Everyone wants to contribute because they get money for it. People research unknown open source they never used just to make a contribution about it. As soon as it is open source people can earn money for suggestions, bugs and all the other stuff. You are underestimating people. Everyone is in it for the money.

You say it yourself: You need help, ideas and solutions. You don't need any delegation or sponsors to make this project happen. Utopian pays for it.

Let the hive mind decide what would work best and then follow up on that. :)