I just want to set expectations here. Transparency does not require ZCG’s calls with prospective or active grantees to be made public to the community. We often have calls and rarely, if ever, record and post them. We do, however, communicate key takeaways and decisions in our biweekly meeting minutes or forum posts. A good example is a recent call we had with Taylor Hornby about his Zcash Ecosystem Security Lead grant proposal. @wobbzz did an excellent job summarizing the call to the community in a post on the forum.
Other times the grant applicant provides the transparency as Natasha did in her forum post last week when she summarized the meeting and relayed key decisions to the community, which included putting the Zcash Media: 2022-2023 grant on hold while they re-think their strategy and propose an alternative package-based proposal and, in the meantime, apply for a bridge grant to continue working on Twitter, Interviews at Zcon, and Social Media Cuts. The rest of the meeting was a very casual brainstorm session, and some of the ideas tossed around by ZCG/37L may or may not make it into their revised grant proposal. 37 Laines is under no obligation to incorporate our feedback, and at the end of the day, we make the decision whether to approve or reject the grant.
37 Laines has done an outstanding job being transparent with the community throughout their previous and current grant proposals. I will go so far as to say that no other grant applicant has engaged with the community in the open manner that they do. I very much appreciate that and value their presence in this community.