PoolGrants Season 3 Lead elections

[Torgin]

The time has come to vote on the leads for Season 3 of the Pooltogether grants committee!
Applications have rolled in over the last week and can be found here.

For more information on what the Pooltogether grants committee is, check out:
Initial PTIP
Season 2 PTIP
Poolgrants.org

As was the case last time, the leads will be chosen by the community, then the leads will choose who will become a reviewer.

On this post, we will use polls for informal voting. If the polls have a clear outcome, they will be considered as the consensus, with formal affirmation later through the grants program renewal PTIP.
If the vote in this post is contentious, there will be a more formal voting process through Snapshot.

Before voting, please inform yourself by reading the candidates’ applications, which are linked under their name.

Deputy lead candidates

Gabor:

PoolGrants Season 3 committee applications

Hello everyone, also throwing my ring into the hat for another term. PoolGrants is where I have proven to apply my skillset in a productive way and I would love to remain part of this. https://gov.pooltogether.com/t/poolgrants-committee-open-applications/1657/9

PoolGrants committee open applications

Being part of the PoolGrants Committee for the past two quarters has been a great pleasure and I am really proud about what the team has achieved so far. We have established effective and efficient processes and to my mind at least some continuity would be highly beneficial for the future development of grants. Therefore I am also stepping up and would be thrilled to continue working in the grants committee for the next term, preferably in my current role as deputy lead (and preferably with @Tor…

SmartInvestor:

PoolGrants Season 3 committee applications

I would like to apply for the role of Deputy Lead I have experience in requesting and receiving grants. Both successful applications as with the PT Community Substack Grants for Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 plus an unsuccessful bid for UK based PR. This has allowed me to understand what may and may not work in terms of communication with grantees. I also hope to be able to bring in my experience in researching many different cryptos as well as my involvement with the PT Marketing Working Group to help …

Lead candidates

Only Torgin applied for this role, so he is the only candidate:

PoolGrants Season 3 committee applications

Gm I’m the current lead of the grants committee and would like to continue in the same position. Experience: I have been running the grants committee’s operations for the last 12 months. I have gathered valuable experience during this time, which I would like to continue applying in the next iteration of the grants program. The feedback I have received so far for my work as lead has been overwhelmingly positive. Involvement I have good relationships with most active contributors within the…

Who shall become grants committee deputy lead?

• Gabor
• SmartInvestor

Accept Torgin as grants committee lead?

• Yes
• No

[tim]

I feel I should back up my votes with an explanation. I admire Torgin and Gabor as well as their contributions to grants! They are the bedrock of PoolTogether and cherished members of this community.

I’m in favor of a changing of the guard for grants every year, at least, since a year is a decade in crypto.

However this vote goes, I would love to see a change to the grants process where there are in person interviews with the committee rather than fully asynchronous.

Kisses,
Hot Mike

[Leighton]

I definitely get that perspective and was very thankful to @SmartInvestor for applying. He is certainly a very worthy candidate. I did however think it would be better to have someone start in the role of has already served as a reviewer.