I'm often wondering if something like a mixture of the organizational setups of e.g. the Mozilla foundation, Kickstarter and Wikipedia could work for efforts like these?

Companies are the de-facto vehicle to do something interesting and worthwhile together while making a living out of it as well.

Why not take that some steps further and divorce the concept from the often more mindless than not "we have to make a profit!" shareholder value yaddayadda...?