[jlbnjmn]

There are several projects in the low cost, user maintainable, appropriate technology space that I'm currently estimating the feasibility of starting.

I'm biased towards fascination with processes and markets, however, and value mapping and incentives are more strengths of mine than programming.

From my vantage point, there's a massive shortcoming in the mechanisms by which programmers, user programmers, and users are connecting.

Simply, I know several programmers looking for interesting physical world side projects and several craftspeople looking for automation. There's simply not a clear way to meaningfully connect them.

My ideas revolve around defined test, unit based recognition/compensation.

Person A has a specific use case, proposes it, persons B-G have similar use cases and agree on a test specification and deadline and place deposits. When the deadline is reached, the best performing commit is selected and merged, and the developer receives recognition and compensation.