Lunch 2.0

. . . did Portlanders chomp at the second installment of Lunch 2.0 yesterday afternoon at eROI?

Before the answer, here’s a recap. About 60 people wandered in and out of eROI to enjoy the good company and grub. I had to head out early, but when I left, the place was buzzing.

I saw a lot of new faces, in addition to some I’d seen at the first Lunch 2.0 at AboutUs. It helped to have huge name tags, with plenty of room for name, company and most importantly, Twitter handle.

Twitter is our communication channel of choice here in Portland. According to TwitterLocal, Portland is number 14 on the list of the top Twitter locations. So, here in PDX, it’s best to introduce yourself first by handle first, then by real name.

Andy Van Oostrum kicked off the lunch with a short bit about eROI, and then the eating began. After some chomping, Andy picked winners for eROI swag out of the business card fishbowl, and even if they didn’t win, everyone went home full.

Since I didn’t stay long, here are some reactions I collected from Twitter.

harrisja : @jkuramot lunch 2.0 was really great today. great venue and great company. the food totally rocket too

ryanbuch : after the fact, but Andy did an awesome job w/ Lunch 2.0 at eROI today. Great to connect w/ a bunch of tech twitter geeks in P’town.

vidoop : Portland Lunch 2.0 was lots of fun… such a long walk back down to 2nd floor *whew* check out http://calagator.wordpress…. for mo’evnts

bobuva : Met some great people at Lunch 2.0! Portland is where it’s at if you’re technical and want to make the world a better place

xolotl : thanks @eroi for a fantastic lunch 2.0!

dodeja : just got back from lunch 2.0 @eROI meet a few cool people

simBateman : Back at the office after meeting a ton of people at Lunch 2.0. That was a good time

donpdonp : at backspace cafe for the afternoon after a fun lunch 2.0. thanks @eroi!

pixelmatrix : back from lunch 2.0! was fun guys

grigs : Had fun at Lunch 2.0. Thanks to eROI and @voostru for hosting. Thanks to @jkuramot for organizing.

alexcwilliams : Good crowd, good coversations at lunch 2.0, looking forward to the next one. Who wants to host?

Big thanks to Andy, Ryan, Alex and the eROI crew for opening their offices to Lunch 2.0 and providing tasty food from their neighbors, Good Taste Restaurant.

Plans for the next installment have already been hatched. I spoke to Gaia Borgias Brown about bringing Lunch 2.0 to Wieden+Kennedy next.

If you’re in Portland and are on the fence about Lunch 2.0, check out Rick Turoczy’s 5 Reasons to Attend.

Portland has a myriad of other activities, if you want to mix and mingle. As proof, the monthly Portland Werewolf session was last night, just hours after Lunch 2.0.

If you made it this far, here’s the answer: we downed 100 pounds of tasty Chinese food yesterday, w00t!