Catalyst Ticker on Twitter

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Catalyst is a very special community inside the Cardano community. We always have our heads ANYwhere, get excited, and let our hyper-focus-pocus do its magic. We help each other, we encourage each other, we criticise each other. Our goals are located on a very broad spectrum, yet we all share the same hope: that the world becomes a better place for everyone - and we want this innovation engine to kickstart projects that share this dream.

In such a heavily inspiring evironment, keeping overview and not-losing-one's-head because of small but important things is absolutely crucial. The Catalyst Ticker solves this: it functions as a reliable, central go-to place for information-distribution on the Catalyst heartbeat: the timeline of the stages during Funds.

The Catalyst Ticker wants to catch this heartbeat, give context to it, attach resources, and update reliably - to ensure that people already in Catalyst have a comfy timeline-reminder, and people outside of Catalyst have an easy entry-point:

• it is easily accessible information without having an account on Ideascale first
• it doesn't require anyone to be signed up to the mailing list first nor to have read every mail
• it doesn't require anyone to have joined a Telegram group or Discord server, nor to stay updated on them (which is overwhelming for both beginners AND Catalyst "veterans")
• it doesn't require anyone to have attended every Town Hall by IOG
• it reduces FOMO in case of taking a break from all the named above
• it compensates the lack of necessary information on official Cardano webpages
• and it is - due to the nature of Twitter - even accessible without being signed-up to Twitter

... and still, it informs about the possibilities and necessities in Catalyst to contribute, and provides resources both official and community-made.

The Ticker is already running, growing, and steadily increasing in quality as I put more and more love, time, and thought into it.

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

I submitted it in this challenge, because it makes cross-chain collaboration not only easier, it also attracts all kind of blockchain enthusiasts that hang out on Twitter to Catalyst.

The Account will be (or: IS) a connection node for any communities - and since other chain-ecosystem members already know the basics of blockchain and may be looking out for cool stuff happening on other chains, a simple yet powerful Catalyst Ticker that keeps one up-to-date on the timeline reliably is crucial.

Hence, it is a good opportunity for a "initiative[] to increase communication, coordination and collaboration between chains", and addresses especially the challenge of "awareness & understanding" - both quoted from the challenge settings.

And finally: the "end goal" of the challenge setting (quoted too) - "Let’s create an enriching, open and safe environment, where people from different communities can find common ground and share knowledge, resources, skills, ideas and visions with one another." - this is only achievable if everyone interested in Catalyst has an easily accessible way to information about the Catalyst timeline and the necessities to contribute.

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

Risk:

• I get unexpectedly sick when I should be preparing and posting a tweet/thread

Solution:

• If I get funded, I could not only ask but also PAY someone to help me out: they would prepare the tweet for me, send it to me, and I then just post it

Risk:

• I miss an important announcement despite me being up-to-date anyways and always

Solution:

• This risk is very small, since the timeline is not only curcial for others, but also for me - so I doubt that I will just miss something out of nowhere
• The Ticker is a means of communication, but comms can also happen in the other direction: people can comment/message and hint to the missed update - in that case, I would let the "swarm intelligence" resolve the rest-risk to that risk

Both risks do not endanger the delivery of the project, they would just be obstacles on the road. I do not see any risks that endanger the entire delivery. Well, maybe, if Twitter stopped working out of nowhere. But I couldn't help that but hope it doesn't happen. :)

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

The Account already lives @CatalystTicker on Twitter, and the only thing I have to do is continuously prepare and post the timeline updates every time they're due. I will also naturally engage with the community and spread the word about Catalyst via this helpful account.

Timeline and key milestones:

Fund 9:

• provide the timeline and selected challenges (done! - 0)
• provide "basic" resources (done! - 1)
• inform about proposal submission (done! - 2)
• inform about assessing (done! - 3)
• inform about voting
• inform about cool-down

Fund 10:

• provide the timeline and selected challenges
• provide "basic" resources
• inform about proposal submission
• write a new proposal for Catalyst Ticker
• inform about assessing
• inform about voting
• inform about cool-down

Continuously:

• engage on Twitter to spread the word
• engage with the community and newcomers to collect helpful resources
• watch out for important updates (or even changes) in Town Halls, Mailing list, and Announcement channel and make them into Tweets as well

Examples:

Some Threads I made:

• 1) https://twitter.com/CatalystTicker/status/1535360858456473600
• 2) https://twitter.com/CatalystTicker/status/1538263614515183616
• 3) https://twitter.com/CatalystTicker/status/1539972736377712642

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

For one Fund: 4months x 200.- = 800.-

200.- per month results out of this reasoning:

This is 50.- per week.

The time I invest per week to stay up to date with the timeline is 2 hours. So, my rate/hour of information gathering is 25.-/h. This is the same payment I would get for tutoring students, and for working at a checkout in a local supermarket.

I do not calculate the time and effort I put into posts, because the time varies heavily. But I can assure you that I will (and already do) absolutely take my time I need to be happy with the post and the time the post needs to be nice and neat.

and the rest: 50.- for the person who made the logo design (this payment may return in further funding request since I also asked a professional who didn't find the time in the meantime)

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

Zoé - dedicated community member, good student, up-to-date anyways about the dates, perfectionist with love for details and a sense for (and necessity of) aesthetics, passionate about proper information distribution

@zoeselina on Ideascale

@AnimaValeska on Twitter

@Toasti#5264 on Discord

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

Yes, I will return with the more or less same proposal next Fund for maintenance!

If I come up with improvement/expansion ideas, I will try them out, and potentially add them to the next proposal (or create an additional one).

Potential ideas for the future of the Ticker:

• Using Twitter Spaces to host events during specific stages (e.g. Insight Sharing)
• Discord integration or a bot for Catalyst (Community) Server(s)
• Creating a webpage / integration to webpages
• Expansion onto other Social Medias

[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?

The two numerically measurable things are:

• growing follower number
• engagement with the posts, e.g. via likes, retweets, and comments

These only indicate the reach of the Ticker Account on Twitter, which means I would also want to do a little survey to ask for opinions, feedback, improvement ideas, and other qualitative questions. Will do this after Fund9 is over, to start into Fund10 with greater knowledge.

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

Success for the Catalyst Ticker means, that it became a reliable and easy resource for people both in Catalyst and outside.

Furtherly, the following mean success too:

• successfully onboarded many new members to Catalyst
• successfully informed and updated people in Catalyst and outside
• had fun reaching out, connecting, commenting, discussing, informing, creating, etc.
• had fun watching Catalyst grow bigger and bigger
• the Ticker became an easy entry-point to Catalyst and the future of Cardano

[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 an entirely new proposal :)