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Marlowe is a great tool for intuitive Smart Contract solution development but not so well known in the Cardano ecosystem and outside of it. We need practical sessions and face-to-face experimentation
This is the total amount allocated to 45B - Marlowe workshops for Business professionals. 0 out of 5 milestones are completed.
1/5
Ms1-Preparation
Cost: ₳ 10,890
Delivery: Month 3 - Jun 2024
2/5
Ms2-Cohort#1
Cost: ₳ 10,890
Delivery: Month 6 - Sep 2024
3/5
Ms3-Cohorts#2+#3
Cost: ₳ 10,890
Delivery: Month 9 - Dec 2024
4/5
Ms4-Cohorts#4+#5
Cost: ₳ 9,405
Delivery: Month 11 - Feb 2025
5/5
Ms5-Report
Cost: ₳ 7,425
Delivery: Month 12 - Mar 2025
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We will run Marlowe workshops for non-tech users. Providing a clear introduction and hands-on experience by building example use cases and personal projects. No previous knowledge will be required.
No dependencies
Project will be fully open source.
Apache 2.0, MIT License https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Marlowe is a ground-breaking tool in the user experience it brings to Cardano. Especially for something as Smart Contract development, that can be seen as a huge difficulty for projects to overcome in developing. Marlowe shines in enabling non-tech builders to access a robust Smart Contract technology [for prototyping or cost-effective].
However, a very small number of developers from learning/developing communities (e.g. Gimbalabs) are truly familiar with Marlowe, and seriously consider it when planning a project.
This is due to lack of familiarity with the technology and lack of proximity with communities that are Marlowe-centric and available to support.
We propose to run cohorts of online workshop-based courses that will provide a space to experiment with Marlowe and get to know it using terminology relatable from our daily lives. Demystifying acronyms and initial concepts to common sense language, while extending options to learn more.
We will reach out to teaching communities and web2 or web3 development entities from other blockchains, to promote that they come build in a simpler way. Also there are many financial and business areas where although a specialist of that area won’t be single-handedly taking a solution to production, they can greatly benefit of Marlowe for prototyping use cases on the Marlowe Playground
We will go over real use cases, discuss possibilities and even debate with guest lecturers from the IOG Marlowe team, who are available to support and discuss with our learners.
The results of our workshops will be fully shared for other to learn on their own time, plus learner project debriefs depublished as blog posts for easy reference and to build upon.
Existing proof of Concept
https://linktr.ee/cardanofornontechs
"Cardano for non-techs" ran for five months and touched some 30 learners and teachers. We had close to 30 diverse sessions with different ENG and PT learners. It left resources on Youtube, Miro, Sheets and Docs (linked to in the linktree above) and gave me (who already had a trainer background) a nice prototype experiment about teaching Cardano in a grassroots way.
Cardano for non-technical people - Main English Cohort
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW67rVVWg6dVjWr-hlr5BJZG5CFWmomjiCardano for non-technical people - English Cohort 2
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW67rVVWg6dVAMF4yrQENGCRus2GPzURlCardano para não técnicos - Portuguese Cohort
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW67rVVWg6dXdB0Tn-jwPPza4FP99QbaCCardano for non-technical people - Facilitator sessions - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW67rVVWg6dXpYIygkjoPSR0PdOms37p7The "Cardano 4 non-techs" initiative also spun off a Spanish version "Cardano sin tecnicismos" where Roberto expanded his prototype to having a Website and other resources. I'm adding Roberto as a co-proposer now. So this also serves as a POC, as we'll be teaming up for the current proposal.
https://cardano-sin-tecnicismos.netlify.app/
https://cardanosintecnicismos.substack.com/p/stake-pools-en-espanol
https://linktr.ee/cardanosintecnicismos
https://twitter.com/cardano_st
"Marlowe 4 non-techs" (this proposal) will be a much more groomed version of "Cardano 4 non-techs" starting from Cardano usage basics and expanding the users' knowledge and experimentation onto playing with Marlowe to understand Smart Contract workings and possible Use-cases.
It will provide a simpler and more acessible alternative to Emurgo Academy's Blockchain Business Consultant (select 'Business Stack'/'BCC' here).
Seing it as a groomed and serious product aimed at Small and Medium Businesses/Enterprises, I aimed this proposal at 'Solutions' and not 'Cardano Open'.
"Marlowe 4 non-techs" (this proposal) articulates with our proposal to build a website and other social/marketing/teaching resources, which will progress regardless of funding.
45B - Bring end-users and small businesses to Cardano: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/114561
Also, resources will be published in a Docusaurus or similar website format (e.g. this that I currently collaborate in maintaining)
Although he's not participating in the project, we are also touching base with Brian Bush from the Marlowe team for some orientation/review.
This proposal will make it easier for people specialized in finance, business, logistics, and other non-technical backgrounds to create smart contracts. By creating content tailored to them, we increase adoption and lower the barrier of entry to work with Cardano.
Our documented an collaborative workshops approach will yield educational material for future Marlowe users.
The promotion and running of this will foster relationships between communities and businesses.
45B’s Pedro Lucas is an experienced trainer with 20y in IT and 10y as a Technical Business Analyst (bridging technical and non-technical teams). He ran Cardano for non-techs workshops weekly for five months (detailed above), onboarding end-users to Cardano and experimented with bridging that format to Portuguese. The initiative also resulted in a Cardano Sin Tecnisismos spin-off to Spanish, by Roberto Mayen, who is a co-proposer and will be collaborating to deliver this proposal.
The goal of this project is not to dive into the technicalities of end-to-end taking a Marlowe solution to Production, but on the contrary to take builders through a use case approach of understanding the flow of events that happen in simple Smart Contract use cases. We have the ideal team to keep things at this level with accessible language.
This proposal will include limited advisory and mentorship from the IOG Marlowe team. Furthermore we will articulate with Gimbalabs for any technical support, plus Cardano Beam developers, who have hands-on experience with Marlowe.
Stage 1: Promotion and gathering sign-ups - 1 month
Stage 2: Workshops for background knowledge leveling - 3 sessions
Stage 3: Introduction to Marlowe - 2 sessions
Stage 4: Deconstructing Marlowe use cases - 5 sessions
Stage 5: Building a use case together - 2 session
Stage 6: Prototyping your own idea - 6 sessions
Trainer for English and Portuguese cohorts
Pedro Lucas - Technical Business Analyst - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrohlucas/
Maestro Developer Experience, BizDez;
Pedro Lucas has over 20y experience in IT. Working as a Technical Business Analyst in Business Process Management and Decision support DataViz solutions in Finance and Banking. He has been in Crypto for 3y and 100% dedicated to Cardano communities and technology for almost 2y. Pedro has helped in Gimbalabs, amongst other communities, created and ran 'Cardano for non-techs' workshop sessions, and now collaborates with Maestro focusing on Developer Experience and Business Development.
Promotion, content and administrative time
$45/hr x 30hrs x 5 cohorts = $6 750
Workshop sessions time
$60/hr x 18 sessions x 1,5hr/session x 5 cohorts = $8 100
Total $14 850 at $0.30/ADA = 49 500 ADA
There is a huge potential in proving that Marlowe is something unique for the development of web3 solutions. Facilitating the greater adoption of Marlowe with this kind of trainings will represent planting seeds in whole industries and for example the finance sector, where usually the professionals that understand processes would not dare pick up coding their automation themselves.
The training budget is according to or bellow standard rates for specialized trainers in Europe or the USA.