A programmer economy, D style?

[Georg Wrede]

> Bill Baxter wrote:
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>> Mike Parker wrote:
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>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
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>>>> Mike Parker wrote:
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>>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
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>>>>>> I've thought about cash prizes and contests. I just had the nagging feeling that the result would be a circus rather than serious development.
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>>>>> What about bounties? 
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>> Getting some Google summer-of-coders might be good too.
>> Where there any proposals for D this last time around?
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>> --bb
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> Actually there where (one mine), but it was ineligible to participate.
> The reason was: proposals must be submitted under the respective mentor
> organizations, and if there is no mentor organization for the proposal,
> it can be submitted to Google. However this year's SoC (unlike the
> previous one) such applications without mentor organization must have a
> high "academic research focus", and when I found that out it was too
> late for new mentor organizations to sign up (one representing D was needed). :(
> I think it's an opportunity that should not be missed next year.

I've been thinking about this..........


IF there was as site where companies could specify apps, 
segments-of-apps, classes, or downright functions that they wanted to 
have, and if they specified how much they'd pay for them, how many 
people here would want to sign up as "potential coders"?

It's not like this were my dream to host, but given enough 
encouragement, support, or motivation, then I might really consider it. 
(And, of course, anyone else is free to set up a competing web site 
right now, without asking me.)

For a customer ready to adopt D, this would be an excellent way of 
jumping up to speed. And, for a company _not_ yet ready to use D, this 
could be an opportunity to acquire well programmed, fast and robust 
prototypes, for a fraction of the cost of ordering them the reagular way 
from SW-houses.

Opinions?