Honestly, I created it just to keep things organized. I fork a lot of projects for different reasons, but mostly just to keep a copy around for when "weird shit happens". Eventually I had some many forked projects in my "mindcrime" org that they got in the way, so creating a "mindcrime-forks" and moving all the forks there seemed like an obvious choice.

I also did a "mindcrime-templates" for template pom.xml files, and silly little "starter projects" of various sorts that I can clone down and and have something set up the way I like it, with minimal scaffolding, and then start morphing it into whatever I need.