If someone has an issue with transparency/clarity I don’t think moderation is the solution.
Be kind to your fellow community members.
Criticise ideas , not people.
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My request is on the agenda for today’s governance meeting which will be held on Keybase rather than in Gitter. Please see here for instructions on how to join and participate:
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With all due respect @johndavies24, I think you are focusing too much on the numbers and not so much on the value that @lehnberg brings to the table. The value far outweighs the actual percentages you seem to be fixated on.
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Wow, what a great and insightfull read. Certanly keeps me bussy during Covid-19😂.
My opinion is that using a template for funding request might help in the transparency/clarity. I have no experience in this field so there are most likely other community members who can much improve the template suggested below. Such a template could for example state:
% of Full Time Equivalent work
-salary per month priced in dollar as well as your home currency
-% increase, decrease of funding from previous period corrected for changes in working time, so only changes in hour rate
-nr of months forfunding period
-country worked from
-tasks and objectives
-reporting period
Personally I do think someone working from e.g. UK requires more funding than someone working from Zimbabwe. Maybe proof read any funding request with some council/community or other members could avoid long discussions about unclarities in the writing🙂
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Agreed, in hindsight it was very unclear. Proved to be quite a learning experience in the end! 
Thanks for the constructive proposal! Would you like to take a stab at creating such a template? You could create a new page in the wiki[0], or you could pull request into /grin-pm [1] and put it perhaps in /grin-pm/financials/templates/funding_request.md or something?
Also note that there is a Spending Guidelines RFC[2] that is currently in the final comment period, which could also use more feedback.
[0] Home · mimblewimble/docs Wiki · GitHub
[1] GitHub - mimblewimble/grin-pm: Grin project management resources and docs
[2] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-rfcs/pull/41
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@lehnberg I will look into it if I can. Unfortunately I am stuck at home with two young kids and a my wife works full time, so it might take some time before I can allocate some time🤔.
Totally understand, take your time, and no sweat. Feel free to ping me on here or keybase if you want to toss ideas back and forth. 
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