Happy to announce that we have reached 1500 BTC earlier today.
Some plans for later this month:
1) announce the first DAO project proposal coming from a team in Bulgaria that has built a software with over 3 million downloads
2) launch public alpha which people can use to try out submitting projects, get feedback, and do forecasting. possibly try out funding with some testnet coins.
3) us the forecasting data in #2 to award some prizes and get resources to the top ranked teams.