[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.
Catalyst is a very special community inside the Cardano community. We always have our heads ANYwhere, get excited, and let our hyper-focus-pocus do its magic. We help each other, we encourage each other, we criticise each other. Our goals are located on a very broad spectrum, yet we all share the same hope: that the world becomes a better place for everyone - and we want this innovation engine to kickstart projects that share this dream.
In such a heavily inspiring evironment, keeping overview and not-losing-one’s-head because of small but important things is absolutely crucial. The Catalyst Ticker solves this: it functions as a reliable, central go-to place for information-distribution on the Catalyst heartbeat: the timeline of the stages during Funds.
The Catalyst Ticker wants to catch this heartbeat, give context to it, attach resources, and update reliably - to ensure that people already in Catalyst have a comfy timeline-reminder, and people outside of Catalyst have an easy entry-point:
- it is easily accessible information without having an account on Ideascale first
- it doesn’t require anyone to be signed up to the mailing list first nor to have read every mail
- it doesn’t require anyone to have joined a Telegram group or Discord server, nor to stay updated on them (which is overwhelming for both beginners AND Catalyst “veterans”)
- it doesn’t require anyone to have attended every Town Hall by IOG
- it reduces FOMO in case of taking a break from all the named above
- it compensates the lack of necessary information on official Cardano webpages
- and it is - due to the nature of Twitter - even accessible without being signed-up to Twitter
… and still, it informs about the possibilities and necessities in Catalyst to contribute, and provides resources both official and community-made.
The Ticker is already running, growing, and steadily increasing in quality as I put more and more love, time, and thought into it.
[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
I submitted it in this challenge, because it makes cross-chain collaboration not only easier, it also attracts all kind of blockchain enthusiasts that hang out on Twitter to Catalyst.
The Account will be (or: IS) a connection node for any communities - and since other chain-ecosystem members already know the basics of blockchain and may be looking out for cool stuff happening on other chains, a simple yet powerful Catalyst Ticker that keeps one up-to-date on the timeline reliably is crucial.
Hence, it is a good opportunity for a “initiative[] to increase communication, coordination and collaboration between chains”, and addresses especially the challenge of “awareness & understanding” - both quoted from the challenge settings.
And finally: the “end goal” of the challenge setting (quoted too) - “*Let’s create an enriching, open and safe environment, where people from different communities can find common ground and share knowledge, resources, skills, ideas and visions with one another.” -* this is only achievable if everyone interested in Catalyst has an easily accessible way to information about the Catalyst timeline and the necessities to contribute.
[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Risk:
- I get unexpectedly sick when I should be preparing and posting a tweet/thread
Solution:
- If I get funded, I could not only ask but also PAY someone to help me out: they would prepare the tweet for me, send it to me, and I then just post it
Risk:
- I miss an important announcement despite me being up-to-date anyways and always
Solution:
- This risk is very small, since the timeline is not only curcial for others, but also for me - so I doubt that I will just miss something out of nowhere
- The Ticker is a means of communication, but comms can also happen in the other direction: people can comment/message and hint to the missed update - in that case, I would let the “swarm intelligence” resolve the rest-risk to that risk
Both risks do not endanger the delivery of the project, they would just be obstacles on the road. I do not see any risks that endanger the entire delivery. Well, maybe, if Twitter stopped working out of nowhere. But I couldn’t help that but hope it doesn’t happen. :)
[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.
The Account already lives @CatalystTicker on Twitter, and the only thing I have to do is continuously prepare and post the timeline updates every time they’re due. I will also naturally engage with the community and spread the word about Catalyst via this helpful account.
Timeline and key milestones:
Fund 9:
- provide the timeline and selected challenges (done! - 0)
- provide “basic” resources (done! - 1)
- inform about proposal submission (done! - 2)
- inform about assessing (done! - 3)
- inform about voting
- inform about cool-down
Fund 10:
- provide the timeline and selected challenges
- provide “basic” resources
- inform about proposal submission
- write a new proposal for Catalyst Ticker
- inform about assessing
- inform about voting
- inform about cool-down
Continuously:
- engage on Twitter to spread the word
- engage with the community and newcomers to collect helpful resources
- watch out for important updates (or even changes) in Town Halls, Mailing list, and Announcement channel and make them into Tweets as well
Examples:
Some Threads I made:
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[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.
For one Fund: 4months x 200.- = 800.-
200.- per month results out of this reasoning:
This is 50.- per week.
The time I invest per week to stay up to date with the timeline is 2 hours. So, my rate/hour of information gathering is 25.-/h. This is the same payment I would get for tutoring students, and for working at a checkout in a local supermarket.
I do not calculate the time and effort I put into posts, because the time varies heavily. But I can assure you that I will (and already do) absolutely take my time I need to be happy with the post and the time the post needs to be nice and neat.
and the rest: 50.- for the person who made the logo design (this payment may return in further funding request since I also asked a professional who didn’t find the time in the meantime)
[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.
Zoé - dedicated community member, good student, up-to-date anyways about the dates, perfectionist with love for details and a sense for (and necessity of) aesthetics, passionate about proper information distribution
@zoeselina on Ideascale
@AnimaValeska on Twitter
@Toasti#5264 on Discord
[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.
Yes, I will return with the more or less same proposal next Fund for maintenance!
If I come up with improvement/expansion ideas, I will try them out, and potentially add them to the next proposal (or create an additional one).
Potential ideas for the future of the Ticker:
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Using Twitter Spaces to host events during specific stages (e.g. Insight Sharing)
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Discord integration or a bot for Catalyst (Community) Server(s)
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Creating a webpage / integration to webpages
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Expansion onto other Social Medias
[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project’s progress, and how will you measure these?
The two numerically measurable things are:
- growing follower number
- engagement with the posts, e.g. via likes, retweets, and comments
These only indicate the reach of the Ticker Account on Twitter, which means I would also want to do a little survey to ask for opinions, feedback, improvement ideas, and other qualitative questions. Will do this after Fund9 is over, to start into Fund10 with greater knowledge.
[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?
Success for the Catalyst Ticker means, that it became a reliable and easy resource for people both in Catalyst and outside.
Furtherly, the following mean success too:
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successfully onboarded many new members to Catalyst
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successfully informed and updated people in Catalyst and outside
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had fun reaching out, connecting, commenting, discussing, informing, creating, etc.
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had fun watching Catalyst grow bigger and bigger
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the Ticker became an easy entry-point to Catalyst and the future of Cardano
[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.
This is an entirely new proposal :)