Maybe you should try your "open source ping" on DU, might get more hits. With guys like Howard Dean refering to "open source politics", they might actually reply.
Im sorry are you saying that shadowace; n3wbi3; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Buck W; clyde asbury; amigatec; Fractal Trader; society-by-contract; Sandor Clegane; porkchopexpress; DarthFuzball; 21stCenturion; cloud8; lafroste are all duers?