PROOF OF SOUND | KUSAMA JINGLE TREASURY PROPOSAL

1. General Project Information

Short description:

Unique Kusama (and Polkadot) sound clip or jingle for audio notification when receiving funds, notifications or messages

Project Category / Type: Marketing (awareness, lifestyle, branding,...)

Proponent:
Babes Papes / ESJW7WgAxoybpZ6ULrh6dYwi3WpEGY2hN3wB1eYKE3NcTHo

KSM address:
ESJW7WgAxoybpZ6ULrh6dYwi3WpEGY2hN3wB1eYKE3NcTHo

Requested allocation: XY KSM

Previous treasury proposals: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/99

2. Context

Sound notifications are a very powerful branding and marketing tool which gives a service or brand a distinctive touch. Sound clips, jingles or audio notifications are deeply rooted in our daily lifes and subliminal advertise and promote the products and services we use such as private messaging apps, email clients, and business communication tools. But these audio notifications are not limited to modern applications that come along with our smart phone or computer. Church bells, ambulance, and your washing machine use sound to their advantage making the listeners their “audio slave”. It’s impossible to consciously avoid listening to something except when using head phones for example. Hence, why not develope jingles for Kusama (and Polkadot) and be the first blockchain out there to have a unique and recognizable jingle!

3. Problem

Not really a problem solving proposal, but nice to have since sooner or later other blockchains will have it and then Kusama/Polkadot will follow suit.
Exodus wallet does have an “asset transfer” jingle which is not really a unique sound clip, but a copy of a bunch of coins dropping into a wallet.

4. Proposal

4.1. Available solutions

• I can look for a sound designer or studio which develops jingles and ask for a quote and publish the proposal based on that offer

• Looking for a hobby or pro sound designer within the community, get a quote and publish the proposal based on that offer

• Looking for hobby or pro sound designer within Parity, W3F or the parachains, get a quote and publish the proposal based on that offer

4.2. Scope of work

Development of 3x Kusama and 3x Polkadot jingles from which the community can chose which one is going to be the final one and from then on it should be used for all Kusama/Polkadot compatible wallets.
Intellectual property of these jingles must be transferred to Parity and a legal document must be written and signed by both parties that confirms officially ownership of these jingles!
The legal team of Parity should be involved in this process.

4.3. Milestones

• Assigning the job to chosen individual or party
  (maybe a briefing on requirements or expectations on how the jingle should sound like for Kusama & Polkadot - maybe it should be the same for both?)

• Development process of jingles by sound designer

• Presentation of 6x samples in total to community (3x DOT, 3x KSM)

• Poll on which sample should be the final one

• Adding the jingle feature to wallets such polkadot.js, etc.

4.4. Timeline

Depends on given timeline proposed by sound designer

4.5. Budget

Depends on 4.1.

(I got an hourly rate estimation of €60-100 from a friend, who works in that field and who told me that this rate depends on the size of the project as well)

4.6. Payment condition

Depends on 4.1

4.7. Key deliverables

3x jingle samples for Kusama
3x jingle samples for Polkadot

4.8. Objectives/Success criteria

Community likes jingle samples, choses one of them, finally approves it to
become the “proof of sound” for Kusama and Polkadot and from then on it becomes a standard feature in all Kusama/Polkadot supported wallet and we can here a distinctive sound whenever we receive assets to our wallet.
Known constraints
IP or legal related issues and technical problems with making it a default feature for the wallets

4.10. Reporting

I will communicate status updates on discord, Element and on Polkassembly.

4.11. Communication

Team member: Babes Papes

Email: office@babespapes.com

Polkassebly post:

Element: @babespapes:matrix.org

Discord: Babes Papes#2824

5.Team

I’m a senior ambassador for Polkadot who participated in the Kusama’s thousand
validator programme with my own hardware, validator for HydraDX, regular host of Polkadot Meet Up’s in Munich, Germany, full time product development engineer and part time entrepreneur with experience in product design and ecommerce.

5.1. Kusama/Polkadot reputation

Polkadot Munich Meet Ups example: https://tinyurl.com/3m5693z2

Successfull proposed and delivered treasury proposal: https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/99

https://medium.com/@babespapes/proof-of-taste-9702cac7bd9f

6.Why Kusama?

It is supposed to be wild, progressive, experimental and hence perfect fit for such an
unusual and experimental proposal