Hi. I'm Boog. I've just spent 12 hours solid programming writing a content system which, at the moment, looks VERY similar to Advogato. However, that's just the design templates. I needed a very simple and clean design to use for development.
Basically it's just a community content system, i.e. where anyone can contribute, and admins have to authorise (or delete) stuff which accumulates in the message queue. I am going to be releasing it as free software. It's as powerful as NewsPublisher or NewsPro already, and with all of these extra features, even more so.
I look forward to participating in the Free Software forum, although my software doesn't quite come under Debian guidelines!
You can try out my system at BigBold.com if you want :-)