What is not good evidence?

General rules

• The information provided does not clearly show that work was done in the month leading up to the report

• The links submitted do not work, so the project's evidence cannot be effectively verified

  • E.g. Git repo is publicly accessible that will allow for review

• The report and evidence submitted is not in line with the Ideascale proposal

  • There have been changes made to the project in some way without approving the scope change

  • Project report is a duplicate of another previous report or another project altogether

  • The evidence contains projects description only, without any progress

  • Evidence is in different language than English

    • Process cannot accommodate other languages just yet

• Evidence is the same for different projects submitted by the same proposer

Specific evidence

• If image/video is evidence:

  • Quality is poor - unable to watch/see

  • Image wasn’t taken within time frame of progression month

  • Lack of description

• If code is evidence:

  • It isn’t in the Git repository

  • Activity in Github doesn’t match what stated in progress report

• If presentation/slide is evidence:

  • There is only project description, no track of any progression made within last month

• If plan/task is evidence:

  • List of task completed in the last month or description of/list of tasks for the future month only ( there should be both list current and future one), lack of supporting evidence attached

• If website is evidence:

  • No clear evidence of new features/updates on the website and their description

• What if evidence is deemed as insufficient?

  • If a project submits MR before the deadline, there is a better chance that Catalyst will inform a project via email that there is an issue with evidence provided.

  • Email will raise what the issue is and request to address, ideally by re-submitting MR with the required information.