This I got from the forum of DesktopBSD:
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Urgent Need for More Contributors
Call for Help!
For the moment, the lack of Manpower could keep us away from DesktopBSD 2.0 release. However, we would like to announce the urgent need for these roles:
Developers
Project administrators
Website administrators
Writers and other.
A description of these positions can be read on page Team
http://desktopbsd.bravesites.com/team of the
http://desktopbsd.bravesites.com Unofficial DesktopBSDsite.
We need people to commit for 1-5 and more years support and not just join for few months then leave the project.
We would be comfortable enough to submit an application to the Technical Board in order to have a DesktopBSD 2.0 release when we will have volunteers who can actively contribute and help us.
If you have the required experience and skills or if you know someone who has, please contact us directly or share this request in your social media and among your friends.
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Somebody must help them!
Edit: I realize now that this was a relatively old post
Edit2: So this is a more recent description of the situation concerning DesktopBSD:
Here a quote from the site admin, dated Feb 2, 2015:
It's not laziness. The project used to be run by a few German guys who completely quit and let the domain expire. I bought the domain after noticing it was getting traffic, got the website and forums back up and started recruiting a new team. I am not an OS developer and have lots of other projects, so the best I can do is support the volunteers and keep the site running.
We have several competent people now who want to help, but they're not very experienced in developing OS's. I don't even think they were able to locate the most recent source code. As soon as someone who knows what he or she is doing comes along and can manage the project, things will either pick up or not, but I'm not taking the site down.
Site:
http://www.desktopbsd.net/forums/threads/the-future-of-the-desktopbsd.31/#post-1288