Based on the web pages at http://2mbit.com/ and http://www.sosdg.org/, I see an effort to improve the community not found at either http://www.poptix.net nor http://techmonkeys.org/.
I didn't draw that conclusion at all. Much the opposite, judging from their photo gallery, they seem like a bunch of script kiddies trying to make a name for themselves in the "open source community", while bumming around for jobs, and doing hosting on their Ameritech DSL in blatant violation of their AUP (any guys from SBC on this list?). I wouldn't take them seriously. Have a listen to http://www.poptix.net/trelane.mp3 for proof of their maturity. Calling someone and telling them to "get a life", in response to a NANOG post, is like a parapalegic telling me I walk funny. Michael Booth