I was thinking about it and just checked it out.
This was one of my concerns from the beginning. I'm not sure it is dead dead.
Although I'm curious as to how much of that 85,000 or so that was raised has
been spent.
As I was saying the project did seem over-ambitious from what I recall. As I
was saying already. It's not focused enough for my liking.
They probably should have focused on something simple. Like an box for email.
Maybe get a distribution setup, properly secured (firewalls), an web-based
email program setup (maybe Roundcube?), proper security setup (security
updates, self-signed certificates, etc), etc.
It's not perfect, but at least there is something you can get out the door in
a timely fashion. At which point you can start marketing it, raise additional
funds, etc. And move on to maintaining more packages (like Tor, etc).