I love this, but it does seem momentum’s been lost, as there haven’t been any updates since September — aside from a justification for pushing the expected delivery date to 2026, as if the holiday season shouldn’t have been taken into account.
Regarding this:
There’s been talk of evaluating what worked and didn’t over the past three years, improving structures, and rebuilding trust and accountability. But it strikes me as odd for ENS DAO to be evaluated by a group that hasn’t yet delivered the outputs expected from Meta-Gov’s generous 60k grant for the Onchain Org Standard.
The justification for the evaluation itself is somewhat baseless when the evaluators have yet to meet those same standards. If the goal is to model accountability, it should begin by demonstrating it.
That said, I really do appreciate the standard that @PublicGoods_Stewards have set with their Builder Grants site as well as the presentations that grantees deliver on the Public Goods call.
Grants should be delivered in tranches, based on milestones met, and accompanied by clear reporting so that progress, accountability, and impact can be assessed transparently over time.
It doesn’t take a PhD to figure that out.