Proposal: Grants process

[jdesrosiers]

We decided to use a portion of our discretionary budget to award grants for various community projects or initiatives. In order to do that, we need a process in place to accept grant proposals and award grants.

Based on a 12 week quarter, here's a rough proposed timeline.

Week 1-6 Grant proposals can be submitted and receive feedback. No proposals accepted after week 6.
Week 6-8 TSC discusses the budget for the next quarter and selects grant proposals to be awarded
Week 8-12 vote to approve budget (including grants)

Grants are then awarded in the first week of the quarter.

Grants proposals must include the following information.

• Who are you and what is your experience with JSON Schema and the community
• How much you're asking for
• What will be the outcome. (Example: Upgrade a popular implementation to the latest release)
• Anything else ???

Proposals can be submitted as an issue to the ??? (tsc?, community?) repo. We can create an issue template for grant proposals and we should have a label.

We'll want to create a page on the website to document the grants process and let the world know what we're doing through social media and the blog.

Note: We can't start awarding grants until we get approval from OpenCollective to do so.

What do you think? What am I missing?