POSSE Rides With Linus during OSCON 72
amountlad writes "In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, Oregon, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's Open Source Lab director and Open Technology Business Center founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images.
The event was a joint effort by local OSS organizations POSSE (Portland OSS Entrepreneurs), the OTBC (Open Technology Business Center) and Oregon State University's OSL (Open Source Lab.)"
Portland is SO .org! (Score:5, Interesting)
If California is .com, Portland is .org in every way.
From the INCREDIBLY cool FreeGeek [freegeek.org] ("helping the needy get nerdy") - to the active Portland Linux/Unix Group [pdxlinux.org] to the Portland Ruby Brigade [pdxruby.org] that put together the FOSCON mentioned in the OP - Portland has some great geeky stuff going on.
A few months back, I ran the exact same Craigslist help-wanted ad, looking for a great programmer for a well-paying job, in both Portland and Los Angeles Craigslist at the same time. (The job could be done from either Portland or Los Angeles.) The Portland ad was answered by about 30 brilliant programmers, all working on interesting things and seemed to be doing it for love more than money. The Los Angeles ad was answered by a couple clueless numnuts. I love Los Angeles for other reasons, but this was a telling experience.
No sales tax. Great public transportation. More hybrid cars per-capita [wweek.com] than anywhere. Kennedy School [mcmenamins.com]. Free wireless broadband covers the entire city. A damn good place to live and work. And not a single tourist attraction.
Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:4, Interesting)
You mean the tourists don't come here to see our rain? I love Portland, too. We seem to have an abundance of great user groups. The Portland Perl Mongers [pm.org] is a great group for us Perl-lovers (and includes several Perl celebrities). The Rose City Astronomers [rca-omsi.org] are a really neat group of people if you enjoy looking up at night.
The recent interview with Linus Torvalds reveals a little bit about what is so attractive about this place. I've traveled a little, but there's no place like home.
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Portland has a lot of cool things. Night life is not one
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I'm just saying it's not that rough to meet people here and have a good time. I didn't mean to put the parent down and wasn't talking about LAN parties by the geeky thing. I just meant there's lots of fun people around of all types - you just have to be open to people in ge
Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:1)
A Native, but by no means suffering from the delusion that it's a wonderful magical place. Especially when those fucking Critical Mass assholes decide it's time to cause trouble, some fucking hippy wanted by the FBI makes his own on a downtown city billboard and the mayor is too wussy t
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If you read the article, you'll see that she had a prosthetic eye.
Just more slashdot jibberjabber.
PORTLAND -- A legally blind and partially disabled woman is suing the Portland Police Bureau over claims of police brutality Eunice Crowder (pictured) says four officers roughed her up and threw her to the ground on June 9. The officers were called when she reportedly refused to allow city workers to clean up yard debris. The 71-year-old says she was hit with pepper spray and stung by a
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please treat yourself to a giant bowl of lukewarm dicks, fuckwad.
I will agree with you on the other paragraphs though
xo
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Bikers are fine. It's one of the best things about Portland. I've seen groups of bikers at events act irresponsibly and like petty children - like it's their free shot at pissing off everyone else on the streets which is absurd considering how most of
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I took your statement in the wrong way initially. Having just gotten home from the bar, i was browsing
xo
Mods, please address! (Score:1)
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Traffic is bad, but doesn't compare to Seattle, Chicago, San Diego/LA.
If you don't like Multnomah County's tax, it's not too hard to move away from that, but still be "in Portland". Move up to Vancouver like everyone else, for example.
If you've never lived a
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Oh, and no mention of nerd friendly Portland would be complete without including Stumptown Coffee [stumptowncoffee.com], which is required sustenance for the first half of any workday, or some of Portland's outstanding [widmer.com] breweries [bridgeportbrew.com], which are necessary for the afternoon.
Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:3, Informative)
Don't encourage people to move here. Oregon is full and unemployment is bad enough without more Californians moving up here and fucking it up that much worse.
And not a single tourist attraction.
Did you somehow miss:
Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:2)
So first you tell people not to move here and then you go on to extoll Portland's virtues...
732 Evergreen, Lake Oswego (Childhood home of Matt Groening, house was inspiration for The Simpsons house of the same address in Springfield
I don't think it's in Lake Oswego, otherwise how did he go to LHS and Ainsworth? It's in NW Portland. In fact you can fi
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No, tourists tend to be obnoxious bastards, and tourist attractions attract tourists. Anybody living in a touristy city (Victoria, BC; Portland, OR; Bonner's Ferry, ID; Banff, AB; etc) can tell you tourists aren't anything you want to live near in large quantity.
I don't think it's in Lake Oswego, otherwise how did he go to LHS and Ainsworth? It's in NW Portland.
I was thinking the wrong part of town because I
The obligatory joke... (Score:3, Funny)
A Texan, a Californian, and Oregonian are out riding horses. The Texan pulls out an expensive bottle of whiskey, takes a long draught, then another and suddenly throws it into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the bottle in midair.
The Californian looks at him and says, "What are you doing? That was a perfectly good bottle of whiskey!"
The Texan says, "In Texas, there is plenty of whiskey and the bottles are cheap."
A while later, not wanting
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(I was going to have a link to the Guiness World Records page on it, but their site is a little wonky right now, and their search seems to be borked. So Answers.com will have to suffice in its place.)
And about Portland being so
Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:4, Insightful)
What about Powell's [powells.com]?
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I live in Portland too. But I don't necessarily think it's all it's cracked up to be.
Firstly, the weather. I love the rain. I love the wind. I love the snow. I love the majority of the year. But these summers have got go. That temperature gauge should never cross the line of 84 F.
The people. There are some seriously mentally ill people here. They're not coming back from beyond the bend. There's all the young punks and their dogs, the shoplifting and violent addicts all over the place. I lived in San Fr
Re:Portland is SO .org! (Score:1)
http://www.news4neighbors.net/article.pl?sid=05/0
Glad to have you in town
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I was at the party (Score:3, Interesting)
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"In addition to other activities like FOSCON happening outside of the "official" OSCON this week in Portland, OR, N4N.org is running a story and photos of the OSU/OTBC/POSSE party Thursday night. From Linus and IBM's Dan Frye to the OSU's OSLD and OTBC founder LaVonne Reimer - Bar 71 was hopping as the N4N coverage details in word and images. The event was a joint effort by local OS
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Happily we've got acronym problems because we've got so much happening in town, there are worse problems to have
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FOSCON slide show (Score:2)
Why the lucky stiff's [hobix.com] performance which included his own animations, shadow puppets, and an inside look at a meeting of the Ruby cabal The Least Surprised [whytheluckystiff.net] was hilarious.
LINUS THE KERNEL HACKER HAS A POSSE (Score:2)
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