Many of the core developers are critical to the success of BTS and they are implicitly trusted by everyone who downloads the wallet.
For this reason I would like to suggest that the next release of the BTS wallet set the "default" approval for the following core developers:
Me, Toast, Nathan, Vikram, Valentine, James, Ben, Dan N., Eric F.
Each of these guys is implicitly trusted and contributing directly to the github source. This would really help the core team to get and keep the votes necessary without having to worry much about their salary. Users could always "unvote" them.
Thoughts?