Long time no communication about the open groups concept ...
The idea is still alive.
I've been involved with http://groupserver.org via E-Democracy.Org's
use of this new open source tool - http://e-democracy.org/groupserver
My thought is that the open group ideas could be built into that
program to demonstrate the value of a standard set of fields to
describe online communities.
Anyone interested in helping? Check out GroupServer for now.
Cheers,
Steven Clift
http://publicus.net
http://dowire.org