sorry for the late reply, instead of emailing people, hope you all read this and join the irc channel I will setup tommorrow - will be in there all of the day to keep it alive - hopefully meet people between 5-6pm UK time, otherwise if someone wants to turn up and let the rest know whats been going on then that is ok with me. I definately need as many coders in there as possible - been thinking of some changes in the original plans.
I will post the irc channel tommorrow [hope everyone knows how to use irc otherwise download the "excursion" program - uses mirc]