Hello there, beautiful soul!

Hope this message finds you well. 

The most important part in Catalyst world is now well underway - voting. This is where each and every one of you gets an opportunity to have a say in what will shape the Cardano ecosystem in months to follow. Don't let this opportunity slip in between your fingers and dive right in. Make sure to read up about Governance Week taking place next. 

Ready? Let's dive right in. 

Town Hall
 

Missed it? No worries.

📚 Slidedeck: https://bit.ly/3IgCfgE
🎥 Timestamped recording: https://youtu.be/Z4efx1ZmclU
⭐️ After town hall break out rooms: https://bit.ly/33i38SB

💡 Next: Jan 26 @ 18:00 UTC. Register now via this recurring link.

Community run town hall events around the world:

🌏 Eastern hemisphere: https://discord.gg/9wj4ZPTdjf
🌎 LATAM: https://discord.gg/rPhy4Dtt89

Fund7 - The Next Steps

Voting period for Fund7 is now official under way. 

🛫 Jan 20, 2022 @11:00 UTC - VOTING START
🛬 Feb 3, 2022 @11:00 UTC - VOTING END

⚠️ Note: Please, reinstall your voting app now + re-scan your QR codes to make sure you have your app fully ready & synced!

Casting votes can be an intimidating task 😱 knowing there are so many proposals out there that are competing for your attention & votes.

PRO TIP: One of the easiest ways how to start browsing is via this community made voter tool. It allows you to track, review, and easily make sense of what's available on the voting ballot. Give it a try! 💯

Have doubts or questions? Got you. There's an updated All-You-Need-To-Know Reddit post that has it all (well maybe). Follow this link here: https://bit.ly/Fund7-Voting-Open 🤝
 

Governance Week

Since voting is underway - what better way to get up close and personal with Cardano governance than by talking and meeting one another? 

You, as part of Cardano community spread across the world, are deciding what projects are going to be funded. Even more - which Fund8 challenges will shape Catalyst for the next few months ahead. Your active participation is paramount

But there’s so much happening - how to make sense of it all?

• How do we make sure that voters – in Fund7 and beyond – can get the information they need to make up their minds for themselves?
• How do we ensure that voices from the margins are not drowned out by the very structure of the way we do things, and that everyone is heard?
• How do we make sure that the Fund7 vote is a process that helps the community grow, and makes us more decentralised and anti fragile?

• Provide open, safe, and respectful place for community to speak with each other about governance & voting in Cardano & Project Catalyst (e.g community events, voting workshops, podcasts, fireside chats, round tables etc.)
• Coordinate and align actions, build bridges between different Communities to curate mutual understanding and respect
• Increase voting participation by providing guidance and information (e.g. content creation, educational resources, Articles, translations, reviews, expert ballots & proposal pick lists)

Catalyst Circle v3 Elections

Catalyst Circle v2, The Human Sensor Array of Project Catalyst, is slowly coming to an end with only one last meeting outstanding. This means community is on the look out for new members who are willing to step up and help shape the governance processes for Catalyst during another 3 month term. 

• The election for CCv3 will take place on February 5th @ 5PM UTC
• Nominations have begun! Deadline is January 28th @ 11PM UTC

You can nominate yourself or someone else via this link. Curious to learn more about what are the criteria? Make sure to review these via this link. 
 

If you are curious about the outcome of the latest CCv2 meeting - make sure to review the documentation via this link. It includes the recording as well as minutes to get yourself up to speed with the latest development and priorities. Want to have a high level overview of current list of prioritised problems? Follow this link. 

Musings from Community: James of Gimbalabs

Recent town hall guest(s) and conversations have sparked wide spread discourse on the topic of diversity and inclusion. This is a good thing in itself.

However, many pockets of communities felt unheard and not able to present their alternative positions in a way that would be appropriate. I fully recognise the shortcoming here on our part. I promise to do better job myself to ensure that the content communicated/curated by IOG is in line with balanced expectations as it should be in the first place. It's something we are actively learning to sense and work with.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize on behalf of our team. We will do better, we want to do better collectively.

Here is likely the most profound rebuttal (to this original presentation) that has sum up a lot of those sentiments. And I would like to share these with you all as well. You can access James' tweet here or jump direct to his video via this link instead. Join the conversation, share your perspective.
 

Thank you James for making yourself vulnerable and sharing your views and understanding. I see you. ❤️

Catalyst Improvements

Number of initiatives are currently underway in co-ordination with community to help address various teething problems in Catalyst. Here is the summary of some the latest. 

• Catalyst Auditing Workgroup
  • Funded Projects Tracker
• Challenge Teams Roundtable
• Community Advisor process improvements
  • Keep track via this Iterative Dropbox Document - join and be part of the conversation 
• And of course above mentioned Catalyst Circle

Cardano for Climate Change 🐌

Cardano4Climate held its 2nd free and open Sustainable Developments Conference on 1/20/22. 

The focus of this conference: Trees & Cardano. 

Dedicated to the memory of Vasil Dabov, lover of trees, beloved by Cardano, the conference explored two seemingly disparate worlds:

• The world of living trees and the world of Cardano
• And created space for the two to connect in the minds of the inspiring presenters and attendees

Catalyst Swarm & Beyond

Every week - join the conversations, sessions, workshops with your fellow community members. Follow the calendar for the latest events here. 
 

Get in touch

Do you have amazing projects that you are part of and wish to share your story? Write me and let's tell this story to the world.

Or let's talk Catalyst via twitter, telegram, reddit. I will do my best to get back to you soon.

Enjoy your weekend ahead!

Danny & the Project Catalyst team

Daniel Ribar
Community at Project Catalyst


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