{"id":2556,"date":"2011-02-15T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2011-04-26T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T14:53:57","slug":"this-year-is-so-nuts-for-having-conferences-in-portland-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/15\/this-year-is-so-nuts-for-having-conferences-in-portland-or\/","title":{"rendered":"This year is so nuts for having conferences in Portland, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATED! Just added Open Gov West! Rearranged, and just listing these all in order now. And added #140Conf in Vancouver, WA. It’s close enough. \ud83d\ude42 And just added Digital Journalism Portland.<\/b><\/p>\n

For real.<\/p>\n

This summer belongs to the nerds, geeks and hackers. I can’t believe that Portland’s tech scene got no love from Portlandia<\/a> this year. Thank heavens they got a second season<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I did some research, and found TWENTY<\/strong> distinct conferences happening from now through November in the Portland area.<\/p>\n

Anyway, there’s a sweet new service that you might not have heard of called Lanyrd<\/a>, and a quick search over there<\/a> revealed 20 conferences. <\/p>\n

And over the next few days, several people suggested a few more: <\/p>\n

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  1. Agile Open Northwest 2011<\/a>, 8-9 February 2011<\/li>\n
  2. SearchFest 2011<\/a>, 23rd February 2011<\/li>\n
  3. Python Software Foundation Sprint<\/a>, Feb 26th<\/li>\n
  4. PDX11 Civic Hacking Unconference<\/a>, April 1-2, 2011 (Plans are coming together now.. so pencil it in!)<\/li>\n
  5. Innotech<\/a>, April 21, 2011<\/li>\n
  6. TEDxPortland<\/a>, April 30, 2011<\/li>\n
  7. JSConf US 2011<\/a>, 2nd\u20133rd May 2011 (Rumors of crazy fun abound for this, also a party open to the public. Epic!)<\/li>\n
  8. NodeConf 2011<\/a>, 5th May 2011<\/li>\n
  9. Open Gov West<\/a>, 13-14 May 2011<\/li>\n
  10. Digital Journalism Portland<\/a>, 14th May 2011<\/li>\n
  11. #140Conf Northwest<\/a>, 19th May 2011<\/li>\n
  12. WebVisions 2011<\/a>, 25th\u201327th May 2011<\/li>\n
  13. World Domination Summit<\/a>, 4th\u20135th June 2011<\/li>\n
  14. HotStorage ’11<\/a>, 14th June 2011 (Third workshop on hot topics in storage!)<\/li>\n
  15. USENIX ATC ’11<\/a>, 15th\u201317th June 2011 (USENIX’s annual technical conference)<\/li>\n
  16. WebApps ’11<\/a>, 15th\u201316th June 2011 (Second annual conference from USENIX on webapps!)<\/li>\n
  17. Open Source Bridge 2011<\/a>, 21st\u201324th June 2011 (Third year! CFP still open!)<\/li>\n
  18. IndieWebCamp<\/a>, 25th\u201326th June 2011<\/li>\n
  19. OSCON 2011<\/a>, 25th\u201329th July 2011 (Back in Portland, Again! And @gorthx<\/a> is on the committee!)<\/li>\n
  20. Community Leadership Summit 2011<\/a>, 23rd\u201324th July 2011<\/li>\n
  21. Vida Vegan Blog Conference<\/a>, 26th\u201328th August 2011 (Blogger conference for vegans! Crazy!)<\/li>\n
  22. DjangoCon US 2011<\/a>, 6th\u20138th September 2011 (Organizer recently relocated to Portland!)<\/li>\n
  23. Pacific NW Drupal Summit<\/a>, October 14-16, 2011<\/li>\n
  24. SPLASH 2011<\/a>, 22nd\u201327th October 2011<\/li>\n
  25. Onward! 2011<\/a>, 22nd\u201327th October 2011 (@al3x<\/a> is on the committee for this!)<\/li>\n
  26. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2011<\/a>, 9th\u201312th November 2011<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sources: Lanyrd<\/a>, Plancast<\/a>, Calagator<\/a> and the comments.<\/p>\n

    What other geekery did I miss? Let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n

    UPDATE<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

    Here are the conferences without dates:<\/p>\n