For about a year I've been playing good old Colonization from time to time with DosBox. I enjoyed the game back when it came out in 1994 and back then it was one of the best turn based games together with Civ II; nowadays it lacks a few things and I hate to play it in such a small window on a 20" monitor. Elemental has all the basic functionality to make a tribute Mod based on Colonization. My problem is time and graphical skills, XML and scripting languages are no big deal as I am a Web Developer. I also never created a Mod before, but I would really like to try it.
So is anyone interested to create such a Mod with me?

A few major things that would be needed beside some new resource tiles and processing buildings (which should be easy to create with the mod tools) is the trade and diplomacy with Europe:
Traveling to Europe, meaning a ship is leaving the visible map (through a kind of portal?) and shows up in a European harbor a few turns later
New resources (not global if possible) to trade with
A market adapting to how much you sell (dropping and rising prices) 
Models for different ships, weapons and units matching the 15th and later centuries
Declare Independence as only winning possibility