writer and analyst i'd call it

also not just software development but also resilient, reliable communication systems

two responses to that:

- Sometimes changing nothing is the best plan. "First do no harm" sort of thing. Clogging and obscuring the existing process being the worst-case outcome to "fucking with it too much".

- No. Do I need to have a counter-proposal in order to point out the problems with this one?

- That said, also maybe I do have a counter-proposal: increase agency and quality by focusing, not widening. It's Cathedral time, not Bazaar time (yet). The applicants that are most likely to be motivated to put in the (minimal) effort to apply are likely the ones you want applying. And I think there's a similar executive-style approach you want on the decision process side: fewer, competent, high-agency individuals with more authority to make important decisions.

At this moment you want fiatjaf and Satoshi style figures getting a lot done in the grant-deciding world, not enormous committee processes and hours of wasted effort on busy work for the sake of "openness".

Yes.

The other options are also more politically neutral.

Many Nostriches have had frequent prior interactions (or run-ins) with the people dispersing the OpenSats budget. So long as the process is intransparent or unclear, they will worry about accusations of favoritism or a lack of impartiality of the evaluators.

Whereas, if you simply ask for donations or subscriptions, then the other person is spending their own money and it's their own business.

That might help explain why some of the most visible, productive and engaged devs have effectively recused themselves from applying for grants, whereas many relative unknowns apply. This is leading to an increasing bifurcation between the quality and amount of work being done and the grants being spent.

I just recognize when it's necessary to cathedral rather than to bazaar.

In early days when protocols and clients are emerging and being defined, you want focused consolidation of power. Imagine if fiatjaf had to write the original Nostr spec in collaboration with 25 other people, with every major choice going through a "decision making process"?

You open the bazaar later once certain core components are essentially frozen and immune.

I'm not. She's making suggestions that add absurd amounts of overhead, communal decision-making and arbitrary inclusion. Looks like a recipe for a zoo of spam, low-quality projects, disinterested project leaders (they didn't even want to fill out a form?), arguments over moderation, and ultimately will _lead_ to a bureaucratic nightmare of upkeep just to keep a weak pulse.

I'm more in favor of few, focused, motivated parties making high-quality decisions with more authority over the resources they command. Fewer, authoritative, sovereign CEOs. Not a committee.

More like how we got Bitcoin, less like how governments run.

If your project isn't open-source, you should need more thorough documentation and a working prototype, but you should still be allowed to apply because other people can learn from your efforts.

But that's probably a minority view. 🤷‍♀️

Overall some of the worst ideas I can imagine.

"There are countless reasons a developer might not apply for a grant - they may not want a grant, or be too busy, or not interested in the commitment - so others should apply for them. But also there shouldn't be an application process.

And applications never close, they just endlessly pile up into future rounds.

Also the decision process is going to be more granular and documented, so the amount of admin work for each larger and larger round also gets larger.

And that decision process will be very objective and out in the open, but also "people who spam the process" will be blocked, and it'll be entirely clear who is "spamming" and who is just "really eager to nominate 10 developers a day who didn't actually ask for grants to begin with".

Wtf

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