Hi mkt, this project looks very good.

Have you considered integrate it with the steem proposals? instead of delegations, merge-rewards get SBD (no need to create posts and vote them). And then this budget is used to reward github contributions.

For instance, merge-rewards creates 5 proposals in SPS that do not expire. Each one with a different payment (from $1 to $500 daily) and let the stakeholders decide how much they want to contribute.