Also we have the guys from Bitkapital setting up their gateway and trading platform.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,23523.0.htmlI think Bitshares Munich should get another mention as they are heading multiple projects
-> Blockpay, Echo, C-IPFS (for blockpay intergrations), Stealth, Mobile wallets
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22576.msg300341.html#msg300341EstefanTT is working on BitTwenty a market pegged asset, which tracks an index based on the top 20 leading cryptocurrencies.
and just this week we have started seeing mentions from John Ferguson and Travis Remington who have been working on a project which i think they name valuechoice - details are very light as this is a stealth project and they just wanted to let people know they we working away in the back ground..
All this and we barely (btsbot was the only Chinese community member project mentioned) covered what the Chinese community is doing.... given they have 1300+ people in their QQ channel and 900+ in wechat i am sure a few of them have projects in the works as well; may also eplain btc38's surge to being the leading cryptocurrency exchange for Bitshares.
outside of these projects running on Bitshares a lot of dev working is being done on other graphene chains which indirectly benefits Bitshares via code and features being built on graphene which would enable easier porting of interesting features. Projects such as Steemit, Peerplays, Muse and DAC Play