Serum is the means to make Jekyll useful. Built on top of Jekyll, the bare bones needed to get started with Bootstrap, FontAwesome, and a Jekyll directory structure. A helpful script has been added for creating posts that are timestamped with a title. This is still a work in progress, but I am shipping as things come out the other end.
Tenets:
Keep to the essence of Jekyll, but add the missing structure to get started instead of porting from an existing system.