Loved your blog post Steve and delighted to find another open practitioner to add to my twitter list! The point you make is a good one: open is not the easy way for practitioners, not at least until you arrive at a point where you connect with a network of educators and their support helps you grow. 

Yeah, great post, Steven! I think a lot of educators have the same sentiments in terms of having to do a lot of the leg work themselves to get an OER started. From a support position myself, I want to make it easier for the subject matter experts out there to collaborate with others (and even get their students involved) in creating Open materials. We're fortunate enough at our university to have people in official OER positions whose roles and responsibilities are solely connecting people to others and resources to help achieve those goals. If we get noisy enough, positions like that will pop up everywhere, and someone somewhere will catch wind of projects we want to do and help make it happen. Many hands makes for idle work! Good luck, Steven, hope you can connect with others to make something great Open!