ocdtrekkie
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2 years ago I'm going to close this one since we have a plan, including having spent a large portion of what we raised, and a list of community-prioritized items to spend the rest of it on.
Thanks to FundOSS, our OpenCollective now has a sizeable $4,878 to work with to fund Sandstorm development. I think that it's critical that we translate this funding into progress in short order, so that people feel their investment has actually gone to where it belongs.
My understanding is that FundOSS intends to run another round in 3-6 months, which I feel should guide our disbursement rate somewhat, though until the next FundOSS is running, we should assume it may be a one-off, and try to raise our own recurring funding on OpenCollective. But if we were so lucky as to be able to run FundOSS again and come out similarly in 3-6 months, then we should look to spend $750-1,000 a month.
I think we should establish a list of appealing projects that can be completed in roughly a month or less, and assign a rough dollar value, based on the expected time needed and our goal disbursement rate (above). We should then determine a way for the community to indicate their preferences/ranking, such that we can prioritize spending on projects which the community is excited about. I think Framadate might be a suitable poll app for this, since people can vote for multiple options, though it falls short of ranked-choice or single-transferable voting.
Obviously the two biggest perks to running community funding this way compared to Ian's sponsors page is: We can easily distribute this to any community developer participating, and the community can direct the priorities of development rather than leaving it open-ended.