hey, first of all about value you forget about becoming witness , every one with pc can start to help steemit with mining blocks :)
second i like idea of project and competitions, there is many contests and competition like to write fiction and so on to help people and we have small communities, i think we need more like reddit things ( they have subreddits with communities ) so we will have more like communities of our interests.
I will wait monday for next part for more deeper things :)
we need to go deeper