I fully support your thoughts.
I personally think that there are not enough resources to have different projects like OpenACS, dotLRN, dotWRK and so on. The problem should be solved by
1. Configuration of the installation. Which packages are required, how the site structure is. OpenACS should become completely portlet based.
2. Using ifferent ontologies for different purpose. And for this purpose internationalization was the best thing that happened to OpenACS. Thus we not only have support for different langauages but also within a language for different purposes. We should have different catalogs for different setting.
You are doing a great job,
Nima
