Treedano: NFTs for mature trees

(https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/blogs/49073/how-widespread-deforestation-in-africa-risks-our-climate-future/)

(4) <https://localtreeestimates.com/how-many-trees-are-in-the-world>

(5) <https://seea.un.org/news/historic-un-statistical-commission-seea>

(6) <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-22/carbon-markets-may-soon-free-billions-for-investment-but-where>

Our values:

Protecting and celebrating as many mature trees in the ground as possible, worldwide, forever.
Be honest and kind. Saving planet earth comes before personalities.
Delivering innovative technology.
Building meaningful, long-term relationships.
Demonstrating professional excellence.
Empowering team-members to do their best work.
Copy-left. Good ideas like Treedano must be protected from get-rich-quick, commercial interests. We are claiming copyright on this concept so that we can enshrine our values in our work products. We will make the Treedano software, documentation, and promotional materials available under free and open-source (FOSS) Creative Commons and MIT licenses. Then other FOSS teams will be free to pursue the same goals in their own way, while sharing tools and technology freely, without fear of corporate walled gardens that can stifle progressive, environmentally-conscious projects like Treedano.

Licensing:

The software source code will be published under the permissive, open-source MIT license. All software documentation will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-4.0-International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license.

Core team:

1. Moira O'Keeffe: Treedano Ambassador and Field Tester

Moira has professional experience as a teacher in Fiji and as a construction site first aid and safety officer in Metro Vancouver. She is an avid back-country hiker and skier. Through these experiences she has developed a profound appreciation for not only the forests and nature, but the individual trees themselves. As such she has been devastated by the brutal clear-cutting of mature trees that are otherwise a place of true solace for countless humans and home to hundreds of flora and fauna species. Like many of her twenty-something peers she is equally at home in the world of social media as she is hiking trails in British Columbia's amazing back country and provincial parks. She is eager to combine these skills to help field test and promote the Treedano Dapp and concept.

2. Melanie Russo: Cardano4Climate Ambassador

Melanie is an advocate for the preservation of old growth forest ecosystems, like Ada'itsx (Fairy Creek) on Vancouver Island, BC. She is a mother, tree-hugger, and connector. Melanie is one of the co-facilitators of the decentralized action group Cardano4Climate. This work has made her a respected leader in the Cardano community.

Melanie will be applying her empathetic relation-building skills to connect Treedano with compatible stakeholders and projects that are also passionate about leveraging Cardano blockchain technology in our epic struggle to protect and nurture Mother Earth.

3. Peter Van Garderen: Treedano lead developer
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/petervangarderen/>

Peter's family are cabin owners on a beautiful Savary Island, British Columbia, Canada which is experiencing serious unregulated deforestation on private properties that should be protected under a legal title covenant. His engagement with the island's land trust led him to develop the Treedano concept.

Peter is a professional archivist and a world-renowned expert in the field of digital records management. He is the founder of the industry-leading Archivematica and AccessToMemory open-source software projects which are used by institutions worldwide to preserve and provide access to digital archives collections. Peter is also the lead developer of the Catalyst Fund 6 project Orcfax which is developing a truly trustworthy Cardano oracle using "proofs-of-fact" based on academic record-keeping research. Peter will introduce the Orcfax decentralized record-keeping components as a foundational layer for the Treedano components that will require trustworthy off-chain recordkeeping and blockchain notarization to prove the veracity of Treedano's NFTs.

4. Dorus Van Der Kroft: Treedano lead developer
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorus/>

Dorus is a full stack developer with over twenty years of industry experience delivering projects from start to finish for both start-ups and large enterprises. His broad set of technical skills spans from coding to technical design, to functional design and requirements analysis. He's also received training in the fields of testing and deployment. Dorus is an expert consultant for the Mendix "low code" platform and he is looking forward to implementing this agile development tool to deliver the Treedano mobile app MVP.

Our roadmap to success:

After one month:

Use case stories
Dapp mockups
Blog post: "How Treedano implements natural capital accounting"
Tokenized tree map proof-of-concept

After two months:

Proof-of-concept: mobile Dapp
Proof-of-concept: NFT minting and off-chain recordkeeping
Technical architecture documentation posted at docs.treedano.app
Blog post: "Treedano technical architecture update"
Full tree inventory of one Savary Island, B.C. private property
Partial tree inventory along one B.C. provincial park trail
Blog post: "How Treedano implements NFT technology"

After three months:

Treedano MVP launched on Cardano Testnet
Treedano NFTs minted for three Savary Island, B.C. private properties
Treedano NFTs minted along two B.C. Provincial Park trails
Proof-of-concept: Atala Prism DID integration
Blog post: "Treedano on the trail"
Blog post: "Using Treedano in Open Carbon Offset Markets"
Treedano Whitepaper v1 (solution concept and technical architecture)

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After six months:

Treedano Whitepaper v2: Decentralized Autonomous Organization and tokenomics
Treedano Initial Stake Pool Offering (ISPO)
Production-ready Atala Prism DID integration
Landano beta Dapp on Testnet
Full inventory and Treedano NFT minting for one private B.C. Land Trust property
One pilot project with a B.C. Municipality that has an enforceable urban tree bylaw
One pilot project with a B.C. First Nations
20,000 NFTs for mature trees on Treedano testnet
100 Dapp users on Treedano testnet

After one year:

Cardano Level 3 Certified Dapp
Treedano launch on Cardano mainnet
Treeano DAO operational
Treeano utility token minted and circulating as Cardano native asset
100,000+ NFTs for mature trees on Treedano mainnet
1000+ Dapp users on Treedano mainnet
The Treedano Dapp is marketed beyond the initial British Columbia-based pilot projects to a national and international user base.

Our budget:
Our team believes in equal pay for all the human resources that are contributing to delivering the tasks and products on our roadmap. We have decided on the rate of $75 per hour as a fair reflection of the team's significant and unique expertise as well as in consideration of our living costs and earning potential outside Project Catalyst.

Our team members will provide their own computing equipment. Hosting for the project website and code repositories are provided free of charge via Github. Community outreach will be done via (free) Twitter and YouTube accounts as well as the various Project Catalyst communication channels.

Please refer to our detailed roadmap above for descriptions of the tasks and work products that will be delivered in three, four-week sprints:

Month 1 (Tasks #1-4): 190 hours x $75 = $14,250
Month 2 (Tasks #1-7): 170 hours x $75 = $12,750
Month 3 (Tasks #1-7): 270 hours x $75 = $20,250
Professional fees: including legal, accounting, and communications: $9,000

TOTAL: $56,250

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