I agree we need a fund but first we need to agree on a design and a plan. I'd be willing to throw a few bucks to a fund in exchange for shares or something to make sure we can get our money back.

Like a kickstarter where we fund the development of the exchange with Bitcoin to buy shares and then we get all our Bitcoin back WITH A PROFIT when the project is completed. This would allow Bitcointalk to gather enough funds in Bitcoin to hold up both for the Bitcoin (Xprize) contest and ultimately for the developers who decide to take on the role. Consider how much money could be at stake in terms of the long term profits on your Bitcon and consider also that to pay for this we could have transaction fees which would give us double what we paid in  and it could be both profitable for us to invest in having the infrastructure built and profitable for the developers who would get paid by us to build it.

Who agrees with this idea? If you agree with this idea then lets figure out how to do it ASAP. Let's have either a contest to determine a design or let the programmers themselves create a bunch of kickstarters and bitcoin investment funds right away and let the community fund them all and see which team wins.

GO GO GO!