This is a list of projects I have been involved with in some capacity or that I just want to promote and put on my website :).

The 217 Mafia
217 mafia dot com began as a virtual stomping ground for creative minds in the Champaign-Urbana (Illinois/217 area code) community. Originally, it archived musical performances and dj sets and also provided a place to anticipate, plan and rally for future events. Along with its companion messageboard site, ucdnb.com, the 217 mafia website has grown to encompass and encourage collaboration from musicians, artists, technologists, cyber athletes, lurkers, and talented geeks from all over the world, while still maintaining our local presence and keeping various underground scenes thriving. Welcome, and please register for access to 217 Mafia exclusive content and the ability to contribute.

Acorn Active Media
The Acorn Active Media Foundation is an employee-run tech collective whose members are themselves activists; the projects we work on are chosen based on members' interest in working on them. Our commitment to our clients goes beyond typical business ethics -- we are personally committed to the work that employs us.

CUWiN Foundation (Champaign-Urbana Wireless Network)
The CUWiN Foundation develops decentralized, community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content. Through advocacy and through our commitment to open source technology, we support organic networks that grow to meet the needs of their community.

Sunday Night Sound System
The Sunday Night Sound System (SNSS) is an open door gathering of local electronic enthusiasts. The weekly event takes place at the Radio Free Urbana, WRFU-LP 104.5 FM, studio within the local Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (U-C IMC) at 202 S. Broadway Ave. downtown Urbana Sunday nights from 7PM to 10PM. It's a three hour session of 30 minute sets simulcasted over the air waves and through a web stream sponsored by UCDNB and the 217 Mafia. The public is welcome hang out and chill with some of 217's finest or head over and sign up on the UCDNB Forums to request a slot.

Maximum Strength Sound System
In the works since 99, and always as such, they design and build custom loudspeaker enclosures. Optimized for dance music, you'll likely seem them at dance parties and clubs and such, playing techno, reggae, world beats, even some bands (if you ask very nicely). They put an emphasis on hi-fi sound as opposed to overwhelming volume, so you can hopefully get some sleep after the show without those annoying ringing ears.

U-C Drum N Bass
UCDNB began as a small group of friends playing records for each other. Their passion toward the music culminated in the website UCDNB.com, an outlet for the junglist ethos in C-U. Since launching in Aug. 2004, it has become an gathering spot for not only the drum 'n' bass culture but for all local electronic music enthusiasts, with news, a message board, music recommendations, event listings, and their own house parties.

U-C Hip Hop
Formed in the fall semester of 2001, a group of like-minded but culturally diverse converged to fill the void in a hip-hop community. Illini Breakdancing Club, Culture Club, and Organization for the Advancement of Hip Hop Culture all united to create University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Hip Hop Congress. Initially, the organization was mainly comprised of local artists and hip-hop enthusiasts. The structure was developed to celebrate hip-hop culture, but it has slowly evolved into what it is today.
Today, UC Hip-Hop does more than just relish in its cultural roots. UC Hip-hop organizes showcases, expositions, competitions, and educational workshops not just for college attendees, but also for high schools and local community centers. Furthermore, UC Hip-Hop artists are frequently invited to perform in events sponsored by other campus or local organizations. Ultimately, UC Hip-Hop still continues to grow and develop into one of the most diverse organizations on campus. It never stops creating, performing, thinking, educating, and it certainly never stops celebrating hip-hop.

C-U Dance
C-U Dance is a DJ run mailing list providing local electronic music enthusiasts a list of the latest parties, club events, podcasts and other goodies from the Champaign-Urbana electronic scene.

Radio Free Urbana, WRFU-LP 104.5 FM
WRFU is a progressive radio station collective committed to social justice, focusing on public affairs issues and the arts. WRFU airs opinions and debates in an open and diverse forum that focuses on educating and empowering the public. WRFU provides an accessible venue for an eclectic mixture of arts programming. WRFU is an Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (U-C IMC) project and fiscally sponsored working group that operates a low-power FM community radio station. The membership is open to the public and meets at the U-C IMC (the old post office building in downtown Urbana) located at 202 South Broadway, Urbana, IL on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 8 PM. WRFU holds a license to broadcast issued by the Federal Communications Commission to operate a low-power FM station on 104.5 MHz to an audience of approximately 100,000 listeners in Champaign County.

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (U-C IMC)
The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice in the Urbana area. They are dedicated to addressing issues that the mainstream media neglects and they do not conceal our politics behind a false objectivity. They will empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access to available technologies and information. The local IMC is part of a global network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. They work out love for, and are inspired by, people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

UnderSoundRadio dot com
Under Sound Radio was a site hosting a lot of live local music recorded straight from the mixers located in bars in the Champaign-Urbana area. Although the site is gone all of the recordings are now hosted here. This project although dead may some day come back alive through this site.