We do have "Groups" and anyone can start a "Group' I believe ...you get to it from the Community Drop down menu ...
As far as the other ideas , as long as the interested people get together, I have no problem implementing what people want ...
The Gear Shop would be a great one to have and getting the SWAGs to model is would be something that would take a bit of searching for the right girl or girls and probably some funding/donations to get that model or models to do it consistently for us .. It would have to be something under contract so that we don't have to pay royalties later on and we can use what they modeled for us as long as we want to ...
Everything is possible, you guys just have to get serious about it and we can make it happen ...