Why is it important?

There's a need for an engaged, welcoming, collaborative and thriving community that also collaborates with people outside the community

What does success look like?

Communities forming around certain topics, causes and areas that promote collaboration and that help bring more people into the community

Key Metrics to measure

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

For individual success metrics for the different types of proposal that can be included please refer to the suggested challenge brief success metrics ideas.

Challenge brief

—— FUNDING CATEGORIES BACKGROUND ——

Funding Categories is an approach to doing funding categorisation that will welcome all ideas, maximise the amount of ideas submitted and reduce the effort for all stakeholders in the Catalyst process.

Funding categories also help remove the existing issues with challenge settings. They help to prevent duplicate challenge settings, remove challenges created by self interest, reduce the need for deep knowledge of the ecosystem from challenge proposal teams and also removes an easy entry point for malicious actors.

The full documentation for Catalyst Funding Categories can be found here: <https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/>

7 funding categories have been documented to cover all forms of ideas and proposals. All proposals can be found here - <https://linktr.ee/cardanopace>

The budget weighting for the 7 categories has been determined using a community governance process. The voting results for this process can be found here - https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/catalyst-funding-categories/community-votes/fund-8-categories-budget-weighting/voting-results-fund-8

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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 and any other important conversations.
• Talking to people and organisations outside the community looking at how together we can help to 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 we as a 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 the world around us.

Effective community initiatives will improve how people joining the ecosystem find the missions that they are most passionate about and causes that 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 a development theme
• 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 and videos of ecosystem functionality or DApp features that helps newcomers learn about Cardano and the wider ecosystem.
• High 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 interview 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.
• Culture - Workshops, education, self development and projects that help with establishing and nurturing a collaborative and open culture within Cardano 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.
• Education - Guides and resources about the wider Cardano ecosystem, communities and projects.

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
• 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.
• 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.