ltsampros

Indeed it does, but I'd love to have input from other emacs related communities (emacs-devel, #emacs@freenode, org-devel, ding etc,) too.

Also, I'd love to see more presentations from active developers about the current situation of Emacs and possible future directions, or even presentations about less-known features or even some how-to-get-involved-propaganda.

I have exactly the same Gnus setup. fantastic! However, one of the most frustrating things currently is the wrong message counts when messages 'disappear' from the backend either because they moved or deleted. Also when you get prompted by Gnus on how many messages you want to fetch from the server is broken by the above.