Here are the items you had concerns with for FDD. It would be great to know if the adjustments on this new potential budget proposal would satisfy these concerns.
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I think FDD should be clear on what is a part of the broad mission and what is mission-critical
Does this graphic help?
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I am still of the opinion that the following items are not necessary (126.4k USD):
- FDD Storytellers (14.4k USD) i’m still not convinced this is needed
Gone - FDD Mandate Delivery (16.5k USD) I think this can definitely be a much smaller one-off project that doesn’t cost this much either
I don’t think we are communicating the extent of this role. Kish is actively taking over the synthesizing of all our info to understand if we are living up to our mandate in addition to building out dashboards. He will be putting together the entire FDD budget proposal next season. This removes a key man issue. This and oXS are crucial to how we function. - Sybil Detection DAO (60k USD) taking up 9.2% of the budget, I think if its spinning out into a DAO, it should be considered as part of mutual grants
We would really like to do the discovery before asking for a mutual grant. What we can’t do is commit to a stake before the other initial governance partners arrive, cause that would kill the concept. Maybe Danilo answer here helps to explain it better. [S14 Proposal] FDD Season 14 Budget Request - #50 by danlessa - Ethelo (13k USD) should be kept separate. We did use it before in public library and I think its a great tool but it isn’t clear why FDD should be developing it.
Gone, but we are finishing the already started work of integrating it to the grant review system. We needed a tool to scale our ability to review the massive number of grant applications. We tested ethelo and it worked. They have put up the risk of paying for most of the development this far. The budget was to containerize and automate some processes. Not needed, but will result in lower quality results and higher manual labor costs. (Which is confusing because we are being told to use software solutions instead of increasing manual labor!) - Reward modeling (22.5k USD) when I dived into it and its goal is “system for incentivizing reviewer participation which maintains output quality is simulated and designed” I think having a budget and paying people for work done is
The new format has this in the options. This work would lead to us having a way for communities using grants 2.0 to use community curation for eligibility rather than delegation. I think that would provide communities better results in terms of their desired outcome - better allocating resources to the will of their community. (The other option is to delegate authority through their governance, but we have only seen systems with a central point of failure get corrupted a few times so I may be blowing this out of proportion!) Really though, the fundamental reason why Twitter and Facebook don’t build a system that is more representative of peoples desires in content moderation is because A - It’s cheaper to delegate B - They cant have assymentric advantage in how the system works. Reason A is why I think we need to provide this. Because it is a public digital infrastructure, no one entity will invest in it. AND we are SOOO close already!
- FDD Storytellers (14.4k USD) i’m still not convinced this is needed
