Details on the meetup in Portland on August 19.

Where: Mozilla/PDX -- 1120 NW Couch St, Suite 320.

When: Friday August 19, 6:30PM to 8PM. After the meetup we'll go out for dinner and drinks at a nearby establishment. 

How it works: We use BloggerCon unconference format. Read it. I take this format seriously. No droning, no sales pitches, I cut people off if they are long-winded. No arguing. We all respect each other. Your business model isn't interesting. No one cares how you make money. Lessons learned the hard way about meetups. 

Register here: To help us plan for space, and to be sure you can participate, please register at the Eventbrite page for the meetup. Thanks! 

Who: Dave Winer (me) and friends, including Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, and Allen Wirfs-Brock, editor of the Ecmascript 6 spec. And hopefully many other interesting users and developers from the Portland area. 

Why: I'm in town, and have never done a meetup in Portland, and thought it would be interesting to meet you all. 

What: I'd like to talk about blogging in 2016, why it's great that podcasting is taking off (again), and how the big silos are in the way of progress, and how they could help. Also how to combine wikis and blogs, and why callback hell is actually a lot of fun once you make your peace with it. And pretty much anything else people want to talk about. 

Demo: I'll demo 1999.io, my latest blogging tool, which I am using to write this post.

Thanks: Jim Blandy at Mozilla for generously offering to host the meetup!