Alarm bells! 🚨 re ZOMG

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I think it might be mostly moot, the entire plan was for ZOMG to be structured towards a goal that, for no fault of their own, isn’t viable. ZOMG cannot merely approve outside grants that people file for because there are not enough of them. This was the point i was trying to make in the other thread

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We need to understand a key thing: the root cause of ZOMGs problems is it was setup for the wrong purpose. Recall, the community left it to ZFND in ZIP1014 to decide how major grants were handed out. ZFND decided to have an elected committee. Later it was decided they would be paid for 5 hours of work per week (out of ZFNDs funds, not the ZOMG funds). All of this was with the idea that we’d get a number of grant applications and ZOMG merely needed to approve them. ZFND would then handle grant admin. We can quibble if this was the perfect setup, but we will never know because the grants never came. There are simply not a large number of qualified groups submitting good grants. ZOMG had the wrong purpose.