Great !!! Looks like there is some interest. Thanks for all the comments. I totally agree "it's important to figure out what the compelling use case is for them, and how the necessary thousands of developer hours are going to get committed and coordinated to make it happen"
Unless someone has a better idea as a first step, I will create a wiki on gae using the vanilla plugin_wiki. (which I think is fantastic) >From there we can set up a discussion board to flesh out the goals of the project.