If there are fairly simple instructions on how to test the DB and report bugs or issues I have a couple of spare computers I could use to assist with testing (Windows 8.1).  Please provide a link if such instructions exist.

This great to see.

A few suggestions: multiple websites/forums at various states of development and with different styles really confuses newcomers and makes the project seem a bit disorganised (which is why people default back to bitcointalk).  This site should make clear immediately what it is (e.g. title/subtitle indicating this is the MEW website), and should have clear links to the official website/forum on the front page.  KISS suggest to me highlight/focus on things missing elsewhere: e.g. a place for the FAQ, a nice, regular core blog highlighting news, development reports, the various infographics going around, and other things.  Have the blog on the front page to keep things fresh.  Have a cryptokingdom tab as that seems a core aspect of MEW.

Could someone please make instructions for testing the DB on Windows? 

You may also know the minimum amount (or the exact amount) for some of the transactions. For example in this recent transaction it seems the amount sent is between 247 XMR and 297.40 XMR, so:
This may lead to more questions then answers in this short video presentation (and even could mislead people). Maybe it should stay the way it's now.

Not entirely. I haven't looked carefully at the rules used by simplewallet but other wallets may use different rules, and there is nothing to prevent a wallet from deliberately adding extra inputs that aren't needed, increasing the amount of change (and further obscuring the amount of the payment). So for example, that 200 output could be change and not part of the amount being paid at all.

This could even be useful aside from privacy, as a way of consolidating outputs for lower transaction fees. Consider two examples:

1. The transaction 5.01 kb in its original construction. If the wallet adds another few inputs, bringing it up to 5.99 kb, so no added fee but an opportunity to combine some small outputs into one larger one (reducing the cost of future payments).

2. The change would be 1999, requiring three outputs. By adding an extra 1 to the inputs, the change is now 2000, which requires only one output, making both the current payment, and potentially future payments, smaller and cheaper.

Good idea. For the moment, the slider is not "drupal-native" (AFAIK), so it has to be edited by hand, FTP-side. lyth0s could help on this. I would like it to be editable straigtht from Drupal in the future - it might require changing it completely. There are a lot of carousel modules for Drupal, but I did not investigated them. Again, either lyth0s (webdesigne for the site) or someone conversant in Drupal would be of use.

For the rest (i.e. non-carousel-content), yes, you can edit. You must first create an account. After that, you shall normally be able to create blog entries that will appear in the blog tab (https://moneroeconomy.com/blog - for reason unknown, I cannot rename it https://moneroeconomy.com/blogs, with an "s"). Later, I could give access to other contents, but I'd like to start slowly. Blog entries are for personal considerations. Ultimately, I plan to make them available only for MEW members once I created a MEW role (you already are a MEW member so everything is fine).

I purposefully do not give you more instructions, to check how easy/hard it is to create an account and start blogging with no information.

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I created a new tab, "News", which will announce latest news. It will be in-between regular pages like about us, contact, what is Monero... and informal texts like blogs. I started by announcing Jojatetok's newest release.

https://moneroeconomy.com/news

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I update the site information
Title: Monero Economy Workgroup
Slogan: Fostering Monero adoption
Both are open to change, just say and we'll see.

I'd like to have a translation slogan in Dutch, German and Spanish (but only once any potential about the slogan is addressed)
For a link to the official forum, I ran out of inspiration. One possibility is to have a clickable link on the slogan (which I did), but it goes against the principle of least astonishment. There will eventually by an introductory page linking to the official website, but it won't appear on main page (well, it coul, but it would not be highly visible, since it will be in a page, not as a link). Last possibility would a tab to the official forum, but I really don't like this. Tabs are for navigating inside a website, not outside of it.

The FAQ is already here, check the menu bar
Regular blog with news is addressed now, this is the "news" (I understand that the "blogs" menu bar might confuse people, since blogs are users' (or devs') blogs, not official news, maybe I should find another term. Monday Monero Missives will be announced (and duplicated) here too.
Cryptokingdom will have a page or even a section, yet to see.
Infographics, block explorer... I think a "reference" section would make sense.

Instructions for testing the DB shall appear on the website. Both for Linux and GingerAle ones. Ginger Ale, you could even post them as a blog entry.

Thank you for all these constructive suggestions, it proves there is a demand! Don't forget you can participate yourself!

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Exactly. The point of the presentation is to 1) quickly 2) give an idea.

IMHO That is classic 'Selection Bias', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias.

People who have time and/or desire to read this forum periodically... they have just no enouh money to donate!
Also, Monero specifics such as Cryptonote technology is too sophisticated to be understood by masses.

But Monero benefits are understandable clearly ('total anonymity with mathematical proof').

One way to find investors is just 'scan all the friends of friends', being known for any two people un-dated there does exist a people chain of length not more 6, that connects that people via intermediate friends.

Who knows... May be via real life, or twitter, facebook, etc. you can achieve Elon Mask or Bill Gates, etc.?

Or you will find 10000 people willing to pay $.0.2 per day? (10000*$0.2=$2000 per day is a typical price of full time working day of dev team with some 5-7 members).

Summarizing that all, imagine ways that run outside this forum's plane!

Idea:  Development bond, denominated in XMR, sold for BTC, priced 100% over market at offer date.  Development bond pays 8% annual interest in XMR in quarterly coupons, 5 year maturity.  Seller hedges by buying enough XMR to redeem all bonds at maturity.  The result is that ~51% of the bond fix premium funds development, and 49% becomes an XMR profit to the buyer.

Buyer motivation:  Increase XMR holdings, while contributing to the appreciation of the value of XMR as a commodity.
Seller motivation:  Fund development with a fair offer.

Can someone explain to me when sending a payment what the mixin does?  Is there an ideal number to use?   Thanks
 

Ok that is crystal clear for me now.  Thanks smooth.