rule3
as you can see the project is not dead, frosty1 it's working on it right now!
digitalus already uses jquery.

I want to thank frosty1 for his great work. I've already build a small cms for my site, but digitalus is far better than mine (as I can see). Maybe I'll switch to it in the feature.

p.s.
I suggest to use an already done forum for the community behind dsm instead. You can build a bridge for the third-party forum (like phpbb or vbulletin). I think it's a far better idea than coding a new one. Also publishing the cms as fully integrable with a vb forum will push the adoption of dsm.