I think the best way to support this kind of effort is to have more people know what FPGA is and what they can do with it ... So they can use the tools and tinker with this stuff. So if you're into this space just write more content : articles, how-to's, videos, tutorials etc.
Also, more SW programmers should be getting into this field, as by working in SW first you realize all the things that need improvement in the FPGA world (which the FPGA people didn't recognize, not knowing how SW is done in the modern world, or got used to).
A colleague and I bought TinyFPGA boards to learn FPGA. So far I can do everything I need with a microcontroller, but would like to get ahead of the game. I got "LED Blink" working, which is the embedded version of Hello World.
It's a great product.
There's definitely a quality gradient from mainstream OS development tools down to FPGAs.
