This is a rough outline I made during our conversation.  Things marked with a question mark were not discussed(just stuff that came to mind for me).

six months(Oct 1)

I.  who is our target audience?
II. what are our goals?


I. authoring tools

  input
  - spell checking
  - locking / editing
  - autosave
  - formats of entry(?)
    - improving wicked
    - markdown / rest?
  - new editor?

  output
  - presentations?
  - pdf?

II. managing project metadata
    and display

    - expose DOAP?
    - project's page extension
    - list's page
    - project networking 
    - member networking

    speculation on ways to create metadata(?)
    - generating classification metadata
    - user annotations
    - micro format generator and harvesters

III. Realizatiton of deployment of TOPP tools(to other locations)

    - target users
    - test cases
    - scenarios
      - simplicity 
    - themeing

    Target: NYCSR
	- deliverance/wsgi a powertool for this
    	- field test ubiquitous apis

Coming out of this, I would summarize my feelings as the following(feel free to comment or add):

1. we should make our content authoring tools kick ass
   maybe this should be the primary point of our hosted offering.
   
2. microformats are way to create metadata within content authoring(bridging the gap between distinct metadata creation and programatically generating classification). User annotations also could drive metadata creation.
3. Cut & Paste is an the lowest common denominator programming api.
4. The web service story is not just about verbs(creating projects, administering lists), but also about making data available in consumable fashions to conjoin with the actions we can provide.   RSS feeds of the mail archives plus a REST interface for listen gives the random hacker all they need for creating a FF plugin for handling TOPP lists or making a OSX dashboard widget.  RSS, plus project and team management, you have all you need to right a toolbar for managing projects, and so on...(note this is not hard, but shouldn't be forgotten)