PortlandWiki

PortlandWiki is the community powered knowledge commons for Portland, Oregon.		Overview   Searching   Editing   Help
Connect with PortlandWiki. Meet other volunteers like you. Check out the new (experimental) IRC chatroom for realtime help and discussion! Connect in-person other PortlandWiki enthusiasts and set up a meetup	Support PortlandWiki. Keep PortlandWiki alive and well. Share your knowledge, improve a page! Sponsor PortlandWiki's infrastructure costs with a donation!	Occupy Portland Browse the many info pages in the Occupy Portland category. Occupy the city budget. The Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget is one of many events you can participate in around Portland.

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PortlandWiki is a collaborative community information resource for Portland, Oregon that is powered by you. We welcome your knowledge and creative input! Our aim is to represent the Voice of Portland by providing a citizen-generated news, information resource, knowledge hub and historical archive for Portland, Oregon and surrounding region. Go ahead; be bold! Get involved with PortlandWiki! Featured Articles OCCUPY PORTLAND! The revolution is here. The revolution is now. The revolution is being wikified. Let's Occupy Together! Join in solidarity with the folks Occupying Wall Street and Occupy Portland. Action starts October 6th, 2011. Portland is number one - Portland is the best, and the worst, in ways you may find surprising A Portland Startup Investment resource for Portland entrepreneurs. A new category, Portland Startup Investment which includes a list of Portland-based investment resources for local entrepreneurs and others wishing to move to Portland and the NW. Includes Portland Seed Fund, TiE Oregon and the Portland Incubator Experiment. Please add to this list! Local blogs - Portland's diverse and interesting web logs identified here. Please add to this list! Bicyclists are lovers. Bicycling Etiquette - Handy bicyclist tips to win friends and influence motorists. Shelter is a place for people to find refuge from the elements. It is one of the primary components critical to survival for every person: water, food, safety (shelter). Iraq Veterans Against the War - Oregon Chapter - To hell with war, and to its demonic mongers. Cascadia is a proposed independent nation in the Pacific Northwest, usually composed of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, that would be formed by seceding from the United States (and Canada). Cascadia subduction zone , off the Oregon Coast, is home to the Juan De Fuca Ridge, where one tectonic plate moves under another. The Ocean Observatories Initiative landed in Pacific City on July 12th, beginning a new era in oceanography. Green industry - In Portland it's easy being green. Horse rings - The small brass rings attached to curbs don't tether horses anymore... unless they're small plastic ones. Personal Telco - Portland's answer (so far) to "Internet as public utility." Yellow Bike Project - (Pictured here in black 'n' white.) A community cycling "first." Charles Olds - Olds shot a man "just to watch him ...uh... succumb from injuries suffered as a result of an act of manslaughter." CivicApps - An open data / open source project sponsored by several Portland-area government agencies. Portlandia - The second largest hammered copper statue in America! (The largest is the Statue of Liberty.) East 82nd Avenue - A major North-South arterial on Portland's Eastside. Gateway to Felony Flats. Things to see in Portland Horse spotting! Just one of many fun activities you can do in Portland! Check out Ground Kontrol, a classic arcade and bar. Ground Kontrol is all-ages from Noon - 5pm daily, and 21+ only after 5pm nightly. Drop by the Living Room Theater to check out a show. If you are not into movies and want a cool hangout, drop by Backspace. Art! The first week of the month offers First Thursday. Browse through the many art galleries throughout gritty Old Town and the shiny and plasticine Pearl District. Meander through the Portland Police Historical Museum. Walk through the South Park Blocks, which run through the Portland State University campus. (more)

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