Hi @bill_w3f I am brining the X discussion into Forum so we @josep can discuss solutioning https://x.com/Hopeioum/status/1959724507435798620
Per your feedback someone was hired to help manage the grant system and review code. I would love for this new employee to join the discussion and see if proper reporting of completed grants can be achieved?
All of our agreements contain milestones that are reviewed and evaluated by our internal team, including the delivery by Zeeve. We never simply pay teams upfront. Something to be aware of is that the Web3 Foundation at this point in time focuses mostly on grant agreements that can not be signed via the treasury. These agreements often contain a lot more than open source software development, for example, specific marketing or BD metrics that should be achieved, etc. Additionally, they also contain information that the entities don’t want to share publicly. But this means that we can not share the entire review and evaluation process the same way we do it with our public grants program GitHub - w3f/Grants-Program: Web3 Foundation Grants Program , otherwise we wouldn’t be able to sign these agreements in the first place.
To give an example here: It probably would be highly beneficial for the Web3 Foundation to sign an agreement with https://www.gelato.cloud/ that focuses on them deploying ink! by Kraken or another big enterprise as a parachain. None of these entities would want to work together with an on-chain treasury and share all the information publicly. A pure open software development project, instead, can be funded relatively easily via the treasury, and the treasury has funded multiple projects like this. See, for example, the application by Josep here: Polkadot-API: development financing | Polkassembly
I hope that helps to clarify the situation a little bit more.
I appreciate this feedback and @bill_w3f defiantly provided similar information. I understand legal disclosures and the need for this program! I am grateful it exists! What I would love to see is a completion data chart. There is a lot of emphasis when the grant is granted (including social media output), but none on completion of project? I would believe this metric, as simple as it may seem, is valuable. I have been following several grantee’s after reading your output on funding in the public forum and have not currently seen some of the fruits from that grant in over a year.
Having a product background I have expectations in mind on how to utilize that “Proof of Work” and am awaiting completion to see if there is a viable way to make that work fly. Any attention to reporting on completion of grants would be very appreciated and valuable as part of a structured process for the community.
You can track the status of grant applications here Accepted Grant Applications | Web3 Foundation Grants
I appreciate this, however 2 grantees I am following are not listed here. They weren’t exactly code based, per say. It doesn’t even list them and show terminated. Weird, I am confused as to why I don’t see them.