What kind of promotion from the Ubuntu team/release cycle could we expect with the going public of this site?

That is a good point. Unless we can get the release team to highlight it somewhere "officially" (even if we can't get ask.ubuntu.com)

I agree! An excellent idea

Right - like offline packages for some SQL reading tools, etc.

@DmitriyLikhten Less features, marketing, support, and - it's not "FOSS" (my apologies, wrong term) but SAAS. You have to purchase a plan, whereas this site costs nothing for us (the community) to run. This site exists because there was an interest in it on Area51 - not because someone is paying for it to exist.