We Meetup every other Wednesday!... Interested in the 4-Hour Workweek? Want to learn more about lifestyle design? Still a bit confused, and not sure where to start? If you are you ready to design the lifestyle you want, this is the right group for you! I read the book about 4 years ago, and then again 2 years ago, and then again, just recently! Over the last couple of years, I have spent a lot of time learning about building online businesses and internet marketing... And now, after 25 years of …

We gather at a local pub at 7 pm, have a brew, snack, and/or meal, talk about things typographic, and sometimes bring something for show and tell. People of all ages, genders and aesthetic backgrounds are welcome. Please join us! You can be a graphic designer, typographer, type designer, or just anybody interested in fonts and typography. I was part of a similar once-a-month gathering in Seattle, that met in a bar in the basement of a bookstore. It was fun and I missed it when I moved to Portlan …

Meet fellow web designers near you! Come to a Web Design Meetup to compare tools, languages, and templates; trade advice on careers, rates, and freelancing; and share cool websites. Make valuable contacts as you mingle with new friends!

Do you need to learn HTML but have trouble learning and taking action because it's boring? Do you hate web design books, blogs, videos, articles, and tutorials that don't explain anything as much as I do? This group is for complete beginners who need to dive right into HTML, CSS, and Javascript immediately. We will pair up on laptops and power through Head First HTML5 (O'Reilly) and help each other complete the exercises. The Head First books were created to trick your brain into thinking that t …

PDX-UX hosts a monthly talk on UX design and development. Our conversations range from Data Visualization to Server-Side Platforms. From UX practices to HTML5/CSS. We want to foster a community & create a space to network.

Are you a jewelry maker who wants to learn more techniques or see what others are making? Let's get together and meet other local creatives to learn (and actually complete) a bevy of super cool craft projects throughout the year. Prepare to inspire and be inspired! All skill levels welcome. Bring a project to work on and let's have fun! Some more benefits of coming to the monthly group gatherings are: Each person gets their own table to work on, set up their jewelry and/or sell their jewelry, fi …

Do you love tabletop gaming in any or all of its forms—strategy, casual, roleplaying, dice, cards, miniatures—but have ideas of your own you'd like to explore and create? Looking for like-minded game creators for idea exchange, collaboration, resource pooling, playtesting and feedback? Whether you make games for your own enjoyment or with an aim toward publication; whether you're an experienced designer with multiple prototypes or someone with no experience beyond a good idea; whether you want t …

Portland Revit User Group is a local community of design and construction professionals interested in sharing knowledge around the Autodesk Revit suite of products. The group meets once a month in downtown Portland at the Multnomah County Library. We eat lunch together, listen to a presentation, and participate in discussion about Revit. If you are a Revit user, enthusiast, student, or teacher, please join this Meetup group--we look forward to meeting you in person at our next event!

Love Print? Design? Technology that makes ink on paper a fine partner in our digital world to drive sales, brand awareness, web traffic, donations & more? Old school meets new school in the place called Printlandia... continue to network, learn about the possibilities to grow.

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.

SEO Tips and Tactics Meetups are hosted by Response Interactive LLC, Affordable Web Technology and Hendersonian Design on either the third or fourth Wednesday of the month depending on room availability. This meetup explores a variety of topics around SEO and Social Media. You will learn new strategies and tactics through a one-half hour presentation followed by the group sharing ideas. You will meet great people who are Internet Marketing professionals, web designers, web developers, students a …

Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human habitats, in harmony with the larger ecosystems of which they are a part. Anyone can use it: starting where they are, with what they have. This group is a great place to learn about regenerative design, urban agriculture, animal husbandry, edible fungi, bioremediation, aquaculture, rainwater harvesting, local food systems, alternative economics, community living, soil-building, and much much more...

Are you a single parent who would like to have a single location for helpful and fun activities, resources, and information that is pertinent to YOUR life as a single parent? I am starting this group because there are lots of resources out there, but sometimes hard to find the ones that apply to us as single moms and dads, and we just don't have the time to go hunting for them. At our meetups we will be involved with simple fun events, but you will also have the opportunity to attend more ed …

We host meet ups and organize events to support innovative collaborations throughout the Pacific NW. We are an open group dedicated to social impact through game development, education and community building. If you are interested in hosting or sponsoring an event, please let us know. We encourage you to join our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/247773668667490/ We also cross-post with Games for Change Meetup Everywhere at: http://www.meetup.com/Games-For-Change/Portland-OR/

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.

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.

What you'll get out of PDXTech4Good events: Nonprofit staffers will find a friendly, welcoming atmosphere for those not experienced with technology, and many chances to ask questions of tech-experienced nonprofits and experts. Techies will find opportunities to hear the real-world stories of nonprofit clients, and put their own expertise to social good — as well as the potential for lasting relationships (be they paid or volunteer) with leading organizations in our community. Activists and comm …

Blog: http://thingtuesday.com/ We decided to create our own open meetup to discuss and learn about the Internet of Things. We encourage the curious, the hackers the entrepreneurs and the executives who are engaging in this area to come join us to listen to talks, share in conversation and networking. Each session we will have talks, "show and tells "and space to hack and network with others. Modelled on two phenomenally influential and successful groups, Mobile Monday and the catalytic Silicon V …

We love strategy board games, and we love playing them at Cloud Cap. If you are interested in modern Euro-style or Amerifun games, light medium or heavy, join us. Games like Ticket to Ride, Small World, Ora & Labora, Eclipse, War of the Ring, Last Will, Seasons, Smash Up, Castles of Burgundy, and more hit the tables. Live to play, play to live! This group is designed primarily as a tool for players to organize their own sessions at Cloud Cap. Everyone is encouraged to post game sessions! The goa …

Come to a Chinese Language and Culture Meetup to practice speaking the fastest growing language in the world! This is a Mandarin conversation group - not a language class. Our mission is to give members opportunities to practice Mandarin through friendly conversations.  We don't have an agenda or a topic of discussion, just chit chat between friends. This group is designed for people who are committed to the language and culture. Even if you aren't confident with your language skills, come …

This Meetup is for those interested in discussing best practices for marketing & promoting books. Members may include people in the publishing industry or related fields and may include publishers, authors, marketers, publicists, bloggers, reviewers, literary enthusiasts, graphic designers, self-published authors, etc.

Hello! We are a unique group of individuals with one general common interest . . . learning how, and actually making our own movies and video productions. To that end, our Members often help one-another with various "Film" Production tasks.  We each learn and grow our personal experience, abilities and understanding through practical "on the job" exposure to "real film production".  This is just one way of many we encourage and support our members efforts to learn the Art of Producing Digital Vi …

Continuous Web- Portland is a community for startup entrepreneurs and tech professionals building sustainable web products and businesses.  Members connect and learn from professionals what it takes to start, build, and lead a great web business.  For the startup at all stages: idea, seed capital, angel/venture funded, profitability and beyond.

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen" Why stay home when you can venture out for all kinds of activities, parties and events throughout the Portland area? This group is a social club of females in the greater Portland area, ages 40 and up, that want to join us and try new things,new places, and have a lot of fun while meeting other great ladies! We will hold different types of social events throughout each month designed to introduce you to friends in our age range. Our calendar will …

This group is designed to build a community that meets to connect with others who are willing to express desire, taboo, love, attention, & sensation openly, and be seen for who they really are. Turn ON events offer a safe, playful environment to exercise and stretch our intimacy and communication skills. We play guided, round-robin style games {PG-13}, allowing you to gain insight into yourself and others. It's like a giant exhale when the rest of the world is asking you to hold your breath. Any …

An Official Adobe User Group. Meet other local Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks & Flash users to trade tips and tricks. Meeting attendance is free and open to the public. Membership is $25.00 every 6 months, it helps cover the groups fee's, allows you to participate on the drawing of a 12 month Creative Cloud Subscription and receive the group's perks! We currently meet on the last Tuesday of the month and every now and then we have other gatherings.

Every day, hundreds of Portland creative professionals seek solace behind their laptops at coffee shops. Seldom do we actually take the time to speak to one another. Portland Creative Forum is a weekly daytime meetup to unite café creatives and form new, meaningful relationships surrounding our creative passions.

For all the bi and gay men who are looking for more quality friends. Come meet and hang out in a friendly environment, get to know, support and laugh at each other. The group is designed for professionals or people with goals in life that live in the Portland Metro Area. In the future, in addition to periodic meeting we would like to organize fun and exciting things to do. Ideally, this would be a group where we could become good friends and rely upon each other for support and friendship. So, …