthusiastic professionals together, Hippnet provides members with a powerful lead generating resource.

"Portland LeTip is a professional organization of men and women dedicated to the highest standards of competence and service.

Our purpose is the exchange of business tips."

Are you a non-profit or someone who works with them? A non-profit looking for affordable consultants or vendors? A volunteer looking an organization eager for your time? A non-profit wanting to partner on a project? If so, then non-profit networking is for you. Come meet others who work and volunteer in Portland's non-profit sector. Swap resources, share ideas, devise solutions and just hang out with community-minded people like yourself. Bring your brains and your rolodex; we provide snacks and drinks.

We ask for a $5 donation for this event to offset the cost of food and drink.

This weekly event, open to everyone, is a chance to exercise your writing muscles each week. Using a word or phrase as a prompt, we all write for 10-20 minutes, then read our work aloud. After everyone has read, we do it again, then again, for two hours. We do not critique each other's work, but we do listen and provide recall. Curious? Come join us!

From their website:

Hippnet is not your typical networking group. As a dynamic collective of dedicated professionals, we help one another succeed through qualified referrals, strong relationships and market education.

Our diverse list of members represents progressive thinking in business, and spans across a wide array of industries. By bringing this group of enthusiastic professionals together, Hippnet provides members with a powerful lead generating resource.

Code 'n' Splode is a group of geeky people who get together on a monthly basis to talk about geeky things. We are an open, relaxed, comfortable place to come and talk about programming. The group is primarily female and generally open by invitation only.

"Portland LeTip is a professional organization of men and women dedicated to the highest standards of competence and service.

Our purpose is the exchange of business tips."

This weekly event, open to everyone, is a chance to exercise your writing muscles each week. Using a word or phrase as a prompt, we all write for 10-20 minutes, then read our work aloud. After everyone has read, we do it again, then again, for two hours. We do not critique each other's work, but we do listen and provide recall. Curious? Come join us!

From their website:

Hippnet is not your typical networking group. As a dynamic collective of dedicated professionals, we help one another succeed through qualified referrals, strong relationships and market education.

Our diverse list of members represents progressive thinking in business, and spans across a wide array of industries. By bringing this group of enthusiastic professionals together, Hippnet provides members with a powerful lead generating resource.

Come knit with us! As many of you know, the CubeSpace staff is riddled with creative knitters; on Tuesdays we'd love you to join in the fun. Show off your current project, ask for advice on a problem area, or just enjoy the company. Crocheters, needlepoint artists and other crafters always welcome!

Portland Ruby Brigade is a gathering of Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon, area.

"Portland LeTip is a professional organization of men and women dedicated to the highest standards of competence and service.

Our purpose is the exchange of business tips."

This weekly event, open to everyone, is a chance to exercise your writing muscles each week. Using a word or phrase as a prompt, we all write for 10-20 minutes, then read our work aloud. After everyone has read, we do it again, then again, for two hours. We do not critique each other's work, but we do listen and provide recall. Curious? Come join us!

Come knit with us! As many of you know, the CubeSpace staff is riddled with creative knitters; on Tuesdays we'd love you to join in the fun. Show off your current project, ask for advice on a problem area, or just enjoy the company. Crocheters, needlepoint artists and other crafters always welcome!

"Portland LeTip is a professional organization of men and women dedicated to the highest standards of competence and service.

Our purpose is the exchange of business tips."