ALDEA Catalyst Spanish Support Site

ALDEA is an already growing community. Within it, people from all over Latin America and the Hispanic world are getting together to collaborate on many initiatives like this one.

One of the most important objectives we have, is to provide a safe space for people to self-govern and solve real world problems. In order to do so, it is vital to understand how a decentralized funding process like that of Project Catalyst works. But, with the information we currently have available in Spanish, it is very unlikely for the Latin American Community to achieve this goal. Regardless of your English level, it's always easier to learn and communicate in your native language.

We believe that ALDEA can both help and encourage people to join this growing ecosystem, by providing the tools they need to learn about Catalyst. This is a great opportunity for the region to further develop these new and collaborative ways of working as a decentralized society.

If you want to know more about ALDEA you can join our Discord Server in https://discord.com/invite/KkZjH5Tzkn

How will ALDEA help?
At the moment, Project Catalyst offers these roles for people who want to participate:

1. Proposer
2. Team Member
3. Community Advisor
4. Voter

Proposers will benefit from networking with like-minded people, receive language support, find team members, or get feedback from the community.

Team Members can grow a reputation and a profile within the ecosystem and find proposals to work on.

Community Advisors can stay up-to-date with everything relevant to their roles and the different funds.

Voters will receive translated information on different initiatives and proposals, allowing them to fully understand their impact and therefore better exercising their voting rights.

By doing all this, ALDEA is encouraging meaningful participation from the Spanish and Latin American communities.

How will ALDEA achieve this?
To achieve these ambitious goals, we have divided the scope of the project in two different parts:

Short-Term Goals
Discord Server (already up and running) for Proposers, Team Members and Community Advisors to collaborate, discuss ideas and proposals, share insights and make teams. Translations of Proposals & production of diverse guides for different users that want to participate or learn about Project Catalyst.

Long-Term Goals
ALDEA will build a "Talents Board" where Proposers can search for the best fit for their teams. The Board will have information about the profile of the person and history about previous proposals or bounties they collaborated with. This way, both Proposers and Team Members will grow a reputation within Project Catalyst and the Community, for everyone's benefit.

Phase 1: Discord, Landing Page & Translations

• Discord Server - done
• Upgrade Discord Server with bots, notifications, channels, polls, calendars and more support for the Community.
• Landing Page - ongoing (an MVP will be released shortly)
• Translation Service - a translation of the most important Proposals will be shared with the Community prior to each Governance Phase.
• Guides will be produced and maintained according to Project Catalyst updates and changes.

Phase 2: Talents Board

• Landing Page becomes a Platform.
• User registration with different roles (Proposer or Team Member)
• Complete profile with personal information, previous experience and skills
• Proposers can publish their project and the potential skills they need
• Team Members can tag themselves as "seeking opportunities" or can apply for open positions.

Phase 2 is complementary to Phase 1: the Discord Server and the Translation Service will go on after Phase 2 is complete.

KPIs
We will measure the success of the Proposal and the engagement of the Community with it using the following metrics:

• Number of active Proposers in Discord Server.
• Number of ALDEA Community Proposals that made it to Project Catalyst.
• % of ALDEA Community Proposals that got funded in Project Catalyst.
• Average rating of the ALDEA Community Proposals in Project Catalyst.
• Number of active Team Members in Discord Server.
• Number of active Community Advisors in Discord Server.
• Number of Users registered on ALDEA Catalyst platform.
• Number of Users promoting themselves in the Talents Board.
• Number of matches between Proposers and Talents using Talents Board.

Budget
We are asking for funds for Phase 1 only, with a 6 months horizon.

Our budget includes the following:

• Grow the Discord Server with bots, channels, polls, calendars and support for Proposers, Team Members, Community Advisors and Voters. We estimate 10 hours of work each month for these tasks.
• Translation (and easy-to-understand explanation) of "Most Popular" Proposals from each Challenge of all Funds, prior to the Governance Phase. We will translate 30 Proposals from each Fund (for the next 6 Funds). We estimate 1 hour to translate each Proposal and 1 more hour to write a good review about it.
• Development of a Website with information about Project Catalyst, Guides, Calendar with important dates, translations of most important proposals from each fund. The site will be running for 6 months and we are also including in our budget the necessary work to keep it up-to-date with the latest Catalyst news and information about each Proposal.
• Hosting Infrastructure

Funds Detail

1. 6 months period
2. USD 20 hourly rate

• Translation of Proposals + Review : 360 hours -> USD 7200
• Discord Upgrades & Maintenance: 60 hours -> USD 1200
• Website Development, Update & Maintenance: 25 hours -> USD 500
• Hosting -> USD 180

TOTAL: USD 9080.-

Funds for Phase 2 will be asked in a future Proposal, after the team is comfortable with the progress of Phase 1 and feels it is the right time to take one step further in the development of ALDEA Catalyst.

Probably after Phase 2 (and of course once ALDEA becomes a fully operating DAO) we will need an allocation from its Treasury to run all these Community related projects (that would be after Smart Contracts are available in Cardano). This way ALDEA Catalyst will become a self-sufficient project.

CHECKLIST

How my proposal impacts the challenge metrics & How I address the challenge question?

This challenge and its metrics is about increasing participation in Catalyst among the various roles and ways to do so. We understand that by building this platform, we are doing exactly that.

Definition of success after 3, 6 and 12 months.

This is explained in greater detail in the different sections above.

The 3 months time frame aligns with our short-term goals, where we expect to already have meaningful participation in the Discord channels, discussing new proposals and getting together to form new teams.

By the 6 months, we'll be completing phase 1 with a working site including translated proposals, town hall updates, training materials and guides to participate in Project Catalyst.

The 12 months time frame aligns with the completion of our phase 2, bringing the Talents Board and user registration to the platform, where proposers will be able to find members to build stronger teams and people to find new opportunities.

Included identifying information about all proposers.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/matias-falcone/
• https://www.falconstakepool.com/
• https://www.aldea-dao.org/about-eng.html
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauro-hernan-falcone/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eramallo/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-lanfranchi/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-falcone-682726109/

Defined expected public launch date.

The MVP will be live by May 31st in preparation for Fund5 Governance Phase. Subsequent updates and improvements will be made as outlined in our goals and phases above, within the 3 to 6 months period for phase 1 and 6 to 12 for phase 2.

Core Team

With 70+ years of combined IT experience in software development and digital transformation across a variety of industries, our core team of 6 people includes Technical Leads, Business Analysts, Product Wizards, UX Designers, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and Foreing Trade and Banking Analysts.

This combined experience brings all sorts of skills and knowledge to the table. These include technical and business-oriented skills, but above all, it brings creative thinking, problem-solving, resiliency, experience in working for global and diverse teams remotely among different languages and cultures, reporting to stakeholders, and the ability to do all this while having fun!

We are lucky to already have the support of several Stakepool Operators from the region, senior Cardano enthusiasts and key members of our community, acting in an advisory and promoter capacity, with whom we meet regularly and are already essential members of ALDEA.

This proposal is backed by ALDEA (the Latin America DAO - https://aldea-dao.org)) and its Community.

Propuesta en Español: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eTqZNuNIfaq0ebGQNCkwZeAk8UtUPaoheeDoiKaBJmM/edit

Related Proposal from Fund4: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/ALDEA-the-Latin-America-DAO/341349-48088