As both a Zcash Ad Hoc Caucus Member and Zcash Community Advisory Panel Member I have some observations and feedback to share about both this proposal, and some differences that I see between ZCAP and ZAC.
Today, I received this invitation to complete a survey regarding ECCs proposal. On one hand I’m pleased that ECC is organizing and being more active in soliciting feedback from the community. On the other, I’m disappointed that ECC seems to be giving the community an ultimatum: cease future development funding or accept a proposal that sends funds to a grants pool managed in a yet to be determined decentralized manner.
It’s one thing for ECC to say that they no longer wish to receive a portion of the dev fund. It’s another thing to completely ignore other proposals that the community has put forward and say that they will only support these two.
If ECC doesn’t want to receive a portion of the dev fund - great. It’s one less org to sustain. But, if the community finds value in funding the Zcash Foundation because of their role in supporting Zebrad node development, the node that the community has decided is the best past forward, will ECC support this decision? Does ECC intend to use their position in their discussions with ZF on dropping their portion of the trademark agreement?
Putting the proposal aside, I want to point out a difference between the ZCAP and ZAC I see right now.
I feel that what ZF has done thus far with ZCAP is listen to the community and propose questions to the community based on what they hear. Sure we may quibble over wording of questions and some may have desires for ZCAP to be used more from time to time, but you can tell ZF is listening. This is the “listen first, then ask” approach.
The question that we got via ZAC today does not show that ECC is listening to the community or intends to accept input from those in the community who have shared opinions that differ from ECC’s views. This is the “give the community options based on our stance” approach.
I like the first option more than the latter.
Finally, I’m really curious about the differences between the tool that ZF uses to gauge sentiment from ZCAP (Helios) and what ECC is using for this survey (Alchemer). As a survey respondent, is my response anonymous with the rest of the respondents?
