Fund 5, Developer Ecosystem Proposal
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Fund 5, Developer Ecosystem Proposal
A deconstructed, dissected, and resurrected Catalyst Fund 5 Proposal.
David Bohl, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
| Author | Stephen Whitenstall |
|---|---|
| Published | 28/04/2021 |
| Version | Alpha Version 1.0 |
Creative Commons Attribution
Problem statement:
A lack of advocacy for open source
A need to reform Project Management techniques
A need to evolve to auditable levels.
Describe your solution to the problem.
Innovative approach to open source
Reform PM to distributed peer facilitation.
Adapt maturity standards to distributed organizations.
Relevant experience
Stephen has 30 years’ experience in organizing academic, community and business projects.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-whitenstall-166727210/
Website/GitHub repository (not required)
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https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal
Detailed Plan
Detailed plan (not required) - Fill in here any additional details.
The Open-Source DAO. Fund 5.
A1) DAO-Open Source.
The aim of the QA-DAO is to encourage collaboration and innovation across all open-source Catalyst Projects. The QA-DAO project started with a GitHub organization, the repository maintainer Stephen Whitenstall https://stephen-rowan.github.io/ seeks to work with open-source projects in the Catalyst community, to gain an understanding of their context and to extend their reach to collaborators in the wider open-source community. QA-DAO’s approach is iterative, recording lessons learnt from the proposal process for the community and adopting improvements from constructive criticism where they apply to a broad base.
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The repository maintainer Stephen Whitenstall
A2) Catalyst Open Source - QA Assessment of Catalyst Proposal Process.
QA-DAO has begun with an experimental assessment of the various open-source perspectives within this Catalyst Fund 5 Process. This contribution is FeedbackChallenge : Open Source https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/issues/32 which will run during Fund 5’s Refine and Finalise stages (to gather Issues on the Proposal Process itself) and then continue onto Fund 5’s Review and Assess stages (to gather issues on the Review Process).
Feedback Challenge-Open-Source
Project Management: The DAO of Peer-Facilitation. Fund 7.
B1) DAO-Peer-Facilitation
DAO-Peer-Facilitation: A Distributed Peer Facilitation repository, is currently being prepared which will test the reform of Project Management from top-down planning to distributed peer facilitation and empowerment models.
B2) Catalyst Project Management:
Catalyst Project Management: QA Assessment of Catalyst Funding Process.
A QA test of how the Catalyst Funding Process could be reoriented from top-down planning to distributed peer facilitation and empowerment models is planned.
Maturity-Models: The DAO Maturity-Model. A Future Fund.
C1) DAO-Maturity-Model:
DAO-Maturity-Model: a repository adapting Quality Assurance Maturity-Models to distributed autonomous organisation (DAO), which aims to progress DAOs to Institutional Audit Standards is currently being prepared.
C2) Catalyst Maturity-Models:
Catalyst Maturity-Models: QA Assessment of Catalyst Funding Process
A QA test of whether the Catalyst Funding Process fits in a Blockchain Maturity Model and progress DAOs to Institutional Audit Standards is planned.
Transparency: (Expected Launch Dates)
Alpha Version 0.0 – Released
All work on this proposal prior to the repository going public was captured in a Alpha Version 0.0 which can be downloaded as a zip file from ( https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/releases/tag/v0.0-alpha )
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Alpha Version 1.0 - 29/04/2021
An Alpha Release 1.0 will capture the state of this proposal when it reaches the end of the Fund 5’s Refine and Finalise stages. (Alpha Release 1.0 “Finalise Stage” - https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/issues/93))
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Alpha Version 2.0 - 26/05/2021
An Alpha Release 2.0 will capture the state of this proposal when it reaches the end of Fund 5’s Review and Assess stages. (Alpha Release 2.0 “Review and Assess stages” - https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/issues/94))
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Project Board: F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal
https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/projects/2
Outputs: (Expected Launch Dates)\
Alpha Version 1.0 - Proposal Word Document Release - Due: 28/04/2021:
The content of the proposal on Ideascale will be released as a Word Document in PDF format and attached to this page.
Also linked at the following repository location : https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/blob/main/Project-Catalyst/Documents/01-Ideascale-Proposal-Finalise-Stage.md
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(2) Self-Assessment checklist - QA and Completion - Due: 28/04/2021:
This deliverable is specified by Project Catalyst.
https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/issues/95
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Self-Assessment checklist Summary: How my proposal impacts the challenge metrics is articulated in this manner.
- Did we manage to make it easier for developers to build on top of Cardano? I hope to highlight in Output (3) the Open-Source Assessment Report that an improved awareness of the wide range of the open-source Cardano community may enable developers to build from many different even contrary directions.
- Number of repos on Github using the tooling. (Month over month increase): The tooling in this proposal, its repo, is the proposal undone. It will offer to the community a deconstructed, dissected, and resurrected F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal. Although not usable as a template, it is hoped it’s bones may be picked over for many months to come as point of reference.
- A sense of community and conversations. Having people around to talk with.: This proposal has already been circulated around the Catalyst open-source community in the form of it’s open-source assessment component, provoking mixed reactions and conversations.
- How I address the challenge question: I addressed the challenge question “How can we create a positive developer experience that helps the developer focus on building successful apps?” by focusing on one instance of a development lifecycle; how to take something broken to the community to fix.
Definitions of Success:
- 3 Months - The Proposal is funded, its contribution is recognized, which provided an incentive to continue to Fund 7.
- 6 Months - The Proposal is used as a useful reference tool for other proposals.
- 12 Months - The Proposal is now redundant and regarded as a historical anomaly.
Budget Requirements: My Budget is broken into $5 for basic costs. The minting of an ADA Non-Fungible Token is pending negotiation for work in kind with NFT-DAO.
Identifying information about the proposer : The repository maintainer Stephen Whitenstall https://stephen-rowan.github.io/
Defined Expected Launch Date(s): 11/04/2021 (Alpha Version 0.0 - Released) through 26/05/2021 (Release of Alpha Version 2.0) to Governance: Due: TBA (by Project Catalyst).
(3) QA of Ideascale Platform General Issues - Due: 26/05/2021:
This deliverable is a QA of General Usability Issues of the Ideascale Platform (Data Only) to inform Output (5).
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https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO/F5-Developer-ecosystem-Proposal/issues/17
(4) Feedback Challenge: Open-Source Assessment Report - Due: 26/05/2021:
This deliverable will be an informal document aimed at informing, celebrating, and inspiring the Catalyst open-source community.
(5) Project Catalyst Proposal Process Report - Due: 26/05/2021:
This deliverable will be a formal document which will attempt a QA Assessment of the Fund 5 Process from a proposer’s perspective.
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(6) Governance: Due: TBA
This deliverable will be a “leap of faith" interaction with voters to assess whether QA-DAO should be funded $5 given the delivery of 80% of outputs (1 -5).
Estimated cost:
2 ADA to mint an ADA Non-Fungible Token that records the support of Project Catalyst for QA-DAO. Set to $5 to cover currency value changes.\
Token Rewards:
A high-level process outlining a means to reward community contributions has been drafted for NFT-DAO and released under a Creative Commons License
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