UPDATED! Just added Open Gov West! Rearranged, and just listing these all in order now. And added #140Conf in Vancouver, WA. It's close enough. :) And just added Digital Journalism Portland.
For real.
This summer belongs to the nerds, geeks and hackers. I can't believe that Portland's tech scene got no love from Portlandia this year. Thank heavens they got a second season!
I did some research, and found TWENTY distinct conferences happening from now through November in the Portland area.
Anyway, there's a sweet new service that you might not have heard of called Lanyrd, and a quick search over there revealed 20 conferences.
And over the next few days, several people suggested a few more: