Wow.. cool! I'm excited about this project. Are you looking for help with FOSS things (documentation, bug reports, etc.)?
Definitely need help with testing and development. Documentation as well but it takes time to understand the complexities of the working parts. Hit me up on Twitter if you want a full list of things, always looking for help at every skill level :)
In the future (read: when the dashboard and the aforementioned tools are stable) there may be ways for individual arkOS nodes to communicate with each other without an intermediary, mesh-style. But that is a long way off.