CCv3: Sustaining the Circle
Problem
The Catalyst Circle fulfills a valuable community role but it cannot be sustained on a volunteer basis
Solution
Funding via Catalyst to ensure ongoing participation and to increase accountability of CC members to the community.
Completed outcome
Total to date
This is the total amount allocated to CCv3: Sustaining the Circle.
About this idea
The Catalyst Circle
The Catalyst Circle is an experiment to establish a decentralized community model of governance and representation. As the seat of decision making shifts from IOG to the community, the Circle provides invaluable community problem sensing and input. It has four primary goals:
- To facilitate communication between the different functional groups with Catalyst
- To provide a heads-up when red lines are crossed within a certain group
- To suggest improvements on plans and processes that shape Project Catalyst
- To refine the election process for Circle V3
Member duties and responsibilities
Like Project Catalyst itself, the Circle will also evolve over time. Initially, elected members will serve 3-month terms, and elections will follow to continue improving and iterating the process. For elected members, we have identified these initial duties and responsibilities. Each member of the Circle should:
- Represent the community that selected them
- Exercise their own best judgement about matters that come before the Circle
- Familiarize other members with the projects, activities, aims, hopes, and concerns of their communities
- Periodically take the opportunity to introduce policy proposals into the Circle's agenda for consideration
- Inform their communities about initiatives of the Circle
Each member also has the responsibility to:
- Regularly attend meetings every two weeks
- Maintain an agile backlog list to track issues between meetings
- Review and comment on agenda issues ahead of time
- Maintain awareness of the interests and concerns of their community
- Disseminate the Circle's outputs transparently and accessibly
- Learn and practice effective meeting procedures
- Produce an election protocol document for the next elections
- Attend training sessions focused on inclusive and lean startup leadership techniques
- Provide feedback on the effectiveness of the Circle
Members will be able to set each meeting's agenda and periodically introduce policy proposals into the Catalyst Circle for consideration. The 'minimal functional group' is the bootstrapping version, based on consultations with leaders within the Catalyst community, an expert group in the field of novel governance structures.
As trusted best practice is established, the Circle might grow and divide. Maybe the future has many 'Circles'? Ultimately, it will be up to members to advance our goal to legitimize decentralized governance, paving the way for an alternative to the status quo, and continuing to break new ground in building the future of blockchain governance.
Roadmap (3 months) February 2022 - April 2022
Catalyst Circle 1, which was in place [submit exact dates] focused predominantly on addressing identified challenges between the various stakeholder groups (for more details please see here: https://trello.com/b/DRBO6qyF/catalyst-prioritized-problems).
Catalyst Circle v2, was focused on….
As we look to the future, Catalyst Circle v3 will continue the growth of this representative community body while adhering to the goals and responsibilities mentioned above. Even though much progress has been made in the previous two iterations of the circle, there remains a backlog of problems and issues which remain outstanding.
Catalyst Circle representatives, individually and as a cohort, commit to working for the entire Catalyst Community and to represent, to the best of their abilities, the viewpoints and sentiments of all. We remain committed to open and constructive dialogues in our pursuits to solve problems.
KPIs
- Number of problems raised by the community during problem sensing stage
- Number of solutions brought up for the prioritized problems
- Number of successful solutions implemented for the prioritized problems
- Number of lessons learned documents generated from unsuccessful proposals
Accomplishments of Catalyst Circle version 1
- Established new incentive and reward model for Community Advisors
- Established a challenge Team and submitted a challenge proposal for "Rapid Funding Mechanisms"
- Launched an Coordinated CA Outreach and Onboarding campaign for Fund6
- Recruitment of CC Admin stuff ( see below ). Successfully recruited Secretary and Facilitator from within the Community
Accomplishments of Catalyst Circle version 2
- List accomplishments here
Budget breakdown:
CC member remuneration: $5000
- Meeting: 2 hours bi-weekly
- Preparation (comms, working sessions, etc.): 2 hours (bi-weekly)
- Initiative driven commitment: 2 hours (weekly)
Internal/external communication and organisation tools: ($500)
- Video conference/meeting (Zoom/hangout) x 3 months
- CC email hosting (google/zoho/etc)
- Domain purchase
Monthly report
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Progress report
Progress report
Progress report
Team
We are elected members of Project Catalyst community from key sectors of the ecosystem to identify and solve mutual interests.
