Overview

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

Summary

• Scope: Fund small-scale projects with compelling 'off-treasury' proposals
• Schedule: 2-month admin charter, with five 1-month subcontractor charters
• Budget: 50 DASH/month for 2 months

Motivation

• Facilitate healthy treasury scaling
  • Alleviate high proposal fee issue
  • Improve contractor accountability
  • Lower MNO evaluation burden
  • Onboard more community contributors
  • Prepare future core candidates
  • Promote decentralization

Background

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

Contractor Cost

Each proposal costs ~$750 to submit

Masternode Operator Cost

Each proposal costs the masternode network $10k to evaluate

Scope

The scope of work involves vetting, funding, and reporting on five small, low-risk, community-driven projects (coding, marketing, etc).  Funded projects will have their own, separate scopes of work.

Example Projects

• Software projects
  • mobile apps, web apps, etc
• Marketing efforts
  • merchant on-boarding / meetups
  • regular blogs / vlogs / podcasts
• 10+ of this- and last-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

Start with a two-month trial period.  An RFP kicks things off.  Five proposals would then be approved to commence work.  Admin deliverables are spelled out; subcontract deliverables would depend on approved projects.

Milestones

• 2017-05-05 - Superblock payout
• 2017-05-08 - Admin submits open off-treasury RFP
• 2017-05-15 - Submission deadline for community proposals
• 2017-05-22 - Admin approves subcontractors, commence work
• 2017-06-19 - Subcontractors report to admin with deliverables
• 2017-06-26 - Admin reports to MNOs/community
• Depending on feedback, renew this charter w/ treasury proposal

Budget

The project targets 50 DASH/month for two (2) months

Cost Items

• Subcontracts - stipends to five (5) community proposals
• Admin - stipends to two (2) program administrators
• Program expenses / contingency
• Proposal reimbursement

Cost Table

1. 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 (or proposal pooling) in Dash.  This serves contractors, masternode operators, and the community as a whole

Key Benefits

Additional Thoughts

• Happy to escrow funds
• Anyone can act as admin
• Dash Forum Poll:
  • Do you support this initiative?
    • Yes
    • No
    • Maybe (needs tweaking)

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