As I expressed concern in my blog and people read it, I felt I should mention that Gegory Heller from CivicActions stopped by and provided some more details on the origins of the concept. With the additional history provided, it sounds like it will be a good thing if they can pull it off.

I will note that I know little to nothing about CivicActions save they have Civic in their title, use Drupal in doing things, contribute back to the community and their web page looks good.

So, I poked around my site and realized that some of my concern may be without context. There is no 'about me' page (I probably should make one, perhaps in my copious spare time when I update to 4.7 and fix my css). In brief, I regard myself as an IT Professional. My day job is with a mid/large size non-profit where my main focus is supporting the Messaging environment (MS Exchange, anti-spam, virus), Live Communications Server, Active Directory, server performance monitoring, etc...

As an actual self-taught MCSE of several OS generations, I am familier with the wide variety of CTEC's (Certification Technical Education Center) promoting everything from A+, MCSE, 'Office certification'... Glossy ad's... You too can join the fast action packed world of Information Technology for only 5 classes at $$$$ a piece!

Without the history, that I am sure Gregory mentioned while at the user group, some of the phrasing had me concerned. Now, let's hope he can pull it off. Organizing diverse people into a group is no simple task and I suspect he will run into much of the same human resource constraints we have on Drupal.org.

Of course, I still think they should use Drupal instead of a wiki, but I am insanely biased in that regard as a 'true believer' ;). With Drupal 4.7 revisions improvements, I am more convinced of it. I just hope that drumm get's time to finish his patch. It looks like Steve Dondely also wants to change things as well.