dRep Recruitment, Training, and Ethical Code Development Workshops

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

Additional applicants

Adam Rusch, Ekow Harding, Jose De Gamboa, Thomas Lindseth, and Yuki Oishi.

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

Input-Output Global will be required to upgrade the Cardano node software to launch the Catalyst DRep and Cardano DRep roles.

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Project will be fully open source.

[METADATA] Category of proposal

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Our team will coordinate a series of workshops hosted in EU (Norway), USA, Africa (Ghana), Asia (Japan), as well as Latin-America (Colombia). Each region will have both a physical, in-person workshop and an online workshop specifically targeting these community groups. These workshops will go through and discuss the community-developed Code of Conduct framework (current v1.1) to gather feedback and suggest updates on this. 

The workshops will also introduce the Catalyst dRep role to new attendants, discuss how the Cardano constitution relates to the dRep of Catalyst, and feedback will be gathered on this as well. The workshops will also introduce the role of Cardano DReps and start a discussion on how this role is related to and different from the Catalyst DRep role.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

The goal of the challenge is to increase dRep diversity and levels of participation from the community. By holding these workshops across the globe, we increase community awareness of the role and make them accessible to a greater number of people. At the same time, we will gain knowledge on the dRep Code of Conduct framework to further it and increase the quality of catalyst dReps.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

Number of participants who want to become dReps, number of changes & additions to the ethical framework for dReps.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

Miro board and other such tools for feedback results will be public. The Code of Conduct suggested changes will be public. Any comments or recommendations to how dReps will relate to the Cardano constitution will be public as well. We will publish videos from the events as well. 

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

Eystein Hansen - Norway

I have attended and held CIP 1694 workshops in Horten, Norway as well as an online workshop. I have worked with other community members on the dRep role and contributed to the ethical framework for dReps. Maven Cardano Ambassador. I am also attending CIP 1694 workshop in Edinburgh. 

Thomas Lindseth - Norway

Three times Cardano Community-led events host in Norway. CIP 1694 workshop hosted in Horten, Norway and Norwegian online event. Cardano Ambassador. Co-founder of Kryptolabs. I am attending CIP 1694 workshop in Edinburgh. 

Forum recap Norwegian workshops: https://forum.cardano.org/t/recap-of-cip-1694-workshop-in-horten/119201

Adam Rusch - USA

Adam organized the CIP-1694 Workshop in Chicago, USA and the Online Workshop for ADAO/Summon. He is a teaching assistant professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Founding Core Contributor to ADAO, and a co-founder of Summon.

Yuki Oishi (Yuta) - Japan

Yuta organized two CIP1694 community workshops (Fukuoka and Kyoto, Japan) and participated and contributed to one CIP1694 global workshop. You can find out more in the following article.

https://forum.cardano.org/t/cip1694/119235

Jose De Gamboa - Colombia

• I hosted CIP1694 workshop in Bogota, Colombia (https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMFp7TXc=/)
• Attended the Pan-Latam in Uruguay workshop that consolidated the results of more than 15 Latin-American workshops. 
• Co-authored the Latina American regional conclusions document: https://github.com/latamcardano/CIP1694Workshops
• Attended Global CIP1694 workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Ekow Harding - Ghana

• I participated in several workshops as a delegate and a volunteer hosted by Wada Ghana over the past two years.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X8F835Vll0a6XSlbu29rO6rakPKiuGVe

• I worked as an Oracle in Wada Ghana’s Showcase team project: a project set out to increase visibility of funded and completed proposals. Oracles audit individual proposals, through interviews, and write articles on their findings.

https://wada959.pythonanywhere.com

• I organised two workshops in Ghana to develop and nurture leadership in youths of Ghana.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vSzDraZnY4sokdhlhZmlej_qPEfbX_l4?usp=drive_link

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

Increase awareness of dReps in Catalyst and further the ethical framework. Interest in the workshop will judge if the approach is feasible or not, and we can start with the online workshop to gather data. 

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1: Create a new dRep document v0.1 (both for dRep Catalyst and CIP1694).　- 1month

Budget: 12000 Ada (2000 ada for each person on the project).

Create the following v0.1.

• A document that customizes the Catalyst DREP Code of Conduct to the CIP1694 DREP Code of Conduct and further extends the Code of Conduct to the entire off-chain rules
• Constitution feedback
• Five potential agenda items for the workshop

Milestone 2:Evolving document v0.1 to v1.0. - 1 month

Budget: 12000 ada (2000 ada for each person on the project).

• Open them to the Catalyst community for a week for comments, reflect on the comments, and make it v0.2.
• It will then be published again to the Catalyst community for one week for comments, reflect the comments, and set to v0.3. This is repeated until the total number of comments for one week is less than three, at which point the number is set to v1.0.

Milestone 3 : In person workshops in five regions. - 2month

Budget: 87500 ada (5 workshops at 17500 Ada)

• Workshop in Norway
• Workshop in Ghana
• Workshop in Japan
• Workshop in USA
• Workshop in Colombia

Milestone 4 :Evolving document v1.0 to v2.0 - 1 month

Budget: 6000 ada (1000 ada for each person on the project).

• Compile the results of the regional workshops, and reflect them in the documentation and version v1.1.
• This will be made available to the Catalyst community for a week for additional comments, which will then be reflected in version v2.0.

Milestone 5 : Online closing workshop - 1 month

Budget: 9000 ada (1500 ada for each person on the project). 

• An online closing workshop in English, including representatives from each regional workshop.
• (Think of the Edinburgh workshop in terms of the CIP1694 workshop).
• This will be a workshop to ensure that there are no issues with the v2.0 content.
• Ideally, the v2.0 content will remain unchanged.
• If any significant comments are made, the version will be updated to v2.1 to reflect them.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Milestone 1: dRep document v0.1.

Milestone 2: dRep document v1.0.

Milestone 3: Offline workshop feedback made public.

Milestone 4: dRep document v2.0.

Milestone 5: Online closing workshop feedback made public and dRep document finalized. 

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

30000 Ada - workshop hoster compensation. (5000 Ada per person)

17500 Ada - To cover Norway workshop costs.

17500 Ada - To cover US workshop costs.

17500 Ada - To cover Ghana workshop costs.

17500 Ada - To cover Latin-America workshop costs.

17500 Ada - To cover Japan workshop costs.

9000 Ada - To cover the online event cost in time and planning (1500 Ada per person).

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

This series of workshops will gather essential feedback on the dRep code of conduct and engage the Cardano users who are likely to fill these roles. By holding them around the globe we will make the community more aware of the Catalyst dRep role, how it will relate to the Cardano dRep role, and let people know that they have the opportunity to become dReps. We believe that increasing awareness of the role and diversity of DReps will lead to better behavior and performance of dReps.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.