O-STEP In The Limelight
Tony Stanco, whose new eGovOS conference is starting today, has also been pushing O-STEP (Open Source Threshold Escrow Program). It's an interesting looking program for escrowing code, pending money being raised towards it - you can get more details in PPT,OpenOffice, and HTML.
RMS was asked to speak at the conference but refused. Newsforge just published a statement from him explaining why. You can read it here.