Bounty for Bugs in Open Source Projects?

Hello,

I am interested to know if there is currently an initiative for commercial
organisations to offer a bounty (cash incentive) for bugs or features to
be implemented in Open Source projects. The company I work for would be
interested in paying developers on Open Source projects to implement
features, and to fix certain bugs that we require in some software, but
the only way to do this at the moment seems to be to contact the project
leader, or to post to the corresponding project mailing list with the
details.

So is there some central way to do this? If there is not, I would be
interested in setting up a site to facilitate this and kick it off by
having the company I work for pay developers for bug fixes and features.
What would the implications be for such a scheme?

Regards,
Nik

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