I know this thread is a few weeks old but I have some more useful information on the project.

The owner, Val Smith, is doing a lot of work trying to hook into other libraries that operate along the same lines as he does. The goal is to get a very robust library out there for researches.

Val is currently a member of a vetted mailing list where his project is being openly discussed (good and bad).

Based on what I'm seeing, it doesn't sound like many people have faith in the project growing because of the leach/contributor skew, moral and legal obligations associated with distributing malware samples to the general public (which includes the bad guys).

--TH13