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Bio

Quality Assurance DAO (QADAO) began in April 2021 with an Open Source Feedback survey and submitted a proposal “Quality-Assurance-DAO” in the Fund 5: Developer ecosystem Challenge that sought to encourage open-source collaboration & innovation and to do a QA Assessment of Catalyst Proposal Process itself. This proposal was successful in receiving votes and was funded in August 2021. QADAO went on to document the pathway of a funded cohort & began to assess Project Catalyst’s reporting requirements

Community Reviews across funding rounds

1419
Total reviews
Addresses Challenge
4.67 Star
Feasibility
4.31 Star
Auditability
4.58 Star
Impact / Alignment
4.56 Star
Value for money
4.01 Star
Impact Alignment
4.14 Star
Value for Money
4.02 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

21
Completed
21
Approved
34
Proposed
₳750.5K
$379.1K
Requested
₳0
$296.5K
Awarded
₳0
$296.5K
Received

Funding data last updated

Top of mind of QA-DAO in Catalyst

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Challenges

The Team (3)

Members in Catalyst that have co-proposed with QA-DAO. Individuals may not be employed at QA-DAO. This is is is not representative of QA-DAO's full team.

  • Vanessa Cardui

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  • proposer-hive

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  • Stephen Whitenstall

    Stephen has 30 years experience in organizing academic, community and business projects.

QA-DAO Challenges (3)

Challenge: Improve and Grow Auditability

$350,000 Budget

How to make auditability of funded proposals & oversight of governance efficient, distributed and transparent?

Proposed in Fund:
Budget 2.188% of the fund.
0 (1)

Challenge: Equip the Economically Excluded

$200,000 Budget

<p>How can Cardano provide the resources to enable economically excluded people to run their own projects ?</p>

Proposed in Fund:
Budget 5% of the fund.
0 (1)

Challenge: Improve and Grow Auditability

$200,000 Budget

How to make the auditing process of funded proposals efficient, distributed and transparent?

Proposed in Fund:
Approved Approved 2.5% of the fund.
0 (1)

QA-DAO Proposals (34)

Oversight of Catalyst Circle

$7,440 Received
$7,440 Requested

<p>Catalyst Circle requires independent oversight.</p><p><br></p><p>A community maintained oversight of Catalyst Circle requires support to be sustainable.</p>

Challenge: Fund 6
completed Awarded 0.186% of the fund.
0 (1)

Catalyst-Swarm-Genesis GitBook

$3,480 Received
$3,480 Requested

<p>Documentation of Catalyst-Swarm, a self organizing community supporting the success of Project Catalyst, requires support to be sustainable.</p>

Challenge: Fund 6
completed Awarded 0.087% of the fund.
0 (1)

Open Source Training

$8,720 Received
$8,720 Requested

<p>No open-source training materials in the Entrepreneurship-Toolbox.</p><p><br></p><p>No access to open-source infrastructure for early stage entrepreneurs.</p>

Challenge: Fund 6
completed Awarded 0.218% of the fund.
0 (1)

Homeless Hub

$18,980 Received
$18,980 Requested

Solution: Introduce the Cardano Community to homeless communities in Manchester, UK, through in-person workshops and online sessions.

Challenge: Fund 6
completed Awarded 0.475% of the fund.
0 (1)

Distributed Auditability

$8,720 Received
$8,720 Requested

<p>No common audit standards in funded proposals.</p><p><br></p><p>No consistent evaluation of funded proposals.</p><p><br></p><p>Funded reporting is manual.</p>

Challenge: Fund 6
completed Awarded 0.218% of the fund.
0 (1)

Catalyst Swarm 2022 GitBook

$4,350 Received
$4,350 Requested

Solution: Resource the documentation & tracking of Project Catalyst.  Communicate the content of the Catalyst 2022 GitBook to the community.

Challenge: Fund 7
completed Awarded 0.054% of the fund.
0 (1)

Catalyst-Coordinator Hub

$4,350 Received
$4,350 Requested

Solution: Implement a collaborative layer, a community hub, to welcome funded proposers to Catalyst and provide support.

Challenge: Fund 7
completed Awarded 0.054% of the fund.
0 (1)

Ekphrasis Gitbook

$4,350 Received
$4,350 Requested

Solution: Resource the documentation of philosophical debate and discussion around Cardano.

Challenge: Fund 7
completed Awarded 0.054% of the fund.
0 (1)

Catalyst Audit Circle

$12,700 Received
$12,700 Requested

Solution: Establish a Catalyst auditing circle to guide improvements needed to maximise each funding rounds return on intention.

Challenge: Fund 7
completed Awarded 0.159% of the fund.
0 (1)

Community Decentralisation Index - Measuring the Decentralisation Gaps of DAOs

₳198,400 Requested

Solution: Work with DAO communities to create a weighted index to measure how decentralised a community is (inspired by the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index's measurement of how decentralised a blockchain is).

Challenge: Fund 10
not approved Requested 0.397% of the fund.
0 (1)

Nanopublications Dashboard: a searchable natural language tool for atomic knowledge-sharing

₳82,800 Requested

Solution: Build a dashboard to collate clear, atomic, searchable learning points from Catalyst projects (similar to nanopublications, but more accessible); and provide training in how to submit material to it.

Challenge: Fund 10
not approved Requested 0.166% of the fund.
0 (1)

Skin in the Game and Agency Theory

₳40,400 Requested

Solution: Research, develop and publish an Agency Theory approach to Cardano decentralization metrics.

Challenge: Fund 10
not approved Requested 0.081% of the fund.
0 (1)

Open Source Strategy

₳56,800 Requested

Solution: We will provide information, guidance and videos on Open Source Strategy, what Open Source licenses mean, how to implement them, how to use Open Source tools and build an Open Source culture.

Challenge: Fund 10
not approved Requested 0.114% of the fund.
0 (1)

Nanopublications Dashboard: a searchable natural language tool for atomic knowledge-sharing

₳70,181 Requested

Solution: Build a dashboard to collect atomic, searchable learning points from Catalyst projects (similar to nanopublications but more accessible); populate it with data from existing projects.

Challenge: Fund 11
not approved Requested 0.14% of the fund.
0 (1)

Community Decentralisation Index - Measuring the Decentralisation of Blockchain Communities

₳153,735 Requested

Solution: Work with Cardano Web3 communities to build an index to measure how decentralised a community is (inspired by the Edinburgh Decentralisation Index's measurement of how decentralised a blockchain is).

Challenge: Fund 11
not approved Requested 0.307% of the fund.
0 (1)

AI RAG Analysis of CIP 1694

₳51,000 Requested

Solution: Provide an educational exposition of the development of an open-source LLM (Large Language Model) based on RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) for question &amp; analysis of CIP 1694.

Challenge: Fund 12
over budget Requested 0.102% of the fund.
0 (1)