Rusty Foster
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Lawrence Calvin Foster III, commonly known as Rusty Foster, is the founder of Kuro5hin
, and the creator of Scoop
, a collaborative media application used by several websites. He is widely known in the weblog community for running a donation drive which netted over US$39,500. However, the Collaborative Media Foundation that Foster promised to set up with the money never materialized, and Kuro5hin.org is hosted for free by sponsors, it was not known what he did with the money. He later admitted using the funds to pay rent and buy groceries.
He is a left-wing activist, and has fought for the independence of Peaks Island, Maine (where he lives) from the City of Portland. His wife Christina served as the Recording Secretary of the Island Independence Committee.
Foster later entered the political arena, partnering up with left-wing weblog moguls such as Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos
. Foster served as the CTO of Armstrong Zuniga, a consulting firm formed by Zúniga and Jerome Armstrong
in 2004, but the firm has since been dissolved. Daily Kos operated on Foster's Scoop software until February 2011, as do many smaller sites.
He has a wife, Christina, a daughter, Elinor Rose, and a son Lawrence Calvin IV.
Kuro5hin
Kuro5hin is a collaborative discussion website. Articles are created and submitted by Kuro5hin's users and submitted to queue for evaluation. Site members can vote for or against publishing an article and, once the article has reached a certain number of votes, it is then published to the site...
, and the creator of Scoop
Scoop (software)
Scoop is a content management system originally developed by Rusty Foster. Scoop's focus is on collaborative publishing, and its feature set is geared toward encouraging user contributions and participation. Scoop is written in Perl and runs via mod_perl on Apache web servers with a MySQL database...
, a collaborative media application used by several websites. He is widely known in the weblog community for running a donation drive which netted over US$39,500. However, the Collaborative Media Foundation that Foster promised to set up with the money never materialized, and Kuro5hin.org is hosted for free by sponsors, it was not known what he did with the money. He later admitted using the funds to pay rent and buy groceries.
He is a left-wing activist, and has fought for the independence of Peaks Island, Maine (where he lives) from the City of Portland. His wife Christina served as the Recording Secretary of the Island Independence Committee.
Foster later entered the political arena, partnering up with left-wing weblog moguls such as Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos
Daily Kos
Daily Kos is an American political blog that publishes news and opinions from a progressive point of view. It functions as a discussion forum and group blog for a variety of netroots activists, whose efforts are primarily directed toward influencing and strengthening the Democratic Party...
. Foster served as the CTO of Armstrong Zuniga, a consulting firm formed by Zúniga and Jerome Armstrong
Jerome Armstrong
Jerome Armstrong is an American political strategist and blogger. He is credited as one of the architects of Howard Dean's '04 grassroots Presidential campaign, and one of the leading web strategists in the world...
in 2004, but the firm has since been dissolved. Daily Kos operated on Foster's Scoop software until February 2011, as do many smaller sites.
He has a wife, Christina, a daughter, Elinor Rose, and a son Lawrence Calvin IV.