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The software used is called Asterisk. It is used as a digital answering machine, which is able to record incoming proposals and to read out already recorded messages to the caller [network structure].

The proposals are DiY tactics recorded by locals in any kind of situation, whenever thinking that others would benefit from what you found out and what you want to share about a specific place or situation.

The main idea is to establish an archive for tactical DiY practices, especially instructions that can be easily understood and are easy to rebuild. Otherwise there is, of course, the opportunity to leave a number or a link of a website on the archive for further information.

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The recorded messages are stored in two main topics - DiY practices and DiY manuals - and the data could be retrieved by calling the project's number and by navigating through an interactive voice response system. It is possible to listen to the selected message, to append something to the current message or to record a new one.

The continuative intention is to provide the DiY archive as a free to use application that could always be further developed. This should help to offer DiY archives abroad to minimise costs of international calls.

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With a database connection the archive could be simultaneously provide the information stored in the archive on a website. Another positive potential of a database integration would be the possibility of pressing alphabetic characters instead of numbers (especially with softphones) and to search for the content of the archive by the indexed terms.

Another future feature could be the integration of text-to-speech and vice versa applications and the voicemail forwarding via email. During an event messages could be immediately forwarded to user-defined people via email or could be retrieved by phone.