Is there any current community driven efforts to increase the number of Full nodes?
there is one guy selling a service to add nodes to the network, but they are all IP addressed to his service (centralizing nodes), which is not what the community need or should be buying into.
id say anyone with other $1000 worth of btc should secure their stash by being a full node and not relying on third party light wallets. after all if light wallet businesses shut down their service, the software used to communicate transactions has nothing to talk to.
As long as you control the private keys to the addresses in the light wallets, someone could simply import their keys into a client that acts as a full node.
I think over the long term, most nodes will be somewhat more centralized and will be more costly to run as the blockchian gets larger and TX volume starts to pick up