The user base for DAO based organizations is increasing, but Cardano needs to gain traction and create differentiators in regards to other blockchain technologies such as Etherium. To do so two things are needed

1. An expansion of the potential market in new direction
2. Kickstart the onboarding by creating a quality knowledge base and starter kit explaining how Cardano DAO maps to DSOO concept

For the first point we have created a DAO for providing consultancy on integrating Cardano DAO technologies with the Distributed Self-Organizing Organizations (DSOO) concepts described by for example Holacracy and Humanocracy.

At the core of the DAO offering is access to a knowledge base that describes how to apply Cardano DAO to operate and support DSOO organizations, mapping the DSOO principles to Cardano DAO concepts. The knowledge base is a community property, i.e. will be made freely available.

This request covers this second point, i.e. the kickstart of the knowledge base. The initial population of this knowledge base must be done by experts who can create high quality content and establish a critical mass of information needed to attract a community. We want to hire subject-matter experts to ensure the quality.

Following the initial content creation, subject matter experts will be invited to join the community. Active contributors will gain tokens when adding and editing content. Requests from DSOO organizations (clients of the platform and Cardano) will be delegated to consultants based on earned tokens, i.e. top contributors gain preference in serving client requests. This ensures a living community based on merit and rewarding contributions through client consultancy contracts.

In following steps the knowledge base can be linked to smart contract libraries and templates, to help DSOOs move from organization concepts to actual running Cardano DAOs.

• Through the knowledge base DSOOs will be encouraged and enabled, to adopt Cardano DAO.
• This combined with the DAO offering consultancy will engage the new user community.
• We expect minimum of 100 new cardano engaged users during the project duration
• This will increase the number of Cardano projects and adopters.

Identifying initial content providers. Through the senior people in our team contact has already been established to international communities and experts who can contribute.

Establish critical mass. The content that must be available to reach critical mass must be identified in detail.

Marketing the platform. The platform and the unique offering must be heard in the jungle of DAO technologies.

Below there are two timelines, one timeline for the content creation (the scope of this application) and one for the creation of a DAO (not part of this application). The two depend on each other.

Content Creation (covered by this application)

• Kick off
• Establishment of agile board
• Initial epics / user stories
• +2 weeks
• Engagement with DSOO to gain insights and identify pilot partner to act as part of product team and if possible an Early Adopter
• First refinement of agile board, i.e. identification of content required for minimal variable product for supporting DSOOs in the adoption of DAO
• +2 weeks
• Identify and reach agreement with subject-matter experts to contribute as part of the agile team
• Establish agile team
• +10 weeks (2 weeks increments)
• Every 2 weeks sprint review with subject-matter experts to assign user stories (content)
• Continuous delivery of content
• Start of Pilot with early adopter
• +10 weeks
• End of Pilot

In parallel and not covered by this proposal

• Establish DAO
• Establish Community Portal
• Kick off
• +26 weeks
• Integrate content
• Open call to join community

Together these two timelines will

• Create a DAO for hosting the community
• Create content within the community to gain critical mass

1 senior consultant for 26 weeks to manage the project and coordinate the content creation 2500 USD

1 project coordinator and scrum master for 26 weeks to support the coordination 2500 USD

Contract content providers 1 support for delivering the shared knowledgebase 30.000 (specific depending on negotiation and agreement with content providers).

Ondřej Hálek (senior consutant and technical product owner).- Enterprise architect, analyst, experience in customer focus and culture oriented design.

Gert Vilemos (Scrum master, DSOO expert). - Technical and business management consultant in the space domain, lead of a department of 140 space and aviation experts, experience in decentralized organization governance.

Preselected Subject-Matter Experts (additional experts to be identified)

Brendan McEnroe - CTO of TradeWindow (start-up 3 years), Blockchain International Trade System based out of New Zealand. First Blockchain company to list on the NZ Stock Exchange. Experienced in Decentralisation.

Kevin Lee Smith - Founder of Pragmatic framework, structured information base about enterprise transformation supported by tools for maturity discovery, years of experience in enterprise architecture

Project will be executed as an Agile (Scrum) implementation

Project agile board with backlog (DSOO use cases expressed as Epics, Specific content expressed as user stories)

2 weeks sprint reviews will be published to the public trough project webpage in detail and as a summary trough telegram channel.

1. The community available bridging between Cardano DAO and DSOOs increase the number of Cardano DAO projects
2. An already existing community of DSOOs are added to the Cardano DAO community thus massively increasing the number of contributors
3. More than 100 contributors outside of the community newly engaged with the cardano comunity
4. Community shared and maintained knowledge base

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