Hi Everyone,
After many hours of conversation and another meeting with ZCG, we have decided to pause this application as it stands and reopen it when we have time to create a proposal that is broken down by packages. We will have more info on what this means when we reach back out, but the short of it is that we want the community to be able to partake in the process of deciding which elements of our work are priorities at different times without halting the overall effort. We believe the solution to this is the creation of a Zcash specific media ‘Menu.’ Yet, it will take some time to create this.
Please know that this decision is not an easy one, as many of our team members have put in multiple unpaid months now in an attempt to bring our next effort to life. But we believe this will be a better system long term (and we want to be involved long term), so we decided it is worth the investment to create this package plan even though it will take us another couple months to do so.
When we worked through this idea with ZCG, we brought up the fact that some bridge funding would allow key team members to continue working on Twitter, Interviews at Zcon, and Social Media Cuts. They agreed that this would help maintain some presence in the interim, so we agreed to submit a separate proposal for this bridge funding. That will be posted in a different thread sometime next week when we have time to draft it.
Per ZCG’s request, this thread about the long term grant will remain open during our time away, to maintain the history of this conversation. When we return, we will post our update here.
Lastly, we want to help Zcash continue to define collective value propositions for ZEC. So we will be hosting a Zcash Media Value Proposition Meeting at Zcon for anyone in the community who is interested in sharing their ideas. More info on this will be shared in a separate thread when we get closer to the event.
We look forward to seeing you all at Zcon.
Sincerely,
Natasha