Michael Milliman composed on 2016-10-04 00:06 (UTC-0500):
...who do I need to be in touch with and in what forum to participate in the development process as outlined above?
Debian is mainly about packaging, not "developing" software, so the best answer might depend on which DM/DE/desktop, CPU, chipset and gfxcard you run. Offer up motherboard model, lspci output, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, 'inxi -Fz' output, and your DE of choice, as a start.
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