There's nothing wrong with the size of the grant, in the US a hundred dollar bill is a nice bag of groceries, this is one to five of them for showing off someth

There's nothing wrong with the size of the grant, in the US a hundred dollar bill is a nice bag of groceries, this is one to five of them for showing off something cool which someone was already working on. Something like this which had a clear path from a few groceries to full sponsorship at a comfortable salary could really take off, I think. As is, it's in a sort of uncanny valley where you'd probably attract more high-quality work in total if the prize was "get on a list of cool new stuff" instead of money. It's easy for the friction involved in accepting money to exceed the value of a hundred bucks, which might prove a bit of a market for lemons. Or it might not, it's a worthy experiment. Props to the sponsors for doing this, I look forward to seeing what comes of it!