3ds-max-dev open-source developer community

http://code.google.com/p/3ds-max-dev/

“A collection of open-source plug-ins and scripts for 3ds Max contributed by the developer community. This project is intended as both a learning resource for 3ds Max developers and to help accelerate their plug-in and script development. Currently this project hosts a number of template and basic tutorial plug-in projects for use with the 3ds Max 2012 SDK.”

You may want to try to harvest material from here:
http://tech-artists.org/hg