Something that I think will help you out with this application (And apologies if you're already doing this; Been busy with my job so havent been following the github tracker lately), would be to fork a copy of the Aurora code and start working on bug fixes, small projects, little experiments. See what Skull or the dev team might want you to toy around with, and then send a pull request with the finalized code. It'll give you a bit more of a solid 'Here, this is something Ive done as a coder already for you guys'.