# Important: Deadline for ZIPs (likely Dev Fund related) that want to be activated next halvening **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [June 19, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/important-deadline-for-zips-likely-dev-fund-related-that-want-to-be-activated-next-halvening/48004 "2024-06-19T17:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![noamchom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/noamchom/32/20269_2.png) [@noamchom](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/noamchom)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/important-deadline-for-zips-likely-dev-fund-related-that-want-to-be-activated-next-halvening/48004/33 "2024-07-12T13:35:52Z")
Certainly correct on an individual level, I used “peanuts” as a comparison to ECC and ZF monthly operating expenses. At $23 per ZEC for another few years, the post-halving income for even the most generous proposals only provides those orgs with a couple months of operating expenses per year. * * * _general question_ Under a lockbox/ NDFM solution, what frequency will we anticipate individuals to be making work proposals? Is there any means of reducing over administration on the 1 by 1 level? Part of me is becoming skeptical of breaking the organizations down into individuals, because then the process of writing grant proposals gets pushed down each of the R&D engineers, the managers, the marketers, etc * * * _another aside_ What is _ **clear consensus** _? If a majority of voters support some variation of a lockbox +NDFM mandate proposal, does that mean there is consensus abstractly, but more work to be done about picking the ideal %s and durations? If voting comes back and its ~evenly distributed among all proposals does that assume no-consensus and cause an end to the Dev Fund? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/important-deadline-for-zips-likely-dev-fund-related-that-want-to-be-activated-next-halvening/48004)._