Contest Proposal: Free TON Cryptography Jury Contest
Short description
This is the first contest to be run by the initial Free TON Cryptography Jury. The Free TON Cryptography Jury will be limited to the work described above and executed within the Free TON Cryptography Governance structure.
This contest must be held again in the event that the Free TON Cryptography Jury disbands for any reason until December 1-st 2021. The maximum number of Free TON Cryptography Jury members is 15.
Type
Contest
Contest entry period September 25, 2021 00:01 UTC - October 9, 2021 at 23:59 UTC
Voting period: 14 days
Motivation
The goal of the contest is to attract professional developers that will be motivated to grow and enhance the Free TON ecosystem by participation in the Free TON Cryptography governance structure. This will help achieve the goal of decentralized Governance 2.0.
Contest submission requirements
Applicants must provide a curriculum vitae that demonstrates the following:
- Theoretical (papers, research, etc.) or practice-based (libraries, implementations, etc.) cryptography-related experience.
- Proof of engagement in open source development (a link to github account is a must have).
- Proof of knowledge of the code base of the Free TON.
- Proof of involvement into the Free TON community.
According to the discussion on Sep 8, 2021, FreeTON Cryptography SG is looking for at least:
- At least 2 folks with an experience of formally verifying FreeTON in-TVM logic.
- At least one research fellow.
- At least 2 developer folks. Probably DevEx SubGov fellows. Someone with the experience of in-TVM logic development.
If your curriculum vitae includes one of those backgrounds, it might improve your chances.
Rights and duties of the winner as a member of the Free TON Cryptography Jury
The duties of the Free TON Cryptography Jury members are the following:
- to ensure smooth running of Free TON Cryptography governance;
- to ensure development of contents proposals;
- to review contents proposals;
- to assess submissions for the Contests, including code review;
- to ensure timely distribution of funds;
- to participate in the activities of the Free TON Cryptography governance on a regular basis.
The Free TON Cryptography Jury members can’t judge the applications and submissions from themselves, organisations they belong to/companies they work for. It’s the responsibility of the Free TON Cryptography Jury members to declare the affiliation and withdraw from assessment. This reason constitutes a valid excuse for any juror.
The Free TON Cryptography Jury members are eligible for their services for the remuneration from the Jury Remuneration Fund.
These conditions may be changed or supplemented before the contest will launch.
Assessment of the entrants to Free TON Cryptography Jury Contest
Each of the initial Free TON Cryptography jurors has to assess all the incoming applications.
A juror must assess the application on a scale of 1-10 (10 - the highest score, 1 - the lowest score), based on assessment criteria.
A juror must provide writing feedback for each application.
These conditions may be changed or supplemented before the contest will launch.
The applications that can’t be read or contain irrelevant information, or submitted after the deadline are to be disqualified and rejected.
Procedural remarks
Participants must correctly upload their applications to the Free TON Cryptography Jury contest (in PDF format) in order for the jurors to view them. If the application can’t be open or is submitted in the wrong format, the candidate will be rejected by the jury.
Participants must submit their applications before the deadline of the contest. If the application is submitted late, it will be rejected.
All submissions must include the contestant’s social network identity, a Telegram ID and Github ID, by which jurors can verify that the submission belongs to the individual who submitted it (preferred). Alternative communication way is an email address with a PGP public key provided (which will be pinged by SG initial members from time to time to ensure it is still being used) or a forum-based thread (not preferred). Github link alternative could be the link to the set of repositories commits in which are signed by the same public key which was provided for PGP email address.
If no communication ways and repositories links were provided, the submission may be rejected.
Any juror may approach any applicant via Telegram (or any other communication way) and appoint an interview or ask several questions in writing to clarify any facts given in the application. The rejection to give an interview or to give answers to the questions can affect the score.
A submission should also include a pubkey and an Free TON wallet address.
