There's also the Personal Telco Project, another group of geeks up there who run a free wireless mesh network. They basically provide free wifi for a lot of places in Portland. WifiPDX offers a related service for finding free wifi hotspots with your cellphone. Between the two of them, laptop-people (and the geeks in Personal Telco) get free wifi and businesses get free advertising.

I enjoyed the service at a couple different places while I was in PDX last year for OSCON. The service had a lot of cool features, like lists of events around the wifi hotspot and other cool stuff, though I think you have to actually be in a PersonalTelco hotspot to see those features. The maintainance logs for Old Town Pizza were pretty funny (to a geek, anyway).

Aside from the tech stuff, it'd be nice to have some decent PDX-style microbrew down here too...