I agree with you to a certain extent, but you'll have a hard time getting that much concensus. The Palm OS will have to continue to evolve and mature in order to survive, and it can't happen overnight but it should happen fast enough to prevent Palm OS from falling so far behind that it can never catch up.
First of all, there needs to be one centralized website that can be a launching place for everything Palm. I'd suggest a "Unified Network of Palm Archives" modeled after
UNNA.org for the Apple Newton. It could be a repository of Palm OS free software, documentation, news and a place for a grass roots organization and coordination of Palm User's Groups (PUGs) through the creation of a PUG webring. IMO the
Palm Pilot Webring doesn't really do anything to help Palm users in a significant way. A PUG Webring should be based on social networking architecture with the large, popular PUGs as the main hubs and organized geographically.
Secondly, if Palm OS devotees took a few hours a month away from their online community activities and met locally at PUGs, the community would be more unified as a result. I've been to a couple
NEPUG meetings and I am planning to become active again by going to the next meeting this coming Tuesday. I suggest that others get to PUG meetings whenever possible.
IMO these two concepts would go a long way towards unifying the Palm community, exchanging thoughts and ideas and giving us a single, unified voice that could be used to lobby PalmSource and all Palm OS licensees.