yeah I'm interested.... You can help develop parts of this system If you're interested in helping out. If you can think of an easy way of putting the WYSIWYG editor into my system let me know! I'm certainly interested in it. I've currenly been sticking with plain HTML since I format everything properly in HTML anyway. I write my articles in Dreamweaver
How on earth would a person go about handling multiple pages with a WYSIWYG editor like that? If nothing else I could do something like Iframe that editor in and just tell people to view the source and paste it into the forum field. I know it'll be a PITA to get 10 instances of that editor working together properly.
It looks like hialls will be handling mainly the installer part while I'm writing most of the core stuff.
I'm about to upload some of the updates to the first post here.
As to when this thing exits Beta, It may never

by time I am satisfied enough with the article system code to no longer classify it as beta then I'll be adding the news system in

The first official release MAY be a true portal. The current hacks called portals aren't really what I would call a portal.