Dale Hamel, developer of RasPlex, has publicly called for collaboration amongst the (currently) four projects developing the XBMC media centre platform. He has called on the developers of OpenElec, Xbian and Raspbmc to join him like so:

I call for us all to work together, share our work, and improve one another to provide the best possible UX, and provide stronger platforms than we would separately, reinventing each other’s work.

Given the public rights argument between Xbian and Raspbmc, this may be a big ask, but just imagine the benefits in uniting their efforts – suddenly they would all be on the ‘same page’, sharing ‘best practice’ methodologies and putting aside their differences to focus on the commonalities between their distributions, improving all of them.

Read more here and hear what Mr Hamel has to say about his vision for collaboration.