After reading your article Sarah, It made me think it would be a good idea to match the WordPress.org homepage to the current year default theme.

This would give purpose to the design of the new theme every year and showcase it to new and old WordPressers.

What are everyone else's thoughts?

P. S. I have followed you guys for a while now and this is my first comment. Keep up the great work, I love reading the emails coming in to keep in touch with stuff happening in the community.