It sounds like money needs to be spent to making mining for P2Pool the easiest, slickest, smoothest way to go.
As a long time supporter of P2Pool I will say that this is the most important step.
Imagine if it was integrated into the reference client. Imagine if you could start mining directly to an address you control simply by plugging in your ASIC device and clicking a "start mining" button.
Let's say it is (integrated into the reference client -- which wouldn't be that easy to achieve actually, probably a bit of a hot topic to do that). Would that actually help? It was my understanding many miners aren't even using the reference client, so what would the impact be? Correct me please, if I'm wrong.