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Monetize Open Source Software with XS:CODE

Introducing XS:CODE, a subscription based service looking to get OSS developers paid for their work.
Even as a hobby, writing OSS is serious work, up to par or even superseding that of closed source software, since hundreds or even thousand of eyes will be looking at your source and judging you. Hence you should be on your top performance.
On top of that, you have treat it as a real world project which has to be launched, managed, maintained and contributed to. Some of the tasks involved in that, as we've explored in "The Open Source Guides To Managing Open Source Software Projects", are to:

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