Some other answers
Hey Billy, so you asked me elsewhere a couple of questions, some of which Alberto already answered.
The budget we’re looking at is somewhere well below 2 million eur, which will be spread out across 2-3 yrs and according to each partner’s budget. The call advises amounts between EUR 0.5 million and EUR 2 million.
The prototyping phase is only part of the project activities, we’d also be doing a lot of community building to back up the prototype(s) based on where priorities seem to be; developing tools to aggregate and visualize critical conversations regarding dev and use of open source hardware; build a policy level evaluation of potential impact/ uptake of prototypes.
Skillsets required from people in Edgeryders who would respond to the call above: tentatively we have in mind open hardware developers or people very much immersed in such communities who could act as conveners and curators for the conversation. I think the list is open though… Coming on board, you would then budget your own work in the proposal as per an agreement with ER the company, and as per reimbursement constraints from EU. For example if you have a physical workshop you would be using, you might want to budget for not just your time, but also for use of space, tools, materials in the workshop which would be crucial to prototyping. For this we’d need to do our homework properly to make sure we’re in compliance with regulations.
Hope it helps…