Quote - I'm skimming thourh sourceforge....
Hmmm... Looks like there are four other poser related open source efforts out there: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=poser

Anyone know much about them? Renderdog, you familiar with any of them?

Yup.. perused them all prior to deciding to start this project.  Poser Remote Procedure is a program that runs a tcp/ip server from within Poser and allows an external program to call poser python methods from outside of Poser.  I wrote a similar server myself as part of the project that started this whole thing. 

X Poser toolkit is a toolkit, designed primarly for macs, to allow you to do some manipulation of Poser files, such as converting Posers RSR picture format to something more standard, etc.

Pparser is just a parser written in C++ to parse Poser files, I'll probably make use of it at least as a roadmap  in FAST to speed up development, but it's designed primarly as an API for Poser files to allow someone to write an application to check the files for valid content, etc, so it would have to be heavily modified to suit my purposes.

PoJamas is another API designed to allow you to access Poser content files, which would be very useful, but the project hasn't released any code yet.  I'm trying to contact its developer and find out what the project status is and if perhaps he'd be willing to assist with FAST, but even when completed PoJamas will just be an interface for other programs like FAST to make use of Posers internal file formats, it's not a full blown Poser replacement by anymeans.

The last project, well, my french is a bit rusty but from what I gather it's actually not related to Poser at all, even though the word poser does appear in the description.  It's actually a content engine for free content for websites.

So to the best of my knowledge FAST will be the first open source project with the goal of being an open source alternative to both Poser and Daz Studio.  Hopefully that will attract enough attention to get a couple of additional developers on board :)

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...