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It seems Agile development, OpenSourcery's chosen software development method, is finally reaching the broad acceptance it deserves. We have a lot to say about Agile (ask us more), so it makes perfect sense that OpenSourcery co-founder and CEO Brian Jamison would moderate the upcoming "Life Inside an Iteration" panel.

The Software Association of Oregon (SAO) will host the event, with the guidance of its Development Special Interest Group (DevSIG) and Quality Assurance SIG (QASIG).

Join us and learn what "Life Inside an Iteration" is really like. Panelists will discuss what activities help QA and Development work in sync, what the hand offs are and how they happen, and how they have managed the inevitable change within the iteration. Panelists include developers, testers, customers and consultants to bring a broad perspective of best practices to these issues.

Learn more about the event here. We hope to see you there.

Join us November 5th at 6 PM for Chris Anderson's introduction to the CouchDB framework. Chris is a Portland-based entrepreneur at Grabb.it and the co-author of an upcoming O'Reilly book on CouchDB.

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.

CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments.

This event is free to the public. In order to accommodate the appropriate number of attendees, please rsvp to: thomas@opensourcery.com.

The event takes place at OpenSourcery: 711 SE Ankeny (on Ankeny and SE 7th, one block south of Burnside). We encourage biking and public transportation.

Tonight in Portland, friends of Josh Tickell's Fuel documentary will walk, bike, run, skip, navigate automobiles fueled by biodiesel, and sidle their way to the film's Sneak Preview downtown. It promises to be an exciting event that brings together attendees from many disciplines: software executives, local activists, biodiesel evangelists. You get the idea.

Fuel, which won the Sundance audience award for a Documentary (under the title Fields of Fuel), has been released with wider distribution this fall. The documentary will play in Portland on November 14th, followed by showings in Seattle, Austin, and Bend, OR. Their revamped site has some great interactive tools, including a form for demanding Fuel to be shown in your city, a media section bursting with video, audio and photographs, and various ways to get involved.

You can learn more about the film's premise on the website as well, including activities average film-goers can partake in to help reduce individual and nationwide dependence on fossil fuels.

Tonight's event is completely booked, but mark your calendars for November 14th and check the website for further details.

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The monthly DrupalPDX Meetup returns to its regular time and place this month. It looks like we're going to have an excellent presentation followed by open discussion and, as a matter of course, a cold beer at the Green Dragon afterward.

From the official announcement: "Brian Gilday of Aha Consulting will be doing a presentation on building with minimal coding." Find the full description HERE; in short, it's a topic for power users on how to make the most of existing modules using configuration and a minor coding.

The meetup takes place October 8th from 6pm-8pm at our offices, located at 711 SE Ankeny (one block south of E Burnside at 7th). As always, the event is free and open to all Drupal enthusiasts.

Mark your calendar, bring a discussion topic, register at the DrupalPDX page, and we'll see you there.

As part of its ongoing Meetup series, the OTBC in Beaverton will present "Open SourceOpen source software is computer software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets the Open Source Definition. Software: Benefits and Challenges," a panel featuring three distinct perspectives on open source software: legal, business and development. This from the official announcement on the Meetup page: "The panel will consist of speakers experienced with intellectual property issues in adopting open source software, participating in open source and open standard communities, and using a range of licensing models."

Brian Jamison, founder and CEO of OpenSourcery, joins panel moderator Martin Medeiros (partner, Swider Medeiros Haver, LLP) and Jim Wasko (Program Director for Cloud Computing, IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM) to discuss strategic approaches to leveraging open source vs. proprietary software. We're pretty certain where Brian will fall along that continuum.

The Meetup takes place at the offices of OTBC in Beaverton. Find directions here. We look forward to seeing you there.