My YAPC::EU 2008 BackPAN Archeology talk is on YAPC.tv, where you can watch the high resolution or low resolution video, or even download the Flash or MPEG video.
You can't see the slides, but they are on SlideShare.
In the talk I mention that many things are in progress, although I just uploaded a demonstration video of it actually working on MiniCPAN. My previous post details that.