Portland Beer Wiki Kick OFF EVENT Tonight!

Portland Beer Wiki Kick Off Event
AboutUs.org Office
107 SE Washington St., 5th Floor
Portland
6-8 p.m.

Wiki Wednesday is the first Wednesday every month at the AboutUS.org office and this month they are featuring the Portland Beer Wiki. The Oregon Brewers Guild will be in attendance providing the beverages. Learn about the project, drink beer and meet the inventor of the wiki, Ward Cunningham (he likes good beer too). The point of the project is to create a hub for everything Portland and using a wiki is an easy way to accomplish this. If you don't know how to use a wiki we can help. And check out the Portland Beer Wiki!

Homepage

http://www.portlandbeerwiki.org

Portland Beer Wiki at Hopworks

Yesterday, We have a meeting of the minds and beers at Hopworks in SE Portland. Angelo M. De Ieso II a fellow Guest on Tap Beer Writer, Mark Dilley our wiki guy from About US and I drank beer and worked on the portland beer wiki. What a great way to spend a Sunday.

We talked about how the breweries page should look. The starting example for a good page I believe is Alameda Brewings which lists a description of the brewery, the head brewer, the beers, seasonals, the location and a google map link to their location. There are also links to the BeerAdvocate and Ratebeer about that particular brewpub and their beers.

Mark let everyone know that editing a wiki is easy and just putting up the content is the most important part. Don't worry about formatting because other people will go back and fix it. We are just looking for the content now so we can create this valuable resource. If you are willing to learn then about wiki's then we will help out. Mark also showed us a great video about what a wiki is and how it works.

I talked about the project as a whole and how I want to start out in Portland and create a good model then move from city to city.

AboutUS is working on a new skin or look to customize our portland beer wiki. I hope that will be done in the next week or two.

A few of the PAGES updated
Hopworks
Alameda
Amnesia

The next meeting will be on Tuesday April 8th at the Green Dragon from 6:30-8pm. This will be a social hour/ work party so bring your laptops. RSVP on Upcomings.

Our Next Meeting 6:30-8pm April 8th 2008

Our next meeting will be at the Green Dragon during meet the brewers night from 6:30-8pm. Bring your laptop come for the portland beer wiki, but stay for the Beer from Beer Valley of Ontario Oregon. We plan on having our meetings during meet the brewers night every Tuesday at meet the brewer's night. Stop by, talk and help out on this community beer project.

1st Portland Beer Wiki Meeting 4/1/08

We will be meeting at the Green Dragon on 4/1/08 to start organizing the Portland Beer Wiki. Please make it if you can. As we get things going we will better publicize our events.