ROBAX is dead on. 

Put another way (maybe a little more politically correct - grin)  ALL people are good at some things and not so good at others.  A person good at developing wouldn't be my first choice for a communications, PR, marketing position as generally these types of people aren't very good in those areas. Although I was pretty impressed with Shaun's preface (Or chapter one - can't remember) in his (and others) DNN book. The condition of the DNN website - as Andrew and others talk about is a function of this. Another function of the lack of marketing abilities would be the sponsor packages.  Another would be the MarketPlace - while functional it isn't even close to it's marketing potential.  Another would be the forums layout and content.  A VERY good example would have been the remember me function of the website - it is finally fixed - Whoohoo!! - but community members complained about it for ever!  Much like they are complaining about the forum notifications now.

Sebastian is right - the communications position or team would not be an easy task.  This position/team would have to be privy to and updated on all things corp, core, and project. And they would have to monitor and take part in the forums on a very consistent basis.  And it wouldn't hurt if they had up-to-date knowledge of third party things either. BTW, I just learned that the core team is not part of the corp - I had always thought the other way around.

With regards to the use of core modules only on DNN.com.  I understand the desire to use core modules on the site but I think that most of the reasons for this are outdated.  I like and use many of the core modules but I think that core modules are less important now that DNN has grown to what it is and has been able to attract many third party developers to the project. Are the third party developers not a part of and very important to the community too?  As much as I really hate to say it - because I appreciate all the very hard work Crispy put into the core forums module - if you look at any of the other higher traffic DNN sites - they are not using the core forums module.  And being that DNN.com is the highest traffic DNN site...........  Since I am a "marketing guy" I can see many advantages to using third party modules on the mother ship.

There is no flaw. I said "To me DNN now has enough of a following and reputation that it should able to apply some business model which would allow it to take on enough top noch staff to meet or exceed expectations." If DNN does not have enough resources to do what is needed then no project of this kind can ever succeed. DNN should pack it up. I don't believe it is true. I belive that the model needs to change while keeping the elements that made it so popular and usefull.

Joe, I hope you are kidding. Even in this small and presumably not fully representative screen shot I can see little improvement from the "Blue Skin". Come on, skins and templates for DNN and other systems have gone so much further. I would hope DNN could do better than that. This again gets to the point.

Even if it's free you should sell DNN. Push it like you want need people to buy it.