Detailed Plan
Impact
What Does Success Look Like?
Having developed the Co-Creation of Community Events Website and having 30 people that have co-organized or participated in community events. (see section: Auditability/KPIs below)
Target group
Cardano/Catalyst-stakeholders as well as people that don’t yet know about the Cardano-community.
Why Is It Important & How does this proposal fit into this challenge?
This project is directly addressing the core issue of this challenge, namely that
“Community-driven projects like Catalyst need organized events to connect, discuss ideas, solve problems together and initiate collaboration.”
Having the event co-creation platform follows the principles of the Cardano Spirit of inclusiveness, transparency and community-drivenness.
How will this project add value to our ecosystem?
Having a go-to-place where anyone within and without the Cardano Network can suggest ideas for events that can be voted for and expanded on, fosters idea-generation, collaboration and the actual manifestation /holding of events.
Outlook and future challenges?
An iteration of the project could involve allowing people to vote with their wallets or use ADA to vote and/or to fund projects/ideas/events.
Objectives
A) Attracting new people to Cardano/Catalyst
B) Creating a simple way to bridge interaction between Cardano/Catalyst-stakeholders and everyone new to the community
C) Creating a framework that allows for fast and effective experimentation on how to create mechanisms for:
- how to best invite/incentivize people to suggest, vote on and give feedback on events and ideas
- creative idea-generation
- fair voting-mechanisms
- community consensus-models
Mechanism
Once sufficient traction of an event-idea is reached, events can either be self-organized or if funds are needed, can easily be identified by the Catalyst-community to be evaluated for receiving funding.
Feasibility
The team has experience in organizing, hosting and facilitating online and in-person events, creating event management software and creating event platforms and extensive experience in consensus decision making processes.
We have already created a working demo and prototype.
Collaboration
We already have collaborators from within the Catalyst-community from Indonesia, Australia and East-Africa that want to use the platform to co-create and organize events.
Auditability
6 Months Roadmap
1. Month: Evaluating which part of the existing prototype demo.favourse.com can be used for “Cardano-Crowdsourced-Events” (Erik); designing and defining technical framework that allows for experimentation and bringing together of different elements of the platform, namely event/idea-generation/suggestion, voting, feedback and crowdsourcing.
In parallel: Creating a list of different Cardano/Catalyst-stakeholders and inviting them to pilot on our platform (Dewi, Simon). This activity will be ongoing and will develop and engage people from within and without the current Cardano-community. Dewi and Simon will also receive feedback from the community on how to improve this project and it’s mechanisms.
2. + 3. Month: Erik & Sadu (development), together with Iosi & Imad (UI and design), define and start development of the first version with core elements of suggesting, voting, trending-view and tag-search
4. Month: Launch of first version and opening up for registrations to users, asking already contacted prospects to register and start using the protype.
From now on: Continuing development, bug fixing, improvements. Continuing community engagement and reaching out.
5. Month: Have 1 event that was suggested, voted for and organized on the platform.
6. Month: Have 5 events that were suggested, voted for and organized on the platform and 1 event that is suggested to Cardano Catalyst or the Cardano-community that is requesting funding.
Team
Erik Steindecker von Teschenhausen (Brazil/Germany) - Erik is savvy in the field of computer and mechanical engineering and uses this creatively for the tasks at hand. He researched applications of virtual reality and augmented reality for almost a decade in Germany and the United States. In the search to expand his perspective, he engaged with NGOs, eco-villages, and social projects in Asia, Brazil, and Mexico. Nowadays, he is based at the eco-village “Terra da Unidade” in Brazil, where he co-creates this dream together with like-minded people.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teschenhausen/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erik-Steindecker-Von-Teschenhausen
Sadu Jayanatha (Indonesia) - working in the hospitality industry as a channel and listings manager for hotels in Bali as well as creating and maintaining websites for hotels; holds a BsC in IT from STIKOM (Institut dan Teknologi Bisnis), Bali, Indonesia
Iosi Pratama (Indonesia) - Expertise in designing digital products (web-based SaaS or mobile apps), user experience design (UED) and interactive design
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iosipratama/
https://iosipratama.dribbble.com/
https://iosipratama.com/
Dewi Anty (Indonesia) for testing, coordination and reaching out to catalyst-stakeholders and potential new users. Dewi’s expertise is in research & development, quality control, engaging with users; her passion lies in sales & marketing with her professional communication skills and strong personality; micro influencer on youtube and instagram
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamanadewianty/
https://www.youtube.com/c/WanderingGoddess
Imad Bouziani (Algeria/Indonesia) - Imad is a senior full stack web developer who helps companies, charities and initiatives anywhere create smart contracts; previously lead developer for puls.com. Imad has been creating a smart contract on the testnet for this project and has been giving advice on UI/UX
https://github.com/imadbz
https://torre.co/imadbouziani?s=jea52DGdYE
Simon Smaluhn (Germany/Indonesia) - Co-founder of SeminarDesk.com, a web-based event management software; co-founded the NGO “Mindfulness & Understanding” that organizes and coordinates mindfulness & meditation events internationally (www.AVeV.de); creating solutions for organizing, managing and marketing events since 2006; having lived in intentional communities/ecovillages in Europe and Asia; inspired by Prof. Dr. Margrit Kennedy (author of “Interest and Inflation Free Money, Creating an Exchange Medium that Works for Everybody and Protects the Earth”) who I had the honor of assisting in all things technical, help preparing presentations for lectures and obviously learned a lot from her about money and life.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-smaluhn-a0477b17b/
Some team members have been involved in crypto/blockchain for around 10 years.
Key Metrics
Increase active participation in community events:
Number of people that participated in community organized events: 30
Number of participants/users on platform: 100
Diversity of participants: participants from East-Africa, Asia, Australasia and beyond.
Number of idea-events created: 50
Number of total votes: 300
Budget
Total: $11,920
$6,000 (6 x $1,000) for development and product design (Erik Steindecker (Brazil/Germany) as part-time lead developer
$4,230 (6 x $705) Sadu Jayanatha (Indonesia) as full-time junior developer
$1,000 Iosi Pratama (Indonesia) for design and UI
$630 (6 x $105) Dewi Anty (Indonesia) for testing, coordination and reaching out to catalyst-stakeholders and potential new users
$60 (6 x $10) Hosting
Imad Bouziani (Algeria/Indonesia) for smart contract design/blockchain and UI (in collaboration with Iosi Pratama) (unpaid)
Simon Smaluhn (Germany/Indonesia) project coordination (unpaid)
Resources
A) 1.5-minute interview of me explaining what Favourse is: https://video.favourse.com/
On www.Favourse.com you can find
B) https://info.favourse.com - Overview, short explainer videos with main use cases, links to telegram-groups, team, etc.
C) https://demo.favourse.com - Demo (view-only) related to the main use cases referenced in the explainer videos
D) https://pre.favourse.com - Prototype, can register with few clicks, play around
E) https://whitepaper.favourse.com - Whitepaper