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