Thanks a lot for your insights @calummackervoy, they are very valuable. Reading from the funding topic you spend on:
- Gatherings (e.g. venue hire)
- CoTech communication (e.g. stickers)
- Outreach events
- Internal tooling
- Business development
- Training
- R&D innovation
- Infrastructure
- Mutual support
And I think this is an appropriate range of topics relevant to the foundation. I read you are using Loomio:
A group/thread will be formed at Loomio to screen potential spendings, primarily to understand how the fund can be used, what do we want to spend money on. A person/co-op can suggest what they want to spend money on and members will have a week to inspect the notion and block it if they disagree. If there are no objections, the spending is approved.
I have some experience with Loomio (mixed feelings, but they are evolving in a good direction). This type of application would be ideal for implementation as a federated app, as @hamishcampbell refers to. PS. I have personal long-term plans that are related to that.
My preference would be to keep things on this Discourse forum, which offers enough features to be equivalent if not better to Loomio. And it would save yet another tool where we need to spread our attention to.
( OT: I encourage you to post in #fediversity:fediverse-futures to ideate & brainstorm on how Startin’Blox fits with AS/AP/Fedi. )