The Bitcoin, or any "foundation" is just another beurocracy that can't scale without becoming terribly hierarchical, polarized, bottlenecked and evil (i.e. only focusing on what the guys at the top want).
In my opinion the only thing we need to be able to do is to build consensus. Not just popular consensus, but expert consensus, capital consensus, mining/network processing consensus, and many other kinds of consensus.
If we need to put up some money on lawyers to defend one of us from some government action, like everything else, it is simply a matter of building enough capital consensus.
If we want to make a dramatic and quick change to the processing network, we simply need to build consensus amongst the 101 delegates to agree to adopt the change...
When you think about it, EVERYTING is about building consensus. In the past, the only way to get consensus to scale, is through building a hierarchy. All we need to do is find a way to build much more consensus, on a far larger scale, instantly, without becoming hierarchical. Inability to do this this is the only thing standing in the way of a bottom up crypto currency system from quickly building enough consensus to include the entire world. Then we can finally simply ignore all the failed bureaucracies and hierarchies since we will no longer need them to build enough consensus to get anything done.
Building and measuring consensus is the only hard part. Once you can do that, everything else is easy. At least that is what we are attempting to do at Canonizer.com.