We actually specifically don't want this to be our employees. Rather, we want the foundation to employ the maintainers (whom we'll pay for). Which is partially because of the bad incentives the former approach creates.

Disclaimer: Work at Spacelift, and currently temporary Technical Lead of the OpenTF Project, until it's committee-steered.

Sounds like a good first plan to go with, with a decent chance of success. :)

env0 founder here. env0 raised $42M (from investors such as Microsoft) and growing fast. We are honored to support OpenTF and already assigned 5 engineers (you will see the usernames in the opentf GitHub repo once that become public).