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title: 'Portland Lunch 2.0: Five reasons to attend'
date: '2008-04-07T09:00:32-07:00'
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# Portland Lunch 2.0: Five reasons to attend

[Jake Kuramoto](http://twitter.com/jkuramot "Jake Kuramoto") gives us five reasons (well, six, really) we should all consider attending [Portland Lunch 2.0](http://www.lunch20.com/2008/03/10/portland-chapter-rolls-on-at-eroi/ "Portland Lunch 2.0"):

- You enjoy meeting new people in Portland, some geeks, others not, all Portlanders, all the time.
- You like learning about cool companies doing cool stuff in the Rose City.
- You can’t make the evening and weekend activities like [Barcamp](http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland "BarCamp Portland"), [Startup Weekend](http://startupweekend.com/portland-startup-weekend/ "Portland Startup Weekend") and [Startupalooza](http://startupalooza.org "Startupalooza"), but you really want to do 1. and 2.
- You like good conversation with smart people over tasty eats.
- You really need to break up your day by getting out of the office/house, seeing the sky, and checking out a new locale with some new people.
- And bonus, you can’t pass up a free lunch.

Sound interesting? Well, you’re in luck, my friend. The next [Portland Lunch 2.0 will be held Wednesday, April 9, at eROI](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/450854/ "Portland Lunch 2.0 on Upcoming").

More than 70 people have RSVP’d already. So it promises to be quite a crowd. And, unfortunately, it looks like Jake has had to close the RSVP list due to space constraints.

**But, I’m still going to encourage you to show up, anyway.** Because that’s just how I am. And because some people will not be able to make it. And the way I figure it—worse comes to worst—we can always peel off and overwhelm [Backspace](http://www.backspace.bz/ "Backspace").

I’m looking forward to seeing you there.