What's your aim for launching a Bitcoin forum? Obviously, if its to avoid censorship, and add another forum to the mix then that's fine. However, do you have any niches that you'll be focusing on within Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies?
Why are you guys suggesting to use epochtalk? If it was ready for usage, wouldn't Theymos already be using it for Bitcointalk?
It needs testing. Any good software needs to be tested vigorously, and having a larger amount of users testing the software is better than just a select few.
I will be looking for content that is useful and is easy to find on the actual forums we will be covering getting started and mining, then their will be signals and betting with points what you earn from posts, which will eventually can be converted to bitcoins to the users but still on the drawing board with that idea and how to implement where everyone happy.