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Portland Creative/Tech Event Review (PC/TER) 10: BarCamp Portland Bram Pitoyo writes "Personally, BarCamp Portland was one of the best events that I have attended in Portland. The atmosphere was both very collaborative and conductive to ideas. The people, extremely smart. And the most important thing of all was that, to me, it seems that participants were there because they wanted to be there,...

The days and weeks leading up to BarCamp can be busy and stressful for the organizers as we work through all of the last minute arrangements, but it is so worth it! I had an amazing time at BarCampPortland, and the majority of the feedback has been positive. I won't go into the gory details about everything that worked / didn't work, since you can view the full postmortem document online; however,...

This past weekend's BarCamp Portland was a fabulous, fun, exhausting time. Thank you to everyone who came and helped out and lent their knowledge and interests to making this such a great event. Keep checking Flickr for pictures, the Drupal site for session info and notes, and the Legion of Tech site for what we're up to next. Personal highlights: plotting the start of a new web service during...

Another (dare I say "wildly successful"?) BarCamp Portland is in the books, thanks to the efforts of the Legion of Tech, the hosts, the sponsors, and—of course—the attendees and session leaders. I could easily prattle on for pages about the wide range of interesting topics, the community building and strengthening, the learning opportunities both inside sessions and out, and...

At Portland Barcamp this weekend, I caught the tail end of a session on patents. I didn't know that Google has put all patents online. Sheesh! I gotta get out of my tracks and explore more. If you want to search for patents you go to Google and then hit the menu option at the bottom of the more menu. At the left you can see a light bulb icon beside "Patent Search" OK... so you just...

"Mom, look! I'm actually doing it! I'm DOING IT!" It's been one of those busy kid-full weekends. Today, I snuck out this morning to spend a few hours at BarCamp Portland (leaving the kids behind to battle each other over Mario Cart Wii.) Once I got back, it was time to tackle the totally overgrown front lawn. It was so bad that it took two of us, in fact - The Mogul to pre-mow with the...

There I was, on day two of BarCamp Portland, eating dinner with Dawn Foster, Todd Kenefsky, Katherine Gray and this guy I call "my husband", when all of a sudden I felt a warm feeling behind me. I saw whispers of a ethereal light, a heavenly glowing light and when I turned around to see what it was, I saw this: The Silicon Florist AKA Rick Turoczy. Noted blogger, doting...

BarCamp Portland Looking for more details on what's happening at BarCamp Portland? Look no further. This site is a great place to keep up to date with BarCamp Portland schedule and notes from the sessions. What is BarCamp? Pete Forsyth writes "BarCamp is clearly born of the tech community. It has a wiki for session planning. Participants are encouraged to share their Twitter and blog...

For those of you in the Portland area who feel like swinging by BarCamp today (Saturday, May 3rd.), both myself and photographer Aaron Hockley will be doing a set of very loose, very informal workshops at 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock this afternoon. Though we won't have any sort of set structure to the workshops (that's kind of the idea behind BarCamp), Aaron will likely talk about camera techniques...

Least anyone think that I've abandoned this blog, I just wanted to let folks know that I've been absolutely slammed for most of the past week. Free time is kinda' in short supply -- at least, the sort of free time needed to write detailed postings -- and so I really haven't been able to type out anything substantial in quite a while. I do hope to remedy this soon... Just as a quick bit of catch...Kings and Queens of DIY gear. 2) In theory, I'm set to be part of a camera/lighting workshop at BarCamp Portland tomorrow (i.e.: Satur...