New financial sponsorship of bugs/blueprints in launchpad

Phase One: Giving Thanks.
A launchpad user should be able to donate/gift something of value to a particular user for:
  1. Fixing a bug
  2. Implementing a blueprint
  3. Particularly useful PPAs an packages.

This has some of advantages:
  1. This could generate revenue for canonical.
      a) revenue sharing from google checkout / paypal /amazon wishlist, etc or launchpad's own escrow system which could take a percentage of fees
  2. This would be nice for those that devote lots of volunteer time.

Risks:
  1. Tax implications in different countries?

Phase Two: Bounties for Work

A launchpad user should be able to offer financial support or backing for the same things, except ex ante.

This has a number of advantages:
  1. This could generate revenue for canonical.
      b) canonical developers could grab bounties for canonical.
  2. This would allow individual users to contract consulting services without the overhead or scale usually necessary.
  3. This would provide a proxy for the users utility, distinct from "Bug Heat" as currently implemented on launchpad."Ie how itchy does this bug make me"
  4. Possibly create a community of opensource consulting adding to the appeal of foss to business users.

Risks:
  * Arbitration system if disagreements occur?

Phase One is relatively low risk. Phase Two can benefit from much of the implementation from phase one, but the arbitration system would need serious specification and analysis to be reasonable.