I was thinking it would be interesting to write another grammar book where things are more easily explained for the average person;

I was actually thinking a few weeks back of just copying and pasting a single note from the appendix of the MIE Grammar each day

If you want to copy&paste everything in little pieces, or publish the Grammar yourself, with or without additions, or changing this or that part, that’s OK, it’s licensed as GFDL and CC-by-sa for that. That’s why free licenses are supposed to work so well, because people can make everything they want with free licensed material, without a need to ask for permission: some parts of the book are in fact taken from GFDL, Creative Commons or Public Domain works… If I die tomorrow , the grammar will still be improved by others without a need for permission from me or my family.

a word of the day type service could be interesting as well
I thought about preparing a Google widget (for Google personalized Home Page) including that, but I’m not a software developer, and it seemed to me too hard to learn how to do it. In fact, there was no need to show the “MIE” form, just showing the etymologies and the PIE phonetical writing would have been great. I prefer to spend time in text translations, grammar corrections, and translations of resources and websites, though. If you know somebody interested in developing such widgets, please tell!

those notes in the back explaining not just terms that came from Latin but other words

I’m glad to see that the etymological notes I prepared gave somebody a better impression of the language revival! That section is something criticized by more “purists” who would like to show just the actual Proto-Indo-European common vocabulary (as in our essential lexicon) and not the MIE form of any derived word of well-known languages. So, for example, to say “international” using lit. translation entergnationalis from Lat. internationalis is possibly a bad choice for MIE, given the rest of possible words built in other Indo-European languages. I state it clearly in the beginning of the notes section, but it’s probably still equivocal and weird to say “these are possible MIE words, but not all of them can be used in MIE”

That and other questions must still be dealt with: like the Latin ending “-ta-t-is”, as e.g. Uniwersitatis, which is left for the moment as IE “-ta(-t)”, as MIE Oiniwersita(-t) – because Old Indian shows the same abstract ending, a PIE -tat, but not the further extension (hence a Latin innovation) in -is… Or, the Italic and Armenian common ending -tion, as in Lat. “genera-tion” (cf. Gk. genesis< IE gene-tis) etc. which has an addition -ti-on probably dialectal PIE addition unnecessary in most Modern Indo-European vocabulary. I still write it in legal terms, as adsoqiation, “association”, because it is not an informal “grouping” (hence adsoqiatis) but a Latin legal term; it is still somehow controversial to take all legal or medical terms (as the anatomic nomina) for MIE, even if translated, because there are languages like German which show different terms for either or both, and most have an Indo-European etymology too…

As always, the ideas are there, but we lack the necessary time to carry out all projects, discussions and improvements. Time to time.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=werewolf&searchmode=none

“late O.E. werewulf “person with the power to turn into a wolf,” from wer “man” + wulf (see wolf; also see here for a short discussion of the mythology). The first element probably is from PIE *uiHro “freeman” (cf. Skt. vira-, Lith. vyras, L. vir, O.Ir. fer, Goth. wair). Cf. M.Du. weerwolf, O.H.G. werwolf, Swed. varulf. In the ancient Persian calendar, the eighth month (October-November) was Varkazana-, lit. “(Month of the) Wolf-Men.”"

Or since that would take a lot of word perhaps a word of the day type service could be interesting as well. I was actually thinking a few weeks back of just copying and pasting a single note from the appendix of the MIE Grammar each day (not every note, just the ones I find to be particularly interesting) to the blog because one note at a time is very easy to digest for the average person.

I don’t know any study or statistics showing similar benefits of learning Esperanto or any other “conlang”, though…