Community & Outreach

Cardano needs an engaged thriving community along with collaborate efforts that effectively welcome those outside the community

Communities forming around topics, public goods or focus areas that promote collaboration and introduce people to the community.

Tracking success for this category will mean:

• Increasing the number of community members coming together to collaborate and get to know each other over different topics and high impact areas
• Increasing the size of the community through outreach and marketing efforts
• Improvements around culture and supporting how people interact, collaborate, engage and organise themselves
• Supporting efforts to collaborate with external parties such as new potential community members or legislators

Individual success metrics are added for the different types of proposal in the category brief. These metrics provide suggestions for how different proposal types could be audited.

—- FUNDING CATEGORIES BACKGROUND —-

Funding categories offer an effective approach for doing funding categorisation in the Catalyst funding process. Funding categories if fully adopted can remove the issues and inefficiencies surrounding challenge settings.

Funding categorisation has a number of properties that can be analysed. Categorisation can be broad or specific, inclusive or exclusive and recurring or changing. Funding categories have been created based off the properties which are more effective for funding categorisation. Funding categories focus on being broad, inclusive and recurring - https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/funding-categorisation-analysis/categorisation-properties

Using more effective categorisation properties results in a number of advantages. Funding categories offer a more efficient, simple, flexible, scalable and egalitarian approach to do funding categorisation than challenge settings. Funding categories are effective for directing funding and also help to increase healthy competition - https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/funding-categorisation-analysis/funding-categories-advantages/overview

Funding categories achieve similar or often better outcomes than challenge settings for ensuring each focus area has access to funding in a given funding round - https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/funding-categorisation-analysis/historical-analysis-and-comparisons/funding-access-for-each-focus-area

Funding categories provide a 80% total cost reduction when used as a replacement to challenge settings. The numbers used for this estimation are also conservative - the savings are likely higher! Read more here - https://docs.catalystcontributoars.org/funding-categorisation-analysis/historical-analysis-and-comparisons/categorisation-overall-cost-comparison

The full list of funding categories can be found here - https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/catalyst-funding-categories/

—- BUDGET WEIGHTING VOTE —-

The total budget that gets applied to each funding category is determined using a democratic budget weighting vote.

Funding categories are assigned a percentage by each voting participant in the vote. A weighted average percentage is then achieved from the voting results. This percentage is then converted into the equivalent ADA value that will be requested for that funding category from the total amount of funding that will be available in the next round.

To register and participate in the budget weighting vote you can find all of the details in this funding categories documentation - https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/catalyst-funding-categories/budget-weighting-votes/fund-9

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Overview

Community & Outreach is focused on the following important areas:

• Bringing the community together to engage with one another over important problems, topics, causes or for any other important conversations.
• Talking to people and organisations outside the community looking at how together we can collectively solve problems, explore ways to collaborate or consider different opportunities for innovation.
• Finding people outside the community interested in learning more about the ecosystem or joining a community that they could be passionate about.

Why this category is important

The community for any decentralized ecosystem is what makes that ecosystem truly valuable.

Supporting initiatives that help bring the community together or better collaborate with people outside the community will increase the rate the community can learn about different people, communities and problems.

The better that communities form around common goals and missions the easier it will be to find potential new solutions or collaborations that improve both the ecosystem and wider society.

Effective community initiatives will improve how people joining the ecosystem find the missions and objectives that they are most passionate about along with the causes they truly resonate with.

Types of proposals to include

• Online & in person events - Any Cardano related event that helps bring new or existing community members together around a given topic or cause.
• Hackathons - Encouraging new projects and teams to form around different development efforts or for potential innovation focus areas.
• Public outreach - Proposals for any marketing approaches that can help drive further adoption of the ecosystem.
• Government outreach & engagement - Outreach and meetings with government officials that help to drive awareness and policy improvements.
• Demos - Demo tutorials, videos and content showcasing Cardano functionality or DApp features that will help newcomers learn about Cardano and the wider ecosystem.
• Impact or topic based communities - Support for resources, discussion, events or other initiatives led by communities focussed on different topics or high impact areas within the ecosystem. Topic and impact areas could be about legal, finance, gaming, adoption, the environment or anything else that helps bring the community together around different missions or shared values. Communities should be related to the Cardano ecosystem.
• Interviews & podcasts - Recorded interviews and podcasts with community members and project teams to showcase news and latest developments.
• Community hubs - Education, awareness and support based community hubs in different countries internationally.
• Workshops & courses - Educational workshops and courses that help people learn about what can is available in the Cardano ecosystem that they could use or participate in.
• Nurturing culture - Initiatives that help with establishing and nurturing a collaborative and open culture within Cardano related communities.
• Proposer outreach - Outreach approaches to help increase the number of quality proposals submitted into each funding round.
• Translation support - Support for translating core resources both in the ecosystem or for DApp projects that would help to engage more of the international community.
• Ecosystem education - Guides and resources about the wider Cardano ecosystem, communities and projects that make it easier for people to understand how to participate and use available solutions.

Potential success metrics for proposal types

This list is not exhaustive but does provides some ideas for proposers to consider.

• Online & in person events - Number of locations covered, number of attendees, open feedback from attendees about the event.
• Hackathons - Number of projects created, number of novel solutions, number of teams formed, number of projects initiated that continue after the hackathon.
• Public outreach - Number of advertisement or content views, number of call to action conversions, percentage increase in traffic for targeted ecosystem sites.
• Government outreach & engagement - Number of outcome goals achieved from collaboration, number of new supporting government body members.
• Demos - Number of demo views, number of interactions with demoed product, number of users joined.
• High impact or topic based communities - Number of community members engaged with the community, number of projects or applications that get created or supported by the community, level of engagement from community members.
• Interviews & podcasts - Number of views and engagement with audience, number of topics covered.
• Community hubs - Number of community hub attendees, types of content and information covered, open feedback from attendees about the community hub community or support, number of people supported that then participate or contribute to a given cause or area.
• Workshops & courses - Number of participants, completion percentage, testimonies on quality of workshops or courses
• Nurturing culture - Number of participants in the initiative, number of views and interaction for digital content, testimonies on quality of the initiative from community feedback.
• Proposer outreach - Number of proposals created, number of people viewing or learning about the proposal funding process, number of referrals for proposals.
• Translation support - Number of languages supported, amount of content translated, number of people interacting with translated resources.
• Ecosystem education - Number of viewers or participants of education resource, testimonies on the quality of the resources made from community feedback.

Considerations for proposers

• Diversity & inclusion - Proposing an event, meet up, hackathon, community hub or public outreach? Consider how diversity and inclusion can be encouraged and supported. If there is any historical funding or execution for this project then provide any evidence related to diversity and inclusion.