Fund6 Town Hall #5

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Presenter

Date:

Dor Garbash + Daniel Ribar

2021-09-08

Welcome to the experiment! 🧪

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• Things may:

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👉 Break

👉 Lack documentation

👉 Differ greatly between iterations

👉 Disorient, overload and inspire.

🎯 Our goal: Provide a safe and lively environment for you to explore the highest potential of human collaboration

Cohort Update

Fund5 - Tutorial for Community Advisors

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Dominik Tilman

TUTORIAL FOR COMMUNITY ADVISORS

Project Catalyst Fund 6

GOAL:

⇒ accelerate your learning curve in writing excellent assessments

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CONTENT ( 7 min each):

• CA basic
• Assessment criteria
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Tips and insights

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Link to the tutorial:

https://vimeo.com/600295406

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Feedback is welcome:

Twitter: @dominiktilman�Discord: @dominiktilman

Cohort Update

Fund5 Cohort - Ideascale

Catalyst Community Website

PACE - Projects Accelerating the Catalyst Ecosystem

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George Lovegrove

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PACE: Fund 5 Proposal Updates

Presentation by the PACE team

projectcatalyst.org

Community list

• Join as a collaborator - Looking to get involved and help with a new idea or an existing proposal team? Add yourself to the list so the community can find you!�
• Find collaborators - Looking for people to work on your proposal? Check the community list!

• 57 community members so far…�
• We’ll invest resources into this slowly over time rather than all at once�
• Allow time for more feedback and to grow as the community does�
• Features for proposers and other tools will help grow this list�

https://projectcatalyst.org/community

Education resources

• Gathered and presented resources we found at projectcatalyst.org/resources�
• That experience and the existing processes led us to look at different solutions�
• Closer to wrapping this one up!

• Presentation - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S0jFAt9qJWSpbIJ1JiQywS8mJnZFKB14Xd_0HQZZ7w0/edit�
• Provide feedback! Form at the end of the presentation, after town hall next week to discuss

https://youtu.be/QNN8PceQuqE

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Improve proposal information & Project tracking

• Collect data - Collect from different sources (Ideascale data, voting data and funding result data), standardise the data and sanitise it and remove what isn’t necessary�
• Manual processing - Add better tagging to the proposals manually to enrich the data�
• Open source repository - Host the combined data in an open source repository with what steps were taken to process it�
• Add to a simple API for projectcatalyst.org to filter through the proposals�
• Make that available to other projects as and when it’s needed�
• Though this plan has slightly changed...

Partnership - Lidonation

• Proposal crossover - Lidonation wanted to bring together Cardano treasury data with a directory�
• Great matchup - Darlington has a lot of software development and backend / DevOps experience whereas George has more frontend development experience on web and mobile�
• Plan - Build a robust API from the start that PACE, Lidonation and the community can use!�
• Check out their fund 6 proposal - https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Treasury-Catalyst-Proposal-API/366965-48088

Until next time!

twitter.com/adacatalyst

discord.com/invite/uPv97TvGvC

For Discord find our ‘projectcatalyst-org’ chat under ‘Ecosystem Tools’

Website - projectcatalyst.org

Fund6 innovation phase

*always make sure to check for any changes in timeline

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Finalization stage

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Key events to keep track of these days:

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• LAST CALL to edit any proposals before Sep 9, 11AM UTC.

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• Challenge Teams - add ALL your team members as co-proposers on Ideascale before Sep 9, 11AM UTC.

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• Community Advisor registration ongoing until Sep 15, 11AM UTC. Note: CA assessments start on Sep 9, ±11AM UTC & end on Sep 16, 11AM UTC.

Fund7: Challenge Setting

• Special workshop after town hall to address any last minute concerns
• Action Item: Make sure all your team members are listed as co-proposers on Ideascale - if not - do it NOW!
• Challenge Teams Guidelines
• Clarity for CAs on Challenge Setting evaluation

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Fund7: Challenge Teams

To be eligible for the Challenge Teams award :

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• All members of each Challenge Teams must nominate themselves as co-proposers in the proposal
• The finalised Challenge Setting Challenge proposal must be submitted by the deadlines: 11am UTC September 9th (TOMORROW!)
• If accepted by the community, the proposing team will receive a “Challenge team” incentive of $2,500 of ada, once duties are fulfilled

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Fund7: Challenge Teams

Duties to receive the Challenge Teams award :

• Present the challenge to the community at the start of the following fund.
• Facilitate a challenge-focused breakout session after one of the Town Halls.
• Leads a challenge retrospective session during the next fund’s “retrospective week”.
• Facilitate a session with proposers funded for the challenge .
• For 3 months, the Challenge Team is responsible for communicating to the community on the progress of funded proposal projects and their key metrics,

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Challenge Setting criteria

Alignment: This challenge is critical to achieve Cardano's mission.

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Feasibility: The Catalyst community has the capacity to address the challenge. Bonus if there's an established challenge team.

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Verifiability: Success criteria and suggested metrics are set correctly to measure progress in addressing the challenge.

Cardano Summit - Catalyst World

• Your chance to talk directly with voters.

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• Two days of nonstop proposal pitches - 50,000 people already registered.

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• 2-5m video presentations.

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• Slide template and detailed instructions will be sent tomorrow.
• Recording Briefing Doc

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• Deadline for submission is Monday 11:00 UTC

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Community advisor registration

🔓 Registration for CAs ongoing

�🚨 Deadline by September 15 @11AM UTC

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When registration opens, you will see a pop up in Ideascale that looks like this------>

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📣 Join the CA Telegram Channel

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⚠️ Make sure you understand all criteria to be eligible and read CA Guide.

CATALYST CIRCLE

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News & Updates from your representatives:

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David Taylor

Cardano Foundation

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Dor Garbash

IOHK

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Felix Weber

Toolmakers & Maintainers

Juliane Montag

Funded Proposers

Dean Jayes

General ADA Holders

Lauris Stiglics

Stake Pool Operators

( SPO’s )

Victor Corcino

Community Advisors

( CA’s/vCA’s )

Project

Catalyst

Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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Coordinated Fund 6 CA onboarding

CC Facilitator Team presentation

STAR Funding challenge team presentation

Secretary Candidates interview in

the After Town Hall

Sources

Next CC Meeting: Thursday Sept. 9th

News & Updates

Trello Board

GitBook

Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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News & Updates

Community Advisor outreach & onboarding campaign.

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WHY BECOMING A COMMUNITY ADVISOR ?

CA INTRO VIDEO

ASSESS AND ADVISE THE FUTURE BUILDERS OF CARDANO

BECOME AN ACTIVE PART OF THE CATALYST PROJECT

EARN REWARDS > 160,000 USD FOR CA REWARDS

CA GUIDELINES

SCHOOL

CATALYST

SWARM

CATALYST

CA TELEGRAM

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COMMUNITY ADVISOR

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FUND 6 WORKSHOPS

TODAY AT 19.00 UTC�(AFTER TOWN HALL)

THIS THURSDAY AT 12.00 UTC (EASTERN TOWN HALL)

THIS SATURDAY AT 17.00 UTC (SWARM SESSION)

INTEREST FORM

SCHOOL

CATALYST

SWARM

CATALYST

Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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Community Advisor campaign.

Workshop sign ups:

News & Updates

Interested in becoming a CA but need more information to decide

I’m new, but count me in

Already have been CA in a previous funding round

Already high experienced and happy to help

( total. 93 sign ups so far)

More than 1,000 registered in Ideascale.��Goal: get to 1,500

Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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CC Facilitator Team

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News & Updates

Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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CC Facilitator Team

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News & Updates

Nori Nishigaya

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Charlie Robertstad

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Nadim Karam

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Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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CC Facilitator Team

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News & Updates

Nori Nishigaya

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Charlie Robertstad

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Nadim Karam

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Be present in the Catalyst Circle meetings.

Steer focus and activity

Capture action items

Coordinate CC Meeting agendas with the CC Secretary.

Involve everybody in the discussion

Nadim Karam as first CC Facilitator, supported by Charlie & Nori

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Project

Catalyst

CATALYST CIRCLE

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STAR FUNDING

CHALLENGE TEAM

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News & Updates

STAR Funding

Challenge Team

A supported initiative by the Catalyst Circle

Allison Fromm

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Nori Nishigaya

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Tyler Wales

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Tim Cooper

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STAR FUNDING

Challenge Team

STAR Funding Challenge

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Scalable

Transparent

Accountable

Rapid

STAR

Challenge Team

Facing the problem

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Some projects would be more productive with rapid funding mechanisms

STAR

Challenge Team

Exploring first solutions

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We need to explore a diverse rapid funding mechanisms for different types of projects

Community advisors’ goals 🎯

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• Improve decision making

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• Help proposers understand how to improve.

You get what you ask for!

Assess stage 📝

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• Starts tomorrow (Sep 9) at ±11AM UTC

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• Advisors have one week to submit reviews until Sep 16 at 11AM UTC

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• Comments are turned back on - turning into Voter discussion and Q&A with proposers

Advisor identity 🙈

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• Advisors are anonymous.

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• However because of experimental nature of feature, and the fact it’s on a 3rd party application. We cannot guarantee anonymity.

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• We are keeping a record of all reviews and reviewers.

Impact = This proposal effectively addresses the challenge

Does the proposal address the challenge effectively?

Clarity = Was sufficient and clear information provided to be able to assess ?

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Feasibility = Likelihood of success

Outcome of reviews

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• All blank reviews and rejected reviews will be removed

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• Reviewers reported by proposers will be reviewed by a veteran CAs and removed if deemed not good or excellent

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• Avg score displayed in voting app and sortable

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• Summary of all assessment rationale will available in the mobile app

Incentives

4% to community advisors.

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1% to veteran community advisors

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For more details - please reference last week’s town hall slides here and video here

Incentive goals 🎯

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• Encourage every proposal to receive 5 reviews

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• Encourage good and excellent reviews

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• Encourage reviewing proposal that are likely to be voted

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• Encourage reviewing proposal that ask for large amounts of funding

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• Discourage unfair and unthoughtful reviews

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Next steps:

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• Read the onboarding document.

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• Read the community advisor guidelines

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• Join https://t.me/CatalystCommunityAdvisors

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• Read the challenge brief for the proposals you review

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• Articulate your main consideration for every review criteria.

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• Provide a score according to the following scale:

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(1) Strongly disagree

(2) Disagree

(3) Neither agree nor disagree

(4) Agree

(5) Strongly agree

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• NEW: Recurring link - add to your calendars and just simply join each week using the same access

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• September 15th - 18:00 UTC

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• Registration link: https://bit.ly/3rCicSR

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Next Town Hall (regular)

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We’re hiring! Currently Open Positions

• Software Test Engineer - Catalyst/ EVM - https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/79CB72BFE5/
• Software testing design, planning, scripting and execution across all releases to the Cardano platform

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• Software Engineering Lead - Rust - https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/870698A849/
• Someone with the leadership skills necessary to build consensus on technical directions and scope of work and is experienced in Rust programming

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• Software Engineer - Rust - https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/40A7923138/
• Writing high-quality Rust code for our products. You have the exciting challenge of working with cutting-edge blockchain research and technology with a focus on the market's needs

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• Lead UX Product Designer - https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/CB4F0F58A9/
• Own the governance experience for the Cardano blockchain platform. This will involve directing designers, UX researchers and community managers in creating a world-leading governance experience

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• Marketing and Communications Manager - Catalyst - https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/6E6BFA1A5F/
• Act as the account lead for all communications and marketing activity – from strategy and planning, to communications management, to guardianship, both internally and externally

ℹ️ Need help? Want to help? 🤝

📣 Announcements only: https://t.me/cardanocatalyst

📧 Subscribe to the mailing list: https://bit.ly/3dSZJvx

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🎥 Rewatch past town-halls: https://bit.ly/2UxT9Uv

💡 Browse insights, ideas, and proposals: http://cardano.ideascale.com

💬 Join main Telegram group: https://t.me/ProjectCatalystChat

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🏟 Go deeper with Catalyst Discord: https://discord.gg/2RnUtK8

🤓 Become Community Advisor/Mentor: https://t.me/CatalystCommunityAdvisors

👩‍🔬 Join Proposal Owners: https://t.me/catalystproposers

🐝 Catalyst Swarm & Sessions: https://discord.gg/FRREGhe4xN

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🐛 Help find bugs & test: https://t.me/catalystdryruns

⚙️ Get lost in data: https://bit.ly/ProjectCatalystDashboard

🎉 See all funded proposals at glance: https://bit.ly/3wiBHjP

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Join Open Space

• WHAT? We invite you to join open space hangout to meet each other and make meaningful connections

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• WHEN? After this town hall ends

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• WHERE? Right in this Town Hall zoom call

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• HOST? Catalyst Swarm

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