A few months ago in mid-September, I happened to notice that Portland
Parks and Recreation website said that they had a community center with
a computer lab. That was the first I had ever heard of it. With a little
more research, I found that they'd received an equipment grant in 2012
from Free Geek, running Ubuntu, to expand some previously existing
computer lab. I wondered, given the current state of Free Geek, what the
condition of the computer lab was and made a mental note to stop by some
day, wondering whether PLUG might help support it.
https://www.portland.gov/parks/charles-jordan-community-center
(listed under amenities on the right side)
Today while I was in the neighborhood, I stopped by to ask about it and
to suggest that PLUG might be able to help them. However, the nice
person I talked to said words to the effect: "Oh, that hasn't been
around for years, since before the pandemic". I told him I'd seen it on
their website recently and suggested they should probably remove that
mention if it didn't really exist, and they expressed some surprise. I
came home, found the link I'd seen before, confirmed it looked like the
current site, and then left a voicemail with more detail about where I
had seen it, so by the time you read this it might already be gone.
So, oops. I guess the City of Portland has zero computer labs, instead
of just one.
--
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
[email protected]
