I agree with taking it slowly to start off since I'm new to this groups.io thing. Mel when you say you can automate a lot of the admin, how exactly would you accomplish that??
Before we open the floodgates, we need to decide what kind of forum we want this to be: do we want it to be exclusive to maybe only a select few dozen vetted members that can share coding and trading ideas without requiring constant support / moderating etc., or a more open, inclusive forum that is more dedicated to helping newbies get started and troubleshooting issues? Personally I would prefer the former but am not against being more inclusive, although my capacity for providing support and troubleshooting might not be up to the task lol!
As for a list of hashtags, here's a start:
#async_support, #ib_support, #coding, #trading_ideas, #algo_trading, #general?
(note no #python_support since there's plenty of resources out there for this!)