[UPDATE:BarCampPortland 4 is being rescheduled.]
The fourth annual BarCampPortland will be May 22, at the University of Portland campus. We are trying something new this year — we will be sharing the venue with Portland Code Camp, another great tech event that many of the developers among us enjoy. Both events are (and always have been) free.
Want to get involved?
- Volunteer: If you’d like to get involved with planning and preparations, please contact Amy Farrell (amykfarrell on gmail).
- Sponsor BarCamp: These events can’t be successful without our sponsors. Contact Dawn Foster (geekygirldawn on gmail) if you’re interested in sponsoring BarCamp.
- Follow us on Twitter: @BarCampPortland
- Tell your friends!
The next combined BarCamp/Code Camp planning meeting will be Monday, February 22, at 6:30 pm. If you’d like to be involved, please get in touch!
Just in time for BarCamp, the Legion of Tech is doing a survey to find out more about Portland’s technology community. We’d like to know about your demographics and activities, for event planning and as a resource for the rest of the community. Please go to http://moourl.com/lotsurvey and fill it out, then spread the word to your friends and coworkers.
We are official. We are now an Oregon Non Profit organization.
Note: We are still not (and may never become) a tax-exempt organization, and we still have some paperwork to file.
We also had our first board meeting last week where we approved our bylaws, board of directors, and officers.
Board Members:
- Chair: Dawn Foster (contact: dawn at dawnfoster dot com)
- Secretary: Raven Zachary (contact: raven at rinzai dot com)
- Treasurer: Todd Kenefsky (contact: kenefsky at gmail dot com)
- Josh Bancroft
- Paul Biggs
- Selena Deckelmann
- Adam Duvander
- Audrey Eschright
- Justin Kistner
You can read our bylaws on our about page.
Legion of Tech is currently in the early stages of forming as a non-profit organization. We have submitted the paperwork to incorporate as a non-profit in Oregon, but have not yet received confirmation that our application will be accepted.
After organizing BarCamp Portland and Ignite Portland, we realized that it was very difficult to manage sponsorships and other logistics of these events without having a legal entity. For example, at Ignite Portland, Raven signed a waiver making him personally responsible if anything happened to the facility (we had insurance, but this could have been really ugly if anything bad happened.) We are forming Legion of Tech to allow us to better manage these Portland community events.
This organization has two primary functions: first, we organize key community events like BarCampPortland and Ignite Portland; second, we provide resources and help to organizers of other community technology events. Specifically, the purpose of this organization is to
- Grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events.
- Make it easier for community members to organize technology events.
- Provide resources and assistance for technology community events.
Next Steps for the organization:
- We will be having the first board meeting this week to ratify the bylaws and board members for Legion of Tech (we will post the minutes, board member names, and bylawys here on the blog)
- After ratification of the board and the bylaws and acceptance of our application to incorporate as an Oregon non-profit, we will begin filing the 501(c) (3) paperwork to see if we can qualify as a tax-exempt organization.
We will continue to post more information and additional pages here as we work through the details. We are also working on a logo, which will drive the look and feel for the site, so please excuse the newbie theme look while we get organized.
