I am on the road in Portland, Oregon for OSCON.  It is interesting that OSCON is here again after being in Silicon Valley in 2009.  In 2009, I happened to sit down at lunch next to a development officer for the city of Portland who said he was attending because he wanted to make sure they could bring the conference back to Portland!   There already are some interesting startups based here, such as JanRain and Jive, which just announced a $30 million funding round, and the city is clearly attracting more folks interested in startups (e.g. Alex Payne moved here after leaving Twitter).  The city also seems much hipper than I had remembered it from spending some time here over a decade ago.  For instance, last night I stayed at the very cool (almost too cool for me) Jupiter Hotel and caught a show by Admiral Radley at the Doug Fir Lounge.  Now off to OSCON!