Hi Tom,
First of all thanks for planning to really keep this project going!
An own forum might make things easier since there's going to be quite a lot of different categories needed (support questions, development wishes, new game announcements...). But since the topic is so closely related to this forum anyway, maybe you could ask Blue Lemma to create a category for Ren'py in this forum? The Ren'py section wouldn't be too resource-demanding in the beginning, and if need arises, you could move to a new forum later.
Sorry if I sound too eager - may I post some ideas and wishes?
I don't know if it helps any, but I have put my own development specs document (what I had implemented and was thinking of still implementing) online; it might be a source of inspiration. I was particularly keen on finding the perfect solution for doing simple frame-based animation loops.
The document (MS Word... yes, I know... sorry...):
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/sapora/RSC/MASTRE47.doc
Let me know if I can be of any assistance. I've only started looking into Python programming yesterday and won't be a guru for a while, but should you want to discuss ideas and concepts, I'm game.
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Same applies to writing documentation etc.
Keep it up,
Alessio