Portland Tech Scene
Legend
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Beer and Blog Attendee
Red Twitter means the account is private
Legion of Tech Board Member
Portland Web Innovators
Portvangelista
Portvangelist
Featured on Portland on Fire
Apple user
David Frey
Twitter http://twitter.com/davidfrey
Owns http://intuitiveye.com/
Raven Zachary
Twitter http://twitter.com/ravenzachary
Blog http://www.rinzai.com/
Analyst for http://www.the451group.com/
PoF http://portlandonfire.com/ravenzachary
Simeon Bateman
Twitter http://twitter.com/simBateman
Blog http://blog.simb.net/
Brian Reeder
Twitter http://twitter.com/brianreeder
Blog http://www.brianreeder.com/
Works for http://www.dbclay.com/
Liz Kimmerly
Twitter https://twitter.com/lilbutterfly
Gary Walter
Twitter http://twitter.com/gwalter
Blog http://savinglives.wordpress.com/
Chris O'Rourke
I’m a 33 year old Portvangelist, Geek, Dad Drumcorps Fan residing in Portland, Oregon. I enjoy beer, php, wordpress and being a general techie.
Twitter http://twitter.com/chrisorourke
Blog http://cdcstudios.com/
Owns http://portlanddreams.com
Works for http://slatetechpdx.com
PoF http://www.portlandonfire.com/chrisorourke/
Ryan Williams
Twitter http://twitter.com/rwilliamz
Blog http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/
Works for http://www.digitaltrends.com/
Barry Tallis
Twitter http://twitter.com/barrytallis
Works for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Emma is a geek, artist, blogger, and happiness advocate. She is interested in how our culture is changing to
open forms of culture, online and offline, are changing our world to make it a more joyful, playful, authentic, life-supporting place.
Twitter http://twitter.com/cheekyboots
Homepage http://www.emmamccreary.com/
Blog http://www.joyninja.com
Founder of http://www.acornhost.com
Blog http://www.taoofprosperity.com
Rick Turoczy
PoF http://portlandonfire.com/rickturoczy
Twitter http://twitter.com/turoczy
Blog http://siliconflorist.com
Twitter http://twitter.com/siliconflorist
Blog http://hypocritical.com/blog
Blog http://tweetness.org
Author for http://morethanaliving.com/blog
Author for http://techvibes.com/blog
Owns http://returncorp.com
Client http://iterasi.com
Owns http://hellokumquat.com
Owns http://twurl.cc
Rennie Gleeson
Twitter http://twitter.com/rgleeson
Works for http://www.wk.com/
Blog http://wk.typepad.com/
Selena Deckelmann
Twitter http://twitter.com/selenamarie
Blog http://www.chesnok.com/daily/
Works for http://www.chrisking.com/
Founder of http://www.postgresql.us
Founder of http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdxpug
PoF http://portlandonfire.com/selenadeckelmann
Contributor to http://www.postgresql.org
Sarah Gilbert
Twitter http://twitter.com/sarahgilbert
Blog http://www.cafemama.com/
Chris Griffin
Twitter http://twitter.com/chrisgriffin
Blog http://chriszgriffin.com/
Owns http://griffinwebworks.com/
Josh Bancroft
Twitter http://twitter.com/jabancroft
Blog http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/
Works for http://www.intel.com/
Aaron Hockley
Aaron is a .NET developer by day as well as working part time as a professional photographer. He blogs in several places, mastering his WordPress-fu.
Twitter http://twitter.com/ahockley
Blog http://www.anotherblogger.com/
Owns http://www.hockleyphoto.com/
Jason Glaspey
Twitter http://twitter.com/jasonglaspey
Blog http://www.jasonglaspey.com/
Works for http://www.instrum3nt.com/
Developed http://www.unthirsty.com/
Chris Kalani
Twitter http://twitter.com/chriskalani
Blog http://www.chriskalani.com/
Works for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Does http://www.yaymonday.com/
Matt King
Twitter http://twitter.com/mattking
Blog http://www.mattking.org/
Works for http://www.instrum3nt.com/
Created http://twitterwhere.mattking.org/
Developed http://www.unthirsty.com/
Justin Kistner
Justin Kistner provides strategic direction for online initiatives for businesses such as Nike, HP, and Jive Software. He is involved in the local tech scene including hosting a weekly blogger meet up called Beer and Blog. Justin also volunteers on the Board of Directors for Legion of Tech.
Twitter http://twitter.com/metafluece
Blog http://www.metafluence.com/
On contract with http://www.jivesoftware.com/
PoF http://www.portlandonfire.com/justinkistner/
Runs http://www.beerandblog.com/
Twitter http://twitter.com/beerandblog
Sometimes hosts http://groups.google.com/group/portland-data-plumbing
Scott Kveton
Scott Kveton has held high positions in a few of Portland"s hottest tech startups. He is the OpenID Foundation Chair and participates as well as speaks in local and national tech events.
Twitter http://twitter.com/kveton
Blog http://kveton.com/blog/
Works for http://vidoop.com/
Todd Kenefsky
Todd runs a business that does interactive marketing stuff and a mysterious startup called ShinyObjex. He is co-founder of Legion of Tech and loves avocados.
Twitter http://twitter.com/TiEsQue
Blog http://www.toddkenefsky.com
Owns http://www.connectinteractivemedia.com/
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Marshall Kirkpatrick has written for Techcrunch and AOL and currently writes for Read/WriteWeb. Marshall is active in the local and national tech scene and speaks at events small and large. He is available for consulting, specializing in tech startup promotion and research.
Twitter http://twitter.com/marshallk
Blog http://www.marshallk.com/
Author for http://www.readwriteweb.com/
Dawn Foster
Community Manager, Event Organizer, Blogger, Podcaster, Vegan, and Technology Enthusiast
Dawn M. Foster is currently the Director of Developer Relations at Jive Software, a collaboration software company in Portland, OR. She has more than 12 years of experience in technology and software with expertise in open source software, web 2.0, social media, blogging, and community building.
Dawn is the author of the Fast Wonder Blog and is currently working on a book for O’Reilly Media about the Art of Community. She organizes a monthly Portland BarCamp Meetup event for local technology employees, is an organizer for the Portland BarCamp event, and helps organize Ignite Portland. She is a co-founder and Chair of Legion of Tech.
Twitter http://twitter.com/geekygirldawn
Blog http://www.fastwonderblog.com/
Works for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Josh Pyles
Twitter http://twitter.com/pixelmatrix
Owns http://www.pixelmatrixdesign.com/
Blog http://www.pixelmatrix.com/blog/
Created http://www.tweetpeek.com/
Audrey Eschright
Twitter http://twitter.com/spinnerin
Blog http://dyepot-teapot.com/
Editor at http://yogsnotebook.com/
Ray King
Co-owns http://www.aboutus.org/
Twitter http://twitter.com/RayKing
Benjamin Diggles
Blog http://www.mrdiggles.com/
Co-owner http://www.dbclay.com/
Adam Duvander
Twitter http://twitter.com/adamd
Blog http://www.adamduvander.com/
Owns http://www.duvinci.com/
Ward Cunningham
Co-owns http://www.aboutus.org/
Jason Grigsby
Twitter http://twitter.com/grigs
Blog http://jasongrigsby.com/
Cofounder http://www.cloudfour.com/
Michael Richardson
Twitter http://twitter.com/mtrichardson
Blog http://www.witigonen.com/
Works for http://www.mandatemedia.com/
Created http://www.tweetpeek.com/
Reid Beels
Twitter http://twitter.com/reidab
Blog http://reidab.com/
Michael Sigler
Twitter http://twitter.com/michaelsigler
Blog http://www.siglerdesign.com/
Designer for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Does http://www.dragonavenue.com/
Sam Lawrence
Twitter http://twitter.com/samlawrence
Blog http://www.gobigalways.com/
CMO for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Bill Lynch
Cofounder http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Sam Grover
Twitter http://twitter.com/samgrover
Blog http://samgrover.com/
Works for http://www.intel.com/
Paul Biggs
Twitter http://twitter.com/techpaulogy
Blog http://www.techpaulogy.com/
Works for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Ben Bleything
Twitter http://twitter.com/bleything
Blog http://blog.bleything.net/
Works for http://www.laika.com/
Jason Harris
Twitter http://twitter.com/harrisja
Blog http://www.techcraver.com/
Peat Bakke
Twitter http://twitter.com/peat
Blog http://peat.wordpress.com/
PoF http://portlandonfire.com/peatbakke
Aaron Johnson
Blog http://cephas.net/blog/
Works for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Chris Brentano
Twitter http://twitter.com/ctb
Blog http://fourone.org/chris/
Works for http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Alex Williams
Twitter http://twitter.com/alexwilliams
Works for http://www.splashcastmedia.com/
Matt Tucker
Twitter http://twitter.com/matttucker
Blog http://www.jivesoftware.com/community/blogs/jivetalks/
Cofounder http://www.jivesoftware.com/
Scott Huber
Twitter http://twitter.com/agencyaspen
Blog http://agencyaspen.com/
Works for http://www.coateskokes.com/
Jake Kuramoto
Twitter http://twitter.com/jkuramot
Blog http://oracleappslab.com/
Dave Allen
Twitter http://twitter.com/pampelmoose
Blog http://www.pampelmoose.com/
Works for http://www.nemodesign.com/
Nate Angell
Nate works at the intersection of education and open source technology and is an active member of the Drupal, Sakai and OSP open source technology communities. Nate once led web communications at PSU and OMSI and was part of the team that attempted to get OR to fund an open source signature research center (like ONAMI).
PoF http://www.portlandonfire.com/nateangell/
New node
Mike Herrick
Works for http://www.csinitiative.com/
Blagh http://fuzzypanic.blogspot.com/
Tweats https://twitter.com/mherrick66