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.

Fund 5 - Quality-Assurance-DAO

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

Fund 6 - Catalyst-Swarm-Genesis GitBook

Completed. Resource the documentation & tracking of the Catalyst-Swarm Genesis GitBook. Communicate the content of the Catalyst-Swarm Genesis GitBook. Budget $ 3480

Fund 6 - Distributed Auditability

In Progress. Identify common community standards. Build consistent evaluation tools. Automate funded proposal reporting. Budget $ 8720

Fund 6 - Homeless Hub

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

Fund 6 - Open Source Training

In Progress. Open-source training materials for Entrepreneurship-Toolbox. Workshops explaining open-source infrastructure to early stage entrepreneurs. Budget $ 8720

Fund 6 - Oversight of Catalyst Circle

In Progress. Provide independent oversight of Catalyst Circle. Resource an active site that documents & tracks the activities of the Catalyst Circle. Budget $ 7440

Fund 7 - Catalyst Audit Circle

In Progress. Establish a Catalyst auditing circle to guide improvements needed to maximise each funding rounds return on intention. Budget $ 12700

Fund 7 - Catalyst Swarm 2022 GitBook

In Progress. Resource the documentation & tracking of Project Catalyst. Communicate the content of the Catalyst 2022 GitBook to the community. Budget $ 4350

Fund 7 - Catalyst-Coordinator Hub

In Progress. Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support. Budget $ 4350

Fund 7 - Community Governance Oversight

In Progress. Survey, report & facilitate retrospectives to improve our governance processes. Budget $ 19100

Fund 7 - Ekphrasis Gitbook

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

Fund 7 - QA-DAO Transcription Service

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

Fund 8 Challenge - Improve and Grow Auditability

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

Fund 8 - ABC of Governance

Funded. Provide governance training and research materials to the Cardano community. Budget $ 10135

Fund 8 - Automate, Educate, Communicate

Funded. Build and document automation tools, provide open source training & communicate what open source in Cardano entails. Budget $ 9750

Fund 8 - Catalyst Facilitators’ Collective

Funded. Deliver facilitation skills training via Catalyst School; build an ongoing facilitators’ community to champion good facilitation skills. Budget $ 29540

Fund 8 - Community Governance Oversight

Funded. Survey, report & facilitate retrospectives to improve our governance processes. Budget $ 34300

Fund 8 - Funded Proposer Sub-Circle

Funded. Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support. Budget $ 14215

Fund 8 - Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub

Funded. Work with an established UK community philosophy network, to build a philosophy-based Hub and develop philosophy discussion within Catalyst. Budget $ 18600

Fund 8 - QA-DAO Oversight of Catalyst Circle

Funded. Provide independent oversight of Catalyst Circle. Resource the Circle GitBooks to document & track the activities of Circle v4 and v5. Budget $ 16143

Fund 8 - WADA Qualitative Audit Pilot

Funded. Develop a new audit & documentation methodology which incorporates vital qualitative information. Pilot it with key WADA funded proposals. Budget $ 26000

Fund 9 - Governance Services Guild Tools

Funded. 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

Fund 9 - Open dApp Framework

Funded. 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

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