What DOL needs imho is to join Forces with Blue over on Uthgard and make that server the best possible shard it can be. If you look at the past year or so, the vast majority of DOLprojects have gone and disappeared and are generally dominated by foul-mouthed teens and cheaters (dominivm, faith, ...).
I love the idea of DOL, but I don't think it has a great future without having one flag ship server that really recreates the spirit of the game (Strom imho never really caught on, not sure why). And Uthgard is the only server that has really maintained a large, stable user base over many years. Yes, it enforces a classic setting - but with the small player base daoc has these days, I am fine with leaving the live setting to the live server, actually. But for Uthgard to really reach that goal and become feature complete, I think they really need some capable Devs - which DOL still has, I think?
Well, my 2 cents anyway