:rotating_light: Governance Post Title Format: “TBR-Q1-2023 - Education Team” :rotating_light:

# Team Quarterly Budget Request Template

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| --------- | ---------- |
| Team Name | **Onboarding / Education Team** |
| Quarter and Year | **Q1 2023** |
| Payout Address | **TBD** |
| Total USD Value Requested | **$20,653 USD** |

Authors: Noxe, Tjark, DaBoom, Andy Kaufman

# Purpose

PoolTogether is the best dApp to onboarding new user into crypto but most of new crypto users really need a guide path and someone to anwser there questions
This team will focus on creating tutorials and guides for non crypto users and potential users of PoolTogether. There have been great tutorials from users like @thumbsupfinance & @kriskay in the past. We hope to emulate this while also updating, maintaining & translating our content. We will help those new to crypto find the smoothest route to go from fiat to ptUSDC.
These could vary greatly between different countries and user preferences (self custody vs custodial), we hope to provide understanding which will empower users to choose the best route to deposit for them.

We hope to achieve this through providing comprehensive, structured and easy to understand tutorials as well as onboarding sessions. Thos onboarding sessions will be requested by new users using a form.

Our current team members include @daboom & @andykaufman & @noxe. Both Daboom & Andy have helped create the #learn-channel in discord that gives users a on the rails experience to deposit into PT. Andy helped collaborate with the Landing Party team (formerly Background Network) to create the bot while DaBoom helped fill the content and design the step-by-step guides for delegation and deposit in the #learn-channel.. The same goes for the FAQ bot that is used in the #help channel, which also had community additions. @Noxe created the French substack, translated the community newsletter to French previously as well as written original articles in French and English from time to time. More recently he has helped translate the front end UI of PoolTogether V4 and maintained it. Noxe has also been hosting 1 on 1 onboarding sessions for French users!

Overall we believe this core team has the skills necessary to build out and maintain the education team.

# Goals

Create a knowledge foundation of crypto for users to easily understand and use PoolTogether
Educate users on the benefits & risks of self custody wallets, as well as pros and cons of custodial alternatives
Encourage financial literacy and fiscal responsibility through the PT ethos
Show the benefits of a prize savings account
Utilize existing community built tools to teach new users (poolexplorer, PoolyBot etc.)
Guide new users ways to participate in the community (Send them to the community team!)
We trust that thos goals will provide PoolTogether new users and more TVL

Create & maintain guides for onboarding depositors (anyone can create new educational content and get rewarded using coordinape)
Translate into relevant languages (Translators rewarded using Coordinape)
Detail user options for on ramps, chains and custody preferences based on their countries options
Explore new learning tools and maintain existing ones (FAQ bot / written guides)
As new integrations & updates go live from PT Inc. or partners our team would focus on explaining those concepts

Performance Metrics: We could focus on 3 countries / native languages initially with our educational guides. At minimum a tutorial for each country & language for each chain PoolTogether is available on.

Provide onboarding support for users
Guide users from wallet creation to deposit journey
Allow users to book a time slot for 1:1 support over voice chat
#help channel will be explained to new users and we will keep using it as usual

Performance Metrics: Number of users helped during onboarding session + end of quarter summary on 3 most common questions/topics.

Bonus goal to pursue if we deem 1-3 to be performed to our expectations:

Educate Users on how to stay safe when navigating crypto
Create and compile information on safety & security best practices
Infographics with a specific focus for various social channels (discord, twitter, telegram, web, etc)
Potential workshops
Live tests/examples
Verifying trustable sources

What are the group’s principles?
For our team & collaboration:
Community first we > me, DAO > individual, Eco System View > Ego System View
Transparency and Openness
Leaderful Practice Everyone shares the experience of serving as a leader collectively
For the content we create:
No Loss, no shill, and beginner-friendly
Promoting savings as opposed to risky investments
Creating only positive-sum outcomes

### Team Members

DaBoom
| ---- | ---- |
| Onboarding Advocate |
| $75,000 | The total annual compensation (stables + ownership) that a role is paid. |
| 15% | The percentage of time that the role will work. I.e. 50% implies they are half of full-time |
| $2,426 | The amount of USDC that the role will be paid per quarter. This number adds to the requested budget total. |
| 574.76 POOL | The amount of POOL that the role will be paid per quarter. This number adds to the requested budget total. |
| DaBoom | The name of the contributor |
| DaBoom#3590 | The Discord ID of the contributor |

Andy Kaufman
| ---- | ---- |
| Onboarding Advocate |
| $75,000 | The total annual compensation (stables + ownership) that a role is paid. |
| 25% | The percentage of time that the role will work. I.e. 50% implies they are half of full-time |
| $4,043 | The amount of USDC that the role will be paid per quarter. This number adds to the requested budget total. |
|957.93 POOL | The amount of POOL that the role will be paid per quarter. This number adds to the requested budget total. |
| AndyKaufman | The name of the contributor |
| AndyKaufman#1234 | The Discord ID of the contributor |

Noxe
| ---- | ---- |
| Onboarding Advocate |
| $75,000 | The total annual compensation (stables + ownership) that a role is paid. |
| 30% | The percentage of time that the role will work. I.e. 50% implies they are half of full-time |
| $4,852 | The amount of USDC that the role will be paid per quarter. This number adds to the requested budget total. |
|1,149.52 POOL | The amount of POOL that the role will be paid per quarter. This number adds to the requested budget total. |
| Noxe | The name of the contributor |
| Noxe🌊🏆#1780 | The Discord ID of the contributor |

We are open to additional team members to help onboard & support new users to PoolTogether
We would love to hear from community members who have created guides & educational content in the past.

Membership
The content team allows for fluid membership of contributors.
The membership can be obtained after a contributor has published ≥four high quality pieces of content. After that the contributor can be nominated by a group member and validated by three vouches.
The group membership can be removed, if:
a member negligently misbehaves (eg acting opposed to our principles or PoolTogether’s values, causing distrust, etc.)
a member has not participated for 3 months without notice

# Budget
Budget & Compensation
The Education Team should have a quarterly budget at its disposal.
During Season 0, the Education Team will iterate on its compensation and budget policy in order to provide transparency to our contributors and help retain core talent while also ensuring budgets are being spent on work that was impactful and valuable.
Part of it is being used to fund a dedicated Coordinape circle:
Circle operates in two-week epochs
All team members receive the ability to distribute GIVE by default.
Due to its small size, openness and transparency is encouraged among team members
A mediator is assigned to facilitate fairness in the circle
The outcome of the epochs will allow us to measure the content contributors thought to be most effective. The top receivers can serve as good examples for other creators to learn from.

Expense
Budget
Team Members
$12,453
Coordinape
$5,000
Bounties
$3,000
Tools / Subscriptions
$200
Total
$20,653

[Explore adding some kind of incentives like gas faucet etc for new users]
Rationale
$5,000 dedicated Coordinape circle
$12,453 for the 3 team leaders/mediators in addition to a $5,000 coordinape circle.
We plan to organize and plan out the coordinape circle in the first 4-6 weeks before it goes live.
This would equate to about 3 epochs for the quarter (2 epochs per month), each epoch valued at ~$1,666 paid out in USDC
We will be using bounties to facilitate some integration or encourage additional community sourced tasks (fiat on ramp using moonpay as an example)

### Team Expenses

Expenses

Currently we do not have any expenses that we are aware of. If we incur any expenses during the upcoming quarter we will request a reimbursement at a future time. We will limit this to $1000 for the quarter but do not anticipate spending that much.

Note: Token prices at time of budget request are used for standardization. For simplicity the relevant token prices are provided below.

# Appendix

## Token Pricing

Show the token prices used for any USD calculations.

| Token | USD |
| ---- | ---- |
| ETH | $1300 |
| USDC | $1 |
| POOL | 0.71 |

If you are interested in being a team member or coordinape contributooor let us know please! This is just the initial draft.

We would also like to hold team leads accountable and emulate elected terms. More details to follow but in short we plan to have a system in place to hold members accountable.

Please let us hear any feedback, suggestions or if you have an interest to contribute!