> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/contributor-categorisation-analysis/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.catalystcontributors.org/contributor-categorisation-analysis/overview.md). # Overview Contributors is the approach to bring together a group of community members to help manage, support and improve an ecosystem. Contributors can help in a multitude of areas including working on infrastructure and tooling, supporting the community, improving processes or supporting other projects in the ecosystem.
### Contents * [**Contributor Funding Model**](/contributor-categorisation-analysis/contributor-funding-model/achieving-ecosystem-goals.md) - Analysis on how a contributor model helps with achieving ecosystem goals, the common responsibilities for a contributor, desirable attributes for a contributor, risks around using contributors and how to mitigate them and future improvements to the contributor model. * [**Approaches**](/contributor-categorisation-analysis/approaches/individuals-vs-political-parties-vs-organisations.md) - Analysis on a number of contributor approaches that could be used when applying a contributor funding model. * [**Analysis**](/contributor-categorisation-analysis/analysis/contributor-vs-employee.md) - Analysis comparing the different contributor types that have been created for use in Cardano and also comparing Catalyst Contributors with the Catalyst Circle approach. * [**Contributor Governance**](/contributor-categorisation-analysis/contributor-governance/rapid-funding.md) - Analysis for how contributors could handle rapid funding and exploring different governance decision examples. * [**Salary Research**](/contributor-categorisation-analysis/salary-research/average-salaries.md) - Research into average salaries for the different roles that are relevant to full time contributors.