This year is going to be a bumpy one, but we're all pulling together and doing some great stuff. We just pushed another release of our bryghtbase codebase to our Bryght Light mass hosting service. It's the Drupal 5 release you get when you push signup, or the default install when you have one of our production hosting virtual private servers.
I've been breaking my head on install profiles. We naturally want to set up a bunch of stuff "out of the box". Now that Drupal 5 has "native" install profiles, we can work with the codebase directly, which makes things a lot easier. But, some things are still too hard. Basically, we need to make a library of CRUD functions for Drupal. Some of these may make it into future releases, ideally. For now, I've started scavenging some of the custom functions we've written in the past (e.g. one loops through profile fields and creates them -- see https://svn.bryght.com/dev/browser/bryghtbase/DRUPAL-5/trunk/html/profil...), and will be working with the community to standardize them.
Next up: planning for a Community profile and thinking about what we might put in a ProBlogger one.