I will be voting to approve Lampros Labs. Their google docs sheet was very helpful during the voting process (as a delegate), as well as tracking my projects status (as an applicant). It also doubled as an easy way to share the list of projects for marketing purposes… as I would often see posts in communities I am in asking what projects are running incentive campaigns. The asked amount seems a little steep IMO… but it was truly helpful. I’d recommend for future projects however this type of work be part of the Program Managers responsibility / budget. Its a little bit of a grey area, but there was an operating cost to this project that having some type of dashboard like this is reasonably expected to be part of the project management IMO.
I think Powerhouse’s project is worthy of funding, however I simply can’t justify spending the entire budget on one project. Its unfortunate we’ve sort of created a game-theory type situation for voting but I cannot vote to approve Lampros Laps and also Powerhouse at the same time due to budget constraints. I’ll add to this, I see value in Origin was able to accomplish, but if Powerhouse is going to get 100,000 ARB I think they should be able to cover the 5,000 ARB request as part of their own bounty / bug programs.
Other projects, while their work is appreciated, I don’t believe warrant retroactive community funding or were asking too much for the services provided.