[prepperdev]

First of all, kudos for trying to find new ways to fund open source. Those are needed.

This approach might work well for issues which require a lot of thought, but produce a simple fix and can be easily merged

This might go horribly wrong if outside contributors try to implement a major feature to a project which they don't have a good mental model for, produce a large patch that may get rejected by maintainers, or end up being rewritten-by-code-review, which would cost such maintainers more time than if they implemented the feature in the first place.

It would be interesting to follow!

[waheoo]

Got to start somewhere, remember that you can always specialise on a project and pick up repeat work.

You could gatekeep certain jobs to certain experience levels as well.

I agree this will be interesting to follow.