Yes, there' is tons of things happening, but we'll keep a lid on most of it until community decides on foundation, which has to happen very fast pre-launch, so people should be campaigning for that at the moment so we can move full steam ahead.
Over 80 community members already voted for the foundation by pledging iotas.
Please tell us the donation addresses as soons as the network is relatively stable, and we will start funding.
That being said, there will be one problem: Many users commited to donate the profits from the deal to the foundation, so you'll have a hard time reaching the foundation goal without the deal.