2024 Year In Review
2024 was a hard year for us, but let’s not dwell on that because 2025 is going to be a hard year for everybody. We persist.
- An article about us appeared in Street Roots. We love Street Roots.
- Party Line #9 was published, available from Microcosm Publishing.
- People went to ToorCamp.
- Three new public phones were installed, in Seattle, on SE Clinton, most importantly on NE Brazee, our first east of 82nd.
- An East Portland Action Plan Community Support Fund Grant provided support for the NE Brazee phone.
Usage for the year included:
- Over 15,000 outgoing calls from a dialtone
- 1,020 calls to the incoming line
- 363 selections of the most popular Church of Robotron sermon, “The Doctrine of Error”
- 347 joins to the voice conference
- 141 calls to the Phone Losers of America from the directory entry
- 89 plays of Longmont Potion Castle
- 84 calls to the mayor of Portland (70 to Detroit’s, 28 to Ypsilanti’s)
- 72 calls to the Druids of Sisyphus Gardens
- 59 calls to 833-NATR-XXX from the directory entry
- 26 calls to the Dark Fiber - be careful in there!
- 22 calls to our apology service, an homage to the Apology Line