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)
Earn incentives by contributing
Solution: 一个平台,开发者通过对开源项目的贡献获得激励,为每一个被批准的拉动请求赚取加密货币或NFT
Done Collectively Gitbook Integrati
Solution: 将DC与最好的开源文档工具(Gitbook)连接起来,使任何DAO都具有开放性和透明度–不需要github经验
Distributed Idea Mapping System
Solution: 一个开源的协作式构思图平台,有一套最小的综合语义组件用于构思,可能还包括语音聊天。
Developers Open Sourced Licensing
Solution: 通过对现有开源许可模式的了解,建立专家的能力
Decentralized Community Chat Server
Solution: SPO主持一个矩阵实例,代表们使用他们的钱包和赌注地址进行注册。聊天是e2ee,而矩阵是foss+decentralized。
db-sync replacement in Oura
Solution: 我们将在Oura的支持下用Rust编写一个Cardano-db-sync的替代品,从轻型钱包所需的核心功能开始。
DAO-NET: Development Funder
Solution: 创建一个实验性的资助申请,激励社区、资助者和提议者迅速资助新项目。
Contributor Infrastructure Analysis
Solution: 建立一个初步的产品开发工作流程和治理过程,催化剂和Cardano贡献者可以开始使用。
CNFTfolio #CNFTs Portfolio Tracker
Solution: 移动应用程序跟踪您手中的CNFTs投资组合,监测价格、交易量、最新销售、买卖机会和警报。
Circle Governance & Administration
Solution: 确保催化剂资金用于支付本组织的所有方面,以及其重要的支持实体。CC行政人员、CC财务人员、CC导师。
CCv3 members are professionals too
Solution: 向公正的社区提议,为CCv3代表补发2月至4月的经费。你已经可以看到他们的工作有多努力。
Catalyst Treasury Guild
Solution: 建立财会公会,这是一个专业会计师的大会,为催化剂项目创造量身定做的解决方案。
Catalyst Swarm Operations
Solution: 催化剂群通过授权和鼓励社区倡议,探索建立和维护关键的社区基础设施。
Catalyst Swarm Media&Marketing Lab
Solution: 建立Catalyst Swarm媒体和营销实验室,为Catalyst内的项目提供专业营销和媒体服务。
Catalyst Streaming Guild
Solution: 激发催化剂活动,重点关注提案人的接触和曝光。建立一个周末现场催化剂公会流(48小时)。
Catalyst GPS
Solution: 我们建立了一个合作的方法,以帮助可视化我们为什么存在,我们要去哪里,以及我们可能如何到达那里。任何人都可以加入这个行列。
Catalyst Circle - Funding Mechanism
Solution: 为当选的 "催化剂圈 "提供一笔资金,用于社区驱动的、基于解决方案的社区陈述问题的实施。
Cardano wallet recovery CLI
Solution: 提供一个CLI工具,没有什么编程经验的社区成员可以用它来恢复和转移无法使用的资金。
Cardano Tools & Software for ARM
Solution: 构建和支持Cardano工具,如cardano-wallet、cardano-node/cli等,以便在ARM和Adroid计算机、服务器和设备上工作。
Cardano-Tools Python Library
Solution: Cardano-Tools Python库应该被扩展和更新,以便为Python开发者提供更多的相关工具。
Cardano Rust SDK Babbage
Solution: dcSpark将对cardano-serialization-lib进行必要的修改,以便为Babbage硬分叉更新它。
CardanoPlusPlus, a C++ Library
Solution: 建立一个图书馆,以帮助缓解Cardano的C++开发。
Cardano development library in C++
Solution: 通过为Cardano开发一个开源的C++库,我们使更多的开发者能够将Cardano与新的和现有的项目相结合。
Cardanobi.io
Solution: 建立一个完全开源的商业智能API层,提供链上数据和分析,在Cardano上实现新的数据驱动的服务。