Just realized I missed round15 and have brought shame upon my family, oops.
Bounties
None. 
Retros
Scaling Analytics for the Rocketpool Community
added Sep8
Yes, fund. Compare with RA062304, where I received $3k for work where LST comparison dashboard is the headliner. While mine had a few other tidbits, this work is decidedly better than mine was and easier to build with (eg, add new LSTs, support contract changes within an LST, etc).
I’ll also note that DrWorm and I have both taken a step back on Dune, so titey has been largely soloing (with some feedback from DrWorm). I say this mostly to note that if we want to attract community members to dashboard work, it could use a boost if anything.
Grants
Blockworks Research <> Rocket Pool Saturn Upgrade Coverage
This proposal makes no attempt to demonstrate value. How many people does it reach? Are they different people than we reach anyways? How motivated are they to do X?
Given no contextualized metrics, I’ll use anecdote. I spend a lot of time in cryptoland. I searched my history and have opened 2 blockworksresearch articles in the last 3 months, I suspect for less than 10 minutes each. They were fine context. I don’t think I can justify close to the price point for this.
Cyfrin Updraft <> Rocket Pool: Accelerate Growth of Rocket Pool’s Node Operator Community and Drive Protocol Adoption with Targeted Developer Education
One of RP’s strengths is already onboarding NOs that care to be NOs. There have also been video courses on such – they can get out of date easily, and the bigger issue might be getting views at the right time in a potential NO’s journey.
On the dev side, we could use some integration tips for devs. I don’t think that looks at all like a course. It would probably look like instructions on checking availability to mint/burn and doing that. A stretch would add a fallback (cowswap, 1inch, balancer, etc). Something essentially copy pastable would be way more useful, and dramatically cheaper. (I’ve written the mint/burn thing more than once to partners).
Rocket Pool Governance Analytics Dashboard
This proposal makes no attempt to demonstrate value, and perhaps misunderstands activity. We’ve had 12 votes this year – monthly reports sounds like quite a lot. I agree some basic tools would be useful – delegate vote share over time, are delegates voting on each proposal, eg. Should track both on and off-chain. I’m struggling to think of more things that we’d want. Given past community dune work, I suspect this could be done in the high hundreds to low thousands range if we prioritized it with a bounty.
AlphaGrowth Proposal to GMC
added Sep8
Of the noted partnerships, the one that sticks out to me as valuable is Kraken. The IMC gets many more requests for partnerships than we are able/willing to support on the available budget. Kraken is interesting b/c they don’t have a staking solution and if rETH were their main staking offering that could be quite interesting (they would get alignment bona fides and an offering; we would get an additional market) (note I mean once we have supply; maybe Saturn 1).
I agree this has large overlap with my understanding of work that @G-rant and @maverick do. One benefit is the claimed visibility, as BD efforts are a bit of a black box right now.
I think I mostly lean against at the price point shown.