Cardano Community Council (CCC)

The CCC will be a transparent elected group formed to coordinate community driven adoption initiatives & actions through targeted committees

More than 10 years leading and contributing to various different community groups.

Inspired by the recent community roadmap, the CCC aims to take the community's goals and apply funded coordination and actions to accelerate progress beyond what a distributed volunteer group can provide, while staying relevant to the community's priorities by allowing all decisions to be made by the community (something the 3 core Cardano entities cannot offer).

With the release of Shelley and the impending Voltaire, Cardano is now all grown up and ready for the community to take responsibility. While the voting capabilities of Voltaire are exciting, the project still needs humans to take action once decisions are made. This won't always be as simple as agreeing to implement a code change, so the actions required to carry out the social changes to our ecosystems need structured groups to do so.

A document that elaborates on how the CCC and its sub-committees will be structured and operated will be provided if this proposal gains support. However, at a high level it assumes Voltaire technology will be available to elect representatives and vote on decisions. Transparency will be provided by conducting all meetings over open video calls. The requested funding is intended to compensate up to 30 elected council and committee participants (CCC & 3 focus committees) contributing 5 hours per week for 3 months.

Future funding will be sought to allow the CCC to continue based on the community evaluating its success in the first 3 months.