Sure Sam, have you tried reaching out as a human first before going public?
I am not required to private message grant recipients about their progress before posting publicly on this thread. The whole purpose of this thread is for accountability and transparency in our grant process. Grant updates and discussions are posted publicly in these threads so everyone can participate and everyone has access to the same information. I don't understand why you seem to object to that.
Colin Campbell said:
With overdue grants I think it’s good to look at the big picture:
(This is generalisation, not specific to this grant for which I have no insight)
This work is already subsidised. With the lowering of FCT, the work is now heavily subsidised to the point of charity.
The resources don’t come from a magical pit of money. It is only able to be so heavily subsidised by the undertaking of commercial work alongside which has to take priority.
We should be grateful these grants still get done without demands for top ups.
Please recognise that the price the ecosystem pays for the value of FCT based awards declining, is not the completion/quality of work, but the timeline. Because bills have to be paid, ok!?
E.g guides resigning to take a normal job that can better support a family. Because that’s life, totally understandable.
It is certainly not making the timeline go faster to publicly call out the dev teams every week. It only pisses off the people doing this charity work.
So again I ask people to step back from their 0s and 1s, or their greed to sell other people’s creations and show some understanding for these grants that still ‘magically’ get completed in the face of their reward dropping 70%.
This grant started June 3rd and was supposed to conclude on September 3rd. The last update we had from the grantee was on August 5th--nearly four months ago. We all understand that development work is complicated and delays are not unusual, but the
bare minimum that is acceptable is to provide the community with updates about why there are delays, what the new estimated completion time is and provide the context around the situation. We have not even had that on this grant, so there are multiple community members politely requesting an update on the situation.
All of us are hurting at these FCT prices and we've all made sacrifices to continue to be involved in this ecosystem so continually bringing that up whenever the community attempts to get an update on a long-overdue grant isn't helpful, Colin. I understand that you are incredibly passionate about this ecosystem and have have made many sacrifices for it and I am genuinely grateful for your involvement in this community. However, you tend to go from zero to defensively emotional at the drop of a hat, and it's not helpful for constructive dialog and ensuring the integrity of our grant process.
I also object to calling this charity work. Grantees were paid exactly what they requested in their grant proposal and are expected to deliver what they promised they would. Therefore it's the grantees' responsibility to bid a suitable number of FCT, to price in risk, and to liquidate the necessary amount in order to ensure the project is funded. This is the expectation we have held other grantees to so I don't believe anyone should be an exception.
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