Dash Proposal
Community Stipends
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
Cost_{1\,proposal} = Fee_{submit} + Time_{write\,1\,proposal}*PayRate_{contractor}
Cost1proposal=Feesubmit+Timewrite1proposal∗PayRatecontractor
Cost_{1\,proposal} = 500_{USD\,fee} + 10_{hrs} * 25_{USD/hr} = 750_{USD}
Cost1proposal=500USDfee+10hrs∗25USD/hr=750USD
Each proposal costs ~$650 to submit
Masternode Operator Cost
Cost_{1\,proposal} = MNO_{total}*Time_{read\,1\,proposal}*PayRate_{MNO}
Cost1proposal=MNOtotal∗Timeread1proposal∗PayRateMNO
Cost_{1\,proposal} = 1,000_{MNOs}*0.25_{hrs}*40_{USD/hr}=10,000_{USD}
Cost1proposal=1,000MNOs∗0.25hrs∗40USD/hr=10,000USD
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
| Cost Item | DASH | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Subcontracts | 30 | See note 1 |
| Admin | 20 | 10 DASH/mo for (2) months |
| Misc services / contingency | 5 | See note 2 |
| Proposal reimbursment | 5 | |
| Total | 60 | 30 DASH/mo for (2) months |
- 10 DASH stipends to three (3) most compelling proposals, ~1 month of work
- 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
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