Just a thought...
I know, it's not a suggestion for a contest....
but to spread the word about the capabilities of VL, why not create, publish a list of hardware (older hardware) where, for example Ubuntu and derivatives failed to install and VL succeeded?
Users can share their experiences and how satisfactory the different parts of the system work.
The list could contain the "Motherboard type and brand, size of RAM and Hard drive, BIOS, Devices such as Sound, Video and Optical drives", maybe just the info available through the 'System Profiler and Benchmark'.
Just a thought...