Adam,
The whole Multiteam Scouting thing sounds very similar to the FIRST Scouting Network (or FSN).
I would suggest getting in touch with the people who worked on that (I'm one of them) to learn from previous mistakes, successes, etc. I know that Jack was somewhat successful in getting things donated to the project.
The Chief Delphi forum for FSN is:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=83
(but I doubt many people regularly check it any more, so look up people who posted there since the beginning and contact them directly)
It may even be possible for you (and whoever you're working with, if anyone) to take over that project; which would be a lot better than having it die out (which is what seems to have happened).
P.S. rm -rf / is a very bad thing as root (no, *I* didn't do it); but that happened to one of the FSN servers.