Catalyst Site: Education resources

Project Catalyst Community Website - Addressing the Challenge

Information about the Project Catalyst process is currently scattered throughout different sources which makes it more challenging to get involved and stay informed. Community Advisors and interested proposers have to filter through a variety of channels in order to stay informed and get the relevant information. While formats like the weekly townhall, Discord and Telegram Channels convey a lot of information, they don't explain the relevant processes in a short and concise way. The easier it is to understand the processes the better we can facilitate more effective engagement.

The purpose of having educational resources will be to document the Catalyst process in a visually appealing and easy to understand format. The Project Catalyst Community Website will become a central source for education, collaboration and information about the Project Catalyst funding process. The resources will be updated as the Catalyst process changes and improves over time.

What educational resources will be added?

The initial implementation will consist of two main parts for the education resources:

• Establishing a Community Calendar - Community members should always be able to easily see what is happening at the moment in the Catalyst funding process. A Calendar will help members more easily to work out what they should be doing or plan for at any given moment.
• Aggregating Relevant Resources - Information about Catalyst that are clustered throughout different channels will be aggregated on the Project Catalyst Community Website and inform relevant stakeholders in a concise way.There will be information to address the needs of Community Advisors, proposers and voters. This information will be updated as the Catalyst funding changes over time and linked to other resources or social accounts that people may want to use.

Roadmap

The proposal aims to provide a central place within the community website to provide the source of information that can be constantly updated.

Integrating education resources into the website will take ~3 weeks of work. In the long term, more features will be added to achieve more meaningful participation in the community. If you want to look at all solution ideas that will be integrated in the community website, take a look: https://www.notion.so/cardanocommunity/Catalyst-Community-Site-2b0616bedeb94c13a135d565eb883412

Development steps

Gather and format the Project Catalyst data for the calendar information to add to the website database

Create the calendar page based off the Catalyst data

Create the resources page using the content from content creators, any existing Catalyst landing pages (e.g. https://project-catalyst.github.io/)))) plus any further visual improvements

Ongoing collaboration with all content creators, community members and developers to integrate any of their current or planned education resources

Expected initial implementation launch date is ~16th May (+/- 1 week)

Auditability:

The project is currently under development, weekly updates can be found here: https://www.notion.so/cardanocommunity/Project-Updates-7f42f8cc1648444dbfe6e18b74ccc3b7

Success metrics

Short term (3 months): Number of users viewing the calendar and resources section and qualitative feedback on the usefulness of the resources

Longer term (6-12 months): Tracking the number of information requests about the Catalyst proposal on the website or community members to determine the number of people and percentage that need help with the funding process. Success will be measured in reducing the percentage of people in the community who need more support than the resources available.

Team and collaboration

The team consists of 3 international people with background in informatics, science, economics, psychology and political science

George L - Web and mobile developer of over 5 years (mainly React, React Native, GraphQL, Serverless and Prisma). Ref - https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgelovegrove

Jakob D - Research & analysis, management. Political Scientist and Business Psychologist with experience in strategic consulting

Ben S - Research & analysis, collaboration, marketing and documentation

Budget breakdown

Time required: 3 weeks (40 hours x 3 = 120)

Time allocation: Research & analysis (10%), Product and design (15%), Development (45%), Maintenance (5%), Collaboration (10%), Marketing (15%)

Budget = 120 x $40 per hour = $4800

Hosting & Software = $400

Total: $5,200

For more information on budget planning of all our proposals, take a look at: https://www.notion.so/cardanocommunity/Budget-planning-e39747c1f62f42b1928e374a8c0f287e

Join the conversation, if you want to engage in our proposal(s)!

Discord: https://discord.gg/RwM2DanP - Under F5 Catalyst Value Onboarding group => project-catalyst-community-site channel

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adacatalyst