Heard the same thing at St Louis, and was given some names to follow up with (which I have not done).
In the mean time, a little Googling yesterday yielded
https://github.com/anidev/frc-driverstation, which looks like a pretty complete implmentation. It built just fine on Linux (I don't have Maven on my Windows PC right now); hopefully I'll have a chance to fire it up against a roboRIO over the weekend....