Why is it important?

Community-driven projects like Catalyst need organized events to connect, discuss ideas, solve problems together, and initiate collaboration

What does success look like?

A diverse community characterized by high engagement, collaborative problem sensing, and strong execution teams.

Key Metrics to measure

Active participation in Project Catalyst among all stakeholders:

• Proposers

1. Number of proposals
2. Quality of proposals (CA rating)
3. Number of successfully implemented proposals

• Voters

1. Number of registered wallets
2. Amount of registered ADA
3. Number of votes

• Community Advisors

1. Number of active CAs/vCAs
2. Number of assessments
3. Number of high-quality assessments

• Active participation in community Events:

1. Number of community events
2. Number of participants

Challenge brief

Events that bring the community together are critical to driving engagement, passion, building connections, and enabling powerful collaboration. These events strengthen the community and introduce and onboard new people to our ecosystem. Events have also been excellent problem-sensing tools that have launched several new teams and initiatives from the collaboration and connections forged during these events. Technology can be cold and impersonal, and community events bring the human touch to our engagements, opening hearts and minds.

This challenge invites the community to envision and bring about even more engaging and exciting events, catering to an ever-growing and diverse community. We are also already holding many interesting events within the broader Catalyst community. This challenge will ensure that these efforts sustainably provide value to the community.

<u>Use of the challenge budget:</u>

Events require planning, resources, and investment of time from the organizers. The Community Events challenge intends to help pay for those costs as they provide tremendous value to the community. Events can be (and have been) run by passionate volunteers and be of very high quality without remuneration. Still, we should recognize and reward these efforts instead of relying on the volunteer effort needed to run these events sustainably.

Since Project Catalyst is a global community, the focus on these events should be online formats (like Zoom, etc.). Recording these events so people in other locations and time zones can view them will ensure our community's maximum reach and benefit.

<u>Guiding questions:</u>

• How can we increase meaningful participation in Project Catalyst among all stakeholders?
• How can we increase voter-proposer interaction?
• How can we increase participation from Stake Pool Operators in Project Catalyst?
• How can we onboard and integrate new people into Project Catalyst?
• How can we use events to build new teams?
• How can workshops increase collaboration in Project Catalyst?
• How can active participation in events be increased?
• How can the number of participants in events be increased?
• How can events help keep the community together?