Boosting participation and community in Apache Labs?

[Shane Curcuru]

I was just wondering...

The Labs project (a place where any committer can starup their own 
independent mini-"project" to work on, potentially with other 
committers) has been awfully quiet lately.

I was wondering: is doing an article or FAQ or some sort of mentor 
outreach within ComDev a good way to increase the sense of community 
within Labs?

While there are plenty of free places to get SVN/CVS/git hosting for 
individuals, using Labs by committers gives them some visibility and the 
chance to collaborate safely with other committers.  It feels like with 
the breadth of committers we currently have that there'd be more sense 
of community and interaction within Labs.

Is this something comdev might have ideas about (by publicising to 
committers or getting mentors to talk it up, or whatever)?  Or am I just 
having some wishful thinking?

- Shane