RubyNest aims to provide a safe, inviting, and supporting community to women who want to take the leap into computer programming. With a focus on programming in Ruby and creating web applications with Ruby on Rails, we hope to help you attain skills necessary for you to feel comfortable leaving the nest and joining Portland's larger software development community.

PDXCloud is a Portland, Oregon user group that welcomes programmers interested in all aspects of working with cloud-based services. Topics include, working with vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace, etc, working with open-source implementations such as OpenStack, and developing cloud-based services, sites, and tools in both vendor-specific and vendor-agnotic ways. We welcome developers at all skill levels - in particular web devs and devops - so please join us!

Are you looking to redesign your website, change career paths or just want to learn about something new? Then this meetup is for you! We are excited about Drupal and will be posting training opportunities both at a cost and for free, along with Drupal met ups in Portland, Oregon. Drupal is a free community supported framework for creating, organizing, presenting and managing a website. Most commonly referred to as a content management system, or CMS, Drupal has much more to offer. Millions of we …

This group is hosted at LaunchSide, a local web development company helping established and startup companies launch new web-based products and services. The focus of this group is networking and knowledge sharing around the topics of: Building Software-as-a-Service based products (both web and mobile) Acquiring customers through direct response and online marketing Adding web-based business models to your established offline business Funding strategies for your start up Building that mobile ap …

This group is for starters in Portland who wish to create software businesses that provide them a very comfortable lifestyle while contributing to the world around them. If you are building (or considering building) Software as a Service applications that require no co-founders or any outside investment, this group is for you.

This group is for all SharePoint business users. Less technical, but very helpful! We will be meeting at the SharePoint Innovations office in Beaverton, down the road from Nike campus. We meet every 1st Thursday of the month. Some topics include (but are not limited to): Transform your enterprise with SharePoint, the steps to effective SharePoint governance, Using SharePoint for Document Management successfully, etc... This is an open group and free to attend! Lunch will be provided as well.

The purpose of this group is to discuss current economic crisis, its causes and primarily its possible near and long-term consequences from a personal finance perspective, including investment, while taking into the account the following: - Monetary policy and the Federal Reserve (fundamental topic) - Budget deficits, public and private debt, US Treasury market and interest rates (fundamental topic) - Trade imbalances and international capital flows (fundamental topic) - Economic indicators …