# Decentralizing the Dev Fee

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/decentralizing-the-dev-fee/35252>\
**Category:** protocol\
**Created:** [October 25, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/decentralizing-the-dev-fee/35252 "2019-10-25T18:45:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/decentralizing-the-dev-fee/35252/68 "2019-11-07T21:27:25Z")

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> [@sonya](#):
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> One-off grants are just not enticing enough. We should view this more like a recruiting process, where we try to sell devs on joining Zcash, not the other way around.

I don’t understand this argument. This proposals calls for

> “outside development fee” [to] development teams, chosen semi-annually by the Foundation

How is this any more enticing, or any _different_, than the _same team_ getting funded to do _the same work_ with _the same amount of effort and uncertainty_, by sequence of “one-off grants” of the _same ZEC amount_? In both cases, the teams have to show up every 6 months with plans justifying the continued receipt of funds. Which sounds good to me! Do we want something else?

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