The past year has been a busy year for the project.  We thought it might be important to highlight a few big milestones for us:

• Team Mach-II has added three new members (Adrian, Brian and Mike)
• We released Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) and started work on Mach-II Integrity (1.9) all while keeping Mach-II 1.8.1 (maintenance release) in the wings getting ready to go.
• We migrated to a new account at Codesion with custom domains for Trac and SVN.  This means all of our URLs changed so check that out.
• We moved our blog here to Posterous so more of the team can post and in the future we will be accepting posts from the community via moderation (future post to come).
• Fellow team member Brian FitzGerald started an awesome MachStart screencasts series available on Vimeo.

We wanted to get more of the Mach-II community involved and there are ways you can help the project.

• If you are a serious Mach-II user and you want to help steer future enhancements and features, then you need to join the Mach-II Framework Development Google Group. This is a different list from our normal Mach-II Users Google Group.  The framework development list is low traffic so don't worry about receiving a ton of messages.  It's a great way to see some of the stuff we talk about "behind the scenes."
• Be a guest contributor to the Mach-II Blog.  This is one of the reasons why we decided to move to Posterous for our blog because it offers guest posting via moderation.  We have not set up our guidelines for contributing, but we'll do that soon and blog on how you can be the next new MachStar on this blog.  Start thinking about what interests you with Mach-II.  This can be quickstarts, tips, tricks or even full tutorials.  No contribution to the blog is too small.  If you have questions, feel free to ping us at (team {at} mach-ii.com) with query and we'll respond ASAP.
• Test out our nightly builds for the framework and the dashboard.  They are not so nightly but they are updated when new features are put into the framework.  You can see the latest nightlies at http://www.mach-ii.com/nightly/

That's our short list of ideas for you to become a good community steward of the project.  Like Smokey Bear says "Only YOU can foster Mach-II development!" or if you don't help -- who will?