In response to David Powers:

I think it would be good if, along with developing new features and externals, some community members would devote more time to explaining more general information on possible ways to use PD, approaches to building patches, and descriptions of live performance patches. A great example of what I am talking about is the "Building Drums in PD" tutorial by Frank Barknecht available here: http://footils.org/tut/pddrums/pddrums.html . There is a really strong need for this type of tutorial!

I completely agree! Is there currently a website that collects pd tutorials and example patches? If not, I would love to spearhead this movement. I don't want to do work that's already been done, but I would be happy to manage a website dedicated to tutorials, from basic how-to's to more advanced techniques. If for no other reason than to provide a good starting point for new users. I've got a few tutorials that I would be happy to share, and would gladly accept "donations" of other tutorials and articles. Let me know if such a thing already exists, since I certainly don't want to step on any toes, but otherwise I'll get to work realizing this.

Julian Peterson