Hello, @ZcashGrants!
Regarding our project, we would like to propose a grant budget plan change for approval.
The total budget and the milestone accomplishing time will remain the same.
The reasons that we would like to propose such change are:
(1) We would like to include a new team member Yunhao Wang, currently an MS student at Columbia University, and previously a software engineer at Amazon for ~3.5 years.
She will mainly contribute to the group OMR part of the project, including but not limited to implementation, testing, and algorithm design. She will be compensated by part of the original grant. The specific number is determined by her time spent on the project.
We believe her software engineering skills and enthusiasm for cryptography research would greatly help the research project and make the library better implemented.
(2) The original proposal was to support one academic year of Zeyu’s Ph.D. study but did not specify the specific time frame. We would also like to specify which year the grant is supposed to support, per university policy.
We posted a more detailed budget plan in the discussion section of our proposal.
Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Thank you very much!