The forum, when it began to go by Zelda Fan Game Central, seemed to be a place to showcase OoT2D and what ultimately spawned from people getting inspired by it - having a place where people could post their other projects in a place where nice projects were was also a positive attribute.
As for the Community Project, I have been in contact with Kren and Scooternew about it and I plan on featuring it in an upcoming issue of the Weekly as well as possibly writing up news items for significant updates that occur with it - since Darklight is a global moderator and a local moderator of the Community Project board though, I would assume that he could be the one to do this. Also, in addition to all of that, I have suggested, and it has been positively received that the project be put up as a WIP project on the site so that viewing it can be easier than going though topics.
Also, I have put forward events, continually called for other events, reported topics that have when dealt with have made the forum more orderly, have worked on a fan game in both Game Maker and C++, have posted intelligently, and have helped out others when I can. Contributing is easy if you just do what you are good at and seek to better yourselves at things if you can do such in as non-conflicting a way as possible.
However, like I have said elsewhere, to improve development, C++ and other advanced languages would help us get new members who would stay here because we were offering something good and largely exclusive to ourselves, and those who are going to pursue game development of programming in general as a career path are going to be receptive to outlets of creativity involving that. Game Maker is great in its own right and it can be used well by those who know how, but advanced languages are where it is at.
Also, I have a friend named Pagano who is a moderator on another site. I am trying to get him to go to this one since he is getting better at game programming in XNA, he has a video capture card on his computer which could help out with game tournaments, he's intelligent like I am, and he is not too shabby at site design. I'll bother him about this later, lol.
