Here is a web cam from wiki wiki's (and WardCunningham's) home town...
http://bimedia.ftp.clickability.com/fishwebftp/KATU/ARAFTER.JPG
The view changes periodically.
Travel tips: http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Portland
A few entertaining factoids about Portland and Oregon:
- Portland has the largest number of bookstores per capita. (and is home to the legendary Powell's bookstore (PowellsBooks) (http://www.powellsbooks.com/)
- Oregon has the largest number (acreage?) of golf courses per capita.
- Portland has become one of the world's beer capitals, with a brewery on practically every corner.
- Portland is home to one of the best Japanese gardens outside Japan. (http://www.japanesegarden.com/).
- Portland was observed by one observer (on vacation) to have a very high percentage of one occupant commuter vehicles. (non-scientific but noticeable by comparison to other cities encountered)
- Portland has embraced light-rail transportation and is enjoying public acceptance and even encouragement.
Wiki users from the Portland area:
- RobertDiFalco
- AdamShand
- AndrewQueisser
- RobertChurch
- ChristopherGaltenberg
- WardCunningham
- JimShore
- MichaelLeach
- ScottJohnson
- StevenNewton
- IanOsgood
- MichaelAndersen
Was there a mainframe BBS called FORUM in Portland in the 1970s??
- I believe so...
For what it's worth, LinusTorvalds now lives in Portland (he is currently employed by OpenSourceDevelopmentLab in Beaverton Oregon, one of Portland's suburbs)