🚨 Please formally review the official draft of the RGP proposal on Discourse before voting. It includes full details on the proposed program structure and implementation. 🚨

Description

The proposal is to start the Radicle Grants Program (RGP). The purpose of which will be to collect, assess, approve, and fund solutions to problems within the Radicle ecosystem.

In other words, the aim is to directly support open source initiatives that help grow the Radicle product, community, and the greater Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Web3 community at large.

Budget & Timeline

Amount: $1,000,000 (USDC) Length: 6 months

Grant funding and compensation for committee members will be controlled by the RGP's multi-sig. As Radicle decentralizes, the budget may fall under a different group entirely and/or utilize Radicle Funding/Drips. Any new arrangements will be assessed at the end of the 6 months. See the Compensation section below for more details.

Implementation

A fundamental goal for the RGP is to dogfood Radicle in order to build a web3-wide model for sustainable software development. This comes down to 3 main uses of Radicle:

• The RGP Committee will be its own Org.
• Committee members will be added as members of the Org.
• Grantees post work to relevant Projects within Radicle's core codebase for assessment by Core Dev maintainers. This workflow would be handled with forks + patches with the final anchored commits acting as the "proof of work" for grantees.
• Finally, once Radicle Funding is ready, RGP's Org could pay out to grantee Orgs for their work via Drips.

For an overview of the proposed implementation for the RGP, please refer to the official draft proposal on Discourse.

Team & Responsibilities

RGP Committee

The group outlined below will act as the RGP committee and will be the signers of the RGP Org's multi-sig. These committee members will be responsible for approving grants and distributing funding to grant projects.

The Radicle Grants Committee is made up of core Radicle team members, Radicle community members, and outside individuals who have related domain expertise within the Web3 ecosystem. Committee members will all be paid at a rate of $150/hour of work.

Current committed members include:

• Grants Lead - Bordumb (Radicle Community) -- Abbey Titcomb (Core Team)
• Kei Kreutler (Ecosystem)
• Nader Dabit (Ecosystem)
• Nassar Hayat (Core Team)
• Reverie (comprised of Derek Hsue and Larry Sukernik from the Radicle Community)

The Grants Committee will finalized by the Grants Lead in the coming weeks.

Grants Lead

The Radicle Governance Working Group chose bordumb.eth to lead the RGP after publishing an open call for applicants. The Grants Lead will also be funded via the proposed RGP budget.

Technical Implementation

This proposal calls for a distribution ($1,000,000 USDC) from the Radicle Treasury. This first grants period will last 6 months. At the end of period, any remaining funds will be sent back to the Treasury.

At the end of the 6 months, a new grants wave will be announced and go through the normal governance process.