Application for Major Grants Review Committee

Shawn · June 11, 2020, 9:25pm

I’m not sure about this part @mistfpga

The part of ZIP-1014 that I quoted regarding performance factors:

I think means that the ZF shall set “key performance indicators” but it will remain up to the MGRC to follow up with the teams to see these indicators are met. I my interpretation that means it’s a sort checklist, not too dissimilar to what previous Zcash Foundation grant recipients have had to do when they accepted a grant:

github.com

ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2018Q2/blob/master/README.md#progress-reports

# Zcash Foundation Grants: Call for Proposals (Q2 2018)

The Zcash Foundation is offering grants to fund projects proposed and carried out by Zcash community members, similar to the [2017Q4 Grant Program](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2017Q4).

## Scope

We are interested in funding proposals that support both the [Mission](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/blob/master/MISSION.md) and [Values](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/blob/master/VALUES.md) of the [Zcash Foundation](https://z.cash.foundation). The scope of activities is broad, and can include: software development (e.g., wallet software, libraries, etc.), infrastructure development and maintenance (e.g., hosting forums and block explorer services, etc.), education and outreach, science and research, and many more. It is expected that projects will maintain an open process and—if applicable—will release code as open source.

The [Zcash Foundation](https://z.cash.foundation) is a non-profit organization, and is therefore especially interested in funding proposals that are public goods and not obviously monetizable. We are not looking to fund startup companies that can seek crowdfunding or venture capital investing, or websites that sell advertising space.

The intended scale is 1 to 6 person-months of effort, plus direct expenses such as servers and cloud services.

For examples of project ideas, see this (world-editable) Wiki document: https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/wiki/Grant-Project-Ideas

## Context

This is the fourth round of monetary awards granted to the community. The [Open Source Miner Challenge](https://zcashminers.org/) was focused specifically on optimized open-source mining software. The [Test Transaction Awards](http://z.cash.foundation//blog/test-transactions/) were awarded retroactively to several community pioneers for their outstanding technical and community-building work. The [2017Q4 Grants](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/GrantProposals-2017Q4) were awarded through a similar process outlined here.

The new Zcash Foundation Grants aim for a systematic, forward-looking mechanism to support community efforts, with broader scope and an open community-review process.

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More of a “starting point” for MGRC to expand upon and adapt to the projects as selected.

Disbursement of funds and contracts will still be handled by the Zcash Foundation for tax/501c purposes but it will be the responsibility of the MGRC members to give a “green light” of sorts (based on the progress reports/milestones) for the next payout to a recipient.

I’m thinking of it like if it were a company. Where the management (MGRC) make the day to day decisions hire/evaluate/fire and hand it over to payroll (ZFND) to make sure everyone gets paperwork and paid properly.