This is quite a sincronicity indeed, because we are having this discussion again with @mayel since the past week.
It makes me wonder 2 things:
- Your initiative is an opportunity to try to develop such crucial feature (both in terms of user adoption and in term of economic sustainability) in the open and together with the community
- We can move the actual bonfire mockups design system from figma to penpot, and try to make it more accessible for other designers to use / improve it
Having worked on a lot of projects with low/no budget, particularly at their beginning, I wonder if a good 'solidarity' support structure could be designed?
Im thinking free to get going, with some explanation of resources required to keep it going and requests for contributions.
Maybe some easy way for the hoster to have good visibility into resource usage and to trigger requests - that could optionally go out to the instance 'admin' and/or their users (give the admin some choices)
Also have some clearly defined streams for regular contributions where you may then avoid requests