We have been given control over some PTS spending and I think we can organize a good attempt at fixing the problem areas listed in the title.
To kick off this effort, I've been given clearance to award 35 PTS a piece to some members of the community for their hard work and initiative. Please PM your PTS addresses to Stan if you are on this list.
Empirical1, for this awesome thread and followup discussion:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=5076.0fuznuts, for fighting to get the mumble hangouts organized.
xeroc, for the writeups on the github wiki:
https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares_toolkit/wikiCLains, for the managing micro-bounty initiative
Agent86, for keeping up the argument against me and BM until we upgraded the DPOS voting mechanism to the better solution
merockstar, for reviving my six-week-old plea to get some good writeups of educational material
alt, for all the help in our dry runs, and in other places
liondali, because I keep getting recommendations to include him
... and a few more unawarded, because I'm *sure* I can't remember everyone off the top of my head. PM me for nominations.
Next up, a serious all-hands-on-deck PTS-incentivized effort to fix some of these problem points. Suggestions are welcome, I've got a game plan cooked up on which I can execute on given dan/stan's blessings, but this is not a one-man effort.