So I'm having a bit of coders/writers block with my Nostalgia project. With my in-laws not here to help with the kids, there's much less time to concentrate on it. I have a mind to release my skeleton code out there now to see how it fairs. On the other hand, I want to put more into it to give it more of a chance of catching on and convincing others it's a viable project.

I imagine that once I put it out there, I will challenge others to replace pieces of it with open souce components rather than custom code. This does a few things, it bring people who work on those open source components into the fray and it replaces less tested code with code thats been through several iterations. I've already started doing this with 2 components I am using: Apache Commons file upload and Drew Noake's digital image metadata library.