This comment is both intended at the original thread, but also @Rick Gregory.

In 2011 I started developing a custom Integrated System that relied on WordPress common interface even as it recapitulated WP into a Web Publishing driver, and CMS plugin to a larger data-abstraction-layer-as-engine. This allowed the development of decoupled, and "loosely coupled" content within the WP framework, and brought some formerly untouchable Enterprise tricks to small business scale. It also served several markets including Online Courses, and of course content marketing. I started offering these as Business Websites in 2012, and focused on hiding the complexity of the Integrated system in the familiarity of the WP Admin interface. This required serious UI work, some re-development and ultimately this has spilled over into new possibilities in the UX- both from Admin and End User point of view (and polymorphic classes...).

My point is that I think there is some clout and some latent sensibility WP-ifying things, even if methods do change under the hood. When I release methods, they are usable by the average $10-$15/hr. admin assistant, or less for outsourced VA's who love the simplicity of the interface, the unified interface, and the fact that if nothing else it occurs within a familiar framework, so this instills confidence. Music to the ears of most organizations and trainers.

What I ended up building is much like a Kajabi/KajabiNext with the ability to whitelabel; and as much as I hate to put it that way because my system is far more robust and extensible, it's the quickest way I can draw a comparison. Ultimately I'd like to see this system usable to benefit the entire online community even though I've reserved it for my own (family) private commercial enterprise. I have 6 years and over 30,000 hours invested in it personally.

Is this line significant enough to warrant a conversation about collaboration and open-sourcing it with WP.org (self hosted WP) in mind? This and offering a Premium Hosted counterpart, like a managed service layer? (it's too data intensive to work well as a SAAS, but it could be built with MU to offer Premium Shared Hosting accounts that would scale).

I have been porting my code to work with Keystone.js to provide a second leg to my infrastructure, but I did not realize until now that Calypso was co-opted by Automattic... Calypso was my choice in 2012 based on the current iterations in JS at the time... but I had sensed a lull in their dev cycle, and when Keystone's position strengthened between 2012 and 2013 I felt like I had a winner... Now this is an interesting turn.

I'm curious the kind of feedback I'll get here- I am serious about advancing the Open Source/Premium Hosting branches of my work if there's enough interest.