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The Fedora Legacy Project is a volunteer effort to support RedHat products that have reached End of Life.

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

I keep an eye on the Fedora Legacy mailing list and quite frankly the project is just now getting off the ground.

Let me preface this comment with this:
If you've had experience with this type of project (and don't need to be told step by step what to do, when to do it, and why you should do it) head over to the site and volunteer, they could sure use some help. I hope this post will kick start some talented folks to help out. I'll explain:
There is a lot of arguing over petty things such as the layout of the website (which does look nice now). People are bitching about having to use IRC to communicate with other people in the project.

The guy that got the project off the ground (Warren Togami) sent this in one of his postings today in response to an average gripe and blame posting:

I have been expressing my displeasure quite vocally, to the point of threatening to kill the project a week ago to avoid giving false hope.

Warren has stated on the list that his goal was to simply get the ball rolling on the project and let a community effort drive it. Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. After all that seems what usually stops most OSS projects...nobody to kick the ball at the beginning of the game.
Unfortunately it's not happening. Seems like everyone wants Warren to do all the work while all they have to do is run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" or if they do any work they expect Warren to email them a numbered list of what to do like homework. Fedora Legacy has a chance to be a perfect example of how OSS can work for everyone. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if it never takes off.