I agree with most of your thoughts. You say: "unfortunately it is not possible to pay bills with pull requests", that's one of the reasons I'm working on http:

I agree with most of your thoughts. You say: "unfortunately it is not possible to pay bills with pull requests", that's one of the reasons I'm working on http://issuehunter.co http://issuehunter.co, a project to get paid for OSS development. It's a crowdfunding platform based on GitHub issues, it should improve and accelerate open source software development process. I'll shortly release a beta version and I'd really like to get some of that big percentage of developers that "do a lot of work in their free time for passion" as beta testers. Well, there's an alpha version at http://issuehunter.herokuapp.com http://issuehunter.herokuapp.com where you can sign up but it's not fully functional at the moment. You can follow http://twitter.com/issuehunter http://twitter.com/issuehunter to get notified about project updates.