How to prepare and submit a contest proposal in Free TON

We strive to create a system for activating and conducting contests that is as autonomous as possible and does not require a governing body, i.e, decentralized.

Each new proposal for the competition fosters the development of this system, but this means going through an inconvenient "manual" path, which requires active communication and interaction with the community.

Here you will find a step-by-step guide on how to contribute to the Free TON ecosystem and get rewarded by the community.

Create your proposals by following our recommendations and then that they will be successfully accepted and implemented (highly likely, that is).

1. Show yourself as an active member of the community. Join the Free TON chat rooms and register on the forum. Show the community that you have something valuable to give. Discuss topics that interest you. In General, make your contribution, and become a useful and recognizable participant.

TON.De_En - developer community
TON.De_ENG - information channel for developers
Free TON Validators - validator chat
forum.freeton.org - forum for discussions, initiatives, competitions and proposals
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To become an active member of the forum and understand what is happening there, you need to complete a little training by following the instructions on the site and reading notifications from the system in your profile.

2. Form your idea clearly. Think it through. Write it down (digitally or however you want). When we write our thoughts and ideas, they crystalize, and they become much clearer. For sure, in the process, you will see that there is something that needs to be refined and improved.

Check which contests already exist or have passed to find out how unique your idea is (and avoid overlapping).

3. Shape up your proposal on the forum. Having clarified and worked out your idea well and how to implement it, post it on the forum (in a special thread). This must be done in English.

Let's note an important point: in order for your proposal to be taken seriously, it should be executed correctly and to the point (but at the same time it should be in detail where it is required for explanations), observing a clear structure. Which one? You can determine this by reviewing previously published successful proposals. Here is one of them:

Pay attention to these examples as well:

As you may have noticed when viewing these examples, each of them has subheadings that help you divide the text into semantic parts. This way it will be possible for everybody who reads your proposal to clearly understand what is what and in turn to evaluate it as efficiently as possible.

As you can see, not all of the proposals that we give examples of above are the same in their structure. However, you can identify the main titles of subheadings that are important for almost any proposal:

Short description
Proposal type
Starting Date, Contest entry period
Motivation
General requirements or rules
Evaluation Criteria
Rewards for winners
Jury Prize

And for clarity of what form of offers is unacceptable attach the following examples at the bottom:

We also recommend reading these examples:

4. In advance think about a reasonable starting date of your competition. On average, we recommend selecting at least 15-20 days from the beginning of publication on the forum and submission to the community for discussion. After all, first you have to introduce your idea (more on this in paragraph 5) and achieve its optimal form, taking the feedback into account. Then wait for the jury to review and evaluate it. And only then, if it is approved by the jury, the competition will start.

Write a draft of the entire text of your proposal, check it for grammar and spelling using one of (or several at once) free online services, such as text.ru/spelling, advego.com/text and chrome.google.com/webstore.

Now your bid is ready to be published. Go to the forum and do it by clicking on the "New Topic" button in the Contest Proposals section.

5. Engage the community in discussion and respond positively to criticism. Tell us about your proposal in the main Free TON chats and share a link to it. Then support the discussion by responding to comments and possible questions from community members. Pay attention to everything you hear. Appreciate constructive criticism and be ready to improve your proposal if it is obvious that this way it will become better and bring more benefits to Free TON.

And after collecting feedback, you can edit the text of your proposal on the forum.

Another great way to tell people about your proposal/project is to arrange with the chat administrators (in the Russian community, this is Roman D and Ann) to be invited to a weekly video meeting (meetup) and give you time to present your offer.

In order to send it to a vote your application should really interest the community, so when studying Free TON, you should be more interested in what needs to be done at the moment and how you can help the community.

And we wish you perseverance, patience and enthusiasm that will help you make your contribution to the development of Free TON!

We are grateful for the assistance and main ideas for this guide by Michael Shapkin; and to ivan kotelnikov and Roman D. for some additions.

How to prepare and submit a contest proposal in Free TON

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