[paulmontwill]

I was thinking – there are many situations when a lot of people need a certain functionality but there is no plugin available or it is out-of-date. Maybe we can set some kind of mechanism or use kickstarter.com so that buddypress developers can collect requirements and everybody interested can spend $10-20 on each of it. This way we will fund additional functionalities we need and that we struggle without.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Kickstarter seems really awesome, but, you have to have an American bank account to set up a project. A lot of BuddyPress plugin authors, myself included, seem to be based outside America. I’ve not found any European alternatives.

[paulmontwill]

What if we use Elance or something similar. It is all about the idea – I’m sure that a transaction platform is not a problem. It is more important how do we organise ourselves to request certain demands and find developers to build plugins.

UPDATE: For example I need to have a Buddypress Maps plugin working and need some plugin with extended fields for groups (it won’t be difficult to rewrite the Group Tags plugin).

[pcwriter]

There’s always Google Docs as a collaborative platform: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html
As for payment… ?

[paulmontwill]

We can have a group set up here – not a big deal, but I think admins should set some rules… it would be very useful, I am sure!