Being a nostr dev uniquely qualifies you to ditribute funds? Is this on the assumption that non-nostr devs don't understand nostr enough to vote effectively? What qualifies one as a nostr dev? Whats the litmus test? There are some nostriches that are not devs but would be well suited to assess projects, are they disqualified?
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For the last one: no they aren’t. including some people would be reasonable, but the test for “power user” is also vague
But also if you want users to assess projects… did you hear of Kickstarter
In Europe a whole lot of film funding relies on funding from foundations and gov entities. The panels are usually constituted of filmmakers and often also film distributors. The audience is represented by the experience of the filmmakers on the panel, they have had a relationship with the audience for years.
- library dev has revolutionary idea and creates a funding campaign
- client dev sees a use for this, creates another funding campaign sending parts of the money to the library dev
- users fund clients
- clients fund libraries
- everything gets built
- library dev has a stupid idea, creates funding campaign
- client devs don’t see a use for this except one (a bad use), creates funding
- users don’t see value proposition
- fail
Kickstarter is a great model for funding. Do you see a lot of devs be funded there? I only have experience funding niche board games there.
it’s the model that works, and doesn’t involve kingmakers like opensats, or any board bias at all even though I tried to avoid that with my proposal
clients compete for attention: what users really want gets funded
ideas are sent from the lowest level like relay implementations and libraries to user facing parts like clients
Is there something like Kickstarter, but for Nostr projects, with sat payments? I only know of the bounty board.
