+1 fully Janine's comments, from someone else who works for a consultancy doing a lot of work with ACS/OpenACS
I'll take the merited-consultative-dictator model any time over a committee.
What's the problem with OpenACS that this proposal is trying to fix? Having been involved with a number of OS communities (esp around Jakarta) this one seems pretty healthy; motivated contributors, experienced leaders and mentors, and most importantly, a strategy focussed on quality releases rather than bleeding-edge.
enough already.