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What needs to change is that Portland Police need to start interacting with the public in non-crisis situation and start learning the people that live here. Portland police on patrol have been the most unfriendly and distant in the many places I've lived across the US. They seem wholly un-engaged with the public which makes everyone a suspect.

The police stations are locked and un-manned. How is that being part of a community?

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I work for Intel- Open Source is a critical aspect of my work. I provide both commercial and open source solutions for Intel business groups to collaborate and and provide group community. Invariably, open source tools and applications have far more variety, flexibility and extensibility than their commercial counterparts do.

One of my favorite aspects is that Open Source is essentially a Meritocracy- the best code and ideas bubble to the top, are embraced and built upon. Commercial applications you are essentially paying a lot of money to fit their vision of what an application can do to your needs.

Open Source allows you to try drive and dive even- much faster and more cost effectively. Failure can be an option (as a learning process) without costing tens of thousands of dollars.

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