# Community Call with the ZCG Candidates (14th December @ 20:00 UTC) **URL:** \ **Category:** ZCG Elections\ **Created:** [December 11, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237 "2023-12-11T22:25:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dodger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/dodger/32/3021_2.png) [@Dodger](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Dodger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/1 "2023-12-11T22:25:53Z")
As we have done for previous ZCG elections, we will be hosting a community call with the candidates who are standing for election to ZCG: - @aquietinvestor - [Jason McGee for ZCG (December 2023)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/jason-mcgee-for-zcg-december-2023/46154) - @BrunchTime - [Michael “Brunchtime” Harms for ZCG (December 2023)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/michael-brunchtime-harms-for-zcg-december-2023/46160) - @gordonesTV - [Roosevelt Gordones for ZCG (December 2023)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/roosevelt-gordones-for-zcg-december-2023/46161) - @ambimorph - [Amber (ambimorph) for ZCG (December 2023)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/amber-ambimorph-for-zcg-december-2023/46166) - @kworks - [Kworks for ZCG (December 2023)](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/kworks-for-zcg-december-2023/46168) The call wil take place on Thursday 14th December at 20:00 UTC. You can join the live call using this link: > **[Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting](https://zfnd-org.zoom.us/j/86120341168)** > > Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference... The call will also be recorded and uploaded to the ZF Youtube channel. Please post the questions you would like the candidates to answer in this thread 👇. The questions with the most likes (❤s) will be prioritized. Please suggest multiple questions as separate posts, so that they can be ❤'d separately. ---
**Author:** ![Dodger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/dodger/32/3021_2.png) [@Dodger](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Dodger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/2 "2023-12-11T22:26:29Z")
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**Author:** ![zerodartz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zerodartz/32/26722_2.png) [@zerodartz](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zerodartz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/3 "2023-12-12T11:22:13Z")
Would you do anyting different then in 2023 was done or decided by ZCG by havin more info and now current knowledge? ---
**Author:** ![zerodartz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zerodartz/32/26722_2.png) [@zerodartz](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zerodartz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/4 "2023-12-12T11:24:09Z")
If you were in ZCG in 2023, what was most important lesson learned in 2023 by being part of ZCG? If ur were not, what do u think will be hardest part of working in ZCG? ---
**Author:** ![wobbzz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/wobbzz/32/27021_2.png) [@wobbzz](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/wobbzz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/5 "2023-12-12T16:33:05Z")
If you could leverage the direct grant option to provide ongoing funding to any community contributor, who would you fund, why, and are there any parameters or stipulations you would apply to this? ---
**Author:** ![wobbzz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/wobbzz/32/27021_2.png) [@wobbzz](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/wobbzz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/6 "2023-12-12T16:33:38Z")
Given the distressed ZCG treasury, how would you balance funding community initiatives vs development resources? Which would you prioritize and why? ---
**Author:** ![wobbzz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/wobbzz/32/27021_2.png) [@wobbzz](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/wobbzz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/7 "2023-12-12T16:34:09Z")
Are there any ideas that you think are worth funding that ZCG has not funded or approved to date? What are they and why? ---
**Author:** ![Jgx7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jgx7](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Jgx7)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/8 "2023-12-12T16:53:21Z")
do you consider yourself a fiduciary for zec holders? ---
**Author:** ![pitmutt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/pitmutt/32/20544_2.png) [@pitmutt](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/pitmutt)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/9 "2023-12-12T20:45:50Z")
Do you have any RFPs in mind? ---
**Author:** ![pkr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/pkr/32/29938_2.png) [@pkr](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/pkr)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/10 "2023-12-13T03:07:56Z")
What’s your opinion of @Zooko as a leader? Do you think he’s doing a good job running the ECC eng team? ---
**Author:** ![pkr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/pkr/32/29938_2.png) [@pkr](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/pkr)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/11 "2023-12-13T03:09:56Z")
Do you see any conflict of interest with @nathan-at-least @zooko and @zancas all being related and affiliated with Zcash? ---
**Author:** ![pkr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/pkr/32/29938_2.png) [@pkr](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/pkr)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/12 "2023-12-13T03:10:43Z")
Do you think Zcash is decentralized? If so, please explain how. If not, how would you make it so? ---
**Author:** ![Trends](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/trends/32/32290_2.png) [@Trends](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Trends)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/13 "2023-12-13T04:25:08Z")
1. What pro-active steps can ZCG take to find developers and fund development of new features? 2. Would you be willing to provide additional funding to ECC, ZF, or Qedit if it meant increasing the utility of ZEC? 3. Would you be willing to establish a bounty system for the most requested upgrades by the community? 4. In what ways could ZCG leverage funding to strengthen the relationship of Zcash with other chains? ---
**Author:** ![zancas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zancas/32/42011_2.png) [@zancas](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zancas)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/14 "2023-12-13T15:19:40Z")
How would to shift the ZCG’s resources to reflect the needs and interests of Spanish-speaking peoples who might well form the plurality, or even majority, of ZEC users? ---
**Author:** ![Jgx7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jgx7](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Jgx7)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/15 "2023-12-13T16:05:37Z")
would you be willing to create a funding website similar to monero to enable the community to directly fund requests? ---
**Author:** ![ryan.taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/ryan.taylor/32/44336_2.png) [@ryan.taylor](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/ryan.taylor)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/17 "2023-12-14T07:54:12Z")
> [@Jgx7](#): > > enable the community to directly fund requests Nevermind Monero. We used to have this as a feature of the grants website and I think it’s time to bring it back. I just posted about this a couple weeks ago. > ---
**Author:** ![zancas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/zancas/32/42011_2.png) [@zancas](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zancas)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/18 "2023-12-14T18:49:19Z")
Do you live outside the US? Are you a citizen, of a country other than the US? Are you _fluent_ in any natural language besides English? I want to hear from people who can answer **¡Sí!** to all three of these questions. ---
**Author:** ![Jgx7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jgx7](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Jgx7)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/19 "2023-12-14T19:01:14Z")
> [@ryan.taylor](#): > > Nevermind Monero. We used to have this as a feature of the grants website and I think it’s time to bring it back. I just posted about this a couple weeks ago. my view is that zechub should do this and get 10%-20% of the funding as a fee to help support the website and kick starter like functions. I only mention Monero because the site looks slick with good UIUX. the fee is what starts to decentralize the development and maintenance and get funding off block rewards. we need a focus on fees as opposed to issuance to get the tokenomics working for us. ---
**Author:** ![dismad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/dismad/32/18432_2.png) [@dismad](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/dismad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/20 "2023-12-14T19:09:24Z")
> [@Jgx7](#): > > my view is that zechub should do this I encourage you to check our [dao dao](https://dao.juno.daodao.zone/juno1nktrulhakwm0n3wlyajpwxyg54n39xx4y8hdaqlty7mymf85vweq7m6t0y/home) treasury which has been funded via the community, anonymously. Our governance is very much an experiment but the setup is much the same as you suggest. We need FROST to really accelerate on the 🦓 side. 😍 ---
**Author:** ![decentralistdan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/decentralistdan/32/28747_2.png) [@decentralistdan](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/decentralistdan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237/21 "2023-12-14T19:31:14Z")
Call starts in 30min at this link: > **[Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting](https://zfnd-org.zoom.us/j/86120341168)** > > Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference... [Next page](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/community-call-with-the-zcg-candidates-14th-december-20-00-utc/46237.md?page=2)