Since the Aurora thing fell through, Damien and I have been working with ChrisC on his open source Ogre engine. After 3 weeks of no real help from the community, he decided to make it closes source, and only release binaries for the engine for free.
Has he? That's a shame then. I was going to ask him if he wanted to allocate a bit of work in my direction when I had finished my current project, but I'm not lucky enough to be able to afford to drop paying projects in the middle to work on community projects. Definitely a shame, because that was looking promising. Ah well, I can see why he would feel disillusioned.