Jumping in to provide my two cents as I go through all the proposals.
At a macro level, I very much also echo the questions raised about whether dCompass should continue to exist as a workstream in the context of the DAO. While the Trello links are helpful to dive into some of the specific objectives, I believe this budget request lacks context as to the ‘why’ of dCompass & the broader vision it is setting out to accomplish, and how that fits into the rest of the work the DAO does.
Given our focus on Grants 2.0 & becoming a Protocol DAO and my lack of clarity as to how dCompass fits into that, I plan to vote ‘no’ on this budget request. That said, I am eager to explore @DisruptionJoe’s suggestion of evaluating dCompass in a Mutual Grants context.
Finally, if this budget request is indeed pushed forward as a workstream funding request as proposed - to @fishbiscuit’s point, in keeping consistent with the approach of all the other workstreams, I believe the requested amount should be 3.5K GTC, not 19K GTC.