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] >
