6. - I believe it has been mentioned in this thread; a Bitmark Forum. Would this be a good way forward, clearly linked from this thread? bitmark.co/forum ? It could be much better organised into Topics, Subject Areas, Groups et al?
I think this has come up before and one issue that was mentioned was the risk of isolating ourselves from the outside community. I definitely agree that it would be nice to have a forum though and that it would be much more organized.
I'm not sure there is an easy answer to the question of how we maximise our public outreach while still striving for the best intra-community communication we can.
Forum is definitely inevitable at some point either way. No question about that.