Catalyst+DAOstack Open Space

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Israel, which is known as the "start-up nation", is a small country that acts as a blockchain innovation hub. Many projects and teams are located in Israel. One of those projects is DAOstack that provide solutions for DAOs on Ethereum.

While there is a lot of activity, innovation, and entrepreneurship mainly on the Ethereum blockchain, there is a lack of awareness and knowledge about the Cardano ecosystem, and about Project Catalyst.

So we have partnered with DAOstack's team to produce a joint open space to expose the Israeli audience to both DAOstack, their vision and their work and to the Cardano blockchain and to Project Catalyst, and onboard new entrepreneurs, visionaries and users to both projects.

In Open Space events participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme. Open Space Technology is one way to enable all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to create inspired events.

This event can be a platform for collaboration between those projects and their communities that are working now in isolation due to the fact that they are building on different blockchains.

If this proposal will get funded we plan to approach other projects, communities and entrepreneurs that are building on other blockchains, such as Bitcoin, Algorand, Coti etc, and invite them to take an active part.

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

By creating an opportunity for builders, investors, larkers and other from both projects ecosystems - DAOstack & Catalyst - to meet face to face and establish friendship, we can:

• overcome the tribalism and tension between Ethereum community and the Cardano community, that is amplified by the social media platforms.
• Get awareness and understanding about the potential of Cardano and about Project Catalyst.
• Create an opportunity for cross-chains and cross projects collaboration and innovation.

[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 tension between Ethereum supporters and the Cardano community can be an obstacle for this initiative. To mitigate this risk I reached out and offered collaboration with DAOstack's team members that I have previous acquaintance.

I have known Arava, DAOstack community manager, for more than 10 years, and worked with her on similar productions before, as have other DAOstack team's members that I have previous acquaintance and consider as my friends.

Based on real life friendship and mutual respect we can transcend the blockchain tribalism, and extend this friendship to many others.

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

• How? A full day conference with content (led 50-50 by DAOstack and Catalyst) alongside a participatory interactive approach (open space, round tables etc)
• Who is the target audience? Crypto enthusiast - interested, passionate about change making
• Marketing strategy? using CoCreating Our Future platform and network
• How many? 100-200 participants

Timeline (from voting results release):

1. Planning - content and general agenda: 4-8 weeks
2. Producing - set a date, place and other logistics: 8-10 weeks
3. Marketing - material design, social media promotion - 10-14 weeks
4. Event - 14-16 weeks
5. Post event material (video, photos) editing and publishing - 18-24 weeks

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

• Conference venue - 20,000 USD
• Food and drinks - 5,000 USD
• Pre Production and content curation - 3,300 USD
• Production and logistics - 1,500 USD
• Hosts for open space - 3,000 USD
• Graphic story telling of the event- 1,500 USD 
• Marketing campaign - 3,000 USD
• Design + marketing materials - 2,000 USD
• Management + other unknown - 2,000 USD

all plus VAT 17%

Total: 48,500$

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

Aharon Porath: Techno-social entrepreneur.

Founder of consenz - agreement building platform for DAOs on cardano, funded by project catalyst.

Project Catalyst member since fund5. Funded proposer (F7, F8), challenge team member, dRep and former CA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aharon-porath-90158962

Arava Gerzon Raz: Community Specialist || Change Maker

DAOstack community manager.

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

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

Maybe. If we will get funded and the event will be successful we ask for more funding for future events next year.

[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?

Pre event KPI:

1. Exposure to the event invitation
2. Number of RSVP

Event KPI:

1. Number of attendees
2. Collaboration between existing projects of both ecosystems

Post Event KPI:

1. Exposer and views of the post event materials such as videos for the event
2. Participators survey results

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

Success will be measured on the event itself by:

• Number and quality of presentation and activities
• Number of participants (> 100)
• Media and social media exposure (> 5,000 viewers)

After the event we will send a survey to measure satisfaction by the participants and awareness and understanding of the projects involved.

Great success will be if at least one new team will form at the event, that will work on a cross chain project.

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

It is a new one