The Ryzom Community Forum announces Ryzom Forge, a "collaborative project" to update Ryzom, jumping on the open-source release of the source code for the MMORPG over four years ago. They lay out a roadmap for creating an improved version of the game, and also explain how those who are interested in this community project can participate. Here's what they hope to accomplish:

• The first step (on going), the simplest, is to enrich available apartment items.
• The second step (also ongoing) is to take advantage of the mastery of adding objects to create new equipable items.
• The third stage, more elaborate, and also requiring a good deal of work on the tribes "level design" side, will be to create new weapon patterns available through tribe rites.
• The final stage, called New Zone project will be the creation of a new game area.