Verge is a privacy based coin. In the rise of tax evasion from governments XVG can do transactions anonymously. DIME is not privacy-centric coin.
We certainly need a detailed and extensive roadmap to move forward. Without the roadmap the coin is directionless and moving nowhere. If I were a developer, I would certainly give a hand into the project along with peme. We need to break the hurdle of Litoshi and move to Satoshi.