Declan McGrath’s GNU invention
Common space for Free Software types to get together with people who are not necessarily from their project space, the end result being cross fertilisation.
A google group: http://groups.google.com/group/ossdev-ireland
His intro letter on the subject is here: http://short.ie/ossdevintro
Personally I think it is one of those great ideas people have.
It is my hope it is useful and successful, perhaps it will help in expanding the overall community.
Imagine you are doing some packages of a new project foo, you know how to package for yum but not apt, this kind of place would help people a lot.