IOG Catalyst Team: Deliverables, outputs, and intended outcomes of each milestone
Catalyst Fund operations are cyclical in nature. The following deliverable described for Milestone 1 continue throughout the lifetime of the project. Milestone 2 deliverables will be broadly the same for Milestones 3 and 4, and updated for each new fund campaign.
Milestone 1 - Project Accountability and Cohort Management
Intended outcomes: The outcomes of this ongoing process is that eligible, active projects from Fund1 to Fund10 plus newly onboarded projects from Fund11 to Fund13 (otherwise referred to as the ‘cohort’ of funded projects) receive monthly disbursements and produce the deliverables they are committed to delivering. Ongoing funded-project cohort management is maintained with no disruptions to regular monthly primary and secondary funding disbursements, resulting in hundreds of completed projects contributing value to the Cardano ecosystem.
Deliverables:
A. Project Accountability and Cohort Management
Catalyst public reporting tracker
Proof-of-Achievement verifications for each milestone
Two funding distributions each month covering:
Regular primary and secondary funding distribution to funded-projects
Final milestone and project completion payments
Catalyst rewards for Community roles
Compatible databases that account for changes to parameters, data design, and funding schema rules
Training materials to support onboarding community members for Proof of Achievement verifications
Catalyst Funding Ledger quarterly forecast
Monthly Cohort ‘Coordinator support / office hours” meetings
Public list of projects canceled by the proposer or terminated by Catalyst, each with supporting reasons
Funded projects communications
Milestone 2 - Execute Fund11 and onboard Fund11 approved projects
Intended outcomes: Fund11 has produced a cohort of proposals that have been approved by the Cardano community to receive funding; the Fund11 tally and voting results are verifiable, and a retrospective has been conducted to identify opportunities to refine and improve the program and processes.
Deliverables:
A. Fund11 Parameters
Fund11 Rules Documentation
Fund11 Parameters Documentation
Fund11 Categories briefs
B. Fund11 Launch Campaign
Fund11 Fund Launch Guide
Updated ProjectCatalyst.io website for Fund11
Fund Launch Blogs (at least 2 per fund campaign)
Fund11 MarComms & Social plans
Fund Launch Town Hall events
Stage communications
C. Fund11 Proposal Submission stage
Proposal submission guidelines published to Gitbook
Fund11 proposal submission form
Stage communications
D. Fund11 Community Review
Community Review guidelines published to Gitbook
Training materials for Community Reviewers and using tools
Registration form for Community Reviewers
Review allocation for Level0 and Level1 reviewers
Review allocation for Level2 moderators
Fund11 Moderation Module
Stage communications
E. Fund11 Catalyst Voting
Fund11 infrastructure environments (Catalyst pre-production, production, testnet)
Fund11 Voting App is available to download
Voter Guidelines published to GitBook
GitHub updated with Fund11 documentation
Supported wallets updated for use in Fund11
Live vote monitoring tooling
Snapshot tool
Check my registration tool
Fund11 voting data
Fund11 user survey
Internal and public dry runs before deployment of production-ready Fund11 voting
Stage communications
F. Fund11 Voting Tally and Auditable Results
Fund11 internally audited results
Public repository with encrypted tally
Fund11 Results Document
GitBook/Hub documentation to support independent auditing
Stage communications
G. Fund11 Onboarding funded-proposal cohort
Onboarding and Milestone funding guidelines are published to Gitbook
Challenge Teams have onboarded Fund11 approved projects
New Proof of Achievement reviewers are onboarded
All F11 funded-projects have produced a Statement of Milestones
F11 Cohort Contact address book is complete
F11 Seed Account ledger and transactions tracker has been updated
F11 Approved-projects are updated on ProjectCatalyst.io with access to each project’s Statement of Milestones
Stage communications
H. Fund11 Cooldown & Retrospective
Fund data, tooling, and documentation housekeeping
Compiled Fund exit survey results
Fund11 Retrospective community-workshop and summary of outputs
Stage communications
Milestone 3 - Execute Fund12 and onboard F12 approved projects
Intended outcomes: Fund12 has produced a cohort of proposals that have been approved by the Cardano community to receive funding; the Fund12 tally and voting results are verifiable, lessons learnt from the previous fund retrospective have been implemented where viable to do so and a retrospective has been conducted to identify opportunities to refine and improve the program and processes.
Deliverables: The same list of outputs as Milestone 2, produced for the Fund12 campaign, are the stated deliverables for this milestone, covering:
Fund12 Parameter preparations
Fund12 Launch campaign
Fund12 Proposal Submission stage
Fund12 Community Review
Fund12 Catalyst Voting
Fund12 Voting Tally and Auditable Results
Fund12 Onboarding Funded-proposal cohort
Fund12 Cooldown & Retrospective
Milestone 4 - Execute Fund13 and onboard Fund13 approved projects
Intended outcomes: Fund13 has produced a cohort of Cardano community-approved proposals; Fund13 tally and voting results are verifiable, lessons learnt from the previous fund retrospective have been implemented where viable to do so and a retrospective has been conducted to identify opportunities to refine and improve the program and processes.
Deliverables: The same list of outputs as Milestone 2, produced for the Fund13 campaign, are the stated deliverables for this milestone, covering:
Fund13 Parameter preparations
Fund13 Launch campaign
Fund13 Proposal Submission stage
Fund13 Community Review
Fund13 Catalyst Voting
Fund13 Voting Tally and Auditable Results
Fund13 Onboarding Funded-proposal cohort
Fund13 Cooldown & Retrospective
Milestone 5 - Project Impact Report and evaluation of outcomes at interim and annual periods
Intended outcomes: An interim project impact report and annual project Impact report, providing analyses of outputs of the Catalyst programme that can be demonstrated to the Cardano community and wider blockchain industry, demonstrates the achievements and outputs of the Catalyst programme over the past 12 months.
Deliverables: :
A. Interim Project Impact Report and evaluation of Outcomes
Interim Project Impact evaluation of outcomes, including:
An analysis of Catalyst data since October 2023 summarized into a PDF report
A documented summary of outputs from community-workshops held in the first six months of the the project
Documented rationale for any changes that have been made to the Fund Operations processes as a result of workshops and retrospectives
B. Annual Project Impact Report and evaluation of Outcomes
An evaluation of the past 12 months covering
Changes to Catalyst processes
Lessons learnt over each iteration
Analysis of trends and outcomes from completed projects over the period
A summary of the success metrics and fund-related data over the period
Success stories and spotlight of funded projects
[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.Answer:
The requested budget to deliver the proposed outcomes and maintain fund operations for the next three fund cycles over the following 12 months is ₳2,140,000 for each fund.
Cost per Fund Period is based on the 4 month period delivering the Fund stages set out in Milestone 2, for more details on the tentative timings for F11 please see Appendix B
Milestone 1 Project cohort management-price
Milestone 1 cost: ₳355,141
Project Milestone Review service
Cost: ₳118,380
Project Fund Distributions (Administration)
Cost ₳118,380
Catalyst Community Services (Support etc)
Cost: ₳118,380
Milestone 2 or 3 or 4 Preparation & Launch of Fund
Milestone 2 or 3 or 4 cost: ₳1,558,399 (per milestone)
(For illustrative purposes only Milestone 2 Fund11 stages are listed below, though these are the same for Milestone 3 Fund12 and Milestone 4 Fund13 stages)
Fund11 Parameters
Cost: ₳24,385
Fund11 Launch Campaign
Cost: ₳136,593
F11 Submissions Stage
Cost: ₳78,644
F11 Community Review Stage
Cost: ₳198,680
F11 Voter Registration / Snapshot / Voting
Cost: ₳622,946
F11 Tally / Auditability / Results
Cost: ₳202,819
F11 Onboarding Stage
Cost ₳260,768
Fund11 Cooldown & Retrospective
Cost ₳33,113
Milestone 5 Preparation of Interim and Annual Evaluation Report
Milestone 5 cost: ₳20,696
Interim Evaluation Report
Cost: ₳10,348
Annual Evaluation Report
Cost: ₳10,348
Technical Infrastructure costs ₳205,764
AWS Services, Ideascale, Jira, Google Workspace,
Slack, Zoom, Miro, Github, Pushwoosh, Docker, Github,
Grafana Cloud, Supabase, Figma, Bit.ly, Hubspot
Total Cost per Fund Period of 4 months: ₳2,140,000
To deliver the requirements set out in the milestones and activities described above the Catalyst Team will work in an interdisciplinary way, where multiple team members contribute to the delivery of each stage of the fund cycle covering fund parameters; fund campaign launches; proposal submissions; community review; voting stages and registration vote tally, results and auditing; project onboarding; project accountability; impact evaluation; and general fund management and operative services.
To address all of the above services, the Catalyst Team deploys as necessary;
Group Leads
Product Managers
Architecture Leads
Engineers
Fund Administration Product Operators
Catalyst Core Product Owners
Community Managers
Communications and Product Marketers
UX Product Designers
QA Testers
Catalyst Fund Operations Total Budget 12 MONTH Period: ₳6,420,000.00
[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?Answer:
The Catalyst Team has 21 core members, who can also utilize, as necessary, resources across IOG, allowing the Catalyst Team to dynamically increase or scale back its resource capacity when needed to leverage UI/UX design research, full-stack development, technical and cryptographic research, and product marketing as required.
Collectively, the Catalyst leadership and core team carries over 400 years of deep technical expertise that enables Cardano to benefit from Catalyst’s decentralized innovation funding programme and innovative voting system. The organizational structure is cross-functional and multidisciplinary in nature, and is represented across two core teams: Catalyst Core and Fund Administration, as illustrated in the following Organizational Chart.
Catalyst Leadership:
Vice President, Governance: Nigel Hemsley
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/nigel-hemsley-433a213
Nigel led the delivery of five Cardano hard-forks since Allegra, including Alonzo smart contracts and further improvements with Vasil. Nigel has been an integral member of the Cardano Ecosystem having advised across many individual elements from product strategy of the Djed stablecoin to supporting community members to build NFT DApps. Nigel now leads Voltaire which puts him into a unique position to support and oversee Catalyst. Nigel built up his expertise on distributed networks initially in the Reinsurance industry building the first grid-computing solutions for the Risk Models of Lloyd's of London and Swiss Re.
Group Lead: Kriss Baird
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/krissbaird
Kriss joined the Catalyst team in April 2021 as the first Product Owner. He has played a pivotal role in introducing new features and enhancements to the Catalyst system including privacy-preserving voting, ProjectCatalyst.io, Catalyst Natives, project accountability, proof of achievement and milestone-based funding, and upgrading the Community Review process. Kriss is principally responsible for overseeing Catalyst's services. He has been involved in Cardano since 2017 and is deeply passionate about this disruptive startup ecosystem. Kriss has a decade of experience delivering national-scale startup funding programs. At Innovate UK, the UK Government's innovation agency, he led 25 rounds of the IC tomorrow digital innovation competition that funded hundreds of startups to develop and trial digital prototypes with leaders such as Google Chrome, Mozilla, Samsung, Sony, IBM Watson, McLaren, Intel, Universal Music Group, and more. Kriss has also held roles at digital innovation for social impact grant-maker Ufi VocTech Trust, lead at UCL's EDUCATE EdTech Accelerator, and innovation expert-in-residence at Imperial College London.
IC tomorrow: Impact evaluation for UKRI
Lead Architect: Steven Johnson
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/steven-johnson-26bb28104
Github: https://github.com/stevenj
Steven has been the Lead Architect for Project Catalyst since joining the project in 2022.
He has been a Software Engineer since the Late 80’s, Architecting both hardware and software systems since the early 90’s. Steven led the systems architecture of a number of large scale projects in the Gaming and Wagering industry including casino wide monitoring systems, jackpot systems, financial auditing systems, LED display Systems and Privacy preserving routers. He designed systems delivered to Conrad Casinos, IGT, Jupiters Limited, Queensland TAB, Max Gaming, Mikohn Gaming and others in Australia, USA and Canada. Steven has a wide range of expertise as diverse as embedded hardware, communications systems, real time OS, Kernel development, Virtual Machines, Applied cryptography and Blockchain technology. He founded several successful companies and holds Patents in Time based statistical methods for Jackpot prize awarding in the USA, Australia, UK and other territories. His diverse set of interests led him to contribute to a number of Open Source projects include such projects as GDB and the ZFS File system.
Technology Lead: Sasha Prokhorenko
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/minikin
GitHub: https://github.com/minikin
Sasha has been leading software development at Catalyst since joining in 2022. He is a skilled Software Engineering Lead, with over ten years of experience building software products for clients including PepsiCo, Liberty Global, and Philip Morris International. Sasha has proven expertise in multiple programming languages and frameworks and has successfully led cross-functional teams through all stages of the software development process. He embraces continuous improvement and innovation.
Product Manager: Daniel Ribar
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielribar/
Daniel has over 17 years of high performance track record in customer experience and business operations. He is passionate about empowering people worldwide through innovation, which began when he used bitcoin to pay his college rent in 2013. In March 2021, he joined the Catalyst team after making significant contributions to Project Catalyst by building community dashboards since the program's inception (Sep 2020). As a community liaison and efficient operator, he builds bridges between products, services, users, and communities. Outside of Catalyst, he has been involved in the Cardano ecosystem for over 5 years in roles such as a stakepool operator, Cardano ambassador, and moderator. In addition, he curated experiences for global travelers as general manager of the renowned Remote Year program. Daniel also built an operational stack for a Czech student real estate investment group where he then served as a general manager and partner. He also led a startup for young working professionals, which became the country's largest flat sharing network with over 80,000 members throughout Europe. He successfully exited these ventures to focus full-time on Cardano.
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