DrupalCon Austin is inviting community members to submit sessions related to Prototyping for Drupal, Content strategy, Authoring experience, User testing, Design process, and Visual design. Don't be shy. I even submitted a session(Drupal 8) this year!
A lot of work is stilling going in to Drupal.org. Things like, the issue edit form, project name autocompletion, change records on Drupal.org now have “draft” status, and much more.
"The Drupal.org Software Working Group is looking for volunteers to take on leadership roles and help guide development of the Drupal.org Community Tools, which include Forums, Drupal Planet, User Groups (groups.drupal.org), User Profiles, User Dashboard."
The 10th annual Google Summer of Code application period began on February 3rd. This is a great project from Google that Drupal has greatly benefited from over the years.