I would be interested to see more CS research happen in a more open source like way, like how we see projects work on github where it is easy for anyone with an interest in an area to get involved, run the code and contribute.
Obviously this wouldn't be possible in all branches of CS research and there is the danger that these kind of projects would get stuck local maximas without a few minds driving the research and the ability to understand it well enough to make large scale changes.
Still a lot of good could probably come out of it, plenty of smart CS minds that while they don't have time to commit to the reading and work required to drive their own research project have the expertise to contribute to small parts of other peoples.
That's funny, because, you see, actual research really works like this. Instead of Github you've got journals, and seminars on universities. The smart minds contributing small parts to other people's research are graduate students.
The thing is, actually contributing in the cutting-edge research is much harder than helping FOSS projects. Most researchers I know think of their problems day and night, while to be helpful in community software projects it's enough to spend few hours on weekends.
Obviously this wouldn't be possible in all branches of CS research and there is the danger that these kind of projects would get stuck local maximas without a few minds driving the research and the ability to understand it well enough to make large scale changes.
Still a lot of good could probably come out of it, plenty of smart CS minds that while they don't have time to commit to the reading and work required to drive their own research project have the expertise to contribute to small parts of other peoples.