without being critical, and I admire the work already done on this coin and the volunteers who step in to save the coin,
I think a development community would grow with some exposure on:
https://openhatch.org/
https://www.openhub.net/
https://www.codeplex.com/
setting up aeon on those sites would draw community help especially from developers who might not know about aeon.
and a transparent marketing plan with transparent donations by the community would go along way. Cryptos and Opensource underestimate the importance of marketing.
A perfect coin would need no marketing and an utter junk coin is 100% marketing.
So a person has to decide where a coin fits on that continuum to determine how important marketing is.
When a person looks at cryptonote generally they see a coin that cannot be used for transactions requiring some sort of easy public confirmation, in other words cryptonote is not useful for most transactions.
So marketing has either to be directed to the drug dealer / child pornographer / hitman niche or the coin has to be adapted so it can be used by other groups.