What can you do? Well, you can bookmark this thread and come back a month after the LATEST submittal -- and we can at least tell you what the status of the submittal is.
You can send unsolicited e-mail for your commercial purposes to anyone: since the ODP isn't about commercial purposes, that's obviously the Hormel solution, and will influence people as it always does.
You can voice your concerns in any forum that will let you. Many people do. I think that's counterproductive: you just wind yourself up further about how the universe just isn't fair: and you have to live in the head you just wound up. Aargh. And -- you know, if ODP editors get REALLY mad at a forum, we can kill it deader than Bill Gates' reputation: all we have to do is spread a rumor -- just a little itty-bitty rumor -- that posts in that forum would lead to quick site reviews. BAM! Instant slash-dot crash-burn!
Venting at the people who you're asking for a favor is generally counterproductive, too.
So, no, there's not much productive you can do on the ODP (or, for that matter, Google or the BBC!) Them's other folks' websites. Work where you can have an effect. Focus on your own site; focus on people who share your goal of promoting that site (or can be paid to share that goal.) Assume you'll have to do all your on site promotion, without any help from the ODP. Then, even if your assumption is wrong, your actions will have been right.
