also if you are new to the community, chat me up, i don't know the whole community but am aware of roughly what is happening wher - i can point you in the right direction and give you an overview and good idea of status of various bits from 1000 foot perspective.
i'm also the unofficial 'greeter' so to speak (in the sense i tend to say hi to all the noobs dropping by the #openacs chan on freenode.org), my job in the future will be to get out the bullhorn and meet new people and just say hi, explain where is what and to whom to talk to and get people up to speed in zero time flat so they can start getting involved immediately.
