Eastern Hemisphere dRep TownHall

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

The Eastern Hemisphere Town Hall provides a safe place for the different time zones and languages of Eastern Hemisphere communities to learn, collaborate and build on Cardano.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Cardano Foundation Ambassadors, Catalyst School & Eastern Town Hall Members, Proposal Assessors (PAs) & Veteran PAs, Challenge Team members, Cardano Stake Pool Operators (SPO), IT & Software Engineering, Blockchain devs, Plutus/Atala Prism Pioneers, Educators and Accountants

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

There is no independent initiative to collect, monitor and document a dRep’s platform (voting decisions) or a regular meeting location to examine dReps. Nor is there any provision for a diverse representation of languages and regions.  

Our focus will be on the Eastern Hemisphere region. This is where we are based and this will provide a more distributed perspective. 

In summary, our intent is to :

(1) Monitoring Eastern Hemisphere proposal

(2) Operate a Eastern Hemisphere dRep Chat + 7 languages(if there are some)

(3) Collect dRep related statistics for each Fund

(4) Translate & summarize in a CIP list

(5) QADAO will provide plain english summaries of IOG dRep workshops and dRep research to support translation.

(6) QADAO will assist in liaison and English language communication with the main Town Hall

※We will also do the following work for dRep but will not include it here as it overlaps the scope of work with the proposals we are doing in other categories.

・We will document how dReps, advisors (PAs), voters and proposers participate in the dRep process. 

・Hold a monthly Eastern Town Hall dRep, proposer and voter dialogue meeting

・Onboarding dRep following the Eastern Hemisphere Town Hall Telegram

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

The table above shows the relationship between solutions, challenges and risks. See "[IMPACT] ②how to address the Challenge" .

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

The table above shows the relationship between solutions, challenges and risks. See "[IMPACT] ③main risks".

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

We will continue to gather dRep materials, provide documentation & statistics and hold meetings until the Fund 11 time period. As this is the first iteration or experiment our milestones may vary in order to respond to changes in dRep implementation. But our intent is to increase our deliverables by 10% each Fund.

The table above shows the relationship between the solution and the detailed plan. See "[FEASIBILITY] ①detailed plan" and [AUDITABILITY]①(KPI).

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

The table above shows the relationship between the solution, the detailed plan, and the budget breakdown. See "[FEASIBILITY]② BUDGET BREAKDOWN".

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

This distributed, collaborative effort brings together a wealth of cultural and technical experience to Cardano. We are all long standing, active contributors in Catalyst, and our community groups range widely across the ecosystem. We are a diverse bunch united by the promise and vision of Cardano.

Core Team - (in alphabetic order)

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Andreas Sosilo

@andreassosilo - Indonesia: Software Developer, Cardano Foundation Ambassador for Indonesia, Cardano Indonesia Community Manager, Eastern Hemisphere Town Hall Team

Angela 

@AWG - Haskell Plutus Lecturer, Eastern Town Hall Team Member, Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member, CA,VCA, Plutus Pioneer, Atala Prism Pioneer, Challenge Team Member, Boostcamp Alumni.

Jack 

@PardusEidolon - Financial markets software engineering, Haskell Developer, Music & Video Production, Eastern Townhall Co-Organiser

Linh 

@elpidanang - Australia: Digital Forensic and Cyber Security academic staff since 2004. Fund 7 and 8 Challenge Team member, Co-host for ETH

Mie Tran 

@mie.tran.0407 - Vietnam: English and International Business major by trained, experienced in working cross-continent corporations. Funded proposer, a Challenge Team member, Co-host for ETH

Robert O'Brien 

@wolstaeb - New Zealand: Financial systems Software Engineer, Community Co-Organizer and Entrepreneur

Tien 

@tienna - Vietnam: Computer programmer, Cardano SPO (VILAI), Cardano community activist since 2018, funded proposer, a Challenge Team member and Co-host for ETH

Yuta Yuta

@yutazz - Japan: Cardano Ambassador, Community Co-Organizer, Catalyst Fund 2 & 7 Recipient, Certified Public Accountant

Yan Tirta 

@yantirta - Indonesia: Cardano Indonesia Organizer, Community Advisor, Veteran Community Advisor, Eastern Catalyst School member, Catalyst Challenge Team member, Entrepreneur

Consultant Team

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Andy Sibuea 

@zicozibu - Indonesia: IT & Blockchain Educator, Eastern Catalyst School member

Felix Weber 

@felixweber - France: Cardano Ambassador, Founder of Catalyst Swarm/School, Co-Founder of numerous other Cardano Communities

Stephen Whitenstall 

@swhitenstall

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-whitenstall-166727210/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/qa_dao

Stephen is the co-founder of Quality-Assurance DAO, https://quality-assurance-dao.github.io/. Stephen has provided project management consultancy for many Catalyst governance projects since Fund 4 including Catalyst Circle, Audit Circle, Community Governance Oversight, Training & Automation (with Treasury Guild) and Swarm. A Circle V2 representative for funded proposers. He has 30 years experience in development, test management, project management, social enterprises in Investment Banking, Telecoms and Local Government. A philosophy honours graduate with an interest in Blockchain governance.

[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 submit proposal in the next Catalyst Fund to operate our Town Hall, as this Town Hall operates to build communities in each countries of Eastern Hemisphere zone in the long run.

[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?

Since this is our first attempt, it is difficult to predict milestone figures, but we aim to increase each of the following indicators by 10% for each FUND.

See "[AUDITABILITY]①" in the table above for KPIs.

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

See "[AUDITABILITY] ②" for a description of how each solution succeeds.

For this project success looks like: 

• Create a list of proposals originating in the Eastern Hemisphere
• Proposals in the Eastern Hemisphere are monitored by dRep and other members in the Eastern Hemisphere. This might be assisted by the existing challenge team setup.
• Hold a monthly Eastern Town Hall dRep, proposer and voter dialogue meeting. There is a place in the Eastern Hemisphere for proposers to appeal to the dRep and for dReps to appeal to voters to vote for or delegate to each.
• Host discussions about liquid democracy, the difference between direct and representative democracy and the future of governance in Catalyst.
• Proposers in the Eastern Hemisphere can go to Telegram to appeal to the dRep via chat. 
• Eastern Hemisphere dRep chat to discuss region- and language-specific issues.
• Create systems to collect dRep related statistics for each Fund. Possibly including data gathering through Questionnaires, Interviews, Observations, Documents and records, Focus groups.

Basically, Support for non English speaking Proposers from Eastern Town Hall. Education and discussions on liquid democracy, the difference between direct and representative democracy and the future of governance in Catalyst. Translation into 7 languages with support on Discord and Telegram.

https://quality-assurance-dao.gitbook.io/community-governance-oversight/dreps-delegated-voting/delegated-voting-drep/workshop-1 

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

No. It is an entirely new one.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

N/A