Very cool!
Yes, the OgreCrowd component was my child
It's how I got stuck in MakeHuman development, I needed characters generated for my crowd component
As is often the case when you start developing a tool you need, you're spending so much time on building the tool, that there's not much time left for actually using it
And of course I have never found the time to continue work on the crowd component
Even though I keep eyeballing the Ogre3D community and some of the cool progress it is making.