littlefish - Ocean Organizations

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

A dedicated team of organizational researchers, to produce up-to-date information about developments, curate it, and conduct original research on the processes of decentralized organizations. 

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

A growing community of 100+ started in Dec 2021 with a contributor core approaching 20 with highly technical individuals experienced in software development, system administration, plutus development. Extensive experience in entrepreneurship, startups, organization building.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

We are the Littlefish Foundation (LFF), a decentralized, global organization, building technologies that align individual actions towards common goals, enabling collective intelligences.

We use blockchain technology to redefine earning relationships between people, work, and organizations, enabling a new model of operation that grants more freedom to participants, while making sure that freedom results in progress towards the goals of the whole. 

Our proposals are best experienced in the Littlefish Vault. There will be multiple links to it throughout the proposal with background information necessary to fully understand the concepts.

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PAs, you will need this information to understand LFF. This is a standalone proposal, but these are recommended reading to understand LFF. 

• The Bleeding Edge of Organizations and the Big Problem
• The Basics - littlefish, colonies and Action
• The Big Picture
• Littlefish Action Model

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Ocean: The realm of all blockchains, their communities, where all the fish swim.

Note: This proposal has a twin, focusing on the technology of the cross-chain. They were originally thought as a single proposal, but split to mitigate funding risk. See it here.

The Problem

What it means to be a decentralized organization is just yet beginning to be explored. Decentralized communities pioneer into uncharted organizational territory, facing new challenges, and experimenting with solutions. 

The speed of progress is blindingly fast. New organizational structures, processes, and approaches are starting to appear, along with blockchain solutions to enable them. Novel research is taking our understanding further. A new dawn of human organization is on the horizon. 

This is all great, but keeping up with developments in the exponential age is extremely challenging. Visibility is a crucial need. Without it, developments in one edge of blockspace go unheard in another, opportunities to collaborate never materialize, bridges don’t get built. Visibility is the first problem to solve. Barriers to entry must be lowered.

What is needed?

The blockspace offers many opportunities to collaborate to tackle organizational problems, finding them is the challenge. There is so much information available, yet no one has the time to sift through it. 

A dedicated team with theoretical organizational knowledge and experience in organization building is necessary to find developments in the space, understand them, curate it for others, and publish original research on the processes of decentralized organizations.

What’s needed is a gateway to up-to-date, in-depth information, and original research in decentralized organizational building.

Our Approach

At LFF we are a digital community of 100+ with 15+ core team members from around the globe. Our general approach to problem solving in this space is experimentation and solving our own problems first. 

We have been feeling the problem of visibility while building our organization. We researched other DAOs and how they tackled organizational building challenges. Information was hard to reach, often hidden on a Notion page, or a Medium article deep within the bowels of a DAO. Google searches found outdated information and was more often than not useless. 

This is a general problem in the blockchain space. Finding places that aggregate good, in-depth research is difficult. This is why we’re building our knowledge base with a holistic vision, solving problems we face while building this decentralized organization, and creating common knowledge so others may have an easier time solving similar problems. 

Understanding the space is critical to be successful in it. This is why research is a fundamental business function at LFF. This is why we have the Tech Help Collective (THC), which provides research into the tech and makes that knowledge as approachable to non-tech persons as possible. This is why one of Organization Labs’ main functions is conducting research. 

Organization Model at LFF

We based our organization model on Teal Organizations, where:

• worker self-management is key, 
• hierarchies are natural and dynamic, 
• decision making is distributed. 

This is a fit model for decentralized organizations. Few other organizations are aware of the theoretical background but many organizations in the blockchain space follow this model to a degree. Yet this model is mostly unexplored, and many problems exist in execution. 

We’re solving these problems as they occur. The module system in these proposals is an experiment at solving one such problem: self-selection of individuals into fields of work. You can read more about modules here.

Our approach to organizations will guide the direction of this proposal.

Our Solution

At LFF we have a diverse group of technologists, secure systems experts, organization and governance geeks. Today, we are operating mostly in the DAO enabling tools space. We are mapping the Cardano ecosystem, learning the solutions, and producing expert knowledge. 

With this and its twin proposal, we are building the gateway into the Ocean of blockchains. In this proposal, the focus is organizational knowledge:

• Gathering and curating knowledge from the Ocean on our knowledge base,
• Creating ADA vs. The Ocean Map, matching existing/building solutions on ADA to what exists on the Ocean, identifying potential areas of collaboration.
• Communicating findings with ADA builders and the rest of the Ocean through communication channels, meetings, workshops, etc.
• Internal research on organization building in the decentralized world.

Our Outputs

The outputs of the proposal will be documentation curating resources by other organizations and original research about these areas:

• Teal organizations, approaches to decentralized organization, organizational structures.
• Organizational processes, practices.
• Organizational challenges, problems, and approaches to solve.
• Governance approaches. Success of governance mechanisms, problems.
• Dead projects: What challenges spelled doom? eg. Why did this happen?
• Other organizational topics: Culture, decision-making, awareness, …

We’re building The Ocean Map: collecting information on how projects in the space approach problems, providing others the communication links to contact and begin collaboration. 

We will also share our findings in community meetings and in other Catalyst communities, raising the awareness of our work.

These outputs will be evolving over time to reflect developments. Learn more about evolving documentation on LFF here.

Who will benefit?

There are many problems that need to be understood: organizational structure, governance, collaboration, decision-making, … Our guide on what we tackle is our own learning needs at LFF. So the primary beneficiary is us, we solve our own problems. 

Yet, the problems we face are experienced by all decentralized organizations. We will share all of our findings with others, enabling communities in Catalyst, the Cardano space, and the rest of the blockchain Ocean. Specifically, we will publish our findings and market it in other communities we operate in the Catalyst space. They will be a beneficiary of our work, learning about the Ocean and finding possible partners.

We will find collaboration opportunities between builders in the ADA space and in the Ocean. We will contact them and let them know of our findings. When potential collaboration turns into real collaboration, these groups will benefit greatly. This is the overarching goal of the proposal, to catalyze connections, allowing bridges to be built where there was none.

Outcome

The outcome of our work is greater visibility into the Ocean of blockchains. We imagine our knowledge base will serve as a gateway for ADA builders to find others who are solving similar problems. We will use Obsidian to group similar ideas, make it as easy as possible to identify and make connections with others. Builders will simply explore on our platform and find others to learn from and to collaborate with.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

Alignment with the Challenge

The challenge states:

We need initiatives to increase communication, coordination and collaboration between chains. 

We have common challenges. Let’s solve those together.

Before communication, coordination, and collaboration can happen, one must know where to look. Without visibility, there is no communication, there’s no solving problems together. 

Without knowing where to look, potential opportunities disappear. Knowledge from one part of the Ocean stays there. Innovations stay local. Common challenges are needlessly solved again and again.

As such, this proposal deals with the first part of the challenge question: “how might we create new connections between blockchain communities?” We create it by providing a curated experience to find these communities.

Key Metrics

The proposal primarily improves these challenge Key Metrics:

• Ideas from other chains implemented by Catalyst
• By knowing where to look, ideas from other chains will make their way into Catalyst, blossoming into existing projects, turning into new organizational structures, new experiments to try in Catalyst.
• Projects and dApps from other chains implemented on Cardano
• Connections with other chains will draw others to Catalyst, starting new projects and dApps with original ideas implemented elsewhere.
• Collaboration with others will lead to new cross-chain Integrations
• Catalyst-created solutions adopted by other chains/communities
• Just as ideas flow into Catalyst, they will flow out of it into other communities.
• Number of permanent initiatives with cross-chain teams (members from different blockchain communities together)
• Better visibility will lead to new connections, which will open the way for new initiatives between newly connected cross-chain teams.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

LFF General - Funding

Littlefish Foundation is a complex organization driven by individual efforts. It only moves forward if individuals drive it forward. The single biggest risk in front of that is financial. A large percentage of the team is based in Turkey, which has been experiencing hyperinflation for the past year. 

Funding is the number one challenge we face. With funding we can pay the team to work on Littlefish Foundation and make their financial burden lighter. This all puts us closer to achieving the LFF vision. We are a global community with contributors from all over the world. Without funding, we will still build the LFF, but it will be more challenging and slower. 

We are mitigating risk through diversification in multiple proposals, increasing the chance of receiving funding. We’re also budgeting for the Action Fund, partly to serve as a contingency. 

LFF General - Technology Risk

LFF is developing a strong infrastructure to be able to scale, for that we need the support of a strong development community. The current team is very strong on tech development, with extensive experience, and we are welcoming more developers to join. We are already engaged with the Gimbalabs development community and have their support. 

This proposal - Marketing 

The success of the proposal depends highly on the spread of the information generated. If we don’t take this into account, all this proposal will accomplish is a better informed LFF and a few other communities. Information will diffuse through word of mouth activities but this will be slow and ineffective in capturing the attention of the larger community, if we don’t make additional efforts.

That’s why we’ll be undertaking additional marketing activities to spread the information we generate. We will share this information in other communities' communication channels. We’ll join meetings and talk about our work and how it can benefit others. We’ll also reach out to Cardano builders who we think will benefit from the work we do, so that they can easily connect with communities from the other side of the blockchain Ocean. 

We’re also growing the team at Love House, the LFF working group in charge of marketing, community building, and engagement. In time, we’ll have a strong team of content producers and storytellers who will create videos, short explainers, and talk to others about LFF and what we’re doing.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Workload Management at LFF

How we make work visible - LFF Modules 

Proposal-wide milestones and expected deliveries

Original docs may be any research, report, or study we conduct at LFF. Curated resources are articles, videos, research, reports, etc. done by others, categorized and listed on our knowledge base.

• September
• 3 original docs 
• 25 curated resources 
• December
• 10 original docs
• 100 curated resources
• February
• 25 original docs
• 250 curated resources 

Module 1: Organizations of the Ocean

Stakeholders: LFF, Catalyst and Cardano community, Blockchain communities, DAOs

Primary Work Group: Organization Labs

Duration: September - February

Resources: 300hrs of work + module operations budget 

This module looks internally at organizations. How they work, process information, tackle challenges are the key questions.

Research Areas: Teal organizations in blockchain, organizational structures, practices, problems, solutions, successes, failures, dead projects, governance processes.

Activities:

• Finding organizations in the blockchain space that solve problems.
• Finding original research, resources by others.
• Categorizing resources according to purpose, tagging, and curating knowledge on the LFF knowledge base.
• Meta studies that aggregate knowledge.
• Communicating findings through workshops, in LFF and other Catalyst communities.

Key milestones and expected deliveries:

• February
• Organizations of the Ocean Report

Organizations of the Ocean Report: A meta study of organizations in the blockchain space.

Module 2: Internal Research

Stakeholders: LFF, Catalyst and Cardano community, Blockchain communities, DAOs

Primary Work Group: Organization Labs

Duration: September - February

Resources: 300hrs of work + consultancy budget + module operations budget 

This module is concerned with documenting the processes of LFF, and conducting research into them. It will provide in-depth information about building a decentralized organization from the ground up, with a focus on Teal organization principles.

We will also explore the possibilities of organizing around Actions. Actions are LFF NFTs that are redefining earning relationships. We will conduct original research into using Actions as the payment mechanism for LFF, with the overarching goal of creating a blueprint for organizations who want to use Actions.

Activities:

• Collecting information on internal processes of LFF,
• Documenting, reporting on the processes of LFF,
• Original research on LFF experiments,
• Reviews, discussions, of LFF processes,
• Consultancy with the team at Reinventing Organizations Map, to map out the consciousness level of LFF

Research Topics: Internal processes of LFF, state of experiments, problem sensing.

Key milestones and expected deliveries:

• October
• LFF Organization Q3 Report
• January
• LFF Organization Q4 Report
• February
• LFF Reinventing Organizations Map

Quarterly LFF Organization Report: Highlighting learnings, challenges, possible solutions, state of experiments. 

LFF Reinventing Organizations Map: This map built for LFF.

Module 3: Marketing The Littlefish Vault

Stakeholders: LFF, Catalyst and Cardano community

Primary Work Group: Love House

Duration: August - February

Resources: 60hrs of work + module operations budget

Marketing The Littlefish Vault is a general module, shared by several LFF proposals. Its aim is to broadcast the knowledge generated in other modules far and wide. 

Activities:

• Creating Twitter posts, 
• Tracking engagement on Twitter and Obsidian (through google analytics), 
• Spreading information in LFF and other community meetings. 

Key Milestones and expected deliveries:

• December
• 2500 unique visitors on The Vault
• 10000 Tweet impressions (as of June 15th it is at 718) for LFF account
• February
• 10000 unique visitors on The Vault
• 1000 monthly visitors on The Vault
• 50000 Tweet impressions

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

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All LFF proposals follow the same budget structure. They are made up of the module budgets and the Action Fund allocation.

Module budgets

Each proposal is made up of modules. Each module has a specified budget. The sum of module budgets makes up the first part of the overall budget.

1 - Personnel budget

Each module has a personnel budget and an operations budget. The personnel budget is the total estimated hours * the hourly rate for the module.

The base hourly rate for LFF proposals is 50 USD. This is a living wage in most parts of the world. It will bring financial stability to participants.

The hourly rate for a module may change from this default, based on the expertise needed. 

2- Module operations budget

Each module is allocated an extra budget sized at 1/5th of the personnel budget to enable operations.

This budget is a pooled organization wide resource used to cover expenses. It will be used to purchase digital work tools like Zoom to be used by all members of LFF.

A part of it will be spent with the discretion of the module team. For example, it can be used to pay for transportation, buy personal digital tools, purchase other teams’ Actions, etc.

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LFF Action Fund

LFF Action Fund has two purposes.

1 - Contingency

Proposals may not be funded. The activities in the proposals will still take place if we can account for this with additional funding. Action Fund will provide that funding if and when it is necessary.

The Action Fund can be used to extend a module budget, fund an unfunded proposals’ module, or fund new modules as need arises.

2 - Incentivizing further Action

We are creating a new economy. LFF is the first colony in this economy. Its members are producing Actions, the supply. But who will buy them?

There is a need for stable demand for Actions to bootstrap this new digital economy. Action Fund provides this stable demand.

3 - Admin and other work

There is a lot of unmentioned work that goes into building the Littlefish Foundation. This includes general admin work like setting up meetings, scheduling, scribework, as well as other activities like community building.

The Action Fund will prioritize buying those Actions that aren’t covered by the proposals.

Action Fund Sizing

The Action Fund allocation is sized at 1/4th of the total budget. This is common across all LFF proposals to provide financial safety to the project for the next 12 months, allowing us a healthy runway to create the new earning economy.

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All modules in this proposal have an hourly personnel rate of 50 USD/hr. Module operations budgets are 1/5th the personnel budgets.

• Module 1: Organizations of the Ocean
• Personnel Budget: 15000 USD
• 50 USD/hr * 300 hrs
• 180 hrs: Exploration & Curation
• 100 hrs: Meta studies
• 20 hrs: Workshops
• Operations Budget: 3000 USD
• Total: 18000 USD

• Module 2: Internal Research
• Personnel Budget: 15000 USD
• 50 USD/hr * 300 hrs
• 100 hrs: Process design, review
• 200 hrs: Data collection, documentation, reporting
• Operations Budget: 3000 USD
• Consultancy Budget: 10000 USD
• Total: 28000 USD

• Module 3: Marketing The Littlefish Vault
• Personnel Budget: 3000 USD
• 50 USD/hr * 60 hrs
• 60 hrs: Marketing Activities 
• Operations Budget: 600 USD
• Total: 3600 USD

Module Total = 49600 USD

Action Fund Total = 16533 USD

Total = 66133 USD

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

This proposal is run by the Organization Labs work group of LFF. 

ChaKhan - 3+ years experience as a Backend Developer. Python, REST, Postgres, data modeling. Electrical and Electronics Engineering Major. Working fulltime on LFF. MBA Thesis in progress on the Littlefish Foundation. Learning within the Catalyst/Cardano ecosystem for 7+ months. Focusing on organization building, governance, token engineering with long term interest in economics, game theory, behavioral psychology, political science, and history.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/%C3%A7a%C4%9Fkan-acarbay-b2210b136/

https://github.com/cagkanacarbay/

Proposal Focus: Module 2: Internal LFF reports, LFF organizational experiments. Module 3: Tracking metrics for Obsidian, Twitter.

Cem Karaca - I completed a Master's degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering. My thesis was about creating a complete Video on Demand system with client-server architecture with its own network protocol called Reliable UDP. After graduating, I set up a high-security financial data center in 2004. Then, in 2019, I started a new cyber security startup with three of my staff. The same year, the startup was funded by the largest bank in Turkey. 

I started programming when I was 12 years old, and about 6 years later, I met the Internet, which introduced so many things to me. Open source was the biggest among them. Later on, I wrote a book about Linux and open-source systems. For me, open-source philosophy was the key to real human potential. It was making the secrets of the institutions public. 

In the corrupt financial system we are used to living in, a person or group named Satoshi designed the decentralized digital currency called Bitcoin. And afterward, new techniques that were not part of our current order began to develop. Then, in 2021, I met Cardano, where like-minded people find each other. So when I dig deeper into Cardano, I suddenly found myself in the Cardano4Climate community trying to do things to stop climate change with a bunch of people all around the world. 

With friends from Cardano4Climate, we formed the littlefish Foundation. It is a system, a reason for being. Encourage people to do anything for the good of the common. It is an experiment to build collective intelligence. 

Now, I decided to retire from all of my real-world business to solely think, dream and work for the littlefish Foundation.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckaraca/

https://github.com/ckaraca

Proposal Focus: Module 2: Internal LFF reports, LFF organizational experiments.

Emre Kurt - B.Sc. in Geological Engineering with 4 years job experience in the field. Working as a System Administrator for the last 3 years and Sales Director for the last 1.5 years. Very good knowledge of Linux based systems and Network Security. In the process of excelling in the blockchain technology and currently focusing on organization and community building, marketing strategies. Also using AI tools to create art pieces to be minted as NFTs.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kurt-617272bb/

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Nautilus

Proposal Focus: Module 1, 2. Organizational research. Documenting internal processes.

Murat Kasar - 5 years of experience as a System Administrator, mainly in PCI DSS and high security environments. Fan of maps, thanks to my background in geology and GIS. Interested in technical aspects of Blockchain technologies. Constantly searching for a subject to focus with passion.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/murat-kasar-8b4157163

Proposal Focus: Module 1: Organizational research.

Adalat Raimova

• BBA. Researcher. Passionate about DAOs, wellness, and longevity.
• Previous roles:
• researcher at a longevity startup
• research assistant in a think tank
• researcher in a public opinion research company
• marketing and communications intern 

Focused areas:

• DAO2DAO
• How it’s different from B2B?
• Women in DAO
• How women can get involved more?
• Web3: Creator economy
• Has the revolution started yet? What will force a shift from Web2 to Web3?
• DeSci
• How Decentralized Science works? How do the DAOs raise funds? How does crowdfunding work in the DAOs? Whom/What do they fund? Is it possible for scientists/researchers to collaborate straight with DAOs while they keep their jobs at centralized organizations such as universities?

https://twitter.com/adalatraimova

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaraimova/ 

Proposal Focus: Module 1: Organizational research.

Berk Atalay - 1.5 years of system and network experience. Experienced in computer systems and system administration. Graduated from management and am enthusiastic about graphical design. Learning about blockchain and Cardano Ecosystem for a while. Current focus on researching cardano tools, marketing, advertising and community development.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/berk-atalay-gd28/

Proposal Focus: Module 1: Organizational research.

Engin Gunay - 3+ years experience as a Systems Administrator / Cloud Engineer. Working in cloud orchestration security. Skilled in R language, Ansible and Linux. Enthusiast of emerging technologies and tools in blockchain. Former engineer in Computational Hydrogeology. Littlefish Foundation Tech researcher.

Proposal Focus: Module 1: Organizational research.

Can Çetiner - have 2+ years of architectural experience. I am currently working full time as a designer in an architectural office that designs buildings of various scales and serves in the field of landscape design and interior architecture. In the near future, I will continue my professional career in an office that I will establish myself.

My aim is to go beyond a company structure owned by a single person and create an architectural office that will be owned by all employees involved in every stage of the production. I am of the opinion that an office that gives equal rights to everyone, rather than an office environment that progresses in a standard boss-employee relationship, will be more productive and will offer all its employees the standards they deserve. In this way, it will be ensured that the architectural office does not progress with the vision of a single person, and the products that a collective effort will produce will be more beneficial for the society. An office environment with such an organizational structure will give all its members the chance to develop themselves and reveal their full potential. In this context, the office structure will be able to offer its employees opportunities to shape the present and the future of the company. I also work on sustainable economic models that ensure income justice, which I see as a necessity for an organization built on these values.

Proposal Focus: Module 1, 2: Internal processes of organizations.

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And many others who contribute to the Littlefish Foundation.

Getting involved with Littlefish Foundation

LFF is an open community. We accept community members who show initiative to join us in delivering these proposals. The only condition is curiosity. If you find something you like, let us know on our Discord server, join our community meetings, and ask questions. 

But first, it’s good to learn.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes, we will return to Catalyst for further funding, until we build sustainable business models around Action. Catalyst allows us to take our time, engineer systems well without rushing to market, potentially risking an event similar to what happened to Luna.

We are an evolving decentralized organization. We expect solid community and contributor growth in the near future. These individuals, along with existing ones who have time from existing commitments, will be starting new initiatives. Until we get to a sustainable business model using Actions, Catalyst will be the place where we come for funding. This allows us to experiment until we can figure our way. Thanks Catalyst!

We aim to become sustainable with the launch of our token on mainnet, which we tentatively aim to deliver by Q3 2023. 

Meanwhile, we will be providing Catalyst and the broader community with ongoing services. We will be publishing all our research (DAOs, governance, economic, technology, tools, ...) on the Littlefish Vault. These will be made sustainable through experiments in Action, in due time.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Where to check our progress?

At Littlefish Foundation, everything we do is public, and we like documentation. We will publish major progress updates on Obsidian, sharing our learning with the Catalyst community. Our Miro boards are open to the community, there they can see our progress, comment, and contribute. Discord will be the best place to find daily updates, and Actions.

All LFF proposals produce Action, work done by individuals to achieve a goal. Until we have a working system with NFTs, we will use Discord to broadcast our Actions. There are many examples already on the #action channel, showing our early work. As our community grows, it will contain Actions taken by many different littlefish who are building the LFF.

We will track these posts specifically and incentivize team members and contributors to share their Actions, preparing them for Actions on the mainnet.

LFF General - Community Tracking

The general success of LFF is dependent on a strong community. We will track it from several sources:

• on Obsidian using Google Analytics: number of visitors, average time spent, and multiple other metrics
• by activity on Discord using server statistics bot: number of members, unique posters on discord per month, Action per month, Action per unique user

We’ll review this data monthly and share updates through our communication channels.

This Proposal - Docs and Curations

It’s all about generating knowledge with this proposal. That means lots of docs and lots of links. We will publish them on our knowledge base. We will track the number of docs and curations generated per module and publish monthly updates through our communication channels.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

LFF General - Solving our own problems through experimentation, building applications the community loves

Our approach to problem solving in this space is experimentation. Trying out new methods of doing business, creating new processes fit for a decentralized organization built from the ground floor.

One example is our Ikigai onboarding model. The bubbles at the top represent work groups and business functions. We walk through the bubbles with newcomers, discussing what they mean in Littlefish Foundation, and ask them to fill their Ikigai board with them. The result is a fun learning experience for everyone.

We create such systems with the aim of turning them into software. First we practice with existing tools, learn, iterate, and experiment, then we'll build it into software that others can use. See our Ikigai proposal here.

Some other experiments relating to publishing Actions by:

• Financial tracking of rewards
• Actions published on #action Discord channel,
• Older Actions published on the Adventures of Littlefish

Success means these experiments turn into learning which turn into applications loved by the community.

LFF General - A strong community of creators and builders

We are a growing community of 100+. Yet pure numbers aren't enough. Growing the number of meaningful contributors is the key to long term success. Since the F8 proposal, the number of consistent contributors has grown from 2 to 10+ and growing fast. Newcomer numbers are also ticking up. Maintaining a sustainable, healthy growth in these numbers is critical.

LFF General - Littlefish Vault is the knowledge hub for decentralized organizations in the Cardano Space

Building a decentralized organization is tough. There are so many moving pieces, and time goes by quickly. By making our learning public we aim to make it easier for others to build decentralized organizations. A successful LFF means our knowledge base has become a popular place for others who are building decentralized organizations. Our target is 10000 unique and 1000 monthly visitors by the end of February 2023.

Organization Labs - The blueprint for decentralized organizations: LFF

LFF is built on Teal organization principles. We value self-management, freedom of the individual, natural, dynamic hierarchies. We believe these principles will help us unlock new methods of human organization that are human-friendly. 

With success, LFF will become an example for other decentralized organizations, providing a blueprint with business processes, organizational challenges, experiments to run, along with many other resources. 

This Proposal - Littlefish Vault, the Gateway to Collaboration

Success for this proposal is the Littlefish Vault becoming the Gateway to Collaboration, where expert knowledge on decentralized organizations can be found, and connections with others who are focusing on similar problems can be made. 

The best indicators of success will be the use of our knowledge base, and feedback from users in our community channels. We aim to have 10000 unique and 1000 monthly visitors on The Vault by February 2023.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

Littlefish Foundation Kiva-like DAO - Unfunded F7 Proposal

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/384063

Littlefish Foundation was born with this proposal from the Cardano4Climate community [2]. The aim was to create a DAO and build a Kiva like product that would allow the funding of on the ground SDG activities. 

The proposal wasn’t funded, but we kept working. We held weekly meetings, brought in experts for discussions, and worked hard to understand the domain of problems. Through that we’ve developed the idea further and generalized it to what it is today.

Littlefish: Coordinating Action - Funded F8 Proposal

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/404668

In F8 we came up with a new vision for the Littlefish Foundation: littlefish, colonies and Actions. We got to work before it was even funded.

We were relatively new to developing on Cardano and found a steep learning curve. Weak documentation slowed development down, and we realized there was more to building a successful Littlefish Foundation. 

During this time we have completed many important steps:

• Finished the whitepaper
• Built a strong core of contributors from our community
• Created an organizational model to fit our needs
• A Radical Method of Organization
• Why Cardano > Proposals Experiments and Teams
• Formed work groups and started to produce on all of them. See these on the Action Board
• Tech Help Collective - Working on wallet research&documentation, preliminary DAO tools research on Ethereum and Cardano, reworking Littlefish Discord
• Love House - the littlefish AI art collection
• Organization Labs - Research on Teal organizations, determined necessary business functions, created organizational model
• The Forge - Tested out serialization library, lucid, and multiplatform library, created early UI/UX designs
• Dream Engine - Created Littlefish Action Model, User Flow Models, Detailed Action Flow, Organization Funding Model, and more

Here's a shot of that board as of the 10th June:

Our proposals in Fund 9 aim to supercharge this holistic vision of the Littlefish Foundation.