Roles
Roles are groupings of a particular type of skill or work that someone can choose to focus their time on whilst being a contributor
Roles provide clarity to other contributors and the wider community on what everyone is mainly looking to help with when they contribute to the ecosystem. Signalling a role to the voters gives them more clarity in knowing who they want to support the ecosystem in different ways.
Contributors select a role to indicate where they will spend the most time supporting the ecosystem. Selecting a role does not mean the contributor can't help in the other areas. It instead simply means they will look to spend the majority of their time in that selected role.
Budget ranges are added to guide contributors when creating their proposals.
Cardano contributors are NOT required to specify a role, it is optional. Roles help to provide an effective signal to the community over how a contributor wants to help the ecosystem.
Cardano contributors should outline exactly what they intend to do whilst being a contributor either through a predefined role or their own explanation of the tasks and any responsibilities they are looking to take on!
Roles
The following are some example roles that contributors can specify in their contributor proposal if they match with the skill sets they would like to apply and use when supporting the ecosystem.
Development
Objective - Develop and maintain the ecosystem systems and services and also support the community on a technical basis.
Tasks
Research technical implementation options
Define technical requirements
Architect features (Data model, tech stack, protocol design)
Develop and maintain features
Audit other proposal teams development plans or implementation
Coordinate technical efforts
Host technical discussion meetings
Write technical documentation
Provide community technical support
Coordination
Objective - Maximise the collaboration and coordination within the ecosystem and support the community with collaboration, organisation, education and events.
Tasks
Align ecosystem efforts and support collaboration
Support the improvement of initiative planning, proposals writing and communication
Collect details on problems within community
Run community events and meet ups
Moderate communication channels and answer questions
Host topic based collaboration meetings
Support translations and coordinate with global communities
Help educate community members about different areas of the ecosystem
Provide community support for different projects
Analysis
Objective - Research and analyse the ecosystem tools and services and produce data points, reports and documentation that help guide the future development of the ecosystem. Help ensure the community has the information it needs to maximise their own projects impact.
Tasks
Analyse and give feedback to proposals and challenge setting
Conduct ecosystem research, problem outlining and analysis
Collect and aggregate community feedback
Aggregate, data model and report on ecosystem analytics
Audit proposal teams plans and execution
Research, define and maintain ecosystem processes
Research and report on other ecosystems
Host meetings on problems, research or findings from analysis
Write and maintain ecosystem documentation
QA & Auditing
Objective - Help with quality assurance testing on changing ecosystem functionality and new products to ensure releases are to a high quality. Support in the development of new processes and reporting so proposal and project teams can demonstrate their impact.
Tasks
Research, support and flag proposals that require review from the community
Test implementation features of different protocols or products in the ecosystem prior to release
Create and document QA process plans
Research and support QA best practices for different ecosystem applications
Research auditing best practices for different ecosystem projects
Manage and improve progress and KPI audit reporting processes
Research, create or recommend the usage of emerging standards across the ecosystem
Host meetings about QA in ecosystem applications, standards & best practices and auditing processes & potential improvements
Marketing
Objective - Bring together, host events and provide support to the marketing efforts from across the ecosystem to bring better alignment, data driven results and report evidence on the impact of the combined efforts that promote the ecosystem.
Tasks
Effectively promote and share the applications and initiatives available in the ecosystem
Support proposer outreach and engagement efforts
Support marketing focussed proposals in the ecosystem
Aggregate and report on marketing analytics data for different ecosystem areas
Support the creation and usage of marketing materials
Support the organisation and promotion of events
Conduct market research on certain areas of the ecosystem
Write and proofread marketing copy
Provide guidance to proposals around marketing
Host meetings on marketing approaches and results
Content creation
Objective - Create high quality content that showcases what is happening in the ecosystem using education, news, interviews, podcasts, videos, books and articles.
Tasks
Create content that addresses different parts of the ecosystem such as for the community to learn more about new developments, ecosystem progress, news, demos, tips or reviews.
Create content to engage the community in formats such as videos, blogs, articles, interviews, podcasts, illustrations or infographics.
Education
Objective - Help the community learn and understand important or complex concepts or simplify existing material to make it easier for people to participate in the ecosystem.
Tasks
Improve existing resources or documentation to make it more informative, visual or educational for the end user.
Create resources for new developments, processes and applications that the community would benefit from understanding.
Host sessions or create workshops and courses to educate the community in a collaborative and more personal environment.
Host meetings and events to help with initiatives or existing projects in communicating important details and information to the wider community.
Product
Objective - Research, collate and get consensus on the highest priority problems within the ecosystem to then help guide solutions that solve those problems whilst maintaining a high quality user experience. Help contributors come to alignment in how to implement solutions and work with the community to bring in feedback and data to support product direction through both contributor and community led governance.
Tasks
Lead efforts on problem sensing, problem prioritisation, solution research and solution implementation planning
Engage with contributors and community to define product strategy and roadmap
Conduct research and analysis on similar products and ecosystems
Communicate with community all product plans, timelines and releases
Research and improve product development workflows
Draft ecosystem functionality implementation plans
Research and analyse industry user experience developments and best practices
Gather product feedback and analyse results
Aggregate and report on product analytics data
Host meetings around problem sensing, prioritisation and solution approaches
Provide guidance to proposals around product direction and existing ecosystem solutions or product plans
Design
Objective - Design graphics, layouts and optimise user flows to create a high quality user experience for the community. Help contributors with maintaining consistency and alignment of the visual design and user experiences of all the ecosystems tools and services.
Tasks
Create design concepts, graphics and layouts
Create and maintain style guides, icons and illustrations
Create wireframes and visualise product user flows
Gather user feedback and iterate designs where needed
Support research on industry user experience developments and best practices
Review final layouts and implementations to suggest any improvements
Support online and local events with design material
Support and provide feedback on design to proposal teams
Host design discussion meetings
Human resources
Objective - Support other contributors and projects in the ecosystem to most effectively support and attract the talent that exists in the ecosystem so they can operate at their full potential.
Tasks
Support contributors and projects in addressing issues with finding and securing talent from within the ecosystem and finding gaps where more help is needed.
Communicate with contributors and projects to identify issues in the ecosystem on a local or global level and identity how those issues could be resolved.
Identify, create and support processes and best practice conventions for a large number of contributors and projects can work most effectively together in a more dynamically changing environment. Contributors are flexible in how they work and can support multiple projects at a given moment.
Provide conflict resolution and suggestions towards new team working structures when existing ones have not been effective in achieving the desired outcomes.
Finance
Objective - Support and analyse different ecosystem areas to provide financial support and advice to different working projects.
Tasks
Analyse the structures and costs of different initiatives and projects to provide guidance or reports on areas of improvement.
Offer guidance and support to initiatives and projects regarding their approach to treasury management and distribution with complex financial
Define, improve and maintain suggestions towards effective approaches and processes to effectively handle treasury management within distributed groups of community members
Research, aggregate and present correct approaches and processes that help ensure that legal financial obligations are being met by different projects across the ecosystem.
Produce reports on analysis that suggests suitable budget ranges that could be used as guidance for what contributors are paid in the ecosystem for different skill sets.
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