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title: 'Portland’s XOXO festival hopes to feel the Kickstarter love'
date: '2012-05-23T10:40:30-07:00'
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categories:
  - Events
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - Startups
tags:
  - 'andy baio'
  - kickstarter
  - xoxo
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# Portland’s XOXO festival hopes to feel the Kickstarter love

Portland has found [Kickstarter](http://kickstarter.com "Kickstarter") to be an amazing source of crowdfunded capital for any number of creative projects.

But what about crowdfunding an event? Well, if anyone is going to make that happen it’s [a Portlander who knows Kickstarter](http://waxy.org "Andy Baio"), inside and out. And if early funding is any indication, the [XOXO festival](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival "XOXO festival")—a celebration of disruptive creativity—is well on track to hit its goal.

[Andy Baio](http://twitter.com/waxpancake "Andy Baio") has joined forces with [Andy McMillan](https://twitter.com/#!/goodonpaper "Andy McMillan") to build an incredible conference—and fringe events—that are going to showcase the people creatively using technology to create new opportunities. They are, that is, if their project gets funded.

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Looks like September in Portland has the chance to be incredibly awesome with your help.

Plus, if Andy’s video doesn’t make you fall in love with Portland all over again, I don’t know what will.

For more information or to back this project, visit [XOXO on Kickstarter](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival "XOXO festival").