Infrastructure Treasury funding

[rich]

@lolmcshizz

One infrastructure bounty (or maybe even an Infrastructure Collective? ) with a budget approved through Opengov that covers any and all infrastructure needs for the entire Polkadot ecosystem.

Who decides what is and what isn’t categorised under an infrastructure label?

Example:

Infrastructure Funding for Polkadot Asset Hub - Migration of Kusama NFTs discussion

Full proposal Analytics tool for NFTs Summary of Proposal: Infrastructure Funding for Polkadot Asset Hub - Migration of Kusama NFTs The Background This proposal represents a strategic opportunity to migrate NFTs to Polkadot Asset Hub from Kusama Relay chain. With 34,176 $KSM in total value locked in NFT sales and highly engaged users, Kusama has tremendous creative energy ready to expand Polkadot’s reach. Migrating these diverse high-value NFT collections, comprising 2,847 total collections, …

@rich

There are fundamental issues when attempting to categorise and assess spend via domain based approaches, since definitions are in constant flux, metrics are unclear and outcomes are not considered.

For example maintenance and infrastructure covers an ever expanding area including the following:

• Analytics
• Explorers
• Discussion forums
• Contract frameworks / compilation tools
• Treasury interfaces
• Substrate API client
• Web3 alerts
• Snapshots
• Indexing
• Moderation
• Media