Collab Platform for DAO Operations

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Install, connect, and customize, a world class data platform. Design it for continuous collaboration inside community DAOs. Use DAOs to coordinate our experience & skills for Catalyst projects.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Hype Innovation: Collaborative Innovation platforms IDEO, Unicef

Dan Kimball: 40yr Tech Entrepreneur, ConceptNet Development. 

CoFounder of FreeDAO.io & Freeos.io 

Alex Thayer: 7yrs Full Stack Java Dev- HYPE Innovation Dev-Team

Multinational Collaboration Platform Design

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Community Collaboration in DAOs

Community intentions easily run at cross-purposes, and defining collective actions can be extremely challenging. Having access to effective tooling may help, but not without a wide array of good social protocols for advancing collaboration, shared understanding, conflict resolution, preference signaling, and more.

High hopes abound for DAO's, but without effective and ongoing collaboration, people can be shoehorned into a technical "solution" that doesn't meet their needs. Through the curation and sharing of collaborative frameworks and techniques, communities can benefit from various collaboration tools to conduct the practices of eliciting, ordering, and formulating needed proposals, plans and organizational actions.

A Community truly works together when they can

• Engage in a fluid human centered interactive platform
• Contribute in our native language.
• Read in our own language, the contributions made in other languages. 
• Crowd source community member skills and capabilities
• Organize community Intentions around collaborative principles
• Coordinate our collective actions
• Collaborate around project creation

Mature Collaborative Foundation

We have developed a partner relationship with "HYPE Innovation", who provide Innovation Management Platforms designed specifically for flexible decentralized collaboration at massive scale. This platform is much more suitable for effective community collaboration than IdeaScale. We will use it as a tool for engaging with some of Cardano's communities centering on our core question: Which practices and processes create the possibilities for efficient collaborations and effective execution?

Natural Language Semantics 

This project will also attempt to test the concept of using a Natural Language AI Solution to stores and retrieves words by their meaning. We do this with an open-source project called ConceptNet that has been in development at MIT for for "sentiment analysis". This “Semantic” storage is essential for multi language collaboration.

Community Engagement

We aim to deliver the results of our research and collaborative process directly back to the communities we are working with, as well as to the Catalyst community at large (Swarm and After Town Hall sessions). We'll capture these video sessions and related knowledge resources in open source Gitbook form. As a result, we seek to create long-term value for today's DAOing community… and tomorrow's.

Communities we are prepared to engage with include:

• Catalyst Swarm
• International Association for Community Development
• ADAO
• Secret Decks
• Commons Stack
• BeanChain / Cooperate.Network
• Gimbalabs

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

• Open source DAO related knowledge products are made available
• Collection of interviews with knowledgeable community members
• New techniques adopted by participating communities
• Report produced on the effectiveness of the collaborative techniques employed
• Testimonials from community leaders/members for inclusion in the Commons Library
• Communities will be attracted to DAOing on Cardano because of the breadth and depth of tools and frameworks available to them for realizing their highest collaborative potential.
• Cardano DAO's will set the web3 standard by upleveling first principle capabilities of human cooperation and collaboration.
• Cardano DAO's collaborate better because of access to good practices for producing shared intentions, understanding, language, and heuristics.
• Members of Cardano DAO's have easy access to knowledge resources and therefore enjoy greater participation in meaningful community decision making.

In future funding rounds, we aim to continue these collaborations and develop useful products honoring the knowledge and practices we are researching, developing, re-sharing and capturing. For a bigger-picture context on this larger vision, see supporting material to follow.

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

Risks and Challenges:

Reliance on external software. However, as previously noted, Hype Innovation is a platform trusted by the largest companies in the world with high reliability and uptime expectations. Also, the team at HYPE has strong interest in our partnership.

Community engagement could be lower than expected (unlikely w/ operational treasury). Although referenced communities are currently engaged in preparation, we also have relationships with additional communities to use as contingencies.

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

Milestones and Timetable

Our plan is to initiate our collaborative work in Q3 of 2022, independent of Catalyst funding.

Our Initiatives and deliverables are:

• We will instantiate a collaboration platform for development.

• We will engage with Interested communities and individual projects looking to network & build

• Operations Jump-start Option: Initial Dework Bounties for Community Organization & Contribution Tracking. https://bit.ly/CardanoHypeInstance

• Contribution Tracking & Innovation management system deployed as our collaboration platform

• Consultation with collaborative methods experts

• Knowledge management system deployed

• Presentations in community events & forums about conclusions and findings

• Knowledge products produced and published

Operational Success after:

4 months

• Engagement with Cardano Communities
• Collaboration Platform Launched
• Challenge Campaigns
• Working Group Templates & Audit Trail
• Composite Services for Contribution
• Recurring Working Groups
• Weekly Operation Calls
• Open Source Knowledge Library
• Building Background Knowledge Course (BBK)
• Catalyst F10 Proposals

6 Months

• Design Requirements
• Collaboration Heuristics Library
• Collaboration Knowledge Library

12 Months

• Catalyst F11 Proposals
• Integrated Collaborations
• Regular Community engagement in collaboration Platform

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

16 Week Budget

Composable Services Opportunities

• Innovation management system Scoping, Design, and Configuration - 60 hours
• Proof of Concept for Natural Language using Concept Net SDK - 60 hours
• Design of collaborative sessions - 60 hours
• Accounting - 60 hours
• Communities Sessions for 4 months - 120 hours
• Weekly Facilitation and Organization of Social Innovation process - 120 hours
• Weekly Internal Coordination Syncs - 60 hours
• Open Source Knowledge Library Tech Design and Reporting - 60 hours
• Producing Knowledge Products (Guides, Maps, Graphics) - 60 hours
• Building Background Knowledge Course - 60 hrs
• F10 Proposal Prep & Writing - 30 hrs

Total Hours: 750

Rate: $80

Total Budget Requested: $60,000

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

TEAM:

• Our growing team includes decades of technology experience including Cardano development.
• We are seeking additional Core Contributors, from time zones that can bridge between eastern and western hemispheres, with passion and experience in collaboration and community governance.
• Several professionals and leading organizations are joining as advisory partners with deep experience in relevant domains:

Dan Kimball: Serial Tech entrepreneur with 40 years of developing products and companies.

Co-founder of an active EOSIO community governed DAO project

https://www.freeos.io & https://www.freedao.io

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

Peter Wolcott: CEO of NeuroNova Project, and Core Contributor @ Done Collectively, Governance Services Guild, NFT Guild and a Catalyst Swarm Veteran. Peter is a Freelance Project Management and Community Organizer. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wolcott-013358141/

https://linktr.ee/sirwolcott

Micheal Avis: 15 yr Director of HYPE Innovation Bus. Dev. Deep Experience with SaaS Innovation Management in Industry. OpenIDEO, Unicef, Multi-National Open Innovation Management Solutions

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

Alex Thayer: Implementation Consultant at HYPE Innovation 7yrs. BS Computer Science, Full Stack Java Developer. Multinational Collaboration Platform Designer.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-thayer-24992463/

Harsha Gullapalli: 3+ years as a UI/UX designer & researcher, design educator & digital filmmaker.

Co-founder of Gods of Block DAO. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsha-gullapalli-4b23451a

Dennis Rivers - MA Interpersonal Communications Consummate Activist and Earth Citizen - Expert in Communications Training; Co-Founder of Humap a Person Planet Process collaborative framework for collective action. Author of 7 Challenges Workbook with multi-millions of copies distributed by UN and non-profits for communications Training Web & Book designer and

programmer.

Sheida Mirahsani: - Certified human resources management professional - Online Collaboration Dynamics. Computer Science. Dfinity ICP - Motoko Bootcamp.

Scott Luxor: Multi-media digital journalist with extensive experience working as both a content producer and as a newsroom editor. Experience includes photojournalism, writing, editing, graphic design, video and video editing. Helping the average person understand difficult concepts is one of my strengths.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-luxor/ 

CONSULTANTS

Several professionals of leading organizations are joining as partners with deep experience in relevant domains:

Gene Bazan Ph.D. - Founder - Applied Heuristics AssociatesProfessor of City and Regional Planning at 3 universities US & abroad. 30yrs environmental, civic, governmental and business organizations on board and staff development. Created the Center for Sustainability at PennState. Applied Heuristics Associates designs collaborative games and systems for Community Engaged Planning.

Jerome Kelsey - Founder — FreeDAO.io Brings 20 years of systems and software design, and lead game design. A proponent of free and open societies, direct democracy, gift economies and systems design, Jerome founded FreeDAO as an unstoppable service to bring new tools that can enhance human freedoms.

Paul Lachapelle is a former president of the Int'l Association for Community Development (currently advising the UN and aid agencies on best practices for community development). We've learned more than we realize from their historical research. Paul has a deep interest in engaging his community in discussions on the connections between communities, collaborations, governance, and the retention of endogenous value within communities.

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

• Fund 9. Stage 1 Ideation: Community DAO Collaborative Governance.

With the success, we anticipate expansion of this project…

• Fund 10. Stage 2 Solution Design: for a Community DAO platform.

• Fund 11. Stage 3 Implementation: of a first Community DAO platform

[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?

• number of contributors with >15 hours paid contribution
• number of contributors with >50 hours paid contribution
• number of composite service templates created by core contributors [roles]
• number of reports created during working group calls
• number of 1-on-1 calls between contributors
• F10 Proposals with tracked community contributions and deliverables outlined in this proposal.
• Hype Instance with 25 core contributors
• Community Designed Campaigns - >15 hour paid contribution

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

Short Term Success would be:

We can demonstrate a first generation Collaboration Platform

• The first Collaboration software tools installed
• Limited Integrate of some other collaboration tools Miro & Video meeting boards
• Several Community Engagements with active open ideation
• A Community is engaged in posting ideas for design improvements
• Research Evaluations completed
• Initial Natural Language support
• Reports filed for community evaluation.

Long Term Success would be to:

• Have the Catalyst Community continuously engaged in the structure continuous collaboration
• Capturing and refining Problem & Solution pairs
• Capturing Community Intentions to chart a future path.
• Active Establishment of Teams
• Active presentation of consistently High Quality Proposals to the Cardano Voters.

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

This is a continuation of efforts in Project Catalyst DAO Challenge Contribution & Ideation F7.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

Perhaps the most important Goal is GOAL 9:

Good Collaboration on Blockchain projects will lead to all dimensions of that GOAL.

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation!

9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.