I asked our Grant reviewer candidates if they would agree to take part in this challenge on 19 November with this message sent out to everyone:
Hey, I want to challenge all potential Committee members with a little task.
I want to present you with a grant application and give you one week to come up with an opinion about this application based on the information provided to you. Please put anything that comes to your mind in your response to this message, and if possible, come up with an initial opinion if you would support funding this Proposal.
You may want to use the evaluation matrix developed for the Treasury committee: Shimmer Community Treasury Grant Committee - Version 2
The Proposal is a copy of an original proposal submitted to another Ecosystem Grant program.
I have chosen two types of applications, one that is a bit more developer oriented for the reviewers with experience in software projects and one that is more community/event focussed for the others.
Every Proposal is presented in 3 different versions. I have changed some parameters in every version, so your competitors may be presented with the same Proposal with some small but important changes to the original version.
I hope you agree to this little challenge. It may be interesting for the community to see how different candidates approach this task and to which conclusions they come regarding the grant proposal.
I will DM every candidate with the same text you got here and send them their challenge privately. I hope we can keep this private until the challenge is finished in one week.
Next Sunday, at 11 am CET, I will post the information about the challenge in reply to your application post and will include the response you sent me via DM in this post.
This will, in my opinion, be the fairest process to give everyone the same conditions without revealing a challenge that a competitor has to solve or making answers public that others could consider in their own approach to the problem. So everything will stay with me, and I am the only one who knows who gets which challenge and who replies what until the reveal.
I try to make sure that applicants who are part of the same project do not get the same grant challenge, so they cannot support each other.
Please reply within 24 hours if you agree to this challenge, and I will send you the Proposal.
Thanks again for offering your skills to the community. I hope you find this a fair approach to give the community some better insights.
This is the publication of @Issaus2020 ‘s participation in the Grant reviewers’ Test challenge. More details about the challenge can be found in this post