IOG Catalyst Team: Detailed breakdown of project’s milestones

Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone, plus the expected timeline for the delivery

Please reference Appendix A [Deliverables] and Appendix B [Project Plan timelines] for more information about the Fund11 delivery schedule.

Appendix A: Fund 11 Deliverables

Appendix A provides an account of the deliverables per fund so the deliverables and outputs for Fund12 and Fund13 are broadly the same as Fund11.

Appendix B: Fund11 Timeline

Fund12 and then Fund13 will follow a similar pattern of indicative timings following the conclusion of Fund11 as set out in Appendix B.

The below milestones represent approaches and processes previously implemented by the Catalyst Team that it expects to carry forward, with ongoing improvements as necessary, under this project.

Milestone 1

Project Accountability and Cohort Management

Estimated delivery: October 2023 through to October 2024

Milestone 1 cost: ₳355,141

Main tasks and services:

  1. Project Accountability and Cohort management for rewards and funding distribution

    • Preparation of funding files based on submissions of monthly reports and proof of achievement

    • Disbursement of funding to eligible community-approved projects on a monthly basis

Acceptance criteria:

  1. Project Accountability and Cohort Management for rewards and funding

    • Funded projects cohort receives timely monthly disbursements within timeframes set out in the latest guidelines, subject to eligibility and satisfaction of reporting requirements.

    • Monthly reports are reviewed by the Catalyst Team within the timeframe set out in the latest guidelines.

    • Milestones are reviewed by Community Reviewers within timeframes set out in the latest guidelines.

    • Project completion reports and videos are reviewed by Community Reviewers and Catalyst Team within the timeframe set out in the latest guidelines.

    • Incentivised ecosystem roles are rewarded within the timeframe set out in the latest guidelines.

    • Funding data is published monthly and accessible to and auditable by public or third parties independent of Catalyst Fund Operator.

    • Project change requests are reviewed within the timeframe set out in the latest guidelines with changes reflected in the project funding schema accordingly.

    • New funded projects cohorts are successfully integrated into the payment distribution and cohort management system.

    • Funding ledger is maintained continually and appropriate forecasting on quarterly basis is produced to outline expected disbursement schedules.

    • Project outcomes are publicly available on projectcatalyst.io and refreshed each month.

    • Ongoing cohort is supported with communications laid out by the MarComms plan.

    • Projects of concern or at risk are identified, and due process is followed to define the nature of risk and requirements escalated for action.

    • Funded Projects have an ongoing office hours session via Coordinator network meetings to interact with the Catalyst team and fellow funded projects.

Milestone 2

Execute Fund11 and onboard F11 approved projects

Estimated delivery: October 2023 through February 2024

Milestone 2 cost: ₳1,558,399

Main stages of tasks and services:

  1. Fund11 parameter preparations

  2. Fund launch campaign

  3. Proposal submission stage

  4. Community review

  5. Catalyst voting

  6. Voting tally and auditable results

  7. Onboarding funded-proposal cohort

  8. Cooldown & Retrospective

Acceptance criteria:

  1. Fund11 Parameters

    1. Fund rules are finalized & published

    2. Fund categories/challenges are finalized & published

    3. Fund parameters are finalized & published

  2. Fund Launch campaign

    1. Fund launch guide is published and distributed throughout the ecosystem.

    2. Fund launch blog posts are published and distributed throughout the ecosystem.

    3. MarComms plan spanning the entire campaign that outlines key deliverables to support F11 is ready for execution.

    4. projectcatalyst.io is ready for Fund11 with clear UX pathways published.

    5. docs.projectcatalyst.io is updated with relevant documentation for Fund11 launch.

    6. Submissions guide

    7. Community Review guide

    8. Fund Launch Town Hall is aired and its content is available to be repurposed through social media and community channels.

    9. Launch marcomms materials are available to be published and propagated through all social media and community channels.

  3. Proposal submission stage

    1. Proposal submission form is launched and the community is able to submit proposals.

    2. Relevant guidance for the submissions stage is documented and published on GitBook.

    3. Submissions are moderated according to Fund Rules & Guidelines.

    4. Stage is supported throughout with communication based on the marcomms plan.

  4. Community Review Stage

    1. Proposals are transitioned from submissions stage to Community Review stage allowing the community to perform reviews.

    2. Community Reviewers are onboarded and have carried out their duties as per guidelines.

    3. Moderation Module is developed and successfully deployed in production to produce an effective moderation stage in Fund11.

    4. Community Moderators are onboarded and have carried out their duties as per guidelines.

    5. The Community Review data set is verified by the Catalyst Team and is publicly available and auditable.

    6. Community Review data is available for the voting app.

    7. Stage is supported throughout with communications based on the marcomms plan.

  5. Voter Registration and Snapshot

    1. Snapshot service accurately captures blockchain data required to inform the vote.

    2. Voting app consumes Innovation data inputs correctly and without issues.

    3. Voting app is successfully used in production to carry out the live vote in the governance stage for Fund11.

    4. Voters are able to check their registration status and voting power before snapshot.

    5. At least three community wallets support full registration format that enable voter rewards.

    6. Voters have guidance available to understand how to participate in registration and voting for proposals .

    7. GitBook documentation is published housing all documentation for this stage.

    8. Daily voting monitoring is deployed and monitored by the Catalyst team

    9. Voting outcome is reproducible for the purposes of the next stage - audit / tally

    10. Feedback loop is initiated post voting to enable insights gathering via fund exit survey.

    11. Stage is supported throughout with communications based on the MarComms plan.

  6. Voting tally and auditable results

    1. Tally is confirmed internally by the Catalyst Team as legitimate without outstanding issues following due process.

    2. Encrypted tally can be independently validated by the public.

    3. Any interested third party has the ability to independently run a snapshot on their own trusted nodes to validate Catalyst snapshot.

    4. Explorer tools allow independent validation of the voting record.

    5. Hourly archives of the voting blockchain are automatically published during the fund to public Github repo.

    6. Community is able to independently verify and audit the vote outcome in order to validate results.

    7. GitBook documentation is published housing all documentation for this stage.

    8. Snapshot can be used to independently prove only registered voters were counted.

    9. Stage is supported throughout with communication based on the marcomms plan.

  7. Onboarding Funded-proposal cohort

    1. Documentation for the onboarding stage is prepared and published in the GitBook.

    2. Cohort are onboarded, meaning

    3. Proof-of-life conducted

    4. Test Tx confirmed

    5. Onboarding form completed by all new funded-proposal cohort members

    6. Each funded proposer has submitted a Statement of Milestones (SoM) and each SoM is approved by at least two reviewers.

    7. Documentation for the Milestone Module is published in the GitBook.

    8. SoM / proof-of-achievement (PoA) Community Reviewers are onboarded.

    9. Stage is supported throughout with communication based on the Marcomms plan.

  8. Cooldown & Retrospective

    1. Fund data is adequately archived and secured for the purpose of future audits

    2. Community-led retrospectives (if available) are compiled and aggregated into a single public location

    3. Fund exit survey results are analyzed and compiled.

    4. Fund exit survey outcomes are anonymized and published

Milestone 3

Execute Fund12 and onboard F12 approved projects

Estimated delivery: February 2024 through to July 2024

Milestone 3 cost: ₳1,558,399

Main stages of tasks and services:

  1. Fund12 parameter preparations

    1. Fund launch campaign

    2. Proposal submission stage

    3. Community Review

    4. Catalyst voting

    5. Voting tally and auditable results

    6. Onboarding funded-proposal cohort

    7. Cooldown & Retrospective

Acceptance criteria: The acceptance criteria for this Milestone are the same as Milestone 1 and will be adjusted for the Fund12 campaign and includes requirements for Project Accountability Management for Fund12 Cohort as part of the deliverables in Milestones 4 and 5.

Milestone 4

Execute Fund13 and onboard Fund13 approved projects

Estimated delivery: July 2024 through to October 2024

Milestone 4 cost: ₳1,558,399

Main stages of tasks and services:

  1. Fund13 parameter preparations

    1. Fund launch campaign

    2. Proposal submission stage

    3. Community Review

    4. Catalyst voting

    5. Voting tally and auditable results

    6. Onboarding funded-proposal cohort

    7. Cooldown & Retrospective

Acceptance Criteria: The acceptance criteria for this Milestone are the same as Milestone 1, and will be adjusted for the Fund13 campaign and includes requirements for Project Accountability Management for Fund13 Cohort as part of the deliverables in Milestone 4 and 5.

Milestone 5

Project Impact Report and evaluation of Outcomes

Estimated delivery: By end of October 2024

Milestone 5 cost: ₳20,696

Main stages of tasks and services:

  1. Interim impact and evaluation report

    1. Data gathering and discovery

    2. Analysis of data

    3. Design and production of mid-term reporting format

  2. Annual Catalyst impact and evaluation report

    1. Data gathering and discovery

    2. Analysis of data

    3. Design and Production of annual report

Acceptance criteria:

  1. Interim Project Impact evaluation of Outcomes

    1. Catalyst data is publicly available to be summarized into a PDF report.

    2. Summaries of community-workshops held during the period are publicly available.

    3. Changes made to Catalyst over the period are documented and publicly available.

    4. The mid-term project impact report is published and publicly available for Cardano stakeholders.

  2. Annual Project Impact Report and evaluation of Outcomes

    1. Any changes to Catalyst processes are documented with updated workflows and high level rationales

    2. Reference source data is publicly available

    3. Annual Catalyst Impact report is published and publicly available to all Cardano stakeholders

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