I think it's evident now that a purely community-based effort to advance CL cannot realistically happen; even the CDR[1] is unmantained, and in the course of the last years many knowledgeable people have been progressively leaving the community, CL, or both.
I am wondering how the "other" languages obtain funding for such things. For example, Julia raised $4M one year ago. Or should we acknowledge that no one cares about Lisp anymore? :(