Having a big community is probably what really should help kicking off the project - if the community counts 10 people with similar backgrounds it's very likely

Having a big community is probably what really should help kicking off the project - if the community counts 10 people with similar backgrounds it's very likely that the choices here will be biased. Having a bigger and more diverse community (with different backgrounds) should help have a more fair overview and by democratic voting the project should proceed in a way that it causes the least amount of people to not be happy with the choices. I'll personally not protect my own ideas, because I'm not the project owner - it's meant to be a community effort and I expect to see waay more than one person in the driver seat.