This sounds very interesting and a great way to get some extra backlink juice from quality article content. Would be great to see this working and bringing the BHW community into the circle of helping each other.
But i have a few questions:
Article directories have taken a huge whack from Google quite recently, do you think article directories still have as much clout in search engine rankings?
Would we setup some kind of structured linkwheel between the directories, so the link juice is passed on to help raise PR or would this leave too much of a footprint?
Will everyone's directory need to include a sitemap page that is updated regularly when new articles are submitted, so that an individual can be responsible in collecting and pinging everyone's sitemap links on pingfarm or some other service to help search engines crawl the content?
I'm sure there are loads of questions and ideas to make this work properly, i would love to be involved in this and hope everyone can agree on the same directory script so everything runs smoothly.