
The other option is to have a category with multiple forums for each major project (and likely a general forum for the smaller ones), though until we upgrade the forums, it could get messy; hopefully George will have time to upgrade them or let ttech & myself do it.
PHPBB3 & SMF can both fix the issue with either collapsable categories or sub-forums, so if we did upgrade the forum, it would become a null issue.
Although we are unlikely to actually open these boards for a while considering that all the official extensions are either not started, or in their infancy, this is an issue that will come up later on, down the line.