Proposal Description
Milestone & Budget
The proposal is divided into three milestones. We will finalise this proposal before the launch of DF Fund 4, but no more than 3 months after the successful funding. The frequency of the workshops will follow the DF Timeline towards Fund 4.
To make the topics and workshops as relevant as possible, we will coordinate closely with the community, funded applicants and the SNET team.
Milestone 1 - Coordination & Communication
Description:
The first step is the planning, coordination and communication of the workshop series. This includes setting dates and topics as well as outreach to the relevant and interested community members.
Milestone deliverable:
- Scheduled Workshops
- List of participants
- Topics and agenda for each workshop
Milestone related budget:
Estimated workload: 8 hours x 125 USD/h = $1.000 USD
Milestone 2 - Expert Workshops
Description:
We will offer this format on four different dates and invite experts. The workshop series build on each other. Duration of the event: approx. 90min each in Zoom. This milestone includes the preparation, pre-communication, moderation and debriefing of the individual workshops (estimated workload per workshop: 5 hours)
Milestone outcome:
- 4x Expert Workshops on Zoom.
- Meeting Minutes
- Video Recordings
Milestone related budget:
Estimated workload: 20 hours x 150 USD/h = $3.000 USD
Milestone 3 - Recommendation Paper
Description:
Based on the discussions and results of the workshop, we will write a summary paper recommending a reputation/contribution score for deep funding. In addition, we will demonstrate how the continuation of this focus group after the completion of this proposal makes sense for the community.
Milestone outcome:
- Recommendation paper for DF
- Future Plan for the ‘Reputation Focus Group’
Milestone related budget:
Estimated workload: 8 hours x 125 USD/h = $1.000 USD
Long Description
Company Name
TrustLevel
Summary
In summary, we will gather a focused group of experts, launch a series of workshops to ensure alignment of various community initiatives around reputation and contribution scores, and create a recommendation to SingularityNET for further steps to effectively design and implement DeepFunding reputation systems linked to on-chain mechanisms.
Funding Amount
$5.000 USD
The Problem to be Solved
DeepFunding started early initiatives to address important topics and challenges at DeepFunding Governance mechanisms, such as contributions and reputations systems to equalise and deliver a more equal participation from participants in the decision making processes at DeepFunding. However, since early initiatives such as the Contribution score, led by Photrek have brought first important success and knowledge, there is still a lack of community capacity to effectively support DeepFunding in these evolutions and to work on a solution which allows to bridge already existing efforts to actual onchain mechanisms.
Furthermore, we see several moving parts and pieces emerging in the DF Community which work on common and similar initiatives which are yet lacking overall coordinations and alignment. This Focus Group aims to be a hub to invite and co-coordinate alignment and cohesion, ensuring that separate initiatives do not work in competition but collaboration.
While awarded teams/funded proposals will implement their solutions, the main focus of these groups will have to rely on their work, making it difficult to enable time and capacity to catch up with similar initiatives. This lack aims to be addressed by this proposal.
Our Solution
Our solution is to introduce and facilitate a series of ‘Expert Workshops’.
This proposal covers the ideation and design process of a DeepFunding - Reputation Focus Group which aims to gather experts and thought leaders in the domain of reputation mechanisms in DLT Ecosystems and to ensure a strong participation of community members to support SingularityNET Foundation initiatives towards the exploration and implementation of reputation systems at project DeepFunding.
To achieve these goals, we plan to host a series of workshops, dedicated to building a community wide conversation, engagement and participation on the topic of DeepFunding Reputation systems.
In these workshops, we will invite specific experts and thought-leaders in reputation systems and blockchain technology, ensuring that beforehand gathered community perspectives are well reflected and included in a feasible and effective manner.
These workshops will be held on Zoom and will be recorded. Recordings will be made public to the community, ensuring a maximum of transparency of the DF Reputation system Ideation. Each Workshop will focus on a specific topic around the DF Token, making sure that the Workshops stay focused and in scope.
Marketing Strategy
To promote participation in the workshops, we will proceed as follows:
- We will announce these workshops on the public channels (Discord, TownHall, Twitter etc.) of SNET and Deep Funding.
- For the expert workshops, we will actively search for participants in the community together with BridgeBuilder.io and Swarm.
Our Project Milestones and Cost Breakdown
The proposal is divided into three milestones. We will finalise this proposal before the launch of DF Fund 4, but no more than 3 months after the successful funding. The frequency of the workshops will follow the DF Timeline towards Fund 4.
To make the topics and workshops as relevant as possible, we will coordinate closely with the community, funded applicants and the SNET team.
Milestone 1 - Coordination & Communication
Description:
The first step is the planning, coordination and communication of the workshop series. This includes setting dates and topics as well as outreach to the relevant and interested community members.
Milestone deliverable:
- Scheduled Workshops
- List of participants
- Topics and agenda for each workshop
Milestone related budget:
Estimated workload: 8 hours x 125 USD/h = $1.000 USD
Milestone 2 - Expert Workshops
Description:
We will offer this format on four different dates and invite experts. The workshop series build on each other. Duration of the event: approx. 90min each in Zoom. This milestone includes the preparation, pre-communication, moderation and debriefing of the individual workshops (estimated workload per workshop: 5 hours)
Milestone outcome:
- 4x Expert Workshops on Zoom.
- Meeting Minutes
- Video Recordings
Milestone related budget:
Estimated workload: 20 hours x 150 USD/h = $3.000 USD
Milestone 3 - Recommendation Paper
Description:
Based on the discussions and results of the workshop, we will write a summary paper recommending a reputation/contribution score for deep funding. In addition, we will demonstrate how the continuation of this focus group after the completion of this proposal makes sense for the community.
Milestone outcome:
- Recommendation paper for DF
- Future Plan for the ‘Reputation Focus Group’
Milestone related budget:
Estimated workload: 8 hours x 125 USD/h = $1.000 USD
Risk and Mitigation
We see two main risks for the successful implementation of the proposal: Not enough participants for the workshops and that the outcomes are not relevant enough.
Mitigation: Already during the preparation of the proposal, we spoke with several members of the community and thus recognised the importance of the topic in the first place. The interest already expressed in participating in the workshops makes us feel positive. Furthermore, we remain in close contact with the community and with the DF staff so that we can develop a relevant and implementable recommendation with our recommendation paper.
Voluntary Revenue
There will be no revenue generated.
Open Source
The workshops will be recorded and publicly available.
The recommendation paper will also be publicly available.
Our Team
Lead of this proposal: Dominik Tilman
Dominik has been active in the blockchain scene for several years and is deeply involved in Cardano's Project Catalyst (the counterpart to DeepFunding). With his company TrustLevel, he has developed various reputation protocols and systems for different use cases. To use this knowledge combined with TrustLevel's experience and network this proposal aims to put the community contribution within DeepFunding on a sound foundation and therefore setting the ground for sustainable and decentralised innovation fund.
To facilitate the proposed workshops, we have already reach out to numerous community members and other proposers of relevant topics and received positive feedback. We will further collaborate with Bridge Builders and other community initiatives like Swarm, RnDao and DF Token group.
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