Tell Sisyphus - roll downhill. It's easier

October 6, 2005 8:14 AM

Downhill Battle Labs: One "poorly paid" coder vs. the powers that be. previously mentioned, nonprofit Downhill Battle, having spun off the Participatory Culture Foundation/DTV TV Project ( "DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video." ) has many other open source projects underway. DownHill Battle Labs projects include "Local Ink": "Enter your zip code, write a letter, and send it to the op-ed pages of newspapers in your area, and/or your representatives in Congress.", "Battle Cart": "...shopping cart for small operations. The catalog and the cart sit on the same screen....With a PayPal account, you can start selling things on a website in just a few minutes." Blog Torrent ( see: Metafilter 37204) a P2P Legal Defense Fund, and a Local Wi-Fi filesharing package. And more.
posted by troutfishing (7 comments total)

Metafilter needs its wonky posts too.....

And I seem to have become a wonk. I blame Rusty Foster. ; )
posted by troutfishing at 8:31 AM on October 6, 2005

Sounds like fun, I wonder if they could use a python h4x0r. That wifi radio app looks terribly interesting.
posted by Mach5 at 9:06 AM on October 6, 2005

Very nice post trout. Good to hear from you.
posted by nofundy at 11:19 AM on October 6, 2005

nofundy - Hi there. I'll be in touch.

Anyway, I thought I'd send up a positive, apolitical note on a day guaranteed to be chock full of political posts.
posted by troutfishing at 4:43 PM on October 6, 2005

Does it send a paper copy to you representative, or just email?

Paper gets results, email is mastubation.
posted by HTuttle at 9:26 PM on October 6, 2005

Every hour of my life I waste with PR/marketing - and not coding - I daydream of being the lone wolf programmer. More power to 'em.
posted by bhance at 6:29 AM on October 7, 2005

Cool post, thanks troutfishing. :)
posted by dejah420 at 8:59 PM on October 7, 2005