Tying threads together.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 13:34:49 -0500,
  Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Now, if we were a real government, we'd institute taxes, and each
> contributor would contribute 10% of their time and then we'd have a pool of
> resources available for community initiatives. But somehow, I don't think
> that would fly.

Fedora Engineering Services is an attempt to do something along those lines.
It hasn't worked out all that well, but some stuff has gotten done that way.