I have 2 things on my mind...and I think these points need to be address quickly to speed up development and foster outside development.
1) I think its high time that 2 developers, or at least Tachikoma is hired or contracted full time for at least a period of 2 years... this is a minimal relative cost of doing business considering the potential fast turn around of the initiative, due to having someone work on the project full time. At this point Tachikoma who blazes the trail, mostly leading developments and improvement shouldn't be scrounging around working to pay bills. His focus should be on developing and testing so we can have something dependable in no time: Success in anything depends on FOCUS, and right now our main devs have jobs on the side trying to pay bills. We should take a page from the bitcoin foundation and emulate the hiring of Gavin Adresen.
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
2) Is there a plan to develop something higher level to interface programmatically with mastercoin? an api maybe, although I couldn't fathom how it will work to do :
simple sends
confirmations
betting etc..
I also thinking of designing mastercoin into my system but do not know where to start, especially if this will be addressed later.
If you are in favor of one or two of these points please echo this post.
Echoing!