I'd be interested to know where/who you volunteered your efforts to - i know some of the project teams would have been happy to consider additional members. Please let me know so I can chase down the details.

With regards signing the various agreements, legally we need to have signed copies, so the correspondance is handled by fax/letter, not electronically, hence no form on the website. It's not so much that you are relinquishing your work, it's a measure in place to ensure that any work you contribute you certify as your own, at which point it becomes legally part of dotnetnuke. This protects the project from situations such as the SCO linux case , as it devolves responsibility to the contributor rather than the project (if you search about you'll find that any reasonably sized opensource project adopts similar measures). We can accept small amounts of code eg. bug fixes, but for anything non trivial we must adopt this stance to protect the community at large.

DotNetNuke also works on a meritocratic basis, with members of the community being invited to join the team based on their history of community contributions. Most of the current coreteam created modules,skins, documentation etc. and hosted them on their personal websites, which brought them to the attention of Shaun and the board. This would be an avenue I'd recommend you consider, as when we assess whether or not to accept someone onto a project team or the core itself, without some evidence of existing contribution it's difficult to assess the person fairly.

Cathal

We need people like you on the DotNetNuke team.

I was composing a related riposte when I saw Cathal's reply. 

Consider yourself noticed.