Without continuous innovation, your business will die. As a founder, CEO, or innovator, you're always trying to find and execute on the strategies, principles, and processes that can give you an edge over the competition. The goal of this group is to give some structure and accountability to that education. Every month, we pick a new online course/book/text book/video/lecture, learn the materials, systematically test them within our own businesses, and share the results. We'll cover topics in bo …

All things startup and entrepreneurship related. Hear directly from founders of startups and engage in interactive question and answer sessions from people who know how to start and grow successful startup businesses.

From originator, Judith Devine "We would like to bring together collage artists of all levels to create a supportive community for mutual inspiration and learning. Collage is a medium so wide-ranging and diverse that is often not taken seriously in the arts community; a situation that we would really like to change." The Portland Collage Guild is a group of artists working in a variety collage and assembláge techniques.  Our mission is to share and inspire creativity in the collage arts.  Each m …

PDX Graph Meetup is a place for people to learn about and discuss graph structures, graph theory, graph databases and related topics.  We host technical presentations and lectures, product demos, lightning talks, seminars, town hall-style open forums and hands-on tutorials, in addition to less-structured monthly gatherings. Why graphs? Why now? Graph are everywhere. But as the size, complexity, and interconnectedness of data being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relati …

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 …

BrainSilo is a non-profit Hacker-space Located in Portland, Oregon. The space has been established to provide a place where artists, hackers, experimenters, average joes, non-average joes, and pretty much anyone else, can come to work on, contribute to, and share their projects and ideas. People who come to BrainSilo wear clothes that can get dirty. It's not a suit and tie party. If you need PPE (gloves, eye protection, retroreflective underwear) byo-ppe. Safety has never been an issue at BrainS …

For anyone badass and passionate about ideas and their real life application. The BA Book club is interested in innovative ideas from sociology, economics, physical sciences, and philosophy but we're open to anything reasonable. Group will meet once a month in a badass pub to discuss that month's book. We're looking for young innovator-types. "Your hosts are two guys in their mid to late 20s".  This previous statement is now more of an idea of who our hosts once were...now every member should fe …

The Portland Social Club is a group for making friends, networking and finding adventure in the Portland area! Our emphasis is on cultural, active, innovative experiences. Our gatherings span indoor and outdoor activities, daytime and nighttime events, with ages raging mostly from mid 20's to early 40's but we don't shy away from people outside that joining in the fun. The Portland Social Club is not designed to be a singles group though we do have singles events from time to time. Both singles …

This group is for the following people: -Career Changers who want to start something entirely new. -College dropouts who feel they don't have anything to offer. -Liberal arts majors who are discovering companies want candidates who have more to show than just a degree. The truth is, it's possible for all these people to have an incredibly successful career.  But it requires more than just a resume rewrite or interview practice... it requires an entirely new approach to the job search. In this gr …

The Tigard Chamber Works For You! With over 300 businesses strong, the Tigard Chamber is focused on driving a strong local economy, business networking, promoting the community and advocating for business with government. The Tigard Chamber provides ever-increasing value to members through innovative benefits, programs and services designed to help businesses large and small grow and succeed. If you are a business professional in the Portland Metro Area, the Tigard Chamber is the place to be.

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/

The Breakfast Club is a unique, “self-accountable,” support group – a perfect match for professionals who desire to make a career transition, job-seekers, and those re-engaging with the workforce. We are an open forum sharing job/career strategies, information, tactics, resources, and contacts. We are professionals who help one another keep the commitments we make in pursuit of the goals and objectives we set for ourselves. Are you are ready to boost your job/career prospects, and start landing …

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Engaging and networking with people interested in, or in the business of, using Digital Signage: to enhance their venues to expand / innovate their online marketing strategies to add to their current solution offering to explore ways to further leverage their existing signage to grow their advertising network / inventory We are going to work on organising, recruiting and building momentum for the group during February. We plan on having our group's launch meetup in the beginning of March.

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.

This is a meetup group for anyone interested in learning about, discussing or contributing to the OpenEMR project. Please let us know if you're interested in starting or attending an OpenEMR meetup in your area!