RIP-3: Science Conference 2022 Event and Budget Approval

SUMMARY: The Science Conference 2022 (SciCon 2022) marks the first online event organized by the ResearchHub community. This proposal will seek to outline the intention and logistics of the event as well as request a budget for operating expenses and event awards. SciCon 2022 is currently slated for the 2nd half of July 2022.

MOTIVATION: The intention of SciCon 2022 is to help facilitate engagement/awareness regarding the topic of Metascience, to essentially educate the broader scientific and non-scientific community on the pitfalls regarding the current architecture of science. In addition, it will bring awareness to the ResearchHub platform and its value proposition.

PROPOSAL: We seek community approval for allocating time and resources to setting up ResearchHub’s first online event. We also propose to use up to 1.25M RSC of the 2.5M RSC Q2 2022 budget described in RIP-2: Treasury Allocation Q2 2022 According to RIP-2, these 1.25M RSC are earmarked for the following: 1) 10% general marketing and events (250K out of 2.5M RSC) 2) 40% bounties and editor activities (1M out of 2.5M RSC).

ACTION: The Community/Working Group Leads and head community members will spearhead and coordinate members of the community to organize the event. Payments will be done by heavily leaning on the use of bounties on Dework (paid in RSC as outlined above) to payout members for the work completed. Any excess RSC earmarked for this event will remain in the treasury for it’s intended use (i.e. general marketing or bounties) through the end of Q2 2022 whereby these extra RSC will then be held as “excess reserves.”