Everything that's wrong with Catalyst

Great discussion. Few moments I figured to add some comments.

Heya - what sort of CSV do you have in mind?

Every newsletter has a directory of ‘past issues’ - it’s in top left corner.

Yes, they did. Here is a quick example from June 2021 - Fund5 TH

What are you missing in communication/community work?

‘Cooldown’ period between funds was introduced already in Fund8. In Fund9 - we’re building upon that experience.

It is not community held, it’s exclusively held by George afaik.

This is a standard practice in academic peer review circles. The basic premise is that it should shield reviewers from targeted attacks - and without that fear of retaliations can present their true opinion. Tho, system still is missing credentials that would allow us to level up - currently it is truly permission-less. Introduction of DIDs is fundamental. We’re very close to introducing some elementary DID on vPA level and based on learnings extending it to PA cohorts as well. Further, adding reputation model should help improve access/eligibility to write reviews based on the past performance. I recommend checking out some of the most recent work in anonymity in review work here by NASA. Interesting concepts with some great insights.

In coming month - long time coming - there will be an ‘official’ home for Project Catalyst - as in v1 landing page from which we’ll be iterating on. This will help with providing contextual framework in onboarding as well as keeping up with existing affairs.

One of the key deliverables is publishing more information from Jormungandr chain and ultimately - make it readable to people as well. ‘Catalyst Explorer’ is in the planned works and I think that will help a lot to clear up conversations.

It is generally accepted that Ideascale does not serve our present day needs as well as it should. It has served us to date but lining up gradual transition is underway.

Outcomes portal - part of the imagined Catalyst home page - will be serving this gap. Much work is being done to develop and deploy this.

Lastly, wrote this a while back. May be of an interest.

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