If you take a look back at my posts I started mining this coin almost since it started when it was CPU only and I made the terrible decision of holding my coins and I'm still holding them.
How does the fact that you forgot to dump make this a dead project?
I can't really say it is dead for certain and I really hope it's not, but if you take a look at the github last commit was June 23rd.
This is an academic project and the researchers are coming back from summer work starting next week. Hopefully it'll signal a restart of work (and Github commits). This is a very low-emission coin, it won't take much for the value to go back up.