How can we increase meaningful participation among the community in the next six months?
This is the total amount allocated to Community Events.
Community-driven projects like Catalyst need organized events to connect, discuss ideas, solve problems together, and initiate collaboration
A diverse community characterized by high engagement, collaborative problem sensing, and strong execution teams.
Active participation in Project Catalyst among all stakeholders:
Events that bring the community together are critical to driving engagement, passion, building connections, and enabling powerful collaboration. These events strengthen the community and introduce and onboard new people to our ecosystem. Events have also been excellent problem-sensing tools that have launched several new teams and initiatives from the collaboration and connections forged during these events. Technology can be cold and impersonal, and community events bring the human touch to our engagements, opening hearts and minds.
This challenge invites the community to envision and bring about even more engaging and exciting events, catering to an ever-growing and diverse community. We are also already holding many interesting events within the broader Catalyst community. This challenge will ensure that these efforts sustainably provide value to the community.
Use of the challenge budget:
Events require planning, resources, and investment of time from the organizers. The Community Events challenge intends to help pay for those costs as they provide tremendous value to the community. Events can be (and have been) run by passionate volunteers and be of very high quality without remuneration. Still, we should recognize and reward these efforts instead of relying on the volunteer effort needed to run these events sustainably.
Since Project Catalyst is a global community, the focus on these events should be online formats (like Zoom, etc.). Recording these events so people in other locations and time zones can view them will ensure our community's maximum reach and benefit.
Guiding questions: