At a very basic level I agree that the time commitment should be increased and would support a coinciding bump in pay to support this increased commitment. I base this assessment on:
- The gaps to achieve ubiquitous adoption listed in the ZOMG white paper
- @ml_sudo’s discussion about “The Work” that ZOMG could be doing to run more effectively if they had time.
- And basic logic that tells me that 5 hours a month x5 members is simply not enough time dedicated towards managing a 40% budget allocation.
Given that the nominal compensation for ZOMG members is currently derived from the ZFND budget I understand that this increased cost would encroach on their budget and am not sure how willing they would be to provide more given they are also trying to hire out their team.
I think that zip-1014 should at a minimum be amended to allow ZOMG members to be paid by ZOMG funds (still administered by ZFND) for up to X hours per month, whatever we want to agree that hour limit is (I support an increase to 20, then evaluate the performance and workload as the members build upon and perform via the established framework). Is this legally feasible if we amended the ZIP with ZCAP approval?
I think that the ZOMG should and could be doing more outreach to the broader crypto-asset ecosystem for the purposes of finding/marketing to people that may be interested in working on Zcash related projects but are not familiar with the funding and seeking areas where Zcash can interoperate with the rest of the ecosystem. I would love to see podcast discussions, social media outreach, and targeted outreach to up and coming projects like @mhluongo’s Tally cash, an alternative to Metamask that has a noteworthy amount of social traction (have seen multi-chain interest expressed by community members in their discord).
Zcash also has a lot of amazing things coming down the pipe and I personally feel that we are about to get slammed with renewed interest in Zcash whether that be from market cap appreciation or gaining old followers who left because of some contentious items like the trusted setup and lack of shielded pool usage (which appears to be growing quickly). I personally hope to see a majority of the ZOMG members run again and think they have done great to this point given the limited time commitment.
Let’s make incremental improvements and iterate on what’s working, with ZCAP approval of course.
Aside from the current issue of ZOMG needs more time to support major grant management there is another idea that has surfaced recently that might be appropriate for this thread, albeit maybe a longer term discussion. I see allocating more hours to MGRC as a basic first priority.