Overview

This proposal would provide 'off treasury' stipends for community members to start and maintain small-scale projects

Background

• A tale of two Dash users
  • Connie the community contributor
  • Matt the masternode operator

Contractor Cost

Each proposal costs ~$650 to submit

Masternode Operator Cost

Each proposal costs the masternode network $10k to evaluate

Proposal Motivation

• Justify community contributor's time
• Offload small projects from MNOs
• Promote decentralization
• Prepare future Core candidates

Proposal Summary

• Scope: Fund small-scale projects with compelling 'off-treasury' proposals
• Schedule: 2-month admin charter, with three 1-month subcontractor charters
• Budget: 30 DASH/month for 2 months for a total of 60 DASH for the project

Scope

The scope of work would involve vetting and funding several small, low-risk projects such as meetup groups, community-driven coding projects, etc.  Funded projects will have their own, separate scopes of work.

Example Projects

• Ongoing meetups
• Video tutorials
• Regular blog / vlog / podcast
• Small software projects
• Merchant on-boarding
• 9 of this month's proposals

Deliverables

• Admin
  • Request for (off-treasury) proposals
  • Proof of payment to RFP winners
  • End-of-term results report
• RFP winners
  • Project proposals (using this format)
  • Own respective project deliverables

Schedule

The project could start with a two-month trial period.  An RFP would kick things off.  Three proposals would then be approved to commence work.  Admin deliverables are spelled out; subcontract deliverables would depend on approved projects.

Milestones

• 2017-04-05 - Superblock payout
• 2017-04-07 - Request for (off-treasury) proposal
• 2017-04-14 - Proposal submission deadline
• 2017-04-21 - Admin approves subcontractors, commence work
• 2017-05-19 - Subcontractors report to admin w/complete SOWs
• 2017-05-26 - Admin reports to MNOs/community
• Depending on feedback, renew this charter w/ treasury proposal

Budget

The project could initially target a budget of 30 DASH/month for two (2) months, for a total of 60 DASH

Cost Items

• Subcontracts - stipends to (3) proposals
• Admin - expenses to administer the project
• Service fees (meetup, slides, etc) + contingency
• Proposal reimbursement

Cost Summary

1. 10 DASH stipends to three (3) most compelling proposals, ~1 month of work
2. 6-month subscription to slides.com premium, meetup.com fees, etc. for community use + contingency (tipping, unforeseen expenses, etc)

Summary

This project introduces formal subcontracting relationships in Dash.  This serves contractors, masternode operators, and the community as a whole

Key Benefits

• Reduce cost of community contribution
• Reduce cost of masternode governance
• Incentivise community participation
• Incentivise MNO participation

Final Thoughts

• Happy to escrow funds
• Anyone can act as admin
• Dash Forum Poll:
  • This month (we have funds!)
  • next month (we need more time!)
  • not interesting

Thank You

Further information found below

Proposal Links

• dash.org/forum/... 
• dashcentral.org/p/...
• reddit/r/dashpay/...
• @rion on Slack

Community Links

• github.com/dashcommunity 
• meetup.com/dashcommunity
• slides.com/dashcommunity
• #community channel on Slack
• dashcommunity@protonmail.com

Team

• Salt Lake City community
  • Me (Rion Gull)
  • My meetup group
  • General SLC potential
• Dash Community
  • GitHub project

Proposal History

• https://www.dashcentral.org/p/dash-community
• https://www.dashcentral.org/p/js-dev-and-outreach