Regarding the funding project, this was just meant to be one example of a possible project which could profit from integration. So I wasnât really trying to argue the merits of the projects in any detailed manner. However, to somewhat counterbalance your argument, the way I see it, it seems to make sense to try to aggregate resources around existing funding opportunities to help people try to understand the space better. From my own experience it takes some time to wrap your head around who is offering what, in what format, etc. So there seems to be room for improved coordination which may or may not involve new artifacts/âsoftware/âplatform to be developed. Moreover, having people be interested in this kind of topic seems to be a win for the community to me, I donât think we are at the point where returns are diminishing drastically (i.e., one CEA grant evaluator is not gonna fix everything). If you want to talk in more depth about the topic I would love for you to join the slack channel or contact me by mail: alex{at}herwix.com.
Regarding the meta point, this really was the gist of my post. I appreciate the positive attitude you seem to have towards a somewhat âopenâ model as I think that this would be an important step for the community from a technological point of view. As you say there are lots of cool things that could be done, once we have sorted out some of the basic infrastructure questions. CEA being open to integrating pull requests in this direction would be an awesome first step :)
Thanks for your comment Sam!
Regarding the funding project, this was just meant to be one example of a possible project which could profit from integration. So I wasnât really trying to argue the merits of the projects in any detailed manner. However, to somewhat counterbalance your argument, the way I see it, it seems to make sense to try to aggregate resources around existing funding opportunities to help people try to understand the space better. From my own experience it takes some time to wrap your head around who is offering what, in what format, etc. So there seems to be room for improved coordination which may or may not involve new artifacts/âsoftware/âplatform to be developed. Moreover, having people be interested in this kind of topic seems to be a win for the community to me, I donât think we are at the point where returns are diminishing drastically (i.e., one CEA grant evaluator is not gonna fix everything). If you want to talk in more depth about the topic I would love for you to join the slack channel or contact me by mail: alex{at}herwix.com.
Regarding the meta point, this really was the gist of my post. I appreciate the positive attitude you seem to have towards a somewhat âopenâ model as I think that this would be an important step for the community from a technological point of view. As you say there are lots of cool things that could be done, once we have sorted out some of the basic infrastructure questions. CEA being open to integrating pull requests in this direction would be an awesome first step :)