Sounds great! And I love the ending the word "open proposal".

I was just about to comment when reading this part:

Let's not let awesome be the enemy of good. At this point something is better than nothing. As long as it works and does the job, it's better than what we currently have!

I agree, at least now we have a start. and this start can be upgraded further when needed by the community in an open-source platform. :) Hope it gets more attention this time, that's probably what it needs the most! Now would be a better time to experiment with these things than ever considering we are still in beta. :)