I'm a strong believer in barter as a way of leveraging your free time or resources. It's also a good way to build up a set of trusted relationships that don't have one person paying another, but both supporting each other. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm not talking about the Partnerships forum, which is for longer term partnerships. I'm talking about me trading 5,000 words of finance based copywriting for a year's worth of hosting or a small site web design. This may not suit everyone, but there could be some people - particularly part timers who could benefit from this. Now, I'm not a hippy (despite the evidence above) and I do know that we need to get paid - but there doesn't seem to be anywhere else on the net that offers this and DP could corner the market for this in web services.
You won't see any new developments on dp this year but we can put it in the pile of things to be considered for next year's cycle of improvements.