Innovation Fund Research - Nodes and Connections

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Tevo Saks

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

tevosaks@gmail.com

Additional applicants

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

9

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

No

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

No

[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.” .

No dependencies

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

Yes

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

The project will be fully open source.

[METADATA] Category of Proposal

Other

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Collecting information about the specific roles and their interactions in different funding stages will be done in public workshop sessions using Miro Board. This way, participants can actively add information and interact with other members while analyzing a single funding cycle.

We answer these questions for each of the selected roles:

• What selected role activities may you participate in each stage?
• How can I get involved?
• How to build a reputation and belonging to a community?
• What competencies selected role should have?
• How is the selected role related to other Catalyst Roles?
• Is the role a way to generate income or dependent on the amount of ADA you have?

In addition, we improve our experience and vision by answering the selected questions below.

• What types of energy exchange does an innovation fund need?
• What types of energy exchange have we experienced?
• What types of energy exchange would we have if we asked people what they could do?

As we go through the collected resources, we will learn to understand what is required to run an Innovation Fund process. 

We can use the research to map problems and help improve Project Catalyst processes.

This research focuses on members who already have experience participating in Project Catalyst.

Outcomes are up-to-date Miro Board visualizations with accompanying overview videos.

There will be an audit trail on Miro Board, and workshop sessions will be uploaded to the Swarm Youtube channel.

At a high level, what will be on the Miro Board:

1. Main Template with Project Catalyst onboarding resources
2. stage information
3. role guides
4. Role Activity perspectives
5. Catalyst Team Perspective
6. Proposers Perspective
7. Reviewer Perspective
8. Challenge Teams Perspective
9. Circle Members Perspective
10. Voters Perspective
11. Voting Delegation Representative's Perspective

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

We allow room for systemic improvements in Project Catalyst Processes by creating a public discussion space and using Miro Board for documentation and visualization, we aim to gather knowledge about different topics related to Project Catalyst, these include roles, connections, funding stages, and the interactions between various participants.

The solution encourages active community participation by allowing individuals to get involved in the discussions, share their experiences, and interact with other members. Engaging with the community in this way fosters a more decentralized and inclusive decision-making process.

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

We will use the session and review feedback to recognize whether the research we provide is acceptable.

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

Workshop videos will be uploaded to the Catalyst Swarm Youtube channel.

Here are videos from past Innovation Fund Workshops: 1, 2, 3.

The Miro Boards used for this research will be publicly available.

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

I have hands-on knowledge of most of the roles and have actively been learning to understand Innovation Fund from all sides of aspects. I have experience in facilitating workshops to acquire the required information.

I am closely connected with Catalyst Community Governance entities.

Will be managing funds through the Swarm Treasury System.

Rewards to contributors are sent out the first week of every month.

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

There will be at least one workshop session every two weeks. These sessions will produce information about the roles and their connection with the funding cycle on the Miro Board.

The sequence of which roles or questions we want to research and analyze is based on the participant's feedback.

We will use the session and review feedback to recognize whether our research is acceptable.

[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.

Setting up the intial environment - 1 month

4 milestones for research roles - each takes a month

3 milestones for alternative research - each takes a month

Closing Report - 1 month

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

In the first milestone, I will create a space where it will be easy to participate and ensure it's easy to find, navigate and access the resources.

In the last chapter, we put together a report that gives a good overview of all the work done.

The rest of the chapter in between helps to maintain and document research done towards advancing the state of the art of Catalyst.

We answer these questions for each of the selected roles:

• What selected role activities may you participate in each stage?
• How can I get involved?
• How to build a reputation and belonging to a community?
• What competencies selected role should have?
• How is the selected role related to other Catalyst Roles?
• Is the role a way to generate income or dependent on the amount of ADA you have?

In addition, we improve our experience and vision by answering the selected questions below.

• What types of energy exchange does an innovation fund need?
• What types of energy exchange have we experienced?
• What types of energy exchange would we have if we asked people what they could do?

Here are videos from past Innovation Fund Workshops: 1, 2, 3

These give an idea of what the results will look like

As we go through the collected resources, we will learn to understand what is required to run an Innovation Fund process. 

We can use the research to map problems and help improve Project Catalyst processes.

Outcomes are up-to-date Miro Board visualizations with accompanying overview videos.

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

Prepare and maintain Project Management and Innovation Fund Research Miro Boards - total 19280 ADA

• Prepare PMB - Innovation Fund Research Miro Board 1500 ADA
• Prepare Innovation Fund Research Miro Board 1000 ADA
• Updating Innovation Fund Research Miro Board after each session. 1540*7 = 10780 ADA
• Reorganizing PMB - Innovation Fund Research Miro Board 6000 ADA

Coordinate with interested people - a total of 35530 ADA

• Feedback and participation 3230 ADA per research. Total 22610 ADA
• Feedback and participation 1615 ADA per month for project management meetings, 12920 ADA

Create, update and coordinate Dework tasks - a total of 14804 ADA

• Dework preparation 2500 ADA
• Progress and next steps meetings 1538 ADA per month. Total 12304 ADA

Set up communication channels - a total of 6160 ADA

• Reporting on updates and announcements once per week. 770 ADA per month

Organize Workshop session - total 8071 ADA

• 1153 ADA per research

Facilitate Workshop session - total 16149 ADA

• 2307 ADA per research

Organize and Analyze captured information - total 26922 ADA

• 3846 per research

Create overview videos - a total of 5390 ADA

• 770 ADA per research

Project and proposal documentation and reporting - a total of 6160 ADA

• 770 ADA per month

Distributing rewards -a total of 6160 ADA

• 770 ADA per month

Closing Report - 1500 ADA

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

This will help Catalyst Team to focus on other stuff while the community can also help build the Innovation Fund.

[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.

I Accept