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.

A roadmap for the project’s planned delivery can be found in Appendix A (CATALYST VOICES MILESTONE & TIMELINE)

Milestone 1

Open Source Setup & Initial Voting Module Deployments to Testnet

Delivery Time: Approx. 1 Month

Cost: ₳75,000

Acceptance criteria: The first milestone will lay the foundations for Catalyst Voices to be delivered as a fully open source project. It will include a public repository for the project, appropriate licensing for all code & documentation, and setup of a continuous integration and deployment pipeline that will allow community oversight and feedback from Day 1.

Working frontend implementation for voting and delegation, will be delivered to testnet as soon as viable, and will continue to be refined over the course of the project. Production readiness for the voting module will come in future milestones, as backend enablers and integrations are completed.

This ensures a high degree of auditability and oversight for project delivery, while allowing the open source developer community to benefit from every incremental improvement we make.

We will measure the number of watchers, contributors, and forks of the repo to indicate whether external developers are engaging with the open source libraries.

We will also measure participation in dry runs of new features on the Catalyst continuous testnet over the lifecycle of the project.

Milestone 2

Architectural Updates to Registrations to support multiple roles & Initial Deployment of Proposal Submission to Testnet

Delivery Time: Approx. 2 Months

Cost: ₳150,000

Acceptance criteria: The second milestone will unlock a permissionless authorization framework that will allow users to interact with the platform without sharing personally identifiable information like email. Access control and user accounts will be tied to on-chain registrations, submitted from the platform and written to mainnet.

Decentralized access control will allow us to provide rich experiences to users, while upholding Web3 values like self-sovereignty and data privacy. On-chain registrations help promote accountability and auditability across roles, while laying foundations for reputation.

We will need to collaborate with the Cardano community to approve and implement CIP changes, and we aim to get the support of at least 3 external contributors before initiating the CIP process.

Working frontend implementation for proposal submission and commenting, will be delivered to testnet as soon as viable, and will continue to be refined over the course of the project. Production readiness for the proposal module will come in future milestones, as backend enablers and integrations are completed.

Milestone 3

Backend and Wallet Integration Updates

Delivery Time: Approx. 3 Months

Cost: ₳189,000

Acceptance criteria: The third milestone will deliver wallet connect functionality that will allow users to interface with the platform, as well as backend enablers to support subsequent milestones.

This will eliminate the need for users to take any action inside a wallet, allowing them to stay inside the unified platform across the entire registration process.

We aim to have at least 3 community wallets supporting the latest changes.

Milestone 4

Voting & Delegation

Delivery Time: Approx. 3 Months

Cost: ₳200,000

Acceptance criteria: The fourth milestone will offer an end-to-end experience for voters and representatives. Starting with a connected wallet, users will have the ability to register as an active voter / representative, delegate voting power to a representative, browse proposals, cast votes, and view voter / representative rewards.

This will eliminate the need for users to take any action outside the platform related to delegating voting power, browsing finalized proposals, and casting encrypted votes to the blockchain.

We plan to conduct at least 3 preprod voting events with 50+ participants in each to collect and incorporate community feedback.

Milestone 5

Proposal Submission & Commentary - in Production

Delivery Time: Approx. 3 Months

Cost: ₳226,000

Acceptance criteria: The fifth and final milestone will bring feature-completeness in the form of an Ideascale replacement for proposal submission - that adds new privacy, collaboration, and accountability features. Users will be able to register as a proposer, create new public OR encrypted drafts, collaborate with co-proposers, and submit finalized proposals for voting.

This will eliminate the need for users to interact with a separate interface for proposal submissions, further consolidating the experience.

We will pilot the new proposal submission experience with at least 25 proposers to collect and incorporate community feedback.