It will be on irc (like the apolyton-activision chat) on a to-be-announced channel. You can get a good irc client from www.mirc.co.uk

Issues to be discussed:
compatibility with civ2
change policy, conservative or liberal?
(even more) extensibility ideas
upcoming neociv website

Things to be done:
join the neociv team
share contact information (email, icq) among neociv team
distribute preliminary tasks among team

p.s. - yes, it's semi-official; openciv is now neociv, or at least until someone can come up with a better name.