thanks! 
I am not sure I understand where the comparison between the 2 projects comes into play here when deciding how much to invest in each one… 
Is there some assumption that we want to invest equal amounts of money to the 2 projects ? Would we always divide the total investment amount by the number of projects we’re funding? Shouldn’t the investment into each one be considered independently of the other one?
If we do want to compare however, just considering that Radicle is taking on the whole of GitHub (and competitors) while Drips is only taking on GitHub Sponsors (and competitors) - which is only a part of GitHub’s offering - I would expect a much larger investment in Radicle than in Drips (overall, not just referring to this proposal cycle or this particular proposal).
We’ve already made the point (in the proposal itself and in the previous discussion post) that the budget can be used for other projects (beyond just integrations), and that we’ll align with the interests of the communities that the Radicle Org is planning to onboard and prioritize work accordingly, since we’d essentially be funding people to work on projects (that the Grants committee will then still need to approve).
There is still tons work involved in making a core protocol (that the Radicle Org wants to focus on) into a product that people actually want to use (let alone might want to pay for) and migrate their projects to, and this is what I’d like our team to focus on, while the Radicle team focuses on core protocol development itself.
Having said that, if that is not an area of focus for this year, or we don’t want to have so many people working on this area yet, (or if there is overlap with the Radicle Org team and you will be taking on that work) that is also perfectly understandable and I’ll be resting my case.
We can just keep contributing in a part-time capacity and see how things go in the future.