Detailed Plan
Overview
Proposals after the finalized stage or also after being funded currently lack the ability to be kept up to date with relevant content about the proposal such as interviews, podcasts, articles, demos and any other relevant media content. Both proposers themselves or the community should be able to suggest content that should be added to the proposal data so it is easy for the community to understand everything going on for a given proposal - especially those that have been funded!
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 media content proposal will build on top of that data set and produce more data for that repository that will be updated through the <https://projectcatalyst.org> community site.
This proposal helps meet the challenge of improving auditability of funded proposals by providing a way for both proposers and the community to add more content based information about a funded proposal. The more information that the community has relevant to each funded proposal the more efficient and transparent it is to the community to understand the impact of a proposal for its return on intention. The data will also be completely open source helping it to become more distributed in the community and allow for it to be more easily used in other contexts such as analysis on the effectiveness of proposals.
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 this may change a bit when it gets implemented!
Development steps
- Add a media linking form to the proposal pages so that a proposer or trusted community member can link to any media content that is relevant to a given proposal.
- Present the media content on all the proposal pages so the community can view the media with the other relevant information.
- Take existing data for attachments from Ideascale to attach them to the historical proposals so that proposals have the historical media content data.
- Implement the adding the media content data to the open source proposal data repository so everyone gets access to media content for any proposal.
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> Creating a data model for the media with the functionality should take around 3 weeks to complete however there is also manual work in bringing together historical data of attachments in Ideascale and other relevant media to previous proposals that will enrich the previously funded proposal data. This manual work will be fairly time consuming and likely take around 3 weeks to complete. In total the proposal will likely 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 new data and host that in a public API for the community.
Impact
- More up to date information - By providing a better process to keep media information up to date for a given proposal the community will be better informed on the progress or relevant information about what is happening.
- Inform future voting - Better media coverage of what is happening should help to inform future voting where the community can more easily audit interviews, demos or similar media content to gage the impact they are having in the ecosystem.
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 the number of people viewing proposals - Tracking the traffic to proposal pages will give insight into the engagement of the community for a given proposal and whether they are viewing the media relevant to each proposal.
- Increasing the amount of proposal information coverage - Providing an easy way to attach relevant media to a proposal should help encourage people both working on the proposal team and also community members in the ecosystem to help link more relevant media content that will help with the auditing process.
What success looks like
The success of this proposal will mean providing an effortless way for proposers or trusted community members to be able to enrich a proposal with more media content as it becomes available. With that functionality the secondary thing is how that impacts the communities engagement with the proposals and use the extra proposal data to enrich their own tools or for analysis for auditing.
Budget
- Time required: 6 weeks = 40 hours x 6 = 240
- Time allocation: Research & analysis (10%), Product and design (10%), Data handling (25%) Development (40%), Maintenance (5%), Collaboration (5%)
- 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 about proposal data (Improving proposal information and project tracking), 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')
