I understand you are a very passionate person and have a certain outlook on things, I respect that, but this is not a political thing. We do votes every month so we can't let the process become emotional. Transform has done a really good job for us, anyone on the team that has worked with them can confirm. My interest is only that our network tries to keep all of its commitments as that is important. That includes paying the reimbursement of the soda machine and also complying with its third party service contracts. We will do both so no worries. We will continue to deal with monthly payments for many years to come so we should not make it more complicated than it really is.
Minotaur,
I understand you are trying to work with a 'contract' with Transform PR. The network can't give priority to proposals under a contract vs not in a contract. The network doesn't have any commitment to a future contract, it only pays budgets that have enough votes each pay cycle.
For future contracts, the actual business should be submitting a proposal and accept the Dash volatility and be subject to yes/no votes. This isn't really a contract though, and they should be clear that funding is pulled if they don't gain and maintain voter interest. Otherwise, an amount should be saved in advance from a trusted proposal owner and Dash/fiat exchanged for the services under a firm contract.
While that is true presently, I don't see any reason can't we introduce contracts into the next version of the budget system.
Personally, I can't believe we made a contract with a PR firm in Dash not in fiat. Unless a Dash representative had to pay in advance, and deserves to be paid back in the number of Dash they could have bought otherwise. That particular contract pays out to you, Evan, so I assumed it was to pay you back. If i knew it went directly to a PR firm, I'd have evaluated the proposal differently myself. It makes a difference to me. People should only be paid the value of their work, and we shouldn't be speculating with the value of Dash either way - unless they want to speculate, but then it has to be clear that they are taking the responsibility. I hope I make sense.
Core Development budget : I think we all are looking forward to that gaining in value to the point where you guys are all making a decent income and can work full time with Dash (even so some of you already are working full time, you're certainly not being paid for it) And if our core team levels out at 20 people, lets say, then when the alocated Dash is worth a decent salary for everyone, it should be modified not to over-pay (though pay well, is fine)
Marketing Budget : I figured that taking a % of the budget to pay for marketing, with the increase in value enabling us to do more, was a great idea. In this case I saw it as our needs growing with the value.
The Dash Domain Name: Here, we know you guys put up the cash/dash to pay for his. These are funds you either cashed out from your Dash or could have bought Dash with at the time. This should be paid back Dash for Dash (or potential Dash) Again, all is clear.
Lamassu and Transform, I was assuming, myself that you guys, again, put up your own money. They both pay to Evan. If you, Evan, did not put up these funds up front, all these funds, that are being requested, then this is not right. If you, on behalf of Dash, have made a deal with an outside party, to be paid over time, then it should be in fiat, and the Dash amounts should be adjusted over time. If THEY would have claimed the proposal, then I would have understood that they were hoping to earn exponentially more over time. I would have voted accordingly for that.
I guess I'm holding my votes, as insignificant as they are, until I get the whole picture in the future. I always thought this system made Dash a flaky entity to do business with, but I thought if we never went over budget, it would probably be ok, but that's obviously not going to happen.
So, I think we need to rethink how this works. There needs to be more planing to the system so it doesn't leave contractors out in the cold, but at the same time, there can be more thought put into where money should be spent. Just my opinion, but I think we're seeing the warning signs ahead. If we keep going on this trajectory, we'll be booked up, having spent all the funds available for the next 100 years. Which by the way, the paying ahead of time for stuff, I think that's gotta stop. Instead of having to pay back people ever more expensive Dash, we should have a fund building up that the Foundation can use for emergency/opportunistic purchases of things or services.
Again JMO
