If you want to contact some developers in person, you can do that in the next Hackfest in a few days:
https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1001.0
In person = face to face - but RedHat doesn't allow everyone in, they need names in advance.
Is there some particular new feature or fixed bug, that you're waiting for?
Yes. There will be many new versions after the Hackfest. 'After', though, will not be now, but most probably some time next year.
For a sneak peek, take a look at the release notes draft:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.93 (I'll rename that page soon, I think, so the link will change)
Are tiled clones getting new features improvements? Maybe as LPE?