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What is Quality Assurance DAO ?

Quality Assurance DAO (QADAO) is an ongoing open source project that provides support for the Cardano Project Catalyst Community.

1 - Overview

The Distributed Autonomous Organisation of Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance DAO

Quality Assurance DAO (QADAO) began in April 2021 with an Open Source Feedback survey and submitted a proposal “Quality-Assurance-DAO” in the Fund 5: Developer ecosystem Challenge that sought to encourage open-source collaboration & innovation and to do a QA Assessment of Catalyst Proposal Process itself. This proposal was successful in receiving votes and was funded in August 2021. QADAO went on to document the pathway of a funded cohort & began to assess Project Catalyst’s reporting requirements.

We provide the following services :

  • Documentation and Communication

  • Auditing and Oversight

  • Governance and Community Support

  • Training and Education

  • Project Management and Automation

2 - Auditing and Oversight

Auditing and Oversight

Auditing and Oversight Proposals

3 - Documentation and Communication

GitBooks created and maintained by QADAO

Swarm GitBooks

Catalyst Swarm 2022

Catalyst-Swarm-Genesis

Catalyst Circle Oversight (QADAO)

Catalyst Circle V1

Catalyst Circle V2

Catalyst Circle V3

Catalyst Governance

Community Governance Oversight

Audit Circle

Funded Proposers Hub

Research

Ekphrasis

Training & Automation

Training and automation

4 - Governance and Community Support

Supporting, tracking and documenting Catalyst Governance experiments.

Oversight of Catalyst Circle

Catalyst Circle is an initiative started by IOHK to advance governance in Project Catalyst.

  • Catalyst Oversight GitBooks
  • CCv1 - (general intro to Catalyst Circle, and July-Oct 2021)
  • CCv2 - (Nov 2021 - Jan 2022) CCv3 (Feb-April 2022) - you are here

5 - Funded Proposals

This section outlines QADAO proposals, co-proposals, colloborations or Challenges submitted, voted & funded by the Project Catalyst experiment in community innovation. For further information on Project Catalyst please refer to the Catalyst landing page on the ideascale platform.

Summary details are provided as follows : Fund, Proposal Name (Proposal Link), Fund Challenge (About Link), Status (Completed/In Progress), Resources (Vanessa, Stephen etc.) and Budget.

5.1 - Fund 5 - Quality-Assurance-DAO

Completed. Proposal. ID : 500060. Innovative approach to open source. Reform PM to distributed peer facilitation.Adapt maturity standards to distributed organizations. Budget $ 5

Innovative approach to open source. Reform PM to distributed peer facilitation.Adapt maturity standards to distributed organizations.

5.2 - Fund 6 - Catalyst-Swarm-Genesis GitBook

Completed. Co-Proposal. ID: 600037. Resource the documentation & tracking of the Catalyst-Swarm Genesis GitBook. Communicate the content of the Catalyst-Swarm Genesis GitBook. Budget $ 3480

Resource the documentation & tracking of the Catalyst-Swarm Genesis GitBook. Communicate the content of the Catalyst-Swarm Genesis GitBook.

Last Report - 24th April 2022

  • Email - Private
  • Project ID - 600037
  • Which fund is your challenge in ? - Fund 6
  • In which Challenge is your proposal? (one report per project) - F6: Catalyst value onboarding
  • Is the project still in progress / launched / complete ? - Completed
  • Is the project on track? - Yes
  • If you answered No to the above question, what are the issues or blockages you are having? - Awaiting close out report and video.
  • What date will you complete your project? - Jan 1st 2022
  • Do you plan to launch a token? - No
  • If you answered yes to the above questions regarding a token, please explain the utility of the token - n/a
  • How large is your community (social or otherwise) ? We are particularly interested in large, active communities with real people and engagement. - What metrics are expected for this question ?
  • (Optional) Please share any suitable evidence of progress about your deliverables since last report? This could be documentation, photo or any other measurable way you feel demonstrates the impact of your project - n/a
  • Is there anything else you would like to share about your project? - n/a

Notes -

Project ID (Project ID is your unique project 6 digit number - you can find it in this document under your fund tab - column B: https://bit.ly/FundedProjectsReporting *

Is the project still in progress / launched / complete ? - ‘Still in progress’ means that your funded project is live and ongoing, ‘Launched’ means you have launched the product, service or app you have developed in your funded project, ‘Complete’ means you have completed your funded project. If you have completed your project please be sure to submit your End of Project report and video shorturl.at/mtBZ0.

5.3 - Fund 6 - Distributed Auditability

Completed. Proposal. ID: 600061. Identify common community standards. Build consistent evaluation tools. Automate funded proposal reporting. Budget $ 8720

Identify common community standards. Build consistent evaluation tools. Automate funded proposal reporting.

5.4 - Fund 6 - Homeless Hub

In Progress. Co-Proposal. ID: 600080. Introduce the Cardano Community to homeless communities in Manchester, UK, through in-person workshops and online sessions. Budget $ 18980

Introduce the Cardano Community to homeless communities in Manchester, UK, through in-person workshops and online sessions.

5.5 - Fund 6 - Open Source Training

Completed. Proposal. ID: 600102. Open-source training materials for Entrepreneurship-Toolbox. Workshops explaining open-source infrastructure to early stage entrepreneurs. Budget $ 8720

Open Source Training

Open-source training materials for Entrepreneurship-Toolbox. Workshops explaining open-source infrastructure to early stage entrepreneurs.

Last Report - 24th April 2022

  • Email - Private
  • Project ID - 600106
  • Which fund is your challenge in ? - Fund 6
  • In which Challenge is your proposal? (one report per project) - F6: DLT Entrepreneurship Toolbox
  • Is the project still in progress / launched / complete ? - In progress
  • Is the project on track? - Yes
  • If you answered No to the above question, what are the issues or blockages you are having? -
  • What date will you complete your project? - 1st June 2022
  • Do you plan to launch a token? -
  • If you answered yes to the above questions regarding a token, please explain the utility of the token - n/a
  • How large is your community (social or otherwise) ? We are particularly interested in large, active communities with real people and engagement. - Community engaged via After Town Halls & YouTube videos of training sessions
  • (Optional) Please share any suitable evidence of progress about your deliverables since last report? This could be documentation, photo or any other measurable way you feel demonstrates the impact of your project - n/a
  • Is there anything else you would like to share about your project? - Evidence & information about the progress of this project can be found here - https://quality-assurance-dao.gitbook.io/training-and-automation/

Notes -

Project ID (Project ID is your unique project 6 digit number - you can find it in this document under your fund tab - column B: https://bit.ly/FundedProjectsReporting *

Is the project still in progress / launched / complete ? - ‘Still in progress’ means that your funded project is live and ongoing, ‘Launched’ means you have launched the product, service or app you have developed in your funded project, ‘Complete’ means you have completed your funded project. If you have completed your project please be sure to submit your End of Project report and video shorturl.at/mtBZ0.

5.6 - Fund 6 - Oversight of Catalyst Circle

In Progress. Co-Proposal. ID: 600106. Provide independent oversight of Catalyst Circle. Resource an active site that documents & tracks the activities of the Catalyst Circle. Budget $ 7440

Provide independent oversight of Catalyst Circle. Resource an active site that documents & tracks the activities of the Catalyst Circle

Last Report - 24th April 2022

  • Email - Private
  • Project ID - 600106
  • Which fund is your challenge in ? - Fund 6
  • In which Challenge is your proposal? (one report per project) - F6: Distributed decision making
  • Is the project still in progress / launched / complete ? - In progress
  • Is the project on track? - Yes
  • If you answered No to the above question, what are the issues or blockages you are having? -
  • What date will you complete your project? -
  • Do you plan to launch a token? -
  • If you answered yes to the above questions regarding a token, please explain the utility of the token - n/a
  • How large is your community (social or otherwise) ? We are particularly interested in large, active communities with real people and engagement. -
  • (Optional) Please share any suitable evidence of progress about your deliverables since last report? This could be documentation, photo or any other measurable way you feel demonstrates the impact of your project - n/a
  • Is there anything else you would like to share about your project? - n/a

Notes -

Project ID (Project ID is your unique project 6 digit number - you can find it in this document under your fund tab - column B: https://bit.ly/FundedProjectsReporting *

Is the project still in progress / launched / complete ? - ‘Still in progress’ means that your funded project is live and ongoing, ‘Launched’ means you have launched the product, service or app you have developed in your funded project, ‘Complete’ means you have completed your funded project. If you have completed your project please be sure to submit your End of Project report and video shorturl.at/mtBZ0.

5.7 - Fund 7 - Catalyst Audit Circle

In Progress. Co-Proposal. ID:700058. Establish a Catalyst auditing circle to guide improvements needed to maximise each funding rounds return on intention. Budget $ 12700

Establish a Catalyst auditing circle to guide improvements needed to maximise each funding rounds return on intention.

  • Challenge : F7: Improve and Grow Auditability
  • Funded - Stephen Whitenstall (QADAO) - Proposal owner in colloboration with Audit Community & liason with IOG - Budget $ 12700

5.8 - Fund 7 - Catalyst Swarm 2022 GitBook

Completed. Co-Proposal. ID: 700064. Resource the documentation & tracking of Project Catalyst. Communicate the content of the Catalyst 2022 GitBook to the community. Budget $ 4350

Resource the documentation & tracking of Project Catalyst. Communicate the content of the Catalyst 2022 GitBook to the community.

5.9 - Fund 7 - Catalyst-Coordinator Hub

In Progress. Co-Proposal. ID: 700067. Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support. Budget $ 4350

Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support.

5.10 - Fund 7 - Community Governance Oversight

Completed. Co-Proposer. ID: 700075. Survey, report & facilitate retrospectives to improve our governance processes. Budget $ 19100

Survey, report & facilitate retrospectives to improve our governance processes.

5.11 - Fund 7 - Ekphrasis Gitbook

In Progress. Proposer. ID: 700108. Resource the documentation of philosophical debate and discussion around Cardano.. Budget $ 4350

Resource the documentation of philosophical debate and discussion around Cardano.

5.12 - Fund 7 - QA-DAO Transcription Service

In Progress. Co-Proposal. ID: 700219. Transcribe, time-stamp and summarise the Zoom videos of key community events, making them accessible, searchable, and translatable. Budget $ 39053

Transcribe, time-stamp and summarise the Zoom videos of key community events, making them accessible, searchable, and translatable.

5.13 - Fund 8 Challenge - Improve and Grow Auditability

Pending Challenge. How to make the auditing process of funded proposals efficient, distributed and transparent? Budget $ 200,000

How to make the auditing process of funded proposals efficient, distributed and transparent?

5.14 - Fund 8 - ABC of Governance

In Progress. Proposer. ID : 800009. Provide governance training and research materials to the Cardano community. Budget $ 10135

Provide governance training and research materials to the Cardano community.

5.15 - Fund 8 - Automate, Educate, Communicate

In Progress. Co-Proposer. ID: 800039. Build and document automation tools, provide open source training & communicate what open source in Cardano entails. Budget $ 9750

Build and document automation tools, provide open source training & communicate what open source in Cardano entails.

5.16 - Fund 8 - Catalyst Facilitators’ Collective

In Progress. Co-proposer. ID: 800101. Deliver facilitation skills training via Catalyst School; build an ongoing facilitators’ community to champion good facilitation skills. Budget $ 29540

Deliver facilitation skills training via Catalyst School; build an ongoing facilitators’ community to champion good facilitation skills.

5.17 - Fund 8 - Community Governance Oversight

In Progress. Co-Proposer. ID: 800116. Survey, report & facilitate retrospectives to improve our governance processes. Budget $ 34300

Survey, report & facilitate retrospectives to improve our governance processes.

5.18 - Fund 8 - Funded Proposer Sub-Circle

In Progress. Co-proposal. ID:800193. Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support. Budget $ 14215

Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support.

5.19 - Fund 8 - Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub

In Progress. Proposer. ID:800232. Work with an established UK community philosophy network, to build a philosophy-based Hub and develop philosophy discussion within Catalyst. Budget $ 18600

Work with an established UK community philosophy network, to build a philosophy-based Hub and develop philosophy discussion within Catalyst.

5.20 - Fund 8 - QA-DAO Oversight of Catalyst Circle

In Progress. Proposer. ID: 800305. Provide independent oversight of Catalyst Circle. Resource the Circle GitBooks to document & track the activities of Circle v4 and v5. Budget $ 16143

Provide independent oversight of Catalyst Circle. Resource the Circle GitBooks to document & track the activities of Circle v4 and v5.

5.21 - Fund 8 - WADA Qualitative Audit Pilot

In Progress. Co_proposal. ID:800358. Develop a new audit & documentation methodology which incorporates vital qualitative information. Pilot it with key WADA funded proposals. Budget $ 26000

Develop a new audit & documentation methodology which incorporates vital qualitative information. Pilot it with key WADA funded proposals.

5.22 - Fund 9 - Governance Services Guild Tools

In Progress. Collaboration. ID: 900114. Provide distributed governance services supporting Cardano groups and communities using tools such as dework, Discord and GitHub. Document & incorporate lessons learnt into Project Based Learning. Budget $ 37600

Provide distributed governance services supporting Cardano groups and communities using tools such as dework, Discord and GitHub. Document & incorporate lessons learnt into Project Based Learning.

5.23 - Fund 9 - Open dApp Framework

In Progress. Co-Proposal. ID: 900166. Conduct an analysis of existing project management dApps to provide a general, open-source framework and document it as project based learning material modules. Budget $ 6520

Conduct an analysis of existing project management dApps to provide a general, open-source framework and document it as project based learning material modules.

6 - Facilitation & Co-Production

Facilitation & Co-Production for the Project Catalyst community.

QA-DAO provides training & research for the Project Catalyst community.

Open-Source-Training

Ekphrasis-GitBook

7 - Collaborations

Quality assurance standards don’t develop in a vacuum.

This section is about the collaborations, alliances and two-way exchanges that QA-DAO is developing; how we are working with organisations within and beyond Catalyst.

Ryuuki

QA-DAO is part of the Ryuuki stakepool network, (Twitter : RyuukiNetwork), which is a grouping of 15 projects including : Catalyst Swarm, WADA, Lauris | EU01 StakePool, Gimbalabs, Catalyst School, Eastern Town Hall, Innovatio, AIM, PACE, …

Catalyst Swarm

Quality-Assurance DAO provides technical project management support for Swarm a self-organizing Project Catalyst community. The Swarm is a collaborative, relation-based network in Project Catalyst. The main goal is to propose a dynamic and adaptable multi-stream structure to the Catalyst Community, where individuals, groups and projects can use their maximum amount of potential to create common value. Catalyst-Swarm-Genesis - a GitBook which records the activities of the Catalyst-Swarm which formed in April 2021 out of the Project Catalyst experiment.

Homeless-Hub

Homeless people have a unique culture. Homeless Hub Fund 6 Proposal.

Homeless people have a unique culture, with much to share on key issues like value / contribution; but Cardano hasn’t yet engaged with them. Empowering communities - The first step in empowering any community to change their lives is to create a space where people can develop and crystallise their OWN understanding of the problem.

WADA

WADA delivers groundbreaking projects in Africa to engage communities with Cardano.

Eastern-Town-Hall

Cardano Catalyst Community Eastern Townhall is helping to enable community members from a wide variety of countries and languages in the eastern timezones. Eastern-Town-Hall Website - https://c3eth.github.io/

8 - Contribution Guidelines

How to contribute to the docs

We use Hugo to format and generate our website and the Docsy theme for styling and site structure. Hugo is an open-source static site generator that provides us with templates, content organisation in a standard directory structure, and a website generation engine. You write the pages in Markdown (or HTML if you want), and Hugo wraps them up into a website.

All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests.

Updating a single page

If you’ve just spotted something you’d like to change while using the docs, Docsy has a shortcut for you:

  1. Click Edit this page in the top right hand corner of the page.
  2. If you don’t already have an up to date fork of the project repo, you are prompted to get one - click Fork this repository and propose changes or Update your Fork to get an up to date version of the project to edit. The appropriate page in your fork is displayed in edit mode.
  3. Follow the rest of the Quick start with Netlify process above to make, preview, and propose your changes.

Creating an issue

If you’ve found a problem in the docs, but you’re not sure how to fix it yourself, please create an issue in the Goldydocs repo. You can also create an issue about a specific page by clicking the Create Issue button in the top right hand corner of the page.

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