Detailed Plan
Overview
Proposals should have a completion report so that the community is more aware of when a proposal finished the work they were funded for. Thus, the community can review the impact the completed proposal had. The report should look at what the proposals aimed to execute, what ended up being executed and the results of that execution with any learnings that the community may benefit from.
This proposal is a follow on from the following fund 5 proposals - improve proposal data <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Catalyst-Site-Improve-proposal-data/350686-48088> and project tracking proposal <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Catalyst-Site-Project-tracking/350699-48088> The enriched proposal data from these fund 5 proposals will be made available in an open source repository that anyone can fork and consume for their own projects. This proposal for proposal completion reports will build on top of that data set and produce more data for that repository that will get updated through the projectcatalyst.org community site.
A completion report for each funded proposal will help to make the auditing of funded proposals more efficient and transparent as it will provide the community with information on what funded proposals were delivering for the funded amount. The reports will be publicly available and attached to the proposal data. This will help with any auditing of what has happened in that proposal and also help guide whether the community will want to fund the proposal team for other proposals in the future.
Design
Check the attachments for a design mockup. This design is just to give an idea of what it could look like though please note that both how its executed and the design may change closer to implementation as we think about the solution more!
Development steps
- Collaborate with IOG and the community to confirm the completion report details that should be included when a proposal team has finished allocating their funds.
- Create a form on the proposal page to allow proposers to indicate they have completed a proposal and to fill in the relevant details on what was completed and the return on intention for the community to have access to.
- Render the completion report on the proposal pages that proposers have added and also provide a way for the community to filter all proposals based on the ones which have been completed.
- Implement adding the completion report to the open source proposal data repository so everyone will have access to completion reports for any given proposal to use as needed.
Roadmap
Getting existing proposal information into an open source repository will the pre-requisite to this proposal which involves completing fund 5 funded proposals for improving proposal information <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Catalyst-Site-Improve-proposal-data/350686-48088> and project tracking <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Catalyst-Site-Project-tracking/350699-48088> The data model for completion reports and functionality should take around 3 weeks to complete, further work is likely needed depending on whether IOHK has been recording this information. If so we will take that information and add it to existing data, if not then we will be looking to reach out to previous funded proposals to complete the completion report so the community has the data. In either event that manual work will likely take around 3 weeks to complete. Please note we would not expect to get complete coverage of creation of historic completion reports in that time frame if we had to reach out to previous funded proposals - it would be a best efforts situation which is naturally based off the responsiveness of the previously funded proposers. For future proposals we would push for it to become part of the process. In total the proposal should take around 6 weeks to complete.
- 3 months - Development of the proposal, launch and start of integration within community and also monitoring and analysis of results. May also finish a completion report in this time frame.
- 6 months - Should be finished at this point though may write a completion report near the 6 month mark.
- 12 months - Proposal should already be completed
Feasibility
- Technology - George has over 5 years development experience in web and mobile apps & Darlington has 14 years in software development with 7 years within cloud infrastructure and DevOps. Between us we covers the skills needed to draft out a sensible data model, make it easy to gather the data and host that in a public API for the community.
Impact
- Effective auditable information - By knowing which proposals are completed and whether they are executed successfully will help to give the community a good indication on the amount of proposals that are completed, how long they take on average to finish and what percentage of work planned to be completed actually gets executed.
- Inform future voting - All of completion report data will give auditable information mentioned previously that will help improve future voting based off how much impact each funded proposal made when they completed their proposal.
- Usage across tools - Public access to this the completion report information should help to allow different types of tooling to emerge such as analytic dashboards or more in depth reports and reviews on different proposals in the ecosystem. The better the data quality and easier it is to access the more likely the community is to create different tools - especially ones concerning auditing!
Auditability
- Open source code - The code developed for this proposal will be open source and free to use for the community making it easy to audit both its progress and final result.
- Finished development of any of our proposals can be found on the community site <https://projectcatalyst.org> or our Github repository <https://github.com/projectcatalyst>
- To see an overview of the entire PACE team information and active and funded proposals you can visit our documentation - <https://cardanocommunity.notion.site/PACE-c1b5ed092f0c43bdb7045a75b8592b0e>
- Our weekly development updates can be founded here - <https://cardanocommunity.notion.site/Project-updates-7f42f8cc1648444dbfe6e18b74ccc3b7>
Success metrics
- Increasing voter awareness of completion reports - For a completion report to be truly effective it will be important that voters are aware of it when voting for the same teams again in future funding rounds. This report along with any other proposal data will provide effective auditing of the impact of the proposal that can be compared with other potential proposals when deciding which should be funded. One number we can track is how many people are looking at proposals with completion reports added - especially near voting time. Another metric to follow is the number of tools like a voter tool that incorporate this information into their own tools.
What success looks like
The success of this proposal will be providing an effortless way for proposers to add a completion report to their proposal once they have completed allocating their funds. The secondary aspect is making sure the information is widely available (open source) and promoted to the community to share the information for auditing purposes as we collectively continue to improve the Catalyst process.
Budget
- Time required: 6 weeks = 40 hours x 6 = 240
- Time allocation: Research & analysis (10%), Product and design (10%), Development (40%), Maintenance (5%), Collaboration (35%)
- Budget = 240 x $55 per hour = $13,200
- Hosting & Software = $500
Total: $13,700
Partnerships
We've partnered with Lidonation <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Treasury-Catalyst-Directory/366965-48088> to help with our existing fund 5 proposals, our fund 6 proposals about auditability and also for their own proposal that will help with improving the access to Catalyst data through a public production ready API.
- Darlington - 14 years in software development with 7 years within cloud infrastructure and DevOps. Also involved with content writing helping newcomers with blog posts
- Stephanie - Teacher, helps non-profits navigate and capitalize on technology. At lidonation, she bridges the gap between the tech nerds and everyone else.
PACE Team
The team currently consists of 2 people with background in software development, economics, psychology and political science. Full team and partnership details can be found here <https://cardanocommunity.notion.site/Team-Partnerships-6d1a8bc8a5474b63ade005ab3cdacf21>
- George L - Web and mobile developer of over 5 years (mainly React, React Native, GraphQL, Serverless and Prisma).
- Jakob D - Research & analysis, management. Political Scientist and Business Psychologist with experience in strategic consulting
Social accounts
Twitter - <https://twitter.com/adacatalyst>
Discord - <https://discord.com/invite/uPv97TvGvC> (Find the chat called 'projectcatalyst-org' under 'Ecosystem Tools')
