My suggestion to make your proposal more appealing to the community is to lay a roadmap covering your business plan to make this a sustainable project. Of course this shall have some milestones, deadlines, etc.

Otherwise, what will be the main source of income when the founding period ends? More funds fron the DAO?

As a chemist I think that the number of use cases for a platform backed by a dedicated scientific community are gigantic... But we need to integrate the interest some companies have for paying for research, lab services, and other related activities, with the potential this decentralized and global community has. Also, you can develop a platform integrated with Hive for coursera-like paid courses, this also might drive outside money I side the Hive platform.