Overview & current situation

IOG owned and managed tools & process

The core processes of Catalyst are what enable the funding process to function. These processes are owned and managed by the IOG team:

• Fund details - IOG manage the funding amounts and the time allocated for each phase of the process.
• Insight sharing moderation - IOG manage the usage of the Ideascale platform that accepts the insight sharing and also are able to moderate that process.
• Proposal moderation for submission, removal, updating - IOG manage the usage of the Ideascale platform to accept and moderate proposal submissions. IOG deal with updating the stage a proposal is in after each phase. IOG will remove proposals if the proposer requests to withdraw their own or if the proposals do not meet the guidelines after the finalization phase.
• Assessment process decisions, moderation and rewarding - IOG manage the usage of the Ideascale platform where community advisors will submit assessments of proposals. IOG currently have the final say on what is and isn’t included in the policies for being a community advisor and veteran community advisor and what funding will be available for those efforts.
• Vote recording, moderating and tallying - IOG deal with pushing the proposal and assessment data onto their own managed infrastructure that the community will use to vote from. IOG deal with moderating voter submission and tallying the votes to share with the community on who has been funded.
• Fund distribution - IOG handle distributing funds to funded proposals
• Reporting submission and moderating - IOG handle a form process for recording progress updates from funded proposals. They also handle distributing an overview of that information on which proposals are reporting to the community through a Google sheets.

Community owned tools & processes

Community owned efforts, tool or complimentary processes have been introduced:

• Community advisor efforts - The effort required to assess proposals is performed by different community members.
• Veteran community advisor efforts and tool - The effort required to review the assessments is performed by veteran community advisors. The veteran community advisor tool could be considered somewhat semi-official tool for the process.
• Community tools - Other tools have been created to compliment the funding process. These are not official or required to go through the funding process as a proposer. Some examples could be the AIM voter tool or the Lidonation voter tool.
• After town hall sessions - Catalyst swarm started bringing people together in community sessions which has been integrated into the town hall process where the community will discuss a range of topics each week.
• Idea fest - Idea fest was created by the community as a way for proposers to share more information to the community in the form of a live presentation and Q&A session. These recordings can then be watched by the community.