Portland Lunch 2.0 Launches
Yesterday, about 50 geeks and non-geeks gathered at AboutUs.org in their sweet, newly-remodeled space in the Olympic Mills Commerce Center for the inaugural Portland Lunch 2.0. The event felt very Portland with no formal agenda and no presentations, just a good lunch with good people.
Ray King kicked off the lunch with an introduction. Then Ward Cunningham, the wiki-father, took the chair for a few minutes. Finally, Mark Dilley talked about the Portland chapter of Wiki Wednesday, and we were off to mingle, chat and chomp on pesto sandwiches and pasta. Oh yeah, and Josh Bancroft had an Eee PC to show off to the gadget-hungry.
Check out some pictures from Eddie Awad and Aaron Hockley.
One of the few I took was of Web Worker Daily blogger Jason Harris and his classic geeky name tags. Only at a Lunch 2.0 would you have attendees identifying themselves by name and Twitter handle. Portland has embraced Twitter and has a very active group of tweeters, so I guess this makes sense.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the event, and lots of people asked when the next one was. We’re hoping to keep a regular pace, not every week though. This is Portland. We like to take it easy. Maybe every six weeks, maybe more often if we get lots of requests to host.
Speaking of hosts, Andy Van Oostrum wants to bring the next Portland Lunch 2.0 to eROI. We’re ironing out the details now, probably early April.
If you’re in Portland or interested in the scene here, check out these sites:
- Fast Wonder: Dawn Foster has a hand in just about every techie gathering or event in Portland, including Lunch 2.0 which she helped organized, natch.
- Silicon Florist: Rick Turoczy knows all about the startup scene in Portland.
- Portland on Fire: Raven Zachary set out on a quest to profile a Portlander every day in 2008, not just geeks, but anyone. Very cool stuff that highlights the diversity of the Rose City.
Again, big thanks to Ray, Keith, Mark, Ward and the whole AboutUs crew for their hospitality and swag. Everyone knows you can never have too many coffee mugs, and I’m enjoying this morning’s coffee in my brand new AboutUs mug, w00t!
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February 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Congratulations to the team who put this together!
It was a great first event. And I’m looking forward to attending many more (since I can generally get away for lunch).
There was a heavy, heavy Twitter influence on this event. In fact, I’d argue that more than 75% of the folks were avatars I recognized from Twitter.
Of course, that made the top networking line, “Am I following you on Twitter?”
February 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
It was great to meet up with everybody. The AboutUs team did a wonderful job hosting the lunch, so big thanks to them. And, much love for the organizers of the event; Jake, Dawn, and crew.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
It was great meeting Rick & the other folks at Lunch 2.0. For the next meeting, I suggest a little more tape be available for people to use as their networking badges :.)
February 28th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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February 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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February 29th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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