Yes, Bill Panagouleas and I have been talking about the project since the first mention of it in public. I brought my ideas about getting involved to Bill and Raquel's attention around the 19th of last month. We had a long discussion about it, as above, and talked about better funding and guidelines.
After presenting these guidelines to Bill P, which were to ensure that all the PPC OSes MorphOS, AROS, and AmigaOS would be targeted and in the hope that good project management and development stategies would begin to take shape, Bill agreed on the 22nd that should we participate those stipulations were indeed acceptable and desirable.
Now we are waiting to see a higher level of activity in what teams and individuals propose, with an eye on feasibility, research, non-partisanship, and with some semblance of being able to proceed with well-organized project management.
We think the availability of a recognized cross-OS, cross-platform browser has the benefit of familiarity for people from other communities as well as supplying essential browser features and higher website compatibility. It would also be nice to see people within the community sharing the effort and the potential benefits.