Background
A brief history of QA-DAO
What is Quality Assurance DAO ?
Quality Assurance DAO was founded by Stephen Whitenstall in April 2021 and grew out of a Project Catalyst Fund 5 Proposal
In Fund 5 of Project Catalyst QA-DAO submitted a proposal "Quality Assurance DAO" in the Developer Ecosystem Challenge that sought to encourage open-source collaboration & innovation and to do a QA Assessment of Catalyst Proposal Process itself. This proposal was successful in receiving votes and was funded in August 2021. Governance of the Quality Assurance DAO Fund 5 proposal may be followed here.
QA-DAOs own GitHub Organization is at https://github.com/Quality-Assurance-DAO.
Documentation
QA-DAO designs and maintains documentation in open-source GitHub repositories for the Catalyst Circle, Catalyst Swarm, The Catalyst Alliance and The Catalyst School.
Transparent Governance
QA-DAO reports on and tracks Catalyst Governance experiments such as the Catalyst Circle.
Training
QA-DAO provides support and training for the Project Catalyst community via the Catalyst School.
Research
QA-DAO collates current research in the Cardano ecosystem and original research from the Catalyst community in the Ekphrasis journal.
Media
Twitter - https://twitter.com/qa_dao
Cardano Project Catalyst Discord Channel - Fund 5 Proposal
Youtube Channel - Stephen Whitenstall
QA-DAO in the media
Project Catalyst Town Hall #16
July 14th 2021
00:04:17 Presentation by Stephen Whitenstall from Catalyst GitBook Project
Tracking effort and merit in Cardano
11th July 2021
Tracking effort and merit, NFTs, social media, SourceCred and testing it out in The Catalyst Alliance. A detailed summary can be found here .
SourceCred Use, Set-Up and Strategy
5th July 2021
Danielo Ospina (Aragon), Stephen Whitenstall, Tevo, Seomon (Catalyst Swarm) and Tyler Wales (Secret Decks)
Partners
Ekphrasis
This GitBook is a repository of academic content across the wider Cardano community. From IOHK, Project Catalyst and University of Edinburgh as well as many other sources.
It is maintained by under the benevolent dictatorship of Stephen Whitenstall, (Catalyst Swarm/Secret Decks/QA-DAO).
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