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The KPIs were discussed today during the mentoring session with [redacted] (cc’ed). Since one of the primary objectives of the mentoring sessions is to define the KPIs applicable to the project, we worked out KPIs suitable to non-commercial projects and fedeproxy in particular. Here is the proposal that emerged, for your review:
Fedproxy validation:
- Non-Commercial validation
- Problem and solution (8 points out of 40)
- The solution is trying to solve an identified problem
- Description of the solution
- Global overview
- Why you?
- Significant contribution to the internet community (8 points out of 40)
- The size of the Free Software developer community
- The size of the internet community impacted by the Free Software developer community
- Does the targeted internet community exist?
- Is the emergence of a de-facto communication standard between forges possible?
- Is the communication standard presented in a well identified and analysed network (developers, forge maintainers, forge authors)?
- Cooperation (8 points out of 40)
- Present your cooperative environment
- Which are the main actors willing to cooperate (forge users, forges instances, forges authors)?
- Main actors description: deep description of 3 principal actors
- Conclusions after analysing the actors
- Usage value and adoption (10 points out of 40)
- Communication plan
- Number of support from individuals or organizations published publicly after Phase I
- How does it contribute to the decentralization of forges?
- How does it help forge ensure durability of the user data?
- How does it reduce the risk of forge maintainers under the RGPD?
- Execution (6 points out of 40)
- Financial planning and 18 months forecast
Instead of the generic template:
- Business Validation
- Problem and solution (8 points out of 40)
- The solution is trying to solve an identified problem
- Description of the solution
- Global overview
- Why you?
- Market (8 points out of 40)
- "The market size and the precise market they address
- Does the market exist? Do they give enough details?"
- "Targets
- Are they clearly described? Why those?"
- "The business is presented in a well identified and analysed network
- (suppliers, clients, partners, legal framework)"
- Competition (8 points out of 40)
- "Present your competitive environment
- Is it highly fragmented or concentrated? Who are the main actors? Direct or indirect competitors?"
- "Main actors description
- Deep description of 3 principal actors: size, offer, strategy, development stage
- Did they raise any funds?"
- Conclusions after analysing the competition
- Sales (10 points out of 40)
- Sales plan
- Number of Letter of Intent/Pilots signed after Phase 1
- Presentation and explanation of the price
- "Details on the commercial release
- Justification of the number of clients/users: what is the financial effort to realise this
action? How do they realise their customer acquisition?"- Presentation and explanation of the Business Model
- Execution (6 points out of 40)
- “70 % Milestones achieved as per proposal”
- “Financial planning and 18 months forecast”
Cheers