We have to say this about Drupal. We have never seen a development process so heavily invested by in a group of ad hoc developers, yet managing to be focused, controlled, carefully-coded and oriented toward a larger vision of building useful community software. The pace is head-spinning at times, but this project has much to offer labor unions.

This is the open source process working at a level only exceded by projects like Firefox, Apache, and Zope - and they all have foundations or corporations that support them. Drupal doesn't, but that too is in the works. Recently, Google funded the development of several components.

The best news is that a team of developers has hitched onto the Drupal bandwagon and started a programming initiative that is specifically focused on creating organizing software.