As you know, we are at some point on the last meters from the beta release. The goals wanted to 1.0 (and included in beta) are these:
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/issues/2
In addition, Elk needs its tools, customizations setups, translations setup, for people to know where and what to use. If you want to contribute to an area, let us know, and let us know what you need if it isn't there.
This earlier discussion may be of interest too, with regard to other aspects:
https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/issues/14
It's a bit out of date, I assume you can consider the issues moving to the site issues.
Please feel free to check out the repos under elkarte user, the wiki of main repository, install and test the main repo, and contribute to them in any way you want.
We're going to review all goals, work-in-progress, needs, over the next couple of weeks, and push the necessary in all areas.
I suppose this means you actually want me to do some work. :P
Design pull requests are most welcome. It's not fine with the theme as it is, and we are not sure how to estimate and roll releases because of the default theme.