Softsled?

For the past 3 years, the MCE community has been chattering about a scrapped MS project called Softsled. The premise of this project was to have a "Software extender" for Media Center functions. Basically, you would be able to connect to your main MCE box from another machine, have access to all the media and resources, including TV Tuners on that box remotely. Great concept, however, for unknown reasons, MS scrapped this project. As it stands right now, we have 2 options for extending Media Center functionality:
1 - Hardware Extenders. The XBox 360 is the only hardware MC extender for Vista right now. This is just not practical, however. It's loud, hot, and expensive. There is no way you could put this in, say, a bedroom as a secondary viewing station for your media center solution.
2 - Web based apps such as WebGuide4 and Orb. These work..however, the quality is pretty lame. These are not solutions for in home viewing.

Rick Drasch has decided that it is high time that the open source community pick up the ball where MS has decided to drop it. He is trying to drum up developer support for an open source Softsled implementation. As an avid MC user, I applaud his resolve and will certainly be following his progress on this one. If I were a developer, I would most certainly be looking into ways to help out, however, my development skills were on display the one time I tried writing a 'Hello World!' app, which instead returned 'Goodbye, Asshole!' Since then, I've been a bit gunshy when it comes to writing code.

Good luck with this one, Rick!