Thank you. I did as you suggested and spent a couple of hours and found some interviews.
Have the developers considered having a page which profiles them on the scribus.net site? I think it would be helpful and might give the project an extra personal dimension. I'm wondering if I were to make an investment of my time who the people are I'd be dealing with. I work for a major software company and have come to learn that personalities can make or break a division. Sounds like many of the developers are doing this as a second calling which is a good thing, in my opinion.
A sort of meet the people behind the project... See, for example,
http://opengeo.org/about/team/ I think it could only help.
I'd be pleased to take on such a task of writing the copy and assembling a layout if everyone were to buy into the idea.