It would be nice if proposals like these had a more in-depth cost breakdown for clarity and transparency. Large categories lumped together make it hard for the community to understand what all went into those costs being asked for in reimbursement.
A more in-depth breakdown of the billable hours. Thank you for waving your hours spent on this project.
A breakdown of major hardware costs like the $10.5k in equipment purchases. What happens to this hardware if it’s no longer in use? Maintained costs already incurred and projected monthly costs?
A monthly breakdown in server hosting costs already paid and a projected cost moving forward for the remainder of the proposal it covers. Is there a built-in 10-20% buffer for unexpected costs? What happens if the funds fall short of covering costs? What happens to any remainder excuses? Will these shortages or overages be rolled over into the next proposal?
Understandably, there would be startup costs to get everything rolling. So I am supporting this.
The DHF will be hitting a point at some point where people asking for 10k, 20k, 50k and even greater amounts with vague ranges of costs will start to be problematic for the community to determine what proposals are offering the greatest value and where the community needs to work on getting a better deal.
Vagueness also prevents the community from leveraging it’s a wide range of knowledge and connections to help people get better deals if possible for projects who are being paid out from the DHF.