A proposal for a scalable way to fund Open Source with Kudos at Semicolons
summary
Proposes an open algorithm called Kudos that records every contribution and splits a fixed monthly budget (examples given: $100 to $100,000) among contributors instead of using supply and demand pricing. Provides a GitHub action at semicolon.comom that scans commits, runs SBOM analysis, captures GitHub handles and emails, and emits “you received Kudos” notifications; system is live but described as very early stage and includes tooling to map handles to payment addresses.
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