Availability on pools is a good step to further exposure. Good move. Can the community help at all there? (with a concerted effort - i.e. who shall we contact?)
And, not wishing to spin a broken record, but hand-in-hand with outlet adoption - or indeed, perhaps prior to it - is the (oft-repeated) need for an exchange where non-miners can obtain DCN, to be able to spend it at said places of adoption.
SuchPool, MN pool, Dedicated pool?
I suggest we relaunch Deepcoin. Not to sound discouraging but I have been mining this coin since beginning, and I feel like we are mining within a small circle. More than 30%(?) of the coins have been mined, and the more coins we mined, the less possibility new people will have interest in Deepcoin.
Dev can contact an exchange to manage an old-coins-to-new-coins exchange with an exchange rate of, let's say, 1:0.25. In this way, we can keep the old miners while attracting new people to mine Deep.
Please share your thoughts

Well..I guess everyone is just hoping some magic will happen then
