Project Catalyst Closing Made Easy

[IMPACT]

Make the end-of-project reporting easy for proposers who are interested in getting a video made for them so they can work on the project they have at hand.

Finalize Project Catalyst Report:

• Create a PowerPoint 
• Create a closing video (3-5min)
• Create closing report 
• Open source model that can be replicated
• Build templates and proper documentation for the process of building the closing report

This is so important because it will allow the community to properly audit the success of Project Catalyst proposals. Currently, only 50 of the 1000+ projects funded through project Catalyst have properly closed out their project. This causes a great disparity where the community doesn’t know how the project was carried out or if they had finished on that proposed deadline. So there is no way to show accountability, and we want to improve this for the value of the community and people who support these projects.

Our process will not completely fix this issue but will help add a greater quantity of proposals to the officially finalized stack which in turn provides the community with more transparency of if their votes were used properly or not. 

How it works:

Proposal team submits a form to get an official closing report made 

A. Create a presentation with this format “---” 

B. Add logo + “Clean slides”, make sure to record clean and smooth audio, “no background sound” where possible.

C. Do you have a ‘how to…’ video? If not, screen record an example of what you built, or with a camera take a video of your physical product.

D. Hop on zoom, share the screen and record yourself speaking through the slides.

E. Add your logos, Add your description of project, Add project name, add socials to form

F. MAKE SURE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THE RECORDINGS. ONCE SENT IT WILL BE FINALISED.

We then make the process easy for the proposer. We will email it to the IOHK Team with all the relevant info. Plus cc you for a confirmation email from IOHK that they have received it. Including the added data to our Gitbook, helping keep track and document our process transparently.

Why is it important?

It's important that the funded proposals are evaluated to see if they are delivering what was established in their mission and vision, and to see if they were on track.

What does success look like?

Several projects evaluating funded proposals, providing reports, articles and metrics on the development and implementation of the projects.

Key Metrics to measure:

• Number of funded proposals audited

• Considering that the idea is to audit and report on the development of proposals in different challenges, it is important that success metrics are thought out in relation to each challenge.

• Number of reports, articles and videos/podcasts on:
• Performance
• Achievements
• Financials

• Number of onboarded developers.

• Number of commits in funded proposal repositories (Github)

• Number of smart contracts audited.

• Social media engagement indicators.

• People will be too lazy to fill out our survey and we don’t get 100 projects.
• We advocate and promote standout projects’ videos through our network’s social media channels, partners and supporters and so there is an incentive to receive support in marketing and communications, and possible further advisory/consultancy services post project completion.

• The team wants to see the final video creating a lag in time to get it sent to IOHK.
• We keep strict time management to ensure we keep a healthy balance of effectiveness and responsiveness

• If we don’t have a team of 3 or more willing to help create
• we have a diverse team and plenty of capacity to cover each other if any unforeseen circumstances are to arise.

[FEASIBILITY]

Road Map:

Phase 1: Build resources, and develop a process for quick and easy project closing

Time - (2 weeks to a month)

This phase includes:

• Preparation of guidelines for approaching projects
• Preparation of google form for project inquiry 
• Info sharing of the initiative across the C4C and SustainableADA channels, including in weekly meetups and social channels
• Develop team of additional creators 
• Create Gitbook where we will share our process, and add all close out projects 
• Create templates (Powerpoint, Opening/closing credits, Closing report)

Phase 2: Allow current non-closed projects to fill out our form and inquiry to have their project closing report done for them.

(Allow only first 50 projects) Time - (2-3 weeks)

This phase includes:

• Publish our google form for onboarding projects to the process
• Build marketing campaign and promote the current proposers at the same time
• Reach out to the Catalyst team to support our initiative, and get teams to fill out our google form.
• Send a template over to the project team to fill in all relevant information so our team can finish the process.

Phase 3: Add all of our close-outs to a git book including the entire process. So we can make this a resource that can be repeated by any community members who have a little bit of videography skills. 

(As projects are closed we will submit a closing report to the Catalyst team, and add them onto a Gitbook (open-source document) showing they have been completed.)

Time - (2 months)

This phase includes:

• Adding projects to Gitbook
• Providing an avenue for any member of the community to pick up this process, and take it into their own hands.

Budget:

Video creation:

50 videos/powerpoints/submitted closing report = $15,000 @ $300x50

Total budget for proposal: $15,000

The total pot is 200,000 USD so we are asking for 7.5% of the pot, with a ROI that can have a far larger positive multiplier effect. An approximate of 300 USD per closing report and plan to have 50 within 3 months.

Team members include:

• Razali Samusudin, research lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/razali-samsudin

Educator, Editor, Digital Economy, Blockchain & Sustainability Researcher, Social Entrepreneur, Catalyst Proposal Mentor, Wada UN SDG and Education Coordinator, Co-Founder of Sustainable ADA & Catalyst School Core Member 

• Cole Bartlett, youth lead, https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-bartlett

UNITE 2030 Youth Delegate, a recent graduate in Economics & Sustainability, Founder of Sustainable ADA, Contributor for PositiveBlockchain.io, Blockchain & Sustainability Researcher, & Social Entrepreneur, Ecoquest Education Foundation - Sustainability Research, B Impact Clinic part of UNH's Changemaker Collaborative - Kikori, Sustainability Splash Program Organizer, Bronze UNH Sustainability Award Winner

• Yoram Ben-Zvi, partnership lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoram-ben-zvi-446836

A social entrepreneur. In the last five years, Yoram is focuing on combining impact and business. A mentor with international board, operations, and startup experience. Yoram is an active catalyst member, CA, and part of the Cardano4Climate community. In Addition, active in promoting the Catalyst and Cardano community to impact companies and networks to connect them to the ecosystem (i.e. seedstars.com)   

• Cardano4Climate.com (C4C) community includes overs 200 members and growing. C4C is organising weekly meetups and monthly events and collaborating with multiple impact communities (i.e. climateneutralcardano.org), companies (i.e. veritree, cardashift) and the Cardano companies (IOG, Emurgo, Cardano foundation)

• SustainableADA.com team is focusing on research and communication of impact projects on the Cardano blockchain spreading the word of the work and impact of the Cardano ecosystem  

More on Sustainable ADA:

The Sustainable ADA team has experience working with Figma, Canva, Wix, Final Cut Pro, Da Vinci Resolve 17, Adobe CC, Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc).

Sustainable ADA has experience and backgrounds in Sustainability, Economics, Humanities, Social Sciences. Along with work with NGOs, Social Enterprises, Freelance journalism, and blogging.

Sustainable ADA Platform: https://www.sustainableada.com

Recent long term partnership with and members of Cardashift, Positiveblockchain.io, Wada, Cardano AIM, and Cardano 4 Climate, Loxe inc.

**Check out our video:** 

Sustainable ADA Vision & Mission - https://youtu.be/CCwpO_I9D5c

Sustainable ADA is a platform that promotes education, inspiration, and sustainable development.

Sustainable ADA is helping connect the dots between Blockchain, Cardano, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and action on the ground by showcasing case studies of positive progress and potentially valuable opportunities to be unlocked. 

On our platform we plan to share with the world sustainability media, content, and stories from the Cardano ecosystem! Acting as a bridge for the Cardano community, bridging people into a world where they are welcomed on their lifelong learning journey & invited into the Cardano community, ultimately enabling and empowering visitors to discover, acquire and nurture an appreciation of what blockchain is, its limitations, and its possibilities.

[AUDITABILITY]

There will be an actively updated summary, which is accessible for all, explaining the work done, our deliverables, and KPIs achieved. Our project will be open source and shared with the community through a Gitbook. We will publish each closing report here, and also have documents explaining how we created this mechanism and how one shall follow along to properly repeat the process. 

 KPI will help us achieve success:

• Number of funded proposals audited (50)
• Considering that the idea is to audit and report on the development of proposals in different challenges, it is important that success metrics are thought out in relation to each challenge. (Closing report will be a way to audit and see if proposals achieved what they said they plan to.)
• Number of reports, articles and videos/podcasts on (Closing reports (50), Videos (50))
• Social media engagement indicators (Community views)

Reaching the KPIs will be a key success indicator. In addition, a key element of success will be the Gitbook helping share our open-sourced process. It will be an important use case for the future success of closing reports in Catalyst. We aim to learn during and from the process, and start developing it into a replicable model that could be self-sustained and adapted accordingly depending on the context. 

This is a new proposal. However, the proposing team have a track record of proposing proposals that connect with impact, education and sustainability.

Examples of previously funded proposals are:

Add SDG ratings to proposals - AIM F6: Partnerships for Global Adoption

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/367569

Research in Applying Frameworks-AIM, F6: Partnerships for Global Adoption

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/369294

Global Sustainable Stories/Usecases F6: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/369883

Proposal Framework Tool - AIM F6: DLT Entrepreneurship Toolbox

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/369300

Proposal Framework Tool - AIM F7: Open Source Developer Ecosystem

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/383692

SDG Rating

SDG Goals

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels 

SDG Subgoals

16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements

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