Ignite Portland 10 is looking for some good volunteers!
We’re hosting a meet-up tonight from 7-9 at the Green Dragon on SE 9th and Belmont. Come join us to learn more about what roles are available and learn how your time and passion can make Ignite Portland 10 the best yet!
Can’t make it tonight but want to help out? Check out our volunteer page and sign up now!
Have you seen other Ignite talks and thought about giving your own? If you’ve got an interest or hobby you’d like to tell others about, the submit your proposal today because we want to put you on stage!
What if we told you we’d give you five minutes on stage and 20 slides to tell the whole world about your favorite hobby? You know, that time you tried raising chickens, the thing you geek out about all the time, the time you nearly crushed the neighbor’s dog with your dangerous Jenga set made of lumber… you get the idea.
It’s been a while since we had an Ignite Portland, and we know you’ve all been waiting for details about the next event. We’re really excited to announce that you can join us on February 9, 2012, for Ignite Portland 10 held at the McMenamins Bagdad Theatre and Pub!
Ignite Portland is an exciting, fast-paced, night of presentations where people can share their passions and burning ideas. The rules are fairly simple: 20 sides x 15 seconds per slide (auto-advancing) = 5 minutes of awesome. Presentations can be on nearly any topic, so long as they can teach, enlighten, or inspire us. (Some examples from past Ignites Portland can be found in our video archive.)
Talk proposals for Ignite Portland 10 are now open! We’re looking for speakers and we’d love to hear from you. The submission deadline is 11:59PM on December 30, 2011 (we didn’t want you stressing about your proposal on New Year’s Eve), so submit your burning idea today!
As always, Ignite wouldn’t be the great event it has come to be without a lot of help from all of you. Maybe you’ve got a great idea and want your 5 minutes on the stage, maybe you’d like to help out and make sure things run smoothly, or maybe you just want to kick back with your tots and beer — no problem, Ignite Portland 10 is the place for you!
To recap, we’re looking for:
Ignite Portland is another awesome Stumptown Syndicate project!
Ignite Portland was born almost exactly four years ago and has brought nine nights of fun, fast-paced, passionate presentations to Portland since then. Continuing this great tradition, we’re kicking off the planning process for Ignite Portland 10 and we need your help!
Join us tomorrow night (Wednesday, September 14th) at 7pm at the Lucky Lab Taproom as we start to put the pieces together. You can find the full event details on Calagator and RSVP on Plancast.
This announcement is totally at the last minute, and we understand if you can’t make it, but fear not!
Here’s to many more Ignites in Portland!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Reid Beels or Sherri Konin Montgomery.
The awesome folks at the Willamette Innovators Network are doing it again. They love Portland people so much that they’re running a free bus to Corvallis and back on November 11, for people who want to go see Ignite Corvallis 3.
But this is no boring bus ride. There will be free beer. And free WiFi. And a chance to win free stuff (like an orange 16GB iPod nano – the new tiny one). Plus you get to see the great talks at Ignite Corvallis 3.
What is there to decide? Head on over to the post on WIN to get all the details, and make sure you register for the bus (so they know how many to plan for). This is a great opportunity – thanks to WIN and their sponsors for thinking of us Portlanders, and setting this up! 
We love putting on Ignite Portland for everyone. It’s a total blast. But there’s a lot of work involved, and due to availability of some key volunteer organizers, the end of year holidays, as well as the general desire to catch our breath a little, we’ve decided to bump Ignite Portland 10 out into mid 2011 (instead of February). We don’t have a specific date in place yet, but when we do, we’ll be sure to post it here.
Thanks for all your enthusiasm and support – that’s what makes Ignite Portland worthwhile! We’ll see you in a few months.
This is a special guest post from the folks organizing IgniteGov. We thought you’d be interested. –Josh
On Wednesday, October 27th, the Government Open Source Conference will be hosting IgniteGov, the first Ignite event to focus exclusively on open government topics. We’re hoping the thriving Portland Ignite community will join us as we welcome several local speakers on topics ranging from open data to what Bangalore and Burning Man have to teach civic planners about infrastructure planning. We’re also particularly excited to have Brady Forrest, Creator of Ignite, as one of our presenters.
IgniteGov will be held at GOSCON’s venue, The Nines. Doors open at 6:30 PM and talks begin promptly at 7 PM, so make sure to arrive early so you have time to grab a snack and drink before the festivities begin. While it’s not strictly required, we’d love it if you could RSVP to let us know you’re attending. Our venue is limited to 350 attendees, so it’ll be first come, first seated. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Here’s our speaker lineup:
Abraham Hyatt – Give me back my Facebook: What you don’t understand about Web users
Brady Forrest – From Whim to City Infrastructure: Learning from Burning Man
GovHub Team – Gov Hub: Open Source and Open Government Collaboration
John Weathersby – Operation Bearclaw: the real story behind OSS adoption in the US government
Justin Houk – The Government as Community Curator
Laurel Ruma – Better than Winning the World Series: Boston Open Real-Time Transit Data
Lou Alvis – Principal Versus Law. How rules create crime, how Ideas prevent them
Max Ogden – Why middleware is the key to a successful gov 2.0
Philip Ashlock – The Municipal Web: Open311 and a Network of Civic Services
Rami Kassab – Designing and Developing Effective and Efficient Municipal Websites
Skip Newberry – Lessons Learned from a Regional Approach to Open Data and Civic Apps
Zack Denfeld – Learning from Bangalore: Urban Informatics at Street Level
We hope to see you at the first ever IgniteGov! For regular updates and notice when talk videos are posted, follow @ignitegov and @goscon on Twitter.
Cheers,
The IgniteGov Team: Andy Stein, Deb Bryant, Jeff Sheltren, John M. Scott, Leslie Hawthorn, Nathan DiNiro and Selena Deckelmann
Thanks to the awesome folks at Blaze Streaming Media, we’ve got the videos of all the talks from Ignite Portland 9 for your post event watching enjoyment. You can check them all out in this Ignite Portland 9 playlist on YouTube, or simply enjoy them in the embedded player below:
Now that the event is over, it’s time to tell us what you thought about it.
After we do an event, we like to have a thread where you can comment and tell us …
What worked well? (We’ll try not to change those)
Where were the rough spots that we should improve for next time?
So this post is your chance – post a comment below, let us know what you thought of the event, what you liked and give us your suggestions for how to make it better. Just like everything else about Ignite Portland, we need you, our community, to contribute here to make the next one the very best it can be.
