There is a lot that needs to be clarified and simplified
I think over the years we have accumulated a bad habit of not cleaning out clutter, and taking time to simplify and better package the lessons and experiences from promising initiatives that we do already have in the community.
So to answer your questions:
FormStorm: an approach towards lowering the costs of applying for grants or fellowships while improving skills of unexperienced community members. The thinking is that by turning applications building into a social event, and sharing contents of forms we have already submitted to different calls, people can reuse snippets of text and also learn how to build successfull applications. @Kseniya set this up.
Help with EU funding: EU applications have three main hurdles 1) Finding credible (to the EC) organisations willing to act as lead partners in consortiums and 2) Finding partners willing to commit the time and discipline required to collaboratively writing a credible application 3) A strong, 1-page concept description. Without all three you will not manage to build an application. So while the Form Storms could help get together #3, we did not not really end up using them to build EU funding bids this year. What did end up happening is that while several community members showed interest in building EU applications when set up the Horizon 2020 Collaborator, even where #3 was sparked by conversations in the community, the actual heavy lifting in building bids ended up being done by the directors of the Edgeryders company with the community invited in again once 1) and 2) had been done.
The Dev team: So far the Edgeryders Dev and Testing group has been dedicated to addressing issues with the Edgeryders.eu platform. People have been using it to post information about bugs, or ask tech-related questions, and if and when we have had the resources (mainly @Alberto, @Matthias). And we are heavily under-resourced, so the list of tasks that fall under “putting out fires” grows, while promising initiatives like project retreats (Harmonious Hackathons) gather dust. Ideally we would use Makerfox to barter different kinds of help between community members to both keep the infrustructure running and help move individual projects forward but this requires resources to carry the cost of coordination (which is an ungrateful set of tasks people rarely are willing to shoulder without financial compensation).