Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project (reported)

FYI just saw this over at TechCrunch... more at http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/27/pirillo-starts-large-scale-communit... and I wonder how (if?) it relates to Drupal development here... like are any developers here involved, or is this seen more of an offshoot... and some other threads I've seen on here about plug-and-play ease of install. btw another Drupal-Pirillo related thread here may be over at http://drupal.org/node/167246:

The project will be built on the open source Drupal framework:

“For the geeks: Drupal has so much power in its core, and enough fantastic community-contributed modules, that I think it’s time to assemble an Install Profile, complete with beautiful (accessible, microformat’ed, high quality) themes, pre-set Views for any Web community to either install on their own or have hosted at any given Web host that supports Drupal with optimizations. The benefits to you should be more than obvious….And I don’t mean just the framework for the community platform, I mean… like, it’s ready to go. “It’s not the features, it’s the implementation.”

I chatted with Pirillo after the announcement. What he’s looking to achieve is delivering a multi-faceted, open source, easy to use end CMS. To break that down further: imagine installing a package on your web host that immediately delivered Digg style functionality, or photo sharing, a community forum, a blog, a social network ala Facebook, or even a clone of the growing number of FriendFeed style sites, or a combination of all or any of them. Here’s the important difference to existing solutions: imagine that you wouldn’t have to touch a piece of code to activate the various aspects. Imagine that a color change made in one module automatically applies across all module or as specified, without the need (again) to touch code.