Why is it important?

High quality open source projects is the best way to scale developer knowledge by showcasing real world code examples, videos and tutorials.

What does success look like?

High voter participation that inspires others which leads to an increase in the number of open source projects on Cardano.

Key Metrics to measure

Nominee metrics to consider for positive open source impacts are:

• Number of github stars, clones, forks and traffic for an open source repository

• Community involvement (discord, telegram, cardano stack exchange, youtube, twitter, etc.)

• Open source project proposals in Project Catalyst

  Challenge brief

The objective of this challenge is to reward the open source contributions by people and organizations voted on by the Cardano community. A person or organization can either be nominated or self nominated during the proposal submission phase. Additional information can be added to provide a link to their code repository that has been made available through an open source public license. Voting will be done during the voting phase with only the top 4 nominations awarded a prize of 25K Ada each. A person or organization can only be inducted into the Cardano Open Source Hall of Fame once, so they are not eligible and will be disqualified if subsequently nominated thereafter. Hopefully this can be a reoccurring challenge setting that will encourage and reward people and organizations to contribute to the Cardano open source community.

Metrics to consider for positive open source impact are:

• Number of github forks, clones, and traffic for an open source repository
• Community involvement (discord, telegram, cardano stack exchange, youtube, twitter, etc.)
• Open source project proposals in Project catalyst

As an added bonus, I will create a plutus smart contract that allows the name of a person or organization to only be added once to the Hall of Fame smart contract, which will be recorded on the Cardano blockchain.

Total Fund Setting Amount : 100,000 ADA

Disclaimer: The person running this challenge is not eligible to be nominated due to a potential conflict of interest.