Hi all.
Well no positive news in terms of boosting the existing team to push Rise forwards.
However we will be releasing pretty much everything we've been working on.
This will include opening up our design documentation wiki and forum (in read only capacity).
There will be a few things that won't get released, and we are respecting the requests of individuals within the team whether they would like to release what is essentially work in progress assets (3DS Max and texture files).
However the source code will be released, and some maps.
Rise as it stands is already playable in a rough LT mode (client and server).

So to give you an insight on how we went about planning and trying to run a world wide team, our Wiki is now open for viewing:

http://wakinghour.wikidot.com

We used the Wiki as our design document. It is still not entirely complete and some of the planning stages have been pretty out of date.
Still I hope that if you might be planning to take up Rise and develop it further, this will be useful to you.
Some of the team might be interested in joining you so please let us know if you are starting a project.

Further update at some point next week for the general release.

Cheers.