I'm a bit interested to see where this project is headed. My main question is what do you mean by "platform for computational chemistry"? A new package or an interface to existing packages (like WebMO)?
We're building an interface like WebMO, but modern. We are not re-writing any quantum chemical software for the moment, however we've written some as grad students. For now we are concentrating on replacing JMol and getting our API functional with NWChem.
Is there an email/website I can use to get in touch? I'm part of an effort that touches on a lot of these areas.