Good choices. As far as all you whiners about the paid part of the forum, 35$ a month isn't not much money, that's only 1$ a day. One pepsi a day for good information sounds pretty cheap to me.
As far as releasing premium content in the paid section out into the wild; I think it's a good idea however if it's posted by members make sure you ask before putting it in public. I share a lot of stuff on private forums I wouldn't want released to the public as it would saturate that market for it pretty quickly. But with a limited number of people it's not nearly as bad. The other thing that's important is make sure you set a rule that if someone is caught reposting ideas from the paid forum on the public they get banned.
As far as releasing premium content in the paid section out into the wild; I think it's a good idea however if it's posted by members make sure you ask before putting it in public. I share a lot of stuff on private forums I wouldn't want released to the public as it would saturate that market for it pretty quickly. But with a limited number of people it's not nearly as bad. The other thing that's important is make sure you set a rule that if someone is caught reposting ideas from the paid forum on the public they get banned.