{"id":33466,"date":"2007-06-29T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/portland-was-al"},"modified":"2007-06-29T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T19:18:57","slug":"portland-was-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/portland-was-al.html","title":{"rendered":"Portland was Almost Boston (huh?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Portland (Oregon) Business Alliance, the city got its name as a result of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandalliance.com\/about_portland\/portland-facts.html#_HISTORY\">coin toss<\/a> between the cities two founders.&nbsp; If it had gone the other way, we would be talking about the upcoming SWUGN Summit &#8211; Boston.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t chance that determined the location of July 10th&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit_Portland.html\">SWUGN Summit &#8211; Portland<\/a>, it was dogged determination by local group leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paswug.com\/\">Adam Scheible<\/a>.&nbsp; Adam&#8217;s proclamation at last year&#8217;s Seattle Summit made it quite clear where we would schedule the 2007 Northwest event.<\/p>\n<p>The slate of presenters reads like a who&#8217;s who of the SolidWorks Community &#8211; Matt Lombard, Jeff Mirisola, and Devon Sowell will all be there, along with local user Doug Porter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designportinc.com\/\">DesignPort, Inc.<\/a>&nbsp; It&#8217;s sure to be an unforgettable day.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\">SWUGN<\/a> website for details and a link to registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Portland (Oregon) Business Alliance, the city got its name as a result of a coin toss between the cities two founders.&nbsp; If it had gone the other way, we would be talking about the upcoming SWUGN Summit<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/portland-was-al.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}