Hi s0nix,

Appologies for the delay, if you need faster response at any time please join the slack channel.

Admittedly the team was fairly absent over July 4th weekend when you posted your questions, but everyone is back to normal now.

To answer your questions.

1: There is a forum coming soon that you'll be able to advertise for votes but you can also make a proposal here and I'll list it in the OP.

2: We have additional development team members being integrated right now, they will work on re-writing code, under Justin's supervision, to make it safe for non genesis delegates to forge without forking the network... we'll post progress reports on this as they come in.