Thank you, this speaks to some tentative concerns I had after reading the grant recommendations. FWIW, I feel that the following was particularly helpful for me deciding how much I trust the decision-making behind grant decisions, how willing I feel to donate to the Fund etc. - I think I would have liked to see this information in the top-level post.
Whenever there is a potential cause for a conflict of interest, the relevant person (or a separate fund member who suspects a COI) leaves a comment in the relevant row in the spreadsheet with the details of the COI, then the other fund members look at the description of the COI and decide whether it makes sense for that person to withdraw from voting.
That’s good to hear! Because a lot of what I described above was a relatively informal procedure, I felt weird putting a lot of emphasis on it in the writeup, but I do agree that it seems like important information for others to have.
I think by next round we will probably have a more formal policy that I would feel more comfortable explicitly emphasizing in the writeup.
Thank you, this speaks to some tentative concerns I had after reading the grant recommendations. FWIW, I feel that the following was particularly helpful for me deciding how much I trust the decision-making behind grant decisions, how willing I feel to donate to the Fund etc. - I think I would have liked to see this information in the top-level post.
That’s good to hear! Because a lot of what I described above was a relatively informal procedure, I felt weird putting a lot of emphasis on it in the writeup, but I do agree that it seems like important information for others to have.
I think by next round we will probably have a more formal policy that I would feel more comfortable explicitly emphasizing in the writeup.