I was putting it off until I had a little time to work through it. Hopefully, this will help others in the same holding pattern.
There's and org version there as well with babel version there that will do pretty much everything if you let it,
from testing the emacs and org versions to cloning the repo to apt-getting the stuff needed for latex on Ubuntu.
Github messes up the formatting of that version, but it should work if you download it.
I'm not completely moving over yet. Gotta get the ox-bibtex stuff working (export citations and bibliography
to .html and .tex). Nicolas sent me a test version, and it works for tex/pdf, but has a few issues with HTML.
It's getting (gitting ?) there.
---George Jones