I was thinking about doing a community service of setting up nodes for people. People would pay the full cost of the affiliate link of InterServer.net for a specified time. (It's <6$ monthly).
On top I would charge a yet unspecified amount (something like 5-10 xmr) which would in full be donated to the core team development fund.
Thoughts?
Probably the best way to strengthen the network would be to provide content on:
http://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/user-guides/
and here:
http://getmonero.org/knowledge-base/developer-guides/
the logic being that this information, nicely compiled on getmonero.org, will attract and instruct any interested person. This adoption leads to the network being helped out.
My crusade is still network hash strength. So, in that sense, a full node would be great. But even greater would be an easy way to set up a full node using a GPU miner. I know its doable, but I haven't had the full weekend of time to devote to tinkering with it.
"setting up nodes for people" - who is your target audience? If they are people in cryptoworld, thats good, because they can probably update their node at some point. If its just general people, you'll have to maintain their node for them (specifically for the hardfork eventually coming up at some point).