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SUMMARY:Portland Monthly BEAM Meet & Chat
DESCRIPTION:**Note:** Your RSVP is required in order to attend this event.\n\nLet’s get together for an informal BEAM PDX hangout: coffee\, conversation\, and light co-working.\n\nThis is a low-key monthly meetup for folks working with **Elixir\, Erlang\, Gleam**\, and other **BEAM languages**\, aimed at reconnecting the local community and rebuilding momentum after a long quiet stretch. We’ll holding this on the second Thursday of each month.\n\nThere will be opportunities to:\n\n– Ask questions about Elixir and other BEAM languages\n– Share what you’ve been working on (or stuck on)\n– Get help with programming or design problems\n– Co-work: get things done with like-minded folks nearby\n– Brainstorm ideas for future talk-based meetups and identify potential speakers\n– Bring your laptop if you’d like. It’s totally optional.\n\nNew to BEAM languages\, or just curious? You’re very welcome.\n\nPlease RSVP so we know roughly how many people to expect. If your plans change\, un-RSVP when you can.\n\nThis meetup is also part of our transition away from Meetup to a new home for the group\, where we’ll be organizing future events.\nTags: elixir\, erlang\, functional programming\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482559
URL:https://pdxwit.net/event/portland-monthly-beam-meet-chat-3/
LOCATION:Inner SE Portland\, Portland\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calagator
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SUMMARY:Better Futures Club
DESCRIPTION:​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.\n\nImagine an artist community\, a think tank\, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers\, physicists\, authors\, astronomers\, musicians\, makers\, mathematicians\, designers\, developers\, fashionistas\, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.\n\nAll Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)\nTags: ruby\, STEM\, liberal arts\, community\, hacking\, AI\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482577
URL:https://pdxwit.net/event/better-futures-club-7/
LOCATION:Autumn Coffee Roasting\, 3286 NE Killingsworth St\, Portland\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calagator
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SUMMARY:Building D3.js Visualizations For Non-Technical Audiences
DESCRIPTION:This presentation introduces D3.js as a powerful tool for transforming complex data into clear\, meaningful visual stories which non-technical audiences can understand and use. It explains what D3.js is\, how it works with web technologies and why visualization is essential for revealing patterns and insights raw data alone cannot show.\n\nThis talk emphasizes designing visualizations with the audience in mind while also covering core D3 concepts such as data binding\, scales\, layouts and interactive graphics. Through examples\, case studies\, design principles and practical tips\, this presentation demonstrates how builders can use D3.js to communicate ideas effectively and empower people to discover insights from data.\nTags: portland design thinkers\, data visualizations\, UX research\, problem solving\, collaboration\, innovation\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482543
URL:https://pdxwit.net/event/building-d3-js-visualizations-for-non-technical-audiences/
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SUMMARY:Cloud Native May Meetup: Change-driven Architecture and Serving Inference at Scale
DESCRIPTION:Cloud Native PDX May: Change-driven Architecture and Serving Inference at Scale\n\nThis May is all about scaling; scaling your infrastructure management\, or scaling your LLM inference serving. Join us to find out about some open source tools to make managing large modern stacks easier.\n\nDate: Thursday\, May 14\nTime: 5:30–7:30 PM\nLocation: Reperio Health\, 4784 SE 17th Ave Suite 120\, Portland\, OR\n\nRecording: Talks are typically recorded (opt-in by speakers)\n\nA big thank you to Microsoft for sponsoring food & beverage\, and to Reperio Health\, our venue host.\n\nDrasi\, a new take on Change Driven Architectures: Aman Singh\, Microsoft\n\nModern cloud-native systems constantly generate data changes\, and applications often need to react to them. Building change-driven solutions that respond to specific changes in distributed data is challenging. This talk introduces Drasi\, a CNCF Sandbox project that simplifies the design and implementation of change-driven architectures using Graph Queries and pluggable components. For example\, with Drasi you can declaratively write automation to detect and respond to running containers with newly identified vulnerabilities across pods and deployments in a Kubernetes cluster. Join us for a walkthrough of real-world use cases that show how Drasi’s approach brings structure and responsiveness to complex distributed environments – without writing custom code.\n\nDynamo: Large Scale Distributed Inference\nDavid Zeir\, Director\, DL System Software\, Nvidia\nNeelay Shah\, Distinguished Engineer\, Nvidia\n\nThis talk introduces Dynamo\, NVIDIA’s open-source Kubernetes-native distributed inference platform. We’ll cover the problem space\, walk through Dynamo’s architecture — disaggregated prefill/decode\, KV-cache-aware routing\, and a transport layer that moves KV blocks directly between GPUs — and dig into the Kubernetes integration for scheduling\, autoscaling\, and graceful failure handling. We’ll close with a demo of Dynamo serving a real workload.\nTags: kubernetes\, containers\, cloud\, intrastructure\, devops\, LLM\, inference\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482554
URL:https://pdxwit.net/event/cloud-native-may-meetup-change-driven-architecture-and-serving-inference-at-scale/
LOCATION:Reperio Health\, 4784 SE 17th Ave\, Portland\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calagator
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SUMMARY:May 2026 Portland Linux Kernel Meetup
DESCRIPTION:The Portland Linux Kernel Meetup for May 2026 will be at…\n\n  * Date: Thursday\, May 14\, 2026\n  * Time: 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM US/Pacific\n  * Location: Lucky Labrador Beer Hall\, 1945 NW Quimby St\, Portland\, Oregon 97209 US\n\nCome enjoy a beverage and chat with other people who are interested in the\nLinux kernel. All experience levels are welcome. This is a friendly and casual\nmeetup. Look for a table with a plush Tux penguin.\n\nTo get timely reminders of Portland Linux Kernel Meetups\, see\nhttps://ikluft.github.io/pdx-lkmu/subscribing-to-pdx-lkmu-events.html.\nTags: PDXLKMU\, kernel\, linux\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482564
URL:https://pdxwit.net/event/may-2026-portland-linux-kernel-meetup/
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SUMMARY:Gresham Vibecoders Unite!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our very first Gresham Vibecoders Meetup! We’ll kick things off with introductions — who you are\, what you’re building (only if you want to share)\, and what tools you’re using. From there\, we’ll do an open show-and-tell where anyone can demo a project they’ve been working on\, no matter how finished (or unfinished) it is. We’ll swap tips\, talk about what’s working\, what’s broken\, and what we’re figuring out as we go.\n\nExpect good conversation\, a few laughs\, and maybe a spark for your next build. Come as you are — beginner\, builder\, or just AI-curious. All are welcome!\nTags: meetup\, Vibecoding\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482560
URL:https://pdxwit.net/event/gresham-vibecoders-unite-2/
LOCATION:Lolo’s Boss Pizza\, 21817 NE Halsey St\, Fairview\, OR\, United States
CATEGORIES:Calagator
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