What do we agree on?

Some things we should be thinking about for long-term strategy:

• what are the major opportunities and risks?
• what is the short-term and sustaining/long-term cost? (in effort, funds, partnerships, &c)
• how much of the implementation is known? are there incremental measures of success?
• what is the overall time-frame? (and will the effect be felt forever, or will it be eclipsed later?)
• will the desired result happen anyway, but perhaps more slowly, without this strategy?

I'm not sure that 'cost' and 'volunteer effort' need to be separated too strongly.

I wouldn't place too high a value on what estimates for 'volunteer support' -- and while we may estimate that within the current active community, there are 1000 happy users for every member of the current group of active editors [and they are willing to help with strategy, as evidenced by the flood of support we got after the first site notice!]