Hello RenderDog,

I'm a professional programmer and user of Poser, Carrara, Vue, and others. Personally I don't like working on the GUI part (too much effort) of any application but do consider participating in any Open Source project involving a replacement of Poser. Poser is outdated and would need to be reworked to get it ton an acceptable standard, something I don't see happening. DAZ Studio would have been great if they had opened it up more the available API is just too limited (an API should allow you to change the GUI in whatever you desire).
Currently looking into Blender3D as a possible environment but hating to have to use keyboard shortcuts (I work with too many applications to ever remember the shortcuts, have a hard enough time remembering the VI shortcuts). Initially I did consider if attaching to Blender made sense but I don't feel the GUI improvements are likely to be enough to convince me to use it.
When you have a proposal for the GUI and a bit of design for the development environment and interfaces I would like to consider if I feel like participating. Too many conflicting interests at the moment to commit to the project at this moment. When you have convinced me you are serious and it is developing in a way I believe is viable, I would be willing to invest time to study the requirements and actually code some part of it.
I have seen many great pieces of 3D programming both in demos and in actual code. A lot is possible nowadays and I would like to participate when I can believe there will be a result in a foreseeable future.

Hope you get going soon and hope to see something in writing.