There is a lot on this thread, but on a specific point - I wanted to reassure @secparam that the @ZcashGrants doesn’t want to do more than hand out grants.
What Dodger implied in our first live conversation with him was that we should just show up on our bimonthly calls and say “yea or nay” to grants. At least that’s how it came across to all of us on that call.
We could do that, but then you end up with what is no better than a coin flipping process, which you don’t need to have run a full campaign process for in order to select a committee. And the results will speak for themselves: poor.
Instead, below is a list of what we think we need to do, in order to give out grants well, which would ultimately benefit everyone represented on this thread - community, ZF, ECC.
If someone were do do all this for us, so that we really only needed to show up for a call twice a week, and peruse perfectly written grants for an hour before each call, then we would be happy to pull our request for more and dedicated resources.
An experienced manager should know that doing The Work usually involves doing a lot of other things that don’t seem to be directly connected to The Work (like admin, cheerleading, managing, looking ahead,… the list goes on).