Of course ... if you're interested in helping us push the completion of new portals forward, you could come meet me some afternoon over at Common Grounds on Hawthorne. I haven't even had time to take inventory of the partially-rewritten newest-new-portal to see if the datamodel loads without error etc ...
Though I've been too busy fixing bugs in anticipation of our dotLRN 1.0 and OACS 4.6.2 release to focus on newest-new-portal but I could certainly kibbitz and help you figure out the status. Just knowing how far along they got would be a big help trying to figure out what's involved in finishing it.
And there are a couple of MS CS types from PSU who hang out there off-and-on and they're getting interested in OpenACS because they're both interested in web/db stuff. I think they'd be pretty amazed to meet a grandpa who's a hacker, too :)
