Now this is something I can get behind. Think of a github-like implantation of the steem protocol. All your code lives in the blockchain, incorruptible and invulnerable to attack. All of those stars, forks, shares, watchers on Github could convert to some flavor of an "upvote".

You could even get contribution rewards on a per commit basis, or by solving an issue/opening a pull request. This would be the best way to not only fund open source software but to directly fund the developers contributing to projects, whether they're long term contributors or just once.

Great ideas Hive account@benslayton!