IMHO, I think it'd be better for us to focus on ourselves instead of trying talking about other coins (even though it is legitimate to do so in that case). Let's be positive about it even if is frustrating. Honestly, Mintpal at the moment is not our priority. I try to vote as much as I can but being listed there in our current state will only make us  appear as an easy prey to manipulators of all sorts and make us lose any once of credibility as a serious coin. There are plenty of coins which die once listed on exchanges like Mintpal or Cryptsy and we don't want that. We are not aiming to be a p&d coin, so let's build some solid foundations before being listed on widely known exchanges. It's for our own good I think.

Otherwise, everything about the upcoming giveaway is set even if it would have been better to have more in the giveaway fund. We'll also need confirmation from the official pool for them to give us the needed data to confirm things but it's on the tracks. When we are ready to start, we'll announce it a day or two before.
About the giveaway fund, I'll try to buy some H2O on bittrex in order to fill the fund up. I finally got a second 280x and I successfully set the little rig up so I may be able to pour around 60K a day in it. It may be wise not to start the "mining marathon" too early in order for the fund to get around (at least) 3M H2O (which will all be redistributed to the miners obviously, the explorer will serve as evidence). I'm trying to put the max I can and most of what I mined so far has been put in the fund. I hope for the marathon to start by the end of the week but I'll need to have some confirmation with the team beforehand.

I think I had a really good idea today thinking about the coin and its possibilities (to really put it as a multiform charity coin) but I got to talk about it with TWC and the team to know what they think. If it's possible and feasible, I think we'll be able to really make a good and sustainable thing with this coin. If we can have a solid community to follow and support, it may be interesting. But before that, we'll need to prove ourselves again to bring back some confidence and interest in H2O.

Tomorrow I won't be able to work on the coin because I have some personal work to do but I'll be back on it by Wednesday hopefully