I had the same idea, it's great to know I'm not alone :-) I was imagining an 'enforced' democratic website ie the website runs the live code that any user can submit patches and/or vote on, and no-one has root.

At some point this sort of thing becomes a co-operative business... kind of big for a side project :-/

Anyway I started a python prototype (see my profile), and would love to bounce ideas off you!