@Chris4210 mentioned in the hangout that I had a good idea for the workers but didn't explain it. I couldn't recall what was that idea myself. After some painfull brain digging, I think I recall now.
I thought at the time that the idea wasn't good because nobody noticed it in telegram but if Chris still remembers, it's probably worth the time to write it down in the forum.
My idea was to create a worker that takes the funds from the reserve pool and send them in a multi-sig, committee, trusted members, whatever high trust account. Let's call this account the "X-account".
The money would accumulate slowly on this X-account.
Once we have this worker rolling, we create a list of all the beautiful things we want for BitShares, small and big things, all we can dream of.
With a voting mechanism (maybe steem ?) we determine how much money the whole community (Chinese also) would agree to pay for each feature (delicate work).
Once we have the maximum budget for each feature, we can publish this list everywhere where there are developers.
After that, every time we have one dev interested to implement a feature of the list with the defined budget, we would already have the money sitting on the X-account. When the work of the dev has been done and verified, we can release the funds.
This system would be some kind of momentary system to get things moving. A big problem now is that is very risky to create a worker. With BTS at 0.05$, any workers going to add a little something to BTS will be voted in and kept until completion.
I'm not sure how we could pull this out or even if it's a good idea but here you can brainstorm if you like it ^^