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NOTE: Please check with the organization to be sure meeting times/locations haven't changed. Also be aware that many organizations change or cancel regularly occurring meetings around holidays.

Monthly Events

Every Wednesday

• Personal Telco -- 6:39 p.m. | Weekly small group meetings for Personal Telco Project, which aims to build public Wi-Fi networks covering the city. (Note they also hold smaller meetings weekly -- see their weekly listing.)

Location varies, see their monthly meeting page for current info.

Every Friday

• Database Reading Group -- 10 to 11:30 a.m. | at Datalab-sponsored entity at Portland State University discussing papers related to database technology.

Portland State University's 4th Ave Building, room 115, 1900 SW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97201

Info: Reading group announcement via group mailing list at

First Tuesday

• PDXFCPUG -- Final Cut Pro Portland User Group -- 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Experts to hobbyists discussing both the Apple Final Cut Pro software as well as video animation, compositing and authoring.

PCC Cascade Campus, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, 705 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217

Info:

First Wednesday

• WikiWednesday -- 6:30 p.m. | Discussion of wikis and related online collaborative tools. For experts and novices alike.

AboutUs, 107 SE Washington St., Suite 520, Portland, OR 97214.

Info: SocialText listing page or call AboutUs, 503-488-5763.

• PDX Web Innovators -- Designers, developers and entrepreneurs based in Portland.

Locations and times vary. See their events schedule for more info.

First Thursday

• PDXLinux.org -- Portland Linux/UNIX Group (PLUG) -- 7 p.m. | General group meetings

Portland State University's Smith Memorial Student Union, room 294, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland OR 97201

Second Monday

• PMUG - Portland Mac User Group -- 6:30 p.m. | General meetings, learn about computer setup, operation and maintenance, as well as a wide range of shareware and commercial software.

Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center (aka "Ecotrust Center"), 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Portland, OR 97209

Info: 503-616-4736

Second Wednesday

• Portland Drupal Group -- 6 p.m. | General meetings.

Bus Project, 333 SE 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97214

Info: http://groups.drupal.org/portland

• PPCUG -- Portland PC Users Group -- 7:15-9:15 p.m. | Open meetings, with guest speakers, info and raffles.

Location varies, please see the meetings page for up-to-date info on location and schedule changes.

Second Thursday

• PDXLUG.org -- Portland Linux User Group -- Round-table discussions about Linux and Open Source related topics.

Fireside Coffee Lodge, 1223 SE Powell Blvd Portland, OR 97202.

Third Tuesday

• PJUG -- Portland Java Users Group -- 6:30 p.m. | Open meetings focused on Java technical issues: programming, APIs, tools and techniques.

Location varies, see http://www.pjug.org/ for updated info.

Third Thursday

• Portland Adobe Servers User Group -- 5:30-7:30 | See their meetings page for each month's presentation topic

PCC Sylvania Campus, Library Building Room 112, 12000 SW 49th Ave, Portland, OR 97219.

Info: meetings page

Fourth Wednesday

• Extreme Programming Portland -- 6:30 p.m. | People interested in the XP-style of software development.

CubeSpace 622 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214

Contact: ArloBelshee on C2.com if you'd like to give a presentation, talk or lead an activity.

Fourth Thursday

• BarCamp.org/BarCampPortland: Informal meetups monthly at 5:30 p.m. (except for months with either a Ignite Portland or a formal BarCamp event. Meetings are for those interested in the Ignite and BarCamp events and for those just interested in chatting about technology.

Jive Software office, 317 SW Alder St. Suite 500, Portland, OR 97204.

Last Wednesday

• Personal Telco -- 6 p.m. | Monthly group meetings for Personal Telco Project, which aims to build public Wi-Fi networks covering the city. (Note they also hold smaller meetings weekly -- see their weekly listing.)

Location varies, see their monthly meeting page for current info.

Regular/Monthly Meetings, Dates TBD

• CascadeSIGGRAPH.org -- General meetings for the local chapter of Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Technologies (SIGGRAPH). All are welcome to come and meet like-minded computer graphics people.

Info: events page.

• DevGroupNW.org -- A forum for developers to meet, share knowledge about what's happening in the web, multimedia and interactive communities.

Info: events page

• DorkbotPDX.org -- Regular informal meetings every other week.

Info: upcoming meeting schedule

• Portland InDesign User Group -- Meetings every other month.

Info: Portland Group Page

• PADNUG -- Portland Area .NET Users Group -- Meetings for software developers to discuss .NET and related technologies. Meets approximately once a month.

Info: http://www.padnug.org/

• PDX User Experience -- 6:30 p.m. 3rd Tuesday of odd-numbered months | Meetings for both developers and designers.

Pop Art, 718 SW Alder Street, 2nd Floor Community Room