We're looking for folks who would be interested in "owning" a particular provider. Shoot us a note on the mailing list if you would like to participate! Although, patches speak louder than words. :)
Launching and stopping servers is a small part of the portability hassle. The big part is a unified image and data plan. Things like building images programmatically from templates (look up rBuilder) and calling back to some centralized thing to seed the image with context/data to work on can help (many variations in these areas).<p>That said, I am glad to see more people releasing tooling in this area and appreciate the open licensing! Not trying to rain on this parade or anything.