@aiyadt@ZcashSpicyTakes@_aristarchus_@NighthawkWallet 6/ Lastly, if certain stipend funded projects have shown meaningful adoption or unlocked new innovation, they should be encouraged to grow their teams come yearly renewals. Meaning higher budgets coming from ZCG.
Reward those that are growing the ecosystem.
@aiyadt@ZcashSpicyTakes@_aristarchus_@NighthawkWallet 5/ Example: something like messaging built on Zcash realistically requires a stipend of $30k mo for a 2-3 person senior team for many years to come.
The longer the team can rely on income stability, the more progress can be made.
@aiyadt@ZcashSpicyTakes@_aristarchus_@NighthawkWallet 6/ Senior devs expect stable bi-weekly payments. The grant process as it exists today isn't ideal for short term grants or long term grants.
The process takes to long for short term grants. Milestones are impossible to predict for long term grants. My 2 cents.
@aiyadt@ZcashSpicyTakes@_aristarchus_@NighthawkWallet 5/ If I applied for a multiple year grant and had to lay out every milestone ahead of time, there's a good chance we would miss delivery time on some milestones and my team would go unpaid.
It's impossible to predict everything ahead of time that far into the future.
@ZcashSpicyTakes@_aristarchus_@NighthawkWallet@aiyadt Would love to see ZCG fund a team long term working on messaging for Zcash.
I would have been working on Zcash full time but couldn't get proper funding for anything via the grants program. The process feels broken.
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