Fund 6 Proposal Process
This section documents community communications during the Fund 6 Proposal Process
Wednesday, August 11th to 22nd 2021 - Ideation of Proposal
Vanessa and Stephen began discussing the idea for the Homeless Hub proposal.
Subsequent emails discussed Project concept and Budget.
August 22nd to 26th - Submission of Proposal
Comments
Discord Context
Matthias Sieber (@matthiasksieber) kudos icon + 2 days ago
Hi Stephen, I appreciate for all you do and the homeless population is dear to my heart as well. I have been working for the last 14 months with people facing housing insecurities and housing service providers as the lead engineer at a company to assist in bringing people into suitable shared housing. I attend many civic tech conferences and try to learn as much as possible to better serve the ones in need. Once in a while I compile my findings (and critique of existing systems) in a paper - that generally no journal is interested in publishing. With that out of the way - and acknowledging that homelessness in Manchester probably looks different than in Los Angeles - I must ask: What exactly is the outcome going to look like? I understand that a homeless hub as a center to teach each other about blockchain and Cardano is one of the goals, but I am wondering how you would incentivize participation in the first place. Unfortunately I don't have really specific questions to make this proposal stronger, but I support the sentiment of making our Cardano tent bigger.
Stephen Response to Matthias
Hi Matthias,
Thank you for your questions and raising two important issues related to this proposal.
That is, 1) what the outcome would look like and 2) what incentives will be offered to people taking part.
1) what the outcome would look like:
Our approach towards working with marginalized groups, borne of experience, is not to plan an outcome upfront for the group but to allow the participants to take ownership of the project themselves and decide their own outcomes. We will be prepared with ideas to start people thinking (on Blockchain, Smart Contracts, NFTs, Digital Identity etc.) and be oriented towards questions of value and contribution.
The homeless community just like any other community will focus on what most concerns them and produce materials that suit their needs best.
2) what incentives will be offered to people taking part:
We will offer a level of payment for people taking part that will cover their expenses whilst not impacting their benefits. This is specifically calculated in the context of the UK. This payment also recognizes the service the people are giving by taking part. From experience we know that there is also often a non-financial incentive to take part in projects like this where you, as a homeless person, have a genuine opportunity to lead and shape where it goes.
I hope this goes some of the way to answering your question.
All the Best Stephen
Richard Nugent (@richardnugent) kudos icon + 17 hours ago
Hi This looks like a sound proposal. As I understand it the core goal is communication. This, in and of itself is vital to social cohesion. If we as societies fail to communicate we will continue to fracture more and more. Certainly your project will help decrease fracturing and create homeless to non-homeless communication. This can only be good. In particular if this scheme can help those who are not welcoming to immigrant community members to be more welcoming it will have succeeded. Are you thinking of ideation sessions to address problems of homeless people using Cardano? E.g. A tool to do X using the blockchain which has the [desired] outcome of Y for homeless people? Is that it? I wish you every success with this proposal.
Stephen Response to Richard
You kudos icon + moments ago Idea Submitter
Hi Richard,
Thank you so much for your good wishes
In essence yes, these sessions will offer time and space for ideation.
Except (as per my response to Matthias above) there will be no preconceived notion of what the outcome will be for this marginalised group.
That will be up for grabs by the group themselves. Something they will decide. So they may decide to:
make a tool using blockchain or Digital-ID to solve a problem that impacts homeless people or
they may decide to run a hackathon to invite others to build something for them
they may prefer to communicate with the wider, non-homeless community in Manchester about blockchain tech and its impact
or they may want to talk primarily to Cardano, to Catalyst about a toolkit to enable the homeless to become involved in governance
or prepare their own proposal for Fund 7
A lot of possibilities may emerge, and we will be flexible, agile, and responsive to whatever arises.
We also wish to emphasise the strengths of homeless people not only focus on the problems. One reason this proposal has been placed in this challenge is that it provides for people to "take part in their own language and with their own cultural understanding".
Something that people who have not been homeless may not realise is that homeless people do have a culture of their own. A shared cultural understanding that is different from the mainstream; and although that shared culture is something they pay a very high price to acquire, it does give strengths as well as problems.
All the Best
Stephen
Monday, August 30th 2021
Formally added Vanessa Cardui as co-proposer on Ideascale.
Tuesday, August 31st 2021
stephen.rowan — Today at 12:03 PM
Hi everyone, I would like to request a discussion thread for mine and @CallyFromAuron ‘s F6: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs Proposal – “Homeless Hub” ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Homeless-Hub/367891-48088). We have added some detail on our proposal team and what we hope the project will achieve. Would great to hear people’s thoughts.
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