Google is sponsoring the Summer of Code and Drupal is proud to be a mentoring organization. Drupal and the successfull student applicants have been awarded 11 projects.
Robin Good has published an extensive (93 page) review of group blogging software. He very clearly identifies the features and functionality that is important to group blogging as well as several scenerios where group blogging is used.
It was no secret that Drupal.org's download pages were sub-optimal: we had two views, one by version and one by download type. This was a left-over from project.module's old browsing structure.