Project Catalyst Community Website - Addressing the Challenge

The current Project Catalyst process is lacking a platform to match potential collaborators and proposers which makes it more time consuming to effectively start new collaborations

At the moment, proposers that need a team have to manually search for individuals themselves and people who want to collaborate have to contact individual proposers. This increases the barrier for new entrepreneurs to engage in collaborations on IdeaScale due to a lack of awareness of who is looking to collaborate and what skills and services those people could bring to the proposals.

A list that encompasses all participants open for collaboration would solve this problem by providing a central place for both collaborators and proposers to get in contact. The use of a collaborator list will be a useful tool for all future proposal outreach ideas and campaigns. Now those campaigns can direct people to sign up to a collaborator list if they don't have an idea or team to work with - which will be the majority of people who are new to the space. The list of collaborators will help give the community an increased chance to come together and make sure the right talent is available for new projects.

Besides providing a collaborators list, the Project Catalyst Community Website aims to become the source for education, collaboration and relevant information about the Project Catalyst funding process.

How will the collaborators list look?

A collaborator list is a collection of people who are looking to contribute to Project Catalyst proposals. The list will let people share what skills and services they can offer and options for people to contact them. It will contain four different criteria that will allow for an efficient filtering of collaborators:

• Community role (e.g. Community advisor, stake pool operator, proposer)
• Skills (e.g. Haskell)
• Services (e.g. Web development)
• Available for collaboration (whether or not a person is available to collaborate)

Over time and in future funding rounds the collaborators list will get more complex and granular for better matching processes. Having a list of potential collaborators will make it as easy as possible for new ideas and teams to form which should help to a) integrate new entrepreneurs easier into the process and b) improve the amount of quality proposals going through the funding process.

Roadmap

The proposal aims to provide a single defined part in a community website that provides a central source of information which is constantly updated.

Integrating a collaborators list into the website will take ~7 weeks. Long term, more features will be added to better engage with the community of entrepreneurs.

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

• Define a base set of skills identifiers to use on profiles and open source on a Github project to allow for maximum collaboration
• Create the data structures for the users and skill identifiers and setup a database
• Create a backend to allow people to signup and update their profiles, get the skills list and also get a list of collaborators
• Create the frontend pages for signup / login, profile management, collaborator list and collaborator profile pages.

Expected initial implementation launch date is ~9th 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 using the collaborators list

Longer term (6-12 months): Tracking interactions between collaborators to determine if more collaborations are fostered through the collaboration list

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: 7 weeks = 40 hours x 7 = 280

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

Budget = 280 x $40 per hour = $11,200

Hosting & Software = $400

Total: $11,600

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

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