2022 Year In Review

Another year has been survived. Let us review.

• Two new public phones were deployed.
• We began providing telephone service to the Social Justice Action Center in SE Portland.
• Wildcard Line episode 8 was released. Contribute to the Wildcard Line from any Futel phone.
• “Futel: Dial Tone For The People“ was presented at ftp://con in August.
• Party Line #7 was published, available from Microcosm Publishing.
• New installation technologies were developed with the support of a RACC Make|Learn|Build grant.

Most importantly, we continued to provide services to our phones and incoming line. Usage for the year included:

• over 27,700 handset pickups
• over 10,800 outgoing calls
• over 4,000 calls received by the incoming line
• 441 calls to the Futel voice conference
• 243 listens to the most popular Church of Robotron sermon, “What Are The Robotrons?”
• 91 listens to Mr. Payphone’s Payphone Radio
• 72 inquiries for the Druids of Sisyphus Gardens
• 56 calls to the Payphone Demultiplexer
• 38 calls to the mayor of Portland
• 33 calls to the Willamette Valley Dream Survey
• 27 calls to the mayor of Detroit
• 16 contributions to the Wildcard Line
• 15 connections to the Multnomah County Library Account information line
• 5 calls to the mayor of Ypsilanti