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>>Philip+(OP)
Great idea, I think there should be some conditions.

a) you should not be the owner (to avoid pet projects that are not actually useful) of the project or at least not the sole owner

b) ideally it should be some high impact projects that have little to no corpo sponsors as opposed to something like React

c) if your contribution is not merged in, it should not count as "work done"

>>netdev+p4
Agree but... these would be hard and expensive to assess objectively, in particular point b.

>>huqeda+t5
Some government team could just make a list of allowable projects, updating it every year, and starting for example with all projects with over 100 GitHub stars or some similar metric.

>>london+H6
> all projects with over 100 GitHub stars or some similar metric.

I think it would be difficult to come up with a good metric. For example, it should not be based on some easily faked number governed by a foreign company.