>> 1) This is about web stuff. And a self-styled "community" open source initiative.

OK, but we are also talking about how SednaX is just one project with some volunteers, and one or more new projects can be created at anytime by any volunteers to work on any open source community project based on any new or existing source code or product.

2) VFP does not offer web stuff natively.

Correct. Microsoft has put significant efforts in ASP.NET as well as Visual Studio web development which is very compatible and works well with Visual FoxPro. You can combine ASP.NET development or simply HTML editing with things like VFP objects in the Visual Studio 2005 editor. Plus, you can now obtain Visual Studio 2005 Web Express version for free download which is very compatible with VFP, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/. While there are many great web centric add-on products for VFP, the Microsoft story is VFP with ASP.NET together for web development. From our world-wide VFP surveys, more than half of VFP developers who do web development use ASP.NET or ASP with VFP, more than any specific VFP add-on product.

>> 3) The VFP community does care about web stuff.

I agree, and there are good solutions that exist for either free ASP.NET/ASP with VFP or with one of the several VFP add-on web developer products.

>> 4) If this web enabling tool does not belong in the community open source initiative, will the community open source initiative have some other web offering, since we obviously care about it.

I'm not sure what you are saying here. For anyone who cars about an open source project, they probably need to help organize and contribute to that project in some way. So if you or anyone want to see a VFP based web developer tool be an open source project, then you have to create one and contribute to its evolution. You generally do not go find an existing project and try to add to that project.

>> 5) If not, then people may wonder why not. Based on the atmosphere in the VFP community for a decade, they may draw unfortunate conclusions about why VFP doesn't have such technology and why a community open source project blocks it and why you are answering questions about it.

There have been many options for web development with VFP for years, many continue to evolve to enhance the web developer experience for VFP apps.

>> It is a shame we didn't immediately hear about the acid test "can the initiator walk away and have it managed by somebody else".

This is how all open source projects work. You can't expect to go to some existing project and give some code to some group and tell them to go work on managing it and enhancing it. There is no acid test other than what the volunteers of a project want to work on for that project. One possible question to pose to folks like yourself advocating free open source projects around web development in VFP is... Why haven't you already created and contributed to an open VFP web development tool project, and what is stopping you working on one now? For more understanding about how new open projects succeed, you may want to reference the page at the link here, and also check out the the section called Participants in OSS development projects at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software