Dash Proposal
Community Stipends v2
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
- A tale of two Dash users
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 ~$750 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
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
| Cost Item | DASH | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Subcontracts | 50 | 10 DASH/month * 1 month * 5 subcontracts |
| Admin | 40 | 10 DASH/month * 2 months * 2 admins |
| Misc expenses / contingency | 5 | See note 1 |
| Proposal reimbursment | 5 | Admin may require 1 DASH/contractor to front this |
| Total | 100 | 50 DASH/mo for (2) months |
- 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
- Cost-efficient & decentralized scaling
- Work for Dash with low barrier to entry
- Reduce cost of community contribution
- Reduce cost of masternode governance
Additional Thoughts
- Happy to escrow funds
- Anyone can act as admin
- Dash Forum Poll:
- Do you support this initiative?
- Yes
- No
- Maybe (needs tweaking)
- Do you support this initiative?
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
Proposal - Community Stipends v2
By Rion Gull
Proposal - Community Stipends v2
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