[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: help creating a phone APP for Slingshot

[Mitch Altman]

We received this email on our Noisebridge "press" email. I'm forwarding it to the Noisebridge Discuss list (with Robert & Jesse bcc-ed, so they see it), in case anyone is interested in helping them make a calendar app, either as a volunteer, or for some pay.

 

If you are interested, please contact Slinghot directly (please see below).

 

Best,

Mitch.
 

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> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:55:50 -0700
> Subject: new help creating an APP
> From: slingshot at tao.ca
> To: press at noisebridge.net
> 
> hi -
> 
> I'm emailing you because you're someone we know who knows about computer
> stuff - I'm hoping you may have contacts that can help Slingshot newspaper
> collective with the project described below.
> 
> Slingshot wants to do a "slingshot organizer app" for smart phones because
> smart phone calendars are rapidly decreasing use of our paper calendars. 
> (background for those who don't know: slingshot is a radical newspaper
> collective - we raise $$ to pay for the paper by selling a paper date book
> planner. It is moderately popular and last year we sold about 30,000 of
> them.)
> 
> The idea would be to have a computerized calendar with the radical
> historical dates, artsy lines between days (echoing, but not duplicating,
> the underground look of the paper calendar), and links to the radical
> contact list (with maps for each infoshop?) and other radical resources on
> a smart phone. We had a long discussion of this at our meeting on Sunday.
> 
> Details remain to be worked out. Maybe there will be a free version with
> an option to donate and a for sale version? We do not know if this will
> "work" i.e. will people use it, and if so, will it make the world better
> and/or help us raise $$ for slingshot, but we figure we're in a position
> to try. It looks like there are a lot of Christian calendar apps for the
> iphone, one women-oriented one, but no anarchist ones. We would like to
> make one.
> 
> We're wondering if you know anyone in the radical tech world who programs
> smartphone apps. If so, we want to find that person. Can you circulate
> this email / this idea to your network?
> 
> We discussed how this would work. Of course if we found someone to
> volunteer, that would be great, but we also are willing to pay the right
> person, since we pay our printer and this is similar. Minimal research
> suggest we could possibly do this for $5,000 or less (?) We would like to
> see if it is possible to do this by the time the paper organizer comes out
> Oct. 1 so we can cross promote - so there isn't a ton of time and we want
> to get started soon. Let me know if you want more info - we had a long
> meeting to brainstorm.
> thanks,
> Robert & Jesse of Slingshot
> 
> 
> 
> Slingshot is always looking for your involvement to make the project
> better. Please let us know if you have article ideas, artwork, calendar
> items, spots to add to the radical contact list, suggestions for
> distribution, thoughts about what we should be doing next . . .
> 
> Surprising as it may seem, you can "follow" us on twitter for deadline and
> distro info, and maybe other updates: @slingshotnews
> 
> We still have copies of our first book: People's Park Still Blooming
> available. It is a 200 page full color coffee table book about the past,
> present and future of Berkeley's People's Park and the struggle to
> liberate corporate land for human uses. Free to libraries, infoshops and
> coops or by sliding scale donation: $1 - $15. And still for sale at 40%
> off - only $14.95 (was $24.95)! Check http://slingshot.tao.ca/ for
> ordering information.
>