Updated!
A big part of the thriving tech scene in Portland is made up of IRC channels that many groups and projects use to coordinate real-time activity.
Some of the popular channels can be found at the following locations:
Freenode:
#pdxpug
#pdxpython
#pdxpug
#osbridge
#techcoffee
#dorkbotpdx
#pdxfunc
#pdxdjango
##pdxbeer
#pdxwebdev
#pdxscala
#brainsilo
irc.perl.org:
#pdx.pm
irc.personaltelco.net:
#pdxfiber
Tell me about others in the comments!
There’s also #pdxdjango, which is pretty much just a subset of #pdxpython, ##pdxbeer, and #pdxwebdev.
And #pdxfunc (on freenode), for the functional language study group.
There is also #pdxscala, which while not exactly popular yet, is actually starting to see consistent usage over the last couple of weeks.
not very active, but there is usually quite a few people in #brainsilo