Yeah I understand it&#x27;s not as easy as i&#x27;m suggesting and I have no idea how you guys manage to do as you do even :).<p>I&#x27;m wondering (and of course I know little about this) if it would work doing things like: 
- community voting on the direction of the project or new features to be added and the top 5 get selected if there hits say 50k votes. 
- costs say 2-3 dollars to cast a vote. But if it&#x27;s enough cash it means it won&#x27;t dictate the direction of django by money or businesses and some of the cash can be spent elsewhere not just on those top 5.<p>So a feature could be something like &quot;seamless upgrading from 1.8 to 1.9&quot; which businesses might want or be willing to pay for.