Replied today:
Hi,
Thanks for your quick reply, I’m sure we will resolve this issue
On 06/07/2021 09:10, [redacted] wrote:
Hi Loic
thank you for your email. We perfectly understand your worries.
The grid with KPIs was validated by the European Commission and it applies to all the selected projects.There must be a provision to exempt non-commercial proposals from business KPIs: they are mutually exclusive. The fedeproxy proposal is non-commercial and was accepted as such. The call was explicitly open to non-commercial projects.
The situation you mentioned I know it as soon as we already discussed together and a had a clear feedback from your coach, my colleague.
Yes. And we had fruitful discussions on how to reach out to the potential fedeproxy user base, in a non-commercial context. We did not discuss anything related to business because fedeproxy is a non-commercial project.
As soon as you have participate to all the sessions and the asked deliverables has been done we consider that on the “business part”, even if is not necessary the main point in your proposal, the work has been started.
On that occasion and in writing (mail thread “DAPSI Session 3 and pre work”, June 5th, 2021) I objected that the requested deliverable are not meaningful for the fedeproxy project, for the same reason I’m objecting today. For instance the deliverable had items such as “CUSTOMER SEGMENT”, “Target customer”, “Path to customers” which have no meaning in a non-commercial environment. The participation to the sessions were mandatory, reason why we attended. But the content of the sessions were irrelevant to fedeproxy because they exclusively focused on business and did not contain anything related to non-commercial projects.
I definitely hope that in the future strategy of the development of your project you will take in consideration all this inputs that you received.
It’s very important because those points you still have to present in September in front of our jury (half business and half tech).It would be a contradiction for a non-commercial project to be evaluated based on business KPI, because business and non-commercial are mutually exclusive. How can we resolve this?
Cheers