Catalyst Swarm - After Town Hall
Problem
There is a lack of open community spaces which provide effective platforms for developers to meet and connect, to share ideas and to find collaborators.
Solution
The weekly After Town Hall is a well known and established community event which provides developers an excellent space to connect with other community members
Total to date
This is the total amount allocated to Catalyst Swarm - After Town Hall.
About this idea
[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.
As the initiators of the After Town Hall, we are proud that we have been able to establish and maintain new ways of global and collective interaction within the Cardano Developer community at Project Catalyst. One that involves an inclusive safe space to present ideas, connect and meet with one another, with an intent of sharing visions and ambitions. We aim to continue carrying out the After Town Halls with the goal of improving format, quality and execution.
The Catalyst Swarm
We have been building Community Infrastructure since Fund 3, our goal is to support Developers, Designers, Thoughtleaders, Lurkers, Visionars and Projects to successfully execute & implement initiatives and positive impact on the Cardano Ecosystem.
As a healthy Ecosystem requires a healthy community, we focus on the community's experience while building on CCardano. To ensure inclusive and organic growth, we duplicated, adapted and adjusted our explored and established format across local communities, cultures and languages.
Background
Project Catalyst is a series of experiments aimed at generating and exploring the highest potential of human collaboration/innovation. With that said, Catalyst Swarm’s mission supports this ideology. We explore and maintain environments in which community members can meet, connect and share ideas with each other. Out of these collaborative and incubative community events, we see that people build relations and trust on which collaboration and whole projects start to emerge.
Offering an open stage to the community allows us to come together, to explore and discuss important topics and themes which matters to us and our community.
Further, the Catalyst Swarm After Town Hall provides a great place for newcomers to get directly in touch with community veterans, to receive guidance and mentorship and to have a great experience in getting a fast and safe onboarding experience. It is the place to present projects, initiatives, general discussions and to find like-minded people to collaborate and build together.
The Catalyst Swarm After Town Halls
A quick overview on what the After Town Hall is and how it works.
The Catalyst Swarm After Town Hall as mentioned is a community driven space that occurs every wednesday after the main Town Hall is completed. Now you might ask, what is the Town Hall? It is a publicly accessible, weekly event hosted by IOG on Wednesdays at 17.00 UTC, live on Zoom. During the Town Hall, the latest Catalyst updates and developments are shared to the community. Typically including a recap of what was done during the previous week and what the community can expect for the following week and where we are in the fund cycle.
To keep it simple, the After Town Hall encourages the community to host open rooms, present their projects and maintain a healthy environment that encourages/empowers others to start their own journey and projects within catalyst, or to collaborate with already existing projects that fit their needs and objectives.
We invite people…
To join, no matter the background or expertise
To network
To collaborate
To listen to each other
To understand one another
&& most importantly To be creative, build, and innovate!!!
How the After Town Hall works
- Visitor
- Join the IOG Town Halls on Zoom and enjoy updates and news from IOG and the community ( https://bit.ly/3rCicSR )
- After the main Town Hall, join one of the many breakout rooms in the After Town Hall to meet and connect with others in the community.
- HAVE A GOOD TIME
- Host
- Sign up on the form to reserve your own breakout room at least 24 hours before the main town hall
- https://forms.gle/Aody25Bnp9n18T6R9
- You will get a verification email to confirm the room
- Join the weekly town hall to get assigned as an event co-host
- Join the After Town Hall breakout room you are assigned to
- Record your session via zoom interface, and upload it on.. So it can be published on the Catalyst Swarm Youtube Channel for those who weren’t able to join.
- Organizer
- Outreach to community members and projects which would like to host a room
- Confirm hosts/rooms that are signed up and evident on the forms
- Update After Town Hall Slide each to match the weeks events and breakout rooms
- Setting up the breakout rooms in the Catalyst Town Hall Zoom call
- Help with assigning co-hosts in Zoom so that they are able to record their sessions
- Introducing the After Town Hall and breakout rooms
- Upload recordings to the official Catalyst Swarm Youtube Channel
[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
The format of the After Town Hall is one of inclusion, free from discrimination of any sorts. The After Town Hall opens space for the broader developer community to participate and stay informed of Catalyst events and ecosystem initiatives. It has and with the support of the community will continue to open its doors in welcoming newcomers into the dev community, and providing them the necessary resources/ guidance to get them onboarded and engaged in the community that best suits them in a seamless manner. With that, the main metric of general onboarding to swarm sessions will be achieved, directly tying into the After Town Hall, as its a component and extension of Swarm Sessions.
Transparency is key in Swarm, as all information and activities are shared with the community. We believe this enhances community contribution, breeds trust, and opens more room for innovation. Therefore, incorporating dework, as a bounty board, is reducing and aiding in the elimination of any confusion that may arise in terms of the roles or contributions taking place.
All hosted Swarm sessions can be recorded and uploaded to the Catalyst Swarm Youtube Channel.
- Timestapping and structuring recorded rooms are done to ensure a quick and effective way of collecting needed information.
By executing the After Town Hall on a weekly basis, we were able to curate a format that iterates in fast cycles. With our ability to remain flexible and dynamic, we are given the opportunity to experiment and improve as we go along. Maintaining close communication with other operating town halls including the LATAM, Eastern, and Africa Town Halls, we are able to coordinate and collaborate with an impact of attaining collective improvements in performances.
The Swarm team generated the Catalyst Swarm After Town Hall Playbook to provide better insight on what the town hall and after town hall are about and a step by step guide on what it takes to run an after town hall. This was done with the intention of helping other community led initiatives to explore and establish a format, performance and experience that best suits them.
Further, to face language and culture barriers and to explore effective solutions we duplicated, adapted and adjusted earned experience & knowledge to local communities. With the creation of the global, community led town halls we are able to ensure an smooth and fast way for local communities to join & engage at the global Cardano Developer ecosystem.
The Catalyst Swarm initiated and supported the emergence of local Town Hall teams. That included bringing people together from the communities, to build a team that is willing to work collectively. Catalyst Swarm helped the local Town hall teams with their first proposals, and supported them into becoming independent teams. With continuance guidance on how to run their Town Halls, they are able to generate effective outcomes based on the languages in which they operate.
We believe in the advantages of local knowledge and authentic understanding of local communities. Therefore, when initiating a town hall, we ensure to empower and encourage local community leaders to join, organize and maintain the local town halls. As the breakout rooms are hosted in local languages, we have the opportunity to get high quality insights & feedback from local communities. The earned insights help us to build tools and platform which suits to the identified local needs & challenges.
( visit https://catalystswarm.com/building-communities/ )
Swarm After Town Hall
Website: https://catalystswarm.com/building-communities/
Discord: https://discord.gg/FRREGhe4xN
Start: 23. June, 2021
Languages: English
Eastern Town Hall
Website: https://easterntownhall.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/9wj4ZPTdjf
Start: 29 July, 2021
Languages: English, Indonesian, Japanese, Vietnamese
LATAM Town Hall
Discord: https://discord.gg/rPhy4Dtt89
Start: 21 December, 2022
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Africa Town Hall
Telegram: https://t.me/+4YRXZk41Hu9kMmQ0
Start: 4 March, 2022
Languages: English, Swahili, Arab, French
Token Experimentation & implementation
Due to the Swarm participation in the Gimbalabs Token - Project Based Learning group, we bootstrapped some first examples of implementing Community infrastructure tokens.
Via the experimentation & exploration of the Catalyst Swarm Bounty Board, we are able to transform After Town Hall events into Bounties. This allows us to recognize participants for spending their time and attention to our weekly After Town Hall and to create a first pilots for Catalyst Community reputation systems
[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Since the After Town Hall (ATH) takes place directly after the Town Hall, the attendance of the community members in the Town hall impacts the performance of the ATH. With the growth in participants in the town hall, there will be evident growth in the ATH, and vice versa can occur if we see a drop in the number of participants attendance in the main hall. The success of the ATH is highly dependent on the Town hall, therefore this can be seen as a main risk of a successful delivery to the project.
We collaborate closely with IOG to ensure that the Town Hall & After Town Hall stays an open space for important discussions, presentations & conversations all around Cardano
[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.
Q2 2021 - Done
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Creation of the After Town Hall in Collaboration with IOHK
Improving the format & process on a weekly base
Q3 2021 - Done
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Improving the After Town Hall format & process on a weekly base
Creating the Eastern Town Hall to find solutions to overcome language barriers
Build local Team to develop & maintain the Eastern Town Hall
Adapt & Adjust Formats to local communities
Q4 2021 - Done
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Improving the format on a weekly base
Creating the Latam Town Hall to extend the “global” Town Halls
( Catalyst Town Hall, Eastern Town Hall, Latam Town Hall )
Q1 2022
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Improving the format on a weekly base
Q2 2022
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Improving the format on a weekly base
Onboarding dedicated After Town Hall Team
Peter Wolcott, Natalie Attieh & Nadim Karam join the Team
Developing new Project Management via Dework
Bootstrapping first experiments with token recognition for ATH Contributors
Introducing new tools & token experiences to the global town halls & teams to create a common toolset & environment to recognize community contributions across local & language based cardano communities
Q3 2022
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Improving the format on a weekly base
Developing further gimbalabs Town Hall Integrations to recognize Town Hall participants for participation
Q4 2022 and beyond
Operating & Executing After Town Hall on a weekly base
Improving the format on a weekly base
Developing further gimbalabs Town Hall Integrations to recognize Town Hall participants for participation
[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.
Executing Team
Felix Weber
1000 usd in Ada per month
4 months = 4.000 usd in Ada
Advisory, coordination to other Town Halls & consulting
Nadim Karam
1000 usd in Ada per month
4 months = 4.000 usd in Ada
Consulting & Advice
Peter Wolcott
After Town Hall organisation & execution
2000 usd in Ada per month
4 months = 8.000 usd in Ada
Natallie Attieh
After Town Hall organisation & execution
2000 usd in Ada per month
4 months = 8.000 usd in Ada
Treasury & Accounting Budget
The Treasury Guild will maintain & operate all transactions regarding the Town Hall project and any implemented token contribution systems
4 months = 4000 usd in Ada
Bounty Board
30 videos per month
50 ada for video timestamping
Over a timeframe of 4 months
= 6000 usd in Ada
Media Budget
Creating short Videos on weekly Town Hall Highlights to keep the Community up to date about happenings and discussions in the various breakout rooms
1 weekly Video = 500 usd in Ada
= 8000 usd in Ada
Additional Contributions
We will have the need to engage Swarm Veterans in co hosting important rooms and to ensure that conversations are recorded and made publicly to the Community
= 5000 usd in Ada
[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.
Felix Weber ( Catalyst Swarm )
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-weber-339590209/
Founder and Coordinator of the Catalyst Swarm, Bridge Builders and Ambassadors Guild. Catalyst Circle v1 Member, Funded Proposer, Mentor & fulltime Catalyst Community Member. Felix is advising & mentoring the After Town Hall Team and its activities & operations
Natalie Attieh ( Catalyst Swarm )
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalieattieh/
After Town Hall Moderator & Facilitator. Background in Human Resources and Psychology. Natalie is a cardano enthusiast, supporting this project with design & process development as well as outreach and visibility.
Nadim Karam ( Catalyst Swarm )
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadim-karam/
Catalyst Circle Facilitator, Funded Proposer and Business & Enterprise Consultant
Peter Wolcott ( Catalyst Swarm )
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wolcott-013358141/
Peter Wolcott is the CEO NeuroNova Project, Owner of Ansula Systems, Early Contributor to Done Collectively and a Catalyst Swarm Veteran. Peter joined the Catalyst Circle Admin Team as a Secretary beginning of September 2021. Peter is Freelance Project Management and a Community Organiser.
André Diamond ( Treasury Guild )
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9-diamond-45871242
André Diamond is a co-founder of the treasury guild and leads the development & maintenance of the treasury tools. The Treasury Guild takes charge of providing a fully transparent accounting & treasury service for a maximum of auditability for our project
Miroslav Raijh ( Treasury Guild )
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miroslav-rajh-94566845
Miroslav is a co-founder of the Treasury Guild and managed the treasury & accounting part. The Treasury Guild takes charge of providing a fully transparent accounting & treasury service for a maximum of auditability for our project
[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 most likely return in previous funding rounds to ensure that the After Town Hall space can survive and evolve
[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?
Yes[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?
Yes[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?
Progress and development of the After Townhall can be found on dework, as we track and document our tasks, as well as the ATH pipeline used to record data collected weekly from each town hall. Alongside the internal measurements, external factors can be measured by the community. They can attend weekly and decide if the execution of the town hall/ proposal is being done effectively. As mentioned, swarm sessions are recorded and uploaded to the Catalyst Swarm Youtube channel, which allows the community to directly catch up with recordings of their choosing.
All previously hosted rooms & amount of room participants are tracked here:
The Project Management is tracked via Dework
All transactions rewarding received and outgoing funds are fully transparent tracked a documented on
Discord https://discord.gg/6jk8mVuYqA
Gitbook https://treasury-guild.gitbook.io/catalyst-swarm/
Recordings are uploaded on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/channel?start=/UCuXdR8JMH0QriU0uOTVpg3w
Timestamps are done via Swarm Bounty Board:
https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-swarm/catalyst-swarm-bount
[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?
We will continue to undertake Swarm After Town halls each week for the funding period. The project will be a success if there is continuous community engagement and participation in hosting breakout rooms each week and when we explored new ways to recognize the communities contribution of participating in the Catalyst Swarm After Town Hall
[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 the successfully funded and implemented After Townhalls proposals and aims to enable resources to continue the After Town Hall for the next funding round. Further information can be found here:
After Town Hall by Catalyst Swarm in F8: New Member Onboarding
https://cardanocataly.st/voter-tool/#/fund/f8/challenge/26450/proposals/405016
After Town Hall by Catalyst Swarm in F7: Community Events
https://cardanocataly.st/voter-tool/#/fund/f7/challenge/26234/proposals/380966
After Town Hall by Swarm in F6: Proposer outreach
https://cardanocataly.st/voter-tool/#/fund/f6/challenge/26105/proposals/366709
Team
Catalyst Swarm Veterans comprise the After Town Hall Team and have experience organising Catalyst Community Events since Catalyst Conception. We successfully organize and host the weekly After Town Halls since June 2021
