Who wants to work on monetizing open source by working hard to create a reliable way of paying the project creators to do the interesting work as what they get paid for?

Now that sounds meaningful. Email me if you agree.

Would you mind elaborating on what you had in mind?

It's a good idea. There should be an easy way for a small team to capture the value that their open source project creates. There are a variety of crowdfunding platforms like Patreon that are doing something similar. CodeMill and Bountysource are paying developers directly for adding features.

Interesting idea.

Maybe a software repository site, where users must watch a 30 second commercial, before they can download the software. Then a percentage of the profits made from selling that commercial is shared with the programmer.

Sounds like sourceforge, but I don't know how that site is monetized, or if they share the revenues with the project creators.

I worked on that for a while. If anyone would like to join me let me know.