I have been thinking lately, Polkadot Fellowship members that have been excelling in contributing to Polkadot should be rewarded with the ability to create their own bounties as they see fit to benefit the network. Properties of the see-through bounty. Fellowship members should: not have to defen…

Like part of the Treasury (a sub-Treasury) managed by the Fellowship? [image] Collective-Based, Multi-Asset Treasuries Governance I want to share how I see the Treasury evolving with respect to OpenGov and many of the challenges that people have been facing in the last yea…

[image] joepetrowski: Like part of the Treasury (a sub-Treasury) managed by the Fellowship? It is definitely in-line with this and yet one level further, on the individual Fellowship member level. You can think of it as a “frictionless” Treasury allocated spending amount tied to Rank. It is …

Well, can be an RFC, but seems a bit too much individual power to me. Things like approving an RFC require a Fellows origin vote to pass, merging PRs even by Fellows requires approvals (i.e. no PR author is above having their work reviewed). I think using some budget to fund things like the implemen…

Perhaps Bounties is too much for Fellows which are often in the midst of core development. Perhaps what we need is the ability for them to “spin-up” developers. They can indicate that they will tackle a Github Issue or an RFC and say that they will need X additional developers to get the work done. …

It seems that you’re starting to feel the pains of the Polkadot Accounting department. I have been preaching this myself, supporting teams like Virto and Seun. Their asks seem ridiculous to anyone who’s never built out a team before. It’s absolutely critical that the fellowship members get the fundi…

[image] bruno: Polkadot Fellowship members that have been excelling in contributing to Polkadot how do you guage this? peer review?

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Like part of the Treasury (a sub-Treasury) managed by the Fellowship?

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