Well one example is that bug that caused a panic on a certain date (I think it may have been leap year related) - machines just die then. Only way to recover from that would be some neat reboot system that recovers the data from RAM. But, all systems have dataloss, so this problem affects any main-memory system.

You may get more volunteers by publishing a paper outlining the core concept. I clearly remember reading things like the H-Store paper, or the Dremel paper, and saying "damn, this makes sense and is really cool". Implementation details can be worked out and engineering approaches tried. But the underlying concept should be clear.