Well, I've got the first bit of the news reworked, and the Hackergotchi stuff has been added. For those who are interested, the Contributor's HOWTO has been updated in CVS, so, the next time the site updates (overnight) those docs available at
http://openfirst.org/doc/tut/howto/ will contain the new information too.
I've also done a bit of cleaning up of the Developer Profiles page (and renamed it on the page itself to say Volunteer Profiles... since that's what we eventually evolved it into anyway). Hackergotchis are there, too. Those of you on the team who want one, but don't have the time/patience to create one, I can do it for you, but I'll need you to send me a picture that would be appropriate for cropping,etc. (Generally speaking ones taken against a solid colour wall that's nowhere near skin colour work best-- Blue/Green should be good for that).
I haven't yet tried to change the permissions for the news posting system; but I will post back here when that's done (then maybe there'll be some other smiling Hackergotchi face on the main page besides mine).