Teaching Turks Cardano Through Online Workshops, Youtube videos, and Community Building

[GENERAL] Name and Surname of Main Applicant

Kaya Acarbay

[GENERAL] Email address of Main Applicant

kaya-acarbay8@hotmail.com

Additional Applicants

There are no additional applicants besides me.

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

5

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” in this field.

No dependencies.

[GENERAL] Will your project outputs be fully Open Source?

Yes

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.” in this field.

Project will be fully open source.

[METADATA] Category of Proposal

Education

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Problem

Turkiye is the 12th largest cryptocurrency market [Chainalysis 2022]. Yet Cardano is almost non-existant in the market. Turkish people don’t know much about Cardano, and the only content they can access in Turkish is investment advice.

For Turkish developers, this means they

1. don’t have any Turkish resources to learn about Cardano development
2. don’t know much about Cardano and the opportunities within.

What is my approach?

I am an 18 year old self-taught developer. I’m looking to learn about and start building on Cardano. I realized quickly that the only content available for me to learn was documentation and few English videos. I know English well, yet my peers, even university educated ones, often lack a good understanding in English. The lack of educational technical content in English thus becomes a blocker for them.

Since I am learning, I taught, why don’t I share my learning as I go along, learning even better for myself, and help others who want to learn as well.

Solution

The objective of my project is to engage Turkish developers and draw them into the Cardano ecosystem as builders.

To achieve this, I propose to:

• host weekly learn together workshops to tackle topics such as deploying nodes, making transactions, minting tokens etc…
• create YouTube videos on technical topics such as Cardano 101, EUTXO, making transactions, running nodes, integrating wallets to apps, writing smart contracts etc…
• prepare a resources list for newcomers to use with auto translate.
• build a Turkish Cardano community to help each other learn and build with.

I plan to start with the workshops, invite as many developers through Turkish developer forums into the community, and start learning together. These workshops will be shared on my Youtube channel in an unedited way. As I learn the topics well enough I will then also make shorter videos that teach topics much more clearly.

As I learn I plan to use resources such as:

• Gimbalabs Plutus Project-Based Learning,
• https://developers.cardano.org/,
• https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

Turkiye is currently ranked 12th in the world for Cardano adoption, with around 5.46% of the population owning the cryptocurrency, equating to 5 million users. However, despite cryptocurrency's popularity in Turkey, Cardano remains relatively unknown. My goal is to create a community in Turkey by educating people about the technical side of Cardano, sharing Turkish content on YouTube, and organizing workshops, among other initiatives. This will help to attract more users and investors, as well as individuals who generate ideas, to Cardano. In this way, Cardano will develop as a community.

(Source: Triple-A Crypto Ownership Data, Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index, Statista Global Cryptocurrency Ownership)

Challenge directly aims to create “resources or documentation that … help with improving the education around what is available in the ecosystem for development or running infrastructure”

This proposal aims to do exactly that by creating Turkish resources and documentation to educate Turkish developers to onboard to Cardano.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

I intend to measure the project’s success by looking at the number of views on the Youtube videos, the number of participants in the workshops, and the number of participants in the community. Together, these numbers will provide the engagement of my project. In time, these numbers will translate into Turkish developers building on Cardano and creating Project Catalyst proposals, and spreading Cardano in Turkiye.

In the short term, this will benefit to grow a community of Turkish developers learning and collaborating. In the long term, this will means products that serve the 80M+ Turkish market building on Cardano, and Cardano becoming more known in Turkiye.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

Workshops will be hosted in Discord, or Zoom, or similar environment, then uploaded to Youtube as is. All content will be shared on the Discord community, as well as on Twitter, Threads, reddit r/Turkey, and Turkish developer forums to reach as many interested developers as possible.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

For this project to be successful, I need these key capabilities: community building, holding workshops, learning and effectively communicating highly technical topics. The only challenging part of this is learning highly technical topics. I think my background as a self-taught programmer in the past four years has prepared me well for this challenge.

I have 3 years of experience learning and building projects with Python and have an intermediate proficiency in building with Arduino. I’ve also completed Python course and have a certificate from Udemy. (https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-a535f095-7275-4cd9-8ff8-a81178aaeb90/)

As a passionate programmer, I enjoy testing my knowledge by hacking my friends' phones and social media accounts (they initially doubted my abilities), developing applications, and pushing the boundaries of programming languages. My curiosity to learn more about emerging technologies has led me to explore Cardano.

In my previous experience, I had the opportunity to work on a TUBITAK project where I developed code for an Arduino board.

The project’s aim was to build an in house farm. All you need to do is fill the farmland's water compartment, and the system will run automatically. The soil humidity level will be always check itself and this prevents the products we grow from rotting. The project required significant planning, execution, and monitoring, which gave me the opportunity to develop my project management skills.

For the more technical parts of the project, I shared all of the documents on GitHub that contains my 3D farming land my designs, creating a home-farm environment, as shown on pages 6 and 7 of the Yeni Bir Kavram Taşınılabilir Dairesel Tarım PDF. On page 9, you can see my Arduino code for measuring soil humidity. The last page of the Apollo-6 PDF contains all my research resources.

Overall, I am confident in my programming skills, project management skills, and my ability to deliver high-quality work in a timely fashion.

https://github.com/acarbayk

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

The goal of the project is to:

1. Produce technical content for Turkish developers to help them get into Cardano,
2. Build a community of Turkish developers who learn and build together

My approach is to first learn myself, then learn with others in workshops, and teach others through shorter content. This is a tried and tested method of learning and building educational communities.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

• [CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.
• Milestones for the project are organized by the number of workshops and Youtube videos delivered. For each milestone beyond the first, the plan is to:
• study the technicals alone,
• curate developer resources for the community as I learn,
• determine workshop topics,
• promote the community, workshops, and youtube videos on socials,
• host workshops to work on the topics with the community,
• plan and create 2 non-workshop Youtube videos,
• Repeating this simple plan for 5 months, I aim to build a strong community hub for Turkish developers.

Milestone 1 - Preparation and the First Workshop

• Activities:
• plan the contents of the first workshops
• get confirmation from 5-10 people who want to join the worksh
• host the first workshop
• Acceptance Criteria: 1 workshop held and shared on Youtube
• Expected timeline: 4 weeks

Milestone 2 - More workshops, and starting Youtube explainers

• Acceptance Criteria: 4 workshops held and shared on Youtube, 2 additional explainers posted on Youtube
• Expected Timeline: 4 weeks

Milestone 3 - Kicking into gears with more workshops and explainers

• Acceptance Criteria: 4 workshops held and shared on Youtube, 2 additional explainers posted on Youtube
• Expected Timeline: 4 weeks

Milestone 4 - Establishing the community as the go to place for Cardano developers

• Acceptance Criteria: 4 workshops held and shared on Youtube, 2 additional explainers posted on Youtube
• Expected Timeline: 4 weeks

Milestone 5 - An established developer hub for Cardano

• Acceptance Criteria: 4 workshops held and shared on Youtube, 2 additional explainers posted on Youtube
• Expected Timeline: 4 weeks

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

For each milestone, the deliverables are the Youtube explainers and workshops.

Intended outcomes are an increasing capability to teach Turkish developers how to build on Cardano, a community of developers who learn together and support each other, more and more developers onboarding on the community as builders and teachers. As the impact of this grows, the outcome will be more projects by Turkish developers on Cardano, more projects aiming to solve problems for the Turkish market, and onboarding more Turks onto Cardano as developers, users, and investors.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

I am demanding the minimum budget possible at 15,000 ADA.

The budget will cover my expenses as I dedicate myself fully to this project, as well as tools I can use to deliver this proposal such as Notion, chatgpt plus, Zoom etc.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

This proposal aims to unlock the potential hidden in the 80M+ people in the Turkish market. There are many developers in Turkiye who are looking for ways to make use of their talents while earning foreign currencies. This is a great opportunity for them, but they can’t get involved because of the barriers. For the minimum budget possible, Cardano purchases the only option to get them involved and start getting into this untapped market.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept