ZOMG is not what i thought

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I believe ZFND is hiring more people for staffing.

@Shawn

ML voiced that there is an urgency of finding a person to help ZOMG. Chris brought up that he feels that the communication with Jack is adversarial and ML agreed. Chris summarized his perspective: ZOMG has put forth many things and has been told to just stick to making decisions on grants;[ ZOMG needs help holding grantees accountable as it is outside the ZOMG time commitment; ZOMG was told that ZF will support them on this and they have not received support. Alex reassured the committee that the Ecosystems Relations Manager (ERM) position will be posted soon and the Foundation will be aggressively recruiting as ZF sees it as a huge priority. ML suggested that ZOMG be given the funds to hire a part-timer or support until the ERM position is filled.

[Emphasis mine.]

That said, (and I say this without context because I have stayed out of this side of ZFNDs operations nor followed the public discussions), from the quote above, it sure sounds like ZOMG wants to do a number of things that aren’t just handing out grants and there’s some push back because it would bring them into third entity territory. And the community intentionally rejected that in ZIP 1014. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of back and forth on this, provided its reasonable, but that seems to be whats going on.

Again, it seems the push back is happening precisely because of the safeguards put in place in zip 1014 , after a long community discussion and vote, to ensure there is a balance of power. This meant we need to ensure its two entities (ZFND and ECC), not 1 v 1 + a proxy = 2 v 1. ZOMG, per ZIP 1014 is, intentionally, really supposed to stick to just handing out grants.

And again, this is all subject to change by a public discussion, a new zip, and a new vote.