It is located on Foss avenue. A linux lab would be apt. Do you want me to inquire?
I work for portland parks & wrecks. That's in our zone. 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] > > >
