We approached Heroku with the idea of maintaining the databasedotcom gem through the
CloudSpokes community a couple of months ago. After several meetings with them we are ready to go and will be kicking off a number of development challenges in the next week or so. Appirio will be funding the prize money but the code will go back to the community. I think we are going to start with writing test coverage and documentation but will have many more challenges for bug hunts, additional functionality, etc. As you know, there is quite an issue list.