Community Advisor Improvements room

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About the challenge

The Fund 8 Community Advisor Improvements challenge has a total challenge budget of $100,000 in ADA, and there are 21 ideas posted.

The key issue of the challenge setting is:

Community Advisors are an evolving key role of Project Catalyst and need a place and budget to submit proposals to improve their performance.

Note: This event took place on 5th March 2022. Some of the proposals mentioned may not have finally been submitted in this funding round.

Summary

Waiting for participants to join the room 0:00

Explainer videos as animations 3:35

Creating billboards in Ghana 4:53

Will people propose in this Challenge? 6:27

Should a fund 9 CA Challenge setting go beyond just CAs? 9:01

Need traction from IOG so improvements are implemented 12:00

Scaling issues 13:25

How people become CAs 15:01

CA reputation systems 15:47

How will d-Reps affect the CA role? 27:19

Who is the recipient of CAs’ work? 29:53

False starts and lack of clarity 32:05

Is Catalyst Voltaire yet? 33:06

Are we moving too slow? 34:30

Is this challenge actually about the need for a governance layer? 35:29

We risk losing our momentum; people won’t wait forever 36:37

1,000 proposals is a lot to assess! 39:29

Why not a longer time frame? 40:53

Is the current process creating the impact it should? 41:55

From sequential approaches to iterative ones 44:43

Attracting full-time CAs 48:24

If good ideas turn out to not be implementable, who has failed? 48:33

The need to start showing results 51:16

At what point do we have to break the system and do it differently? 51:54

As a CA, I imagine it’s my own money that I’m giving out 57:35

Don’t just do it for the money 58:53

Recap - this challenge should be about all the roles within Catalyst and the architecture of the funding process 1:00:01

End 1:01:26