labels: public_good
start a charity/non-profit that funds open source. call it a "guild".
- guild sets a salary based on a market rate
- members of the guild get to vote on salary setting
- balance distribution of funds with rainy day savings
- members of the guild get to suggest new member candidates
- as program accumulates more notable people/projects, it will attract more donors.
- i.e. guild is incentivized to be discriminating and only invite candidate members who would add value
- similarly, some mechanism for voting out members. roberts rules?
simple as that. a collective that pays out a kind of "UBI" to FOSS contributors.