Danielle,
Great!
Ok. I think your strategy ideas also reflect back to the entire OpenACS product. We already have a package that can consume RSS feeds, news-aggregator. We need a way to be able to output the data into another page via an include.
We already have the ability to produce RSS output, more packages need to take advantage of it.
Similarly, making it easy to change the look of a site extends to more than just the CMS product. Perhaps a CMS product could be an example to be used in the other pacakges.
So I agree with this strategy, and definitely my goal is to make sure, that regardless of the number of features, the product always looks great and is easy to use.
