I think that if there were people really willing to help, concentrating efforts on MakeHuman would be a more useful proposition rather than starting the usual 1-man crusade that peters out as soon as the difficulties of the task and the amount of work are recognized by the Don Quixote of the day.

@jura: Shift+A, select Camera from the popup menu. Point it as Razor42 wrote or select Lock Camera to view in the 3D view right panel. Switch to camera view with Numpad 0. If you want to do something cooler, watch a tutorial about Camera fly mode. It does not seem to be as overtly complex.