Crowdfunding Lightning?

Hi all,

Frédéric's blog posts about funding MathML [1] have got me wondering if 
a similar campaign could work for Lightning development. I've been 
poking around in the code for the last few months and can see there's 
clearly some areas that could be much improved by someone with the 
skills and available time. (Just to be clear, I'm not saying it's bad, 
it isn't. I'm saying it could be better.)

I'm not too familiar with the history of the project or the calendar 
community, and I can't find much about current status and future plans. 
So I have some questions:
* It seems pretty quiet out there. Who is actively contributing and in 
what capacity?
* Is there a roadmap or a list of goals?
* Have we got sufficient links with Lightning users to support a 
crowdfunding campaign?

Having written all that I realise I should introduce myself. I'm an 
add-on developer and occasional Mozilla contributor [2], mostly 
interested in UX. I've been patching Lightning [3] to learn how it works 
and to create a version for myself that caters to my picky tastes.


GL

1. 
http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/?post/2014/01/05/Funding-MathML-Developments-in-Gecko-and-WebKit-%28part-2%29
2. https://mozillians.org/u/darktrojan/
3. 
https://hg.mozilla.org/users/geoff_darktrojan.net/comm-central-patches/file/tip 
(Like I said, I wrote them for me, so they're as-is, where-is.)