Thanks Elliot!
So I am also not sure. Simply voicing my concerns. And as I said above I still think the system is quite skewed towards popular projects so the categories, so far at least, seemed to have helped.
I totally get the view that we can experiment for a round with a global pot to see how the system works in its purest most unrestricted form (okay maybe with limits on the max match per grant).
But as you said maybe let’s do this gradually?
@annika I would like to propose if this goes to a vote to have 2 more options.
Option 2: Do GR12 with the same categories as GR11 (without any regional ones).
Option 3: Do a 50/50. So 50% of the matching pot in a global category, and 50% category based.
Point of Option 3 would be to go gradually and maybe even have data to compare the two approaches through actions of the same round.