F8: Open Source Development Ecosystem
Campaign Brief
Context
In the first iterations, Catalyst started as a Challenge proposed by the Catalyst team. Initially, the majority of its budget was destined to the Developer Ecosystem. For instance, in Fund 6, the Developer Ecosystem was assigned 1 mil. USD, that was 25% of the total 4 mil. available for the Fund.
In Fund 7, Catalyst released control of the budget to the community, which was able to choose the destination of the funding through voting. Unfortunately, the Developer Ecosystem challenge proposed for F7 was rejected because it did not receive enough votes. This led to the lack of an important resource stream that could have been used for the development of the Cardano technology.
The Open Source Development Ecosystem Challenge
The OSDE challenge aims to provide a stream of resources to teams that want to develop their projects and contribute back to the community by sharing part of their efforts in terms of open source projects, open-source frameworks, and accessible knowledge.
The main idea is that projects funded by the community can both generate business value retained by the teams, and at the same time contribute back to the community by improving the ecosystem itself.
For example, a team can be funded to develop a project; generate business value by leveraging a profitable idea, and share the non-core-business part of their work in terms of shared knowledge or in terms of building frameworks or projects with other teams - such that is possible to solve complex problems by joining minds and dividing the efforts across different teams.
Motivation
Catalyst exists to gradually work towards the final stage of the roadmap of Cardano: Voltaire. We are building tools to support new forms of governance and collaboration, on top of technology that is still being developed. The development of this technology itself, in the end, will have to become part of this same process as well. Such a complex and daunting task requires experts from a variety of disciplines to work together with a common goal.
Guiding questions:
How can we ensure future efforts benefit from the work that is funded today?
How do we align between different open source community efforts?
What are the next steps to fuse IOG development with the community?
How can we encourage experts to collaborate and share their knowledge and work?
How can we develop a sustainable ecosystem while sharing knowledge and efforts?
Possible directions:
Education for development in the Cardano & Catalyst ecosystem
Developing common tools, frameworks, core infrastructures, or proof of concepts
Incentive systems for development & hosting
Common audited repositories & overviews of existing solutions
Organizing events to bring the development ecosystem together
Collaboration to improve interoperability within the ecosystem
Note
For a challenge with this budget and these aspirations, it is essential to have a broad consensus. If that support is present, then the results will be owned by the same ecosystem that supports its development.
Complimentary Challenges
This challenge is about growing the open-source ecosystem by funding and improving projects that should share part of their efforts to make the ecosystem grow, and it is not to be confused with:
The Developer Ecosystem Challenge 1 mil that focus on developer ecosystem not necessarily open source.
The Open Standards & Interoperability Challenge 500k that aims to establish standards, processes, and foster interoperability.
We have aligned our efforts with these other challenges and aligned our budgets. We feel there is space for all three. Many open source projects start out as closed source and many contributors to open source projects started out as people using the open source as part of their own private project. We feel that having both is would lead to the best of both worlds. Splitting the challenge helps create a less competitive environment for the Open Source projects.
Why is it important?
We need to grow an entire ecosystem of experts to build and maintain the foundations of Cardano/Catalyst together with the current IOG teams
What does success look like?
A growing number of experts join forces to build collaboratively on community owned infrastructure, tooling, standards, libraries and docs
Key Metrics to measure
- increase the number and the quality of Cardano Open Source projects
- increase the number of contributors
- increase of open source tools and frameworks from the community for the community (dog-fooding)
Open API for Adatar.me
Solution: 开发一个开放的API,让dApps可以使用人类可读的地址以及adatars来供电。
Onboard Freelancers to any projects
Solution: 一个系统,项目可以建立透明的团队成员,做各种角色,以轮班为基础加入,并获得轮班的报酬。
NFT Verification Tool
Solution: 开源的去中心化工具,基于链上和链下的真实来源验证NFTs
NFT Swap Infrastructure Templates 1
Solution: 创建一个开源的NFT交换智能合约模板,容易被Cardano领域的任何NFT项目所适应和实施。
NFT Guild: Cardano NFT Reports
Solution: 创建一个可靠和公正的深度报告来源,定期发布并由Cardano NFT内部人士和QA专家撰写。
.NET CardanoSharp – Deserialization
Solution: 建立一个开发者友好的方式,使用该库将Cardano交易反序列化为有代表性的C#对象。
.NET Blazor Web wallet Support
Solution: 在C#中建立一个.NET Blazor组件,与CIP 30兼容的网络钱包进行交互。
Mobile In-App Wallet (RN) 🔥
Solution: 通过利用其他工具,创建一个React Native库,用于在移动的安全上下文中存储散列的助记符和私钥。
MLabs - Spec DSL for dApp Security
Solution: 我们正在建立一种规格语言,用于正式描述dApp的行为,并生成测试,以根据其设计验证实现。
Milkomeda docker fullnode setup
Solution: 我们将提供一个易于运行的docker解决方案,以便用户和开发人员能够轻松地运行他们自己的完整节点和/或存档节点。
Low Cost Node Hardware - Revelar
Solution: 看看Raspberry Pi的替代品(如Rock Pi),看看如何创建低成本的Cardano节点。
Learn token engineering🥕elements
Solution: 通过视频和书面教程向产品经理和开发人员传授设计令牌工程的基本原理。
LATAM Cardano Community Operations
Solution: 该提案旨在使所需的预算能够在3个月内奖励拉美地区Cardano社区的核心贡献者。
Konma OpenLib
Solution: KonmaLabz将记录和维护所有智能合约的回放,以后开发者可以通过分叉或导入来使用。
IRI: Cardano & Urbit Hackathon
Solution: 我们将举行一次黑客马拉松,以开发将Cardano与Urbit计算平台连接起来的工具。
Interest free stablecoin protocol
Solution: 我们正在努力通过引入无息稳定币协议与完全抵押的稳定币来减少这一风险因素。
Gnosis Safe UI
Solution: 我们将在Milkomeda上部署Gnosis Safe,并为其部署一个用户界面以方便使用。
Funding Categories Analysis
Solution: 关于挑战设定过程的分析、分类方法的比较、分析文件和供资类别建议
Fund8Proposals + SDGs - Cardano AIM
Solution: 分析8号基金关于联合国可持续发展目标、人权和地球压力人类发展指数联系的建议,并发表公开访问。
FOSS funding mechanism to save 🌍
Solution: Ecosia但完全开放源代码,以建立闭环的食品生产系统和其他SDG驱动的项目,为循环经济提供动力。
Flutter SDK
Solution: 继续为开源的Flutter SDK增加智能合约功能、API、数据结构、教程和社区支持。
Find your Way Route Optimizer App
Solution: 建立一个系统,让工作人员收集食物并分发给受益人,尽量减少过程中的成本/时间,使用一个路线优化应用程序
Enable Cardano DAO for new users
Solution: 建立服务和社区,以创建、连接和维护成功的分散式自治自组织机构
Empower thru Project Based Learning
Solution: 创新的PBL概念,使开发者有能力在Cardano基础上进行开发,包括有机会获得同行的经验和反馈以及网络