I'd like to keep the forums here, but the vendor directory I've planned for the university will likely be duplicated there and it would certainly be nice to see vendors blogging about their own plans for EOS support and products there.
There will also be more opportunity to participate in EOS development this year. Once Tom is done with the gallery work, we should be back at work on the checkout process and discount related code development. Once that is working, we'll have a boilerplate for gift voucher, gift certificate, store credit voucher and other expansions.
There is a lot of work to do yet before going Beta. But, with more development help, EOS should be making a big splash by the end of the year...
David