I think we’ve done a pretty good job of that with the FIO Protocol. You can see the community wiki here: https://fioprotocol.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FC/overview
The centralized company that built the first version of the protocol essentially no longer exists and everyone works independently via active worker proposals evaluated by a steering committee with a budget approved by the foundation board which is selected via the existing board members through a straw poll vote by the token holders.