On 12/3/25 18:31, Patrick O'Connor wrote:
It is located on Foss avenue. A linux lab would be apt.
LOL, good catch, indeed.
Do you want me to inquire?
I work for portland parks & wrecks. That's in our zone.
If you could arrange a meeting to talk about whether it's considered
desirable and what a collaboration might look like, that would be cool.
Patrick
---- On Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:10:49 -0800 Michael Barnes
<[email protected]> wrote ---
> So everybody should drop in and ask to use the Computer Lab. Then tell them
> you're not paying an admission fee if there is no computer lab and walk
> out. Tell them the website says they have one. Be sure they see your
> disappointment.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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]
> >
>
