Written before I read rockedge's post:
My primary concern in this is that we should have a significant presence on Distro-Watch. Keep in mind there’s no rush. We’ve been dis-advantaged for so long that another month or so won’t make any substantial difference.
While watchdog’s idea has merit, I hesitate to support merely recycling ‘old puppys’. I think a better way to showcase Puppy would be a Community Edition. I know, off hand, that prior efforts have lead nowhere for some reason – likely our usual diversity of ideas leaving us in limbo. But I think there’s a way forward. All we really need is one person, or a couple co-operative people, familiar with Woof and willing to maintain that Community Puppy. You know who you are. I doubt ‘maintaining’ will be very demanding especially if the Puppy includes apt/synaptic while ‘older’ puppies already have been battle tested. The Community Puppy could be a remaster of the initial woof-build.
[I don’t know enough about Woof having only employed it once, recently, to create a ‘new’ Fossapup64. But during that process I noticed it downloaded packages then used the downloaded packages in creating the Puppy. I suspect that someone who actually knows how to script could effect a modification to include other packages such as the ones I’ll mention below. Either way, the Puppy would be a Remaster, rather than a straight-forward woof version].
The maintainer (team) would have ultimate authority. But many of us can contribute. For example, which wallpaper and other graphic elements would be the default could be their choice, but we have several talented designers –futwerk, geo_c, and sofia come immediately to mind-- whose work could be included.
I recommend that we accept dimkr’s offer to create a version forked from VanillaDpup. But either an updated Fossapup or even the less resource-demanding BionicPup has its merits. [Can a new Bionicpup still be woofed? With Bionic Beavers (not-extended) End of Life being less than a year away, should it not be considered?]. A newly Woofed fossapup would no more be a remaster of 666philb’s version than a woofed Slacko is a ‘cut-down’ version of Slackware. [Of course, 666philb’s insights and contributions would be welcomed].
As an example of what can be done consider my newly woofed Fossapup with it’s post-woof enhancements. A screenshot of my newly woofed Fossapup is here, viewtopic.php?p=69982#p69982. [And NO, the wallpaper can’t be used; it likely violates several copyrights]. 
As I wrote in that post, it boots and opens applications faster than the original; and this despite my ‘kind-of-remaster using nicOS-Utililty-Suites’s Save2SFS’ I discussed on this thread, viewtopic.php?p=69513#p69513 to include many of the tools designed for Puppy by radky, JakeSFS and others. [Someone with a higher skill level than I could provide a more visually-appealing dir2pet and dir2sfs; and remember to add JakeSFS’s packit to the Right-Click menu for folders]. I have recently swapped in ozsouth’s 5.19.11 kernel, viewtopic.php?t=6871. Such kernel includes security enhancements not found in Fossapup64’s original. And supports the use of both aufs and ovrelays. [I know next-to nothing about overlays, so can’t test]. I’m posting from it now. But read ozsouth’s post for possible limitations.
Not mentioned elsewhere:
radky’s JWMDesk (ptheming still present but its menu display turned off).
Barry K’s Osmo for EasyOS –supports Contacts-- one library via synaptic had to be added
Zigbert’s pwidgets
In the /opt folder in an easily update-able adrv –so that they can be used even with no partitions mounted-- MikeWalsh’s Brave Web-browser. So locating it uses RAM, but with 8 Gbs I have more than enough to spare. A user could, of course, run Brave from /mnt/home.
And an assortment of goodies created by Puppians and not available under any other Linux.
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None of what I’ve included need be. But what we’d have is a newly woofed Puppy –perhaps built taking in mind our collective experience of what works-- but including applications nowhere else available.
P.S. If I didn't say so already, I'm posting from it now. 
