SCF Round 2 Guidelines

Hi all, thanks for the feedback first round. I'm hopping in to briefly drop some overview guidelines (so people can start submitting proposals). We'll do a more official post ASAP and update this one accordingly. Below should be the basic gist though. (I will be out over the next few weeks for personal reasons - but that should not delay us getting started for the next round.) Submissions will open likely today or tomorrow for this round!

Timeline:

This round began July 12 and will run until October 12. Nomination voting will begin on September 30 and Final Voting will take place the second week of October.

The first two months of SCF Round 2 will be focused strictly on discussion. I will periodically be sharing all of the new proposals on the community blog

Proposals

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.

Timeline: How and when you will accomplish your goals.

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.

To prevent people from trying to game the system - details on the nomination vote and final vote will be shared in September. Until then, please participate in discussion.

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.

There will be 8 winners for Round 2.

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.

Manipulation and Disqualification

Manipulation will not be tolerated. Considered manipulation this round:

1. Mass DMing people to vote for your project (ON ANY PLATFORM).
2. Vote trading.
3. Spamming Stellar channels for votes (Reddit, GT, Keybase, etc). Spamming includes posting multiple times a day about your proposal. For the sake of sanity and well-being - each project is allowed to create a proposal thread ONCE on Reddit (/r/Stellar). 
4. Paying for bounties to artificially inflate exposure.
5. Creating fake accounts to brigade, downvote, upvote, or maliciously target other products
6. Malicious behavior - trying to frame other people, manipulating logs, "doxing/doxxing (pick your preferred nomenclature) participants.
7. NOT adhering to the Code of Conduct!
8. Stealing proposals.
9. Resubmitting winning projects with barely changed language.
10. Repeatedly trying to disqualify other projects without evidence.
11. Bullying participants. Constructive criticism is okay - being a jerk isn't.
12. Bullying community members providing honest feedback. Debate is okay - being a jerk isn't.
13. Advocating for breaking the law.

Spamming, manipulation, malicious actions, breaking code of conduct will not be tolerated. You will be disqualified or removed from participating in discussion if you're engaging in vote manipulation or being malicious. This goes for both the general community and proposal submitters.

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

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

PS: Feel free to join the Stellar Community Fund keybase team.
https://keybase.io/team/stellar.communityfund

Experimental:

Feel free to spam the heck out of this subreddit - just to stress test it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StellarCommunityFund/ (It has no subscribers).

Remember, Round 3 we are hoping to move to a new format and voting application.

EDIT: I've modified the timeline to be an actual 3 months in order to give participants a bit more time to submit proposals and discussion

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Those states will remain ineligible to receive lumens.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal and provided project feedback over the past 3 months. There were 38 proposals submitted for this round of the Stellar Community Fund— make sure to check them out.

With the proposal phase complete, things are about to heat up! The nomination round for SCF#2 is now live.

The nomination process is pretty simple, but please make sure to read the following carefully.

Voting:

Voting will be held on https://stellarcommunity.fund

Before voting, please take some time to read through the proposals carefully. Proposal authors have put a lot of work into their projects, so do them a favor and spend some time reading what they’ve put out there! Since nominations last a week, feel free to visit GalacticTalk, ask questions, and participate in proposal discussion before casting your votes.

Prerequisites: You will need a Keybase account to vote.

To vote -

1. Click the ‘Sign In’ button on the top right of https://stellarcommunity.fund
2. Enter your Keybase username
3. You will receive a message from ‘SCFBot’. Click the confirmation link to complete the sign-in process. (You can verify that it’s the real ‘scfbot’ by checking the DNS proof)
4. Once you’re logged in, you can start to select your nominee picks. You must vote for 3, but can vote for up-to 8 proposals. (Remember to read through proposals!)
5. Once you’ve chosen your nominees, click the submit button. Once you’ve cast your vote, there’s no going back! Your picks will stick around in memory, so you can mark them and come back later before your final submission.

Important bits:

Only one voting account per person. We’ll be checking to make sure no one is manipulating the vote. Play fair and everything will be great! Bad actors will be removed from participating in the vote and future rounds.

That’s all there is to it! Start digging into those proposals!

MisterTicot

It would be nice to give some space & images to the page - that text wall is not very inviting. At least, I would do a cleanup of the summaries rather than just copy/pasting the first lines of the post. Seriously.

Good feedback. Thank you. We actually had images on the to-do list - but there's a few things I need to relay for next round in order to make sure people have fair advantage there (only a few would propagate now for instance, and it wouldn't be fair to assume what images would be). I agree about the summaries as well. Right now it's pulling directly from the post.

We got the app in a state early to use for this round but we'll definitely polish up the design elements.