Really appreciate this clarification, Saf. I definitely agree, and see S15 as an opportunity for the three workstreams with community-based objectives to align efforts, eliminate redundancies, and ideally reduce costs substantially, during S16 and onwards.
Regarding the second concern, the first PGF budget passed on Snapshot on August 6th, 2021. The first proposal was for 45k $GTC. On August 6th, the price of $GTC was roughly $9 USD (so the rough $USD value of 45k GTC was $405,000). You can find a detailed breakdown of the first proposal here. TLDR “Grassroots Efforts” was just one of four key objectives.
I agree it isn’t too helpful, generally, to compare anything we are doing now to what we are doing over a year ago. But it is a helpful practice, I find, to look at the beginning when we are considering the end.
The first objective for Grassroots efforts from July 2021 was to “increase collaboration between community members and level up new participants and increase matching pool donations.” I believe Grassroots (and PGF) has done an exceptional job staying true to this original objective.
The Library, also, to my knowledge emerged from this initiative where there was a request for proposals on “Seeking a New Kind of Public Good”.
PGF, like all workstreams at Gitcoin, has continued to adapt since July 2021. I’m excited for Grassroots to especially adapt to the protocol development, and continue building community in very close collaboration with DAO Ops and MMM during S15.