Cardano for Corporate ₳ctivation

How might we engage software engineering companies to use their State Of The Art Technologies to improve Cardano Ecosystem?
Team
Experience
Cardano enthusiastFunded Proposer "Diversify Voting Influence"University Associate ProfessorHas experience in designing and presenting scientific and educational materialsAcademia-Industry linkage experienceReviewer of scientific journals (advising services)PhD Physics
Solution
Aim to present Cardano and the Catalyst platform to software engineering companies, enabling developers to unite as active Catalyst members.
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Addresses Challenge
Does the proposal effectively addresses the challenge?
Community Reviews (8)
The proposal wants to engage software engineering companies into the Cardano ecosystem and get the developers involved as active Catalyst members.
The proposer prepares Cardano technology and Catalyst platform educational materials to be presented to the developers of the software engineering companies so as to attract them to actively become proposers, Cardano developers, community advisors, voters and Ada holders. For the proposers, lead them to submit quality and relevant proposals.
These above are all addressing the goals of the campaign challenges.
The proposer is an enthusiast of Cardano, a university associate professor with experience in scientific and educational presentation materials, has links academia and industries, and advisor to scientific journal reviews. His qualifications and experience will contribute to the success of the proposal.
However I have not sighted the goals set although KPIs are specified. I also have difficulty understanding how the investment of 7200 USD is to be disbursed.
For this reason I would stay neutral that this proposal effectively addresses the challenge.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_968
- Total QA Ratings
- 4
- QA Rating Outcome
Approaching developers and introducing Cardano is a good way to attract potential participants because tech-related people are always the ones who are easily interested in crypto currency and more familiar with making money online. Thanks for their base knowlege, they will easy to understand and believe in the vision of Cardano. However, it is necessary to choose which companies to implement the project because in my opinion many developers might know and care about crypto currency in general and Cardano in particular. So it can be a waste of effort if they have already been active members of Catalyst before.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_809
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
I totally agree with the idea from the proposer. We as the community need to have some ways to introduce Cardano & Project Catalyst to professionals, especially in the software engineering fields. Out of many blockchain projects, we have to show what are the advantages and recommendations that Cardano can offer. The impact could be huge with global outreach. However, it would be better if the proposer could provide a specific industry as the starting point. The hard part is knowing which could have immediate benefits from Cardano & Project Catalyst and whether this project could scale perfectly.
The idea behind this proposal is to create educational content aimed at developers and software engineering companies to further the engagement with the Cardano development ecosystem and Project Catalyst. While this proposal is in the ballpark of the challenge's goals, it fails to specifically address the key points for success. What kind of educational content will be created? For what purpose? What specific kind of developer/software development company will the educational content be aimed at? How will they be contacted, at what frequencies and in what contexts?
In order for this proposal to be more closely aligned with the goals of this challenge, it needs to clearly state and specify objectives with actionable execution steps. The impact section for this proposal felt like a paraphrase of the Campaign Brief, which would have been fine, had it been cited and built upon instead of this very general approach.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_663
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposer seeks to create educational materials for developers in order to onboard them by presenting Cardano technology and the Catalyst platform. This will be followed up by visits/roadshows to various companies. Unfortunately, it is not explained in detail what are those educational materials. Will be about Haskell? Will it be about Plutus? Will it inform of the Atala Prism classes? It is not clearly defined. The only effort to define their deliverables are the mentioning of presenting the Catalyst funding opportunities to these companies. Other than there are no further effort to elaborate on the educational material side of things. Simple example would be to state they will collaborate with X from Catalyst School in developing content for developers.
Then there is the second part of this proposals solution, is having a roadshow to various companies. Not one name of a company is mentioned by the proposer. The third part of this proposal is, having online and offline meetings. It is not explained the format of this online meeting. Will it be a Zoom workshop session? Will it be a 1-to-1 discussions? Will it be a developers Town Hall. No explanation is provided.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_635
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
The Proposal will introduce Cardano technology and the Catalyst platform to Software Engineering Companies, thereby attracting and bringing together the Companies' developers to become active Catalyst members. The proponent will compile a set of educational materials and visit various companies to demonstrate the Cardano technology and the Catalyst platform. This will help developer teams submit high-quality proposals in Catalyst funds, attract them to become proposers, Cardano developers, community advisors, voters, and ADA holders, and advise on how to submit proposals that are relevant to the future Catalyst challenges. The idea of this proposal aligns with the goal of this challenge.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1768
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
Proposer does identify a solution that would address key goal set in the campaign - increasing the quality of teams proposing in funding rounds. Having qualified teams aware of possibilities in Catalyst would add value to the whole Cardano ecosystem. If successful, it could be scaled to reach more audience.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1460
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposer specifically mentions Catalyst and onboarding software engineers (or teams of engineers) from companies, and of designing the material with the explicit goal of encouraging the developers to make proposals on Catalyst. My main question about this proposal is just what kind of impact does the proposer envision coming from these developers? I can imagine professional teams of developers making proposals for projects, but when I focus in on the cohort, the image gets fuzzy: aren't these developers, by definition, already busy on projects? Is there a phenomenon where development teams in companies are looking for more projects to take on? Where is the business or shareholders in this plan, and do they need to be onboarded to the training, if not the proposal? Maybe the proposer's approach is to look at teams or companies that could pivot from how they are approaching their current projects, and adopt blockchain/DLT solutions going forward. What kinds of businesses does he have in mind for these conversions? What conversions does he see being compatible with Cardano, and what kind of projects are these developers bringing to Catalyst? I am generally curious if the materials he creates is intended to be opensource. If he successfully were to build out a targeted educational onboarding ramp for one or more of the areas above, having that model available to others (especially people within companies that see opportunities for their peers) and offering consultancy on the model might be a good scaling model that could be adopted.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1193
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
Feasibility
Given experience and plan presented is likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully?
Community Reviews (8)
Although the proposal has a timeline of 3 months and has specified the KPIs, it does not set the targets.
Also, the fund requested does not give the costing items to enable a reasonable review.
For these reasons I disagree that it is highly likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_968
- Total QA Ratings
- 4
- QA Rating Outcome
The member is academics with relevant knowledge and experience, which will help him to present properly so as to attract the developers to Cardano ecosystem. However, at this part I think he should mention at least his name so that the introduction is not too brief. The proposal just said about his general idea and didn't have details plan for each company he will reach out. For example, the proposal should include the list of companies and some presentations document or training Design (this can be planned beforehand from now to show their potential to success, not after the project funded in the future). Eventhough there will be no cost for the companies, there will be a great risk that the companies do not allow him to present about the Catalyst platform since they might think the presentation does not bring their company any direct value.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_809
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
Proposer's LinkedIn profile is not accessible. No websites or social media links were provided to see the proposer's profile. I would also look for a detailed budget breakdown with its respective timeline. I'm afraid I have my doubt about the success likelihood of this project.
While the proposer has provided a link to his LinkedIn profile, it is a broken link. This means that references for skills and experience are basically non-existent.
Going by his words alone, he states that he is an editor for important scientific journals, which he did not name. Another important skill he cites is his Academia-Industry linkage experience, to which there is no credible reference either.
Going through the budget section, the proposer fails to explain how the funds will be allocated.
For this proposal to be considered feasible, all the of the above points need to be seriously reworked.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_663
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
There are numerous holes in the proposal. Starting from the LinkedIn link provided, after attempting to verify, what comes up is a message "Page Not Found". Perhaps this is a typo issue?
The detailed plan mimics the solution, it only expresses a general guideline of what the proposes is planning to do but not how. This trend continues on to the budget statement, there are no details. Just a statement of the month and the budget needed during that month. The proposer mentions that they have been funded and this somewhat is worrying. For as a previously funded proposer, one would expect a certain level of proposal writing quality.
In this case I would recommend to revisit the various workshops done by Catalyst School.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_635
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
- The proposed team will run for 3 months, the first month (planning phase) will present and train the design and participation of the Cardano 8 Foundation; In the second month, there will be presentations, consulting, training, communication and the participation of companies; 3rd month will continue giving presentations, consulting & training, collecting feedback and making final reports. The proposal only states the general work as above without giving a detailed plan of the specific work to be done such as: how many presentations will be held, how long the presentation will take, how many participants and how many software engineering companies will be held and the content and topics will be presented at the presentations; through which channels do the communication; Consulting, training content… The proponent should detail the specific, clear work to be done for each phase to ensure project success and community monitoring.
- Because the project's roadmap is being presented in general, the budget is also general, the proponent only states the project start-up is 1,800 USD, from the first month to the third month every month is 1,800 USD, so the total required budget is 7,200 USD. Due to the lack of cost details for each specific job, the reasonableness of this budget analysis cannot be assessed. The proponent should detail the budget for each specific job such as: how many hours it takes to compile documents, how much does it cost per hour; How many presentations are held when visiting companies, how many hours each session, how much is the speaker cost/hour, other related costs such as drinking water, materials, logistics…
- The project staff is an associate professor with experience in connecting Universities and Companies into innovation projects, the editor of important scientific journals. Also, he is a Cardano enthusiast, Funded Proposer "Diversify Voting Influence" so I believe he can execute the project successfully.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1768
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
Given the tasks set out in this proposal, team has enough experience to execute in a timely manner. However budget is lacking information as it is unclear how the funds will be used or why specific sums are chosen. Action plan is also very general, without any clear deliverables or mention of tools that will be used for execution. Risks are brushed off or not considered at all such as reluctance due to tax reporting and similar issues that arise due to lack of proper regulation for participating companies. A more detailed view of planned tasks and required resources is needed.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1460
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
The qualifications sound pretty good, and the linkedin feed back looks really good, in terms of an educator taking on this task. The budget seems perfectly reasonable, but we must make assumptions about just how many presentations are expected to fit under it (2-3 seems reasonable at this price, but who knows?). Where we need to see a lot more buildout in this proposal is in the development of the materials. As noted, I don't think there is a lot of value to be had in just presenting the option of Catalyst to software teams, unless we define this cohort very specifically. Once defined, their needs and relationship to Catalyst funding may be much easier to suss out, but it also gives us knowledge about how many targets we can expect, what kind of timeline this happens on, etc. The included timeline doesn't really tell us anything…presentations will happen, but that does that mean? At least 2 per month due to the plural, but we shouldn't have to figure it out like that. Again, what I want to know most is who the target is here, since software developers doesn't narrow it down. If you have that, you can determine everything else.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1193
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
Auditability
Does the proposal provides sufficient information to assess and audit progress and completion?
Community Reviews (8)
The proposal presented the measure of progress by the number of target companies presented with the Cardano Catalyst ecosystem materials, the the number of new proposals submitted by the target companies, the number of advisors, voters, Ada holders, and the number of approved proposals in the Catalyst Funds, it does not however set the target number of each (goals).
This presents a progress review not possible. This, I strongly disagree that this proposal provides me with sufficient information to assess the progress in attaining its stated goals.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_968
- Total QA Ratings
- 4
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal need to be more details: key metrics in each stage of the roadmap should includes number of each KPI to make the KPI measurable. They should set more specific goal for these: Number of companies presented to the Catalyst ecosystem Number of new proposals submitted by the companies Number of new community advisors, voters, and ADA holders Number of approved proposals in Catalyst funds." The proposal also should mention to how to indentify which developer teams from different companies to contribute distinctively to the improvement of the Cardano community come from the result of their activities to prove their success.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_809
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
Apart from the very vague success metrics that fail to propose measurable KPIs for auditing purposes, no additional information is given to help the community decide on whether the project was successful or not. The proposer should have detailed the roadmap with identifiable goals which would have reflected his capacity to successfully prove that a suitable solution to the challenge will be attained.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_663
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
The Auditability metric provided by the proposers is fine, but it still needs some specific milestones with deliverable time. The proposer should also provide types of delivery channels for the project monitoring. It could be in the forms of a website, social media posts, YouTube channel, GitHub, etc.
There is no detailed action plan, no detailed budget, credentials that lead to no data and progress metrics that are vague. Add to that no effort to provide the community a concept on how they will report their progress. Would they setup a GitHub? Would they record their online sessions? All are missing from this proposal.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_635
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal provides criteria to measure the progress and development of the project such as: Number of companies presented to the Catalyst ecosystem, number of new proposals submitted by the companies, number of new community advisors, voters, and ADA holders, number of approved proposals in Catalyst funds. These indicators can be measured, however, the proposal does not state the project's goals with specific data to be achieved by the project, so it will be difficult for the community to assess the success of the project.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1768
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
General milestones are set and could be monitored, although lack of clarity on deliverables might hinder actual evaluation. KPIs are vague, as set success measures could be caused by other actors in the ecosystem. Committing to specific deliverables that are quantifiable and verifiable would greatly increase auditability of the project.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1460
- Total QA Ratings
- 5
- QA Rating Outcome
Again, we really need to know what the targets are here. Is the project complete after two presentations? Four? More? The early reporting should be functional enough, as the proposer can report the collaboration numbers for the educational material (including defining the target cohort) and then present the material as a deliverable for the month (and opensource, ideally). But it gets sketchy after that: if two presentations are reported for month 2, is the progress on track? We need numbers here. A final suggestion: if the proposer doesn't know in advance who can be approached with this program, perhaps a version of it that pivots to research, by structuring a couple of different types of material and then seeing what kinds of situations and problems software development teams are bringing to the table, and then use the feedback to iterate the resources and THEN execute this protocol, with a solid base for the numbers.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1193
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
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