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Portland BarCamp is coming up this weekend!  Show up (or better yet register as a camper) to partake in food, fun, and interesting tech talks.  This is also a great opportunity to get input on personal projects or hold your own talk/mini session.

Where: Cubespace
622 SE Grand Ave.
Portland, OR 97214

When: Friday May 2 @ 6PM - Sunday May 4 @ 3PM

 For people interested in going:
If you are driving to BarCamp Portland and have room for extra passengers or if you want to go but can’t get there or don’t have somewhere to stay please post either in the LUG mailing list, wiki or the BarCamp Portland wiki.

Google gave the Oregon State University Linux Users Group a visit on March 6th. The Googlers included Lori Welch, a Hardware Operations Recruiter from Mountain View, Ken Patchett, the Hardware Operations Manager from The Dalles, Josh Betts, The Dalles Facility Manager, and Trevor Sehrer, a hardware op. With them they brought a tech talk about managing large data centers, plenty of schwag, and pizza for all.

Thanks Google!

Open google maps, and take a look at 45°7′26″N 123°6′48″W. This otherwise undistinguished farm just outside Amity Oregon seems to have something interesting going on. In fact, it is the famous Firefox crop circle. Now known worldwide courtesy of google maps. In fact, if you scroll just a little bit south of the crop circle itself, you can see a number of people, including our Alex Polvi. Truly, he is out standing in his field.

On Friday October 27th in West International Hall students gathered to celebrate the release of Firefox 2 with a Firefox Party. There were conversations about new features, a demo running on a LCD TV and the plans for a Firefox logo made of blinking safety lights. Judging by the big glowing logo in the Weatherford lawn this party was a big success!