Just to add my 2 penniworth of praise for Joe's post as well. I read it with great interest and agree with it all. Adam and Ben posts too prompt me to join in.
I've been using OACS off and on for about 3 years and love playing with it as Simon was saying in a recent post. As a professional developer, TCL and OACS are tools I look forward to using.
I've produced a few non-profit sites in ACS 3 and have stalled for the last year in upgrading them to 4&5, partly due to the learning cliff, although I've found that using OAKS uml (v0.3) has really helped in producing working skeleton pages.
I know we're a volunteer community and thus resource is variable, but I think we need to use more industry best practices here. For me we need a project manager to run a properly visible project to get a set of solid and maintainable packages. That project manager could be rotated as needed but must be enthuiastic and visible - (and pass the baton on when the need to continue to beat their head against a brick wall is fading!!)
Cheers
