Timeline:

The Stellar Community Fund will be held quarterly throughout the year.
The first SCF round will begin today and end on June 30. Final voting will begin on June 23 and run 1 week. We expect this program will evolve significantly after the first round. In the spirit of the space, the first round will be a “beta test”. Participant feedback is welcome and will help shape future SCF rounds.

Proposals and Proposal Guidelines:

If you’ve participated in SBC, this section will be familiar!

All proposals should be submitted as a new thread to GalacticTalk.org under the SCF category. Proposals can be for applications, tools, content (such as tutorials, books, and videos), or events. Do not submit strictly proof-of-concept proposals. Submissions must have a live element and be available somewhere that people can use/review them.

Proposals should contain:

Project title: The name of your project. Please adhere to the Stellar brand policy.

Summary: A simple sentence summary of your project.

Goals: What your project plans to accomplish broken down by objectives.

Description: The description should answer questions like “what does your project enable users to do,” “why is your project valuable for Stellar,” and “how does your project utilize Stellar.” It should also cover what platforms the project supports (ex; Windows, Chrome, etc.) and relevant documentation. This section should be very detailed.

Link: Links to your application, code repository, supporting materials, and/or home site. If you are submitting a proposal for content pieces (like walkthroughs), please provide links to the content pieces.

Anything else: Any additional information you think the community should know about your project!

After submitting a proposal, it’s important to stay active and answer any questions the community may have about your project.

Voting

Voting will take place in two rounds. A nomination round and award round.

Nominations will be ongoing throughout the proposal submission window. For this beta round, nominations will be based on the most liked proposals on GalacticTalk (discounting likes/nominations from accounts made after March ‘19). Though this will lock out new community members from participating in the nomination process, we still highly encourage new users to sign up and participate in proposal discussion so they can participate in nominations next round. This account lock-out will not affect who can submit a proposal. The top 7 most-liked proposals will move on to the final voting round.

Final voting will be held on /r/Stellar. After nominations close, we will open a poll thread with the names, descriptions, and links of the nominee proposals. Users will vote by selecting one of the seven options in the poll and by also leaving a comment ONLY confirming the name of the project they are voting for. Votes from duplicate accounts and vote manipulation will be discarded. Please only comment the name of the proposal you are voting for in the voting thread. Any other comments will be removed. There will be a second thread for proposal discussion linked.

Voting will last 7 days. For this round we will not be using photon weighted polls. Votes will be counted based on poll results, subtracting any votes that do not also leave a comment confirmation.

Awards:

The Stellar Community Fund is being allotted 12,000,000 lumens for the year. Each round will award 3,000,000 lumens. Winners will be awarded proportionally out of this pool based on final vote percentages.

Eligibility and Legal

Please only submit one proposal per person/organization per round. Winning entries will not be eligible for future rounds. All proposals must have some proof-of-use of the Stellar protocol or the benefit to the Stellar ecosystem. We recommend all proposals be completed in English. Proposals must have a functional element (no purely conceptual proposals) and be accessible in the United States.

Unfortunately, if you’re a national or resident of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, or Crimea, regulations prevent us from sending you any lumens. Additionally, we cannot send lumens to residents of the US states of Alabama, New York, Georgia, Connecticut, New Mexico, Hawaii, Vermont, and Washington.

SDF intends to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. In accordance to US law, all winners will be required to submit KYC documentation and fill out the relevant tax form. Failure to do so will result in your rewards being forfeit. These tax forms will be used for accounting and reporting purposes so please be aware of your countries applicable laws regarding tax-filing. Lumens will be reported at closing price on the day they are sent to you.

If you intend to utilize the Stellar logo in your project, it must follow the brand policy. Lack of adherence to these standards may result in disqualification. Use of the words “official” in regards to or ambiguity of connection with the Stellar Development Foundation may result in disqualification. Avoid using Stellar in your project name since it could be confusing for the community.

Engaging in vote manipulation will cause your proposal to be disqualified. This includes botspam, fake/sock puppet accounts, and brigading.

All participants will retain the intellectual property associated with their submission.

PS: Feel free to join the Stellar Community Fund keybase team.

OP: https://medium.com/stellar-community/stellar-community-fund-13b722ca45f4

    bkolobara stickied the discussion .

    SCF FAQ:

    Can SDKs participate in SCF?
    Yes.

    I noticed it says SCF winners can't submit a proposal for the same project, does this also apply to SBC winners?
    No, SCF is new. There have been no winners yet. Returning SBC winners can submit proposals for this round.

    Do self-nominations count
    While self-nominations are historically not frowned upon, due to the time-window lockout, they will not count this round. To clarify: self-nominations includes votes from anyone on your project team.

    What if I have a token is that an ICO?
    The ICO rule is only meant for projects currently holding an ongoing token sale. If you have a token, you can still participate.

    Please only submit one proposal per person/organization per round.

    Multiple distinct projects from the same person must be spread over separate rounds?

    Winning entries will not be eligible for future rounds

    I assume the only plans for ongoing support are for those projects that are included in SDP?

      Jem Multiple distinct projects from the same person must be spread over separate rounds?

      I'm open to discussion and revising around this point. The intent is to not flood each round with low-quality proposals in an attempt to game the system. What number of submissions would you find fair?

      Jem I assume the only plans for ongoing support are for those projects that are included in SDP?

      The winning entries piece is to provide incentive for improvement round-after-round from projects that weren't nominated AND to encourage winners to remain creative. If by support you mean lumens, from my understanding of it, SDP is not strictly a lumen distribution program and is more focused on providing people/technical support. I'd like to that imagine the launch of SCF is not the end of new/updated distribution programs from SDF.

          Hi Zac,
          just a question as I'm thinking about submitting a project.
          Does the project needs to be completed already? I have a stellar project ongoing that I think would be a good entry but it's not finished yet.

          Regards, Bas

          8 days later

          Just a reminder:

          The use of sockpuppet accounts (even if they are older than the age threshold) will cause your submission to be disqualified.

            4 days later

            I realize it is a bit early to be counting but will there be an easier way to keep tally of likes than to add them up individually over and over? I assume that only the likes for the main post are counted and not likes of the comments below?

              StellarZac What is the threshold for the reddit accounts? Or are you referring to the GalacticTalk ones?

                  Is this SCF program only for small to medium sized projects that can be completed within a short 2-3 month timeframe? What would you suggest for a larger project to do when it is looking for funding to create solutions using Stellar?

                  We are working on a larger project that will not be possible to complete within the 7 weeks left for this SCF round. However, there are some low level basic functional components of our project that could be made available for others to begin using and testing with. There are plans to have something fully functional early next year.

                  Brief Project Details

                  To give some more information about our project it involves some of the topics of interest stated in the "Stellar Academic Research Program" More specifically these topics:

                  • Adaptations of traditional market mechanisms (such as short selling and derivatives) to Stellar or other distributed ledgers
                  • 2-way pegged side chains across ledgers employing quorum slices

                  Research began on this project in early 2018, before the "Stellar Academic Research Program" was announced. More recently the implementation has begun. FWIW no one on our team has ever patented anything and there are no plans to do so in the future.

                  Some Background Information

                  I have entered some of our work in previous Stellar Build Challenges. Here is a link to the SBC2017April entry, SBC2017November entry and the lumag.solutions website that was built to promote the project. Due to a seemingly lack of interest in the project, in early 2018 we decided to pivot to begin exploring and researching the derivatives project we are now working on.

                  4 days later

                  We would like some clarification. At the top of your April 2019 (24 days ago) post it states "The first SCF round will begin today and end on June 30." One of our social media fans stated that the contest was over for new projects as of March 2019? We submitted our project a couple of days ago and are sharing it on social media channels and would like some clarification please. Thanks.

                  StellarZac

                  We would like some clarification. At the top of your April 2019 (24 days ago) post it states "The first SCF round will begin today and end on June 30." One of our social media fans stated that the contest was over for new projects as of March 2019? We submitted our project a couple of days ago and are sharing it on social media channels and would like some clarification, please. Thanks.

                    This is already funny to observe and will be even more funny once you figure out that all the vote and comment buying was for nothing.

                      WebWallet

                      If this is funny to observe then you have a twisted sense of humor. Our team has worked tirelessly to deliver a working product for social good. We posted the link to this on all our social media channels and all connections (something you failed to mention). Get your facts straight before you publicly slander us. Boosting posts or Incentivizing people to share your project is called marketing and is how Facebook, Google, and others have become so successful.

                          Garth I just added a small extension to the forum that counts all eligible votes on the first post of a discussion with the SCF tag.

                            12 days later