How does ZEC fit into the Zcash Foundation's long-term strategy?

[aquietinvestor]

@Dodger

The Zcash Foundation is committed to supporting the entire Zcash community, including - but not just - the zodlers. If Zcash is to fulfil its potential, we need more than zodlers. Far more.

We need enthusiasts who spread the word and evangelize about Zcash, and educators who can explain the benefits of Zcash to people who think Bitcoin is private.

We need exchanges to list ZEC so that people can buy and sell ZEC, merchants who accept payment in ZEC, and entrepreneurs building products and services on the Zcash network.

And perhaps most importantly at this stage of Zcash’s growth and development, we need developers who improve the Zcash protocol (like QEDIT are doing), and who build tools and products that support Zcash and enhance its utility, so the merchants and the entrepreneurs can do their thing, expose that utility to end users, and grow the network effects.

@Dodger This all sounds very nice, but how exactly is the Foundation living up to its commitment to “support the entire Zcash ecosystem” in the ways that you’ve mentioned? Virtually everything you listed are efforts that either ECC or ZCG are focused on, not the Foundation.

I’ll ask my question again: What’s the Foundation’s vision for Zcash? And more importantly, where’s the roadmap that lays out your organizational goals and objectives and how you plan to achieve them?

I’ve been asking this question for almost a year now. See here and here for reference.