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Indian has large size of developers pool and many of them wish to learn and work on Cardano however they don’t find required support groups around.
This is the total amount allocated to Cardano India Developers Community Hub. 3 out of 4 milestones are completed.
1/4
Cardano India community Setup: Communication materials prepared
Cost: ₳ 26,000
Delivery: Month 1 - Apr 2024
2/4
Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Cost: ₳ 21,000
Delivery: Month 3 - Jun 2024
3/4
Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Cost: ₳ 21,000
Delivery: Month 5 - Aug 2024
4/4
Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Cost: ₳ 29,900
Delivery: Month 6 - Sep 2024
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Events Marketing Director -@ Cendyn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehaginoria/
18+ year Global Experience in Marketing, Communication and Event Management
Cardano India Developers Community
Cardano India Developers Community Hub to organize activities and events online and offline to build awareness about Cardano ecosystem and support the developers in process to learn and work on it.
No dependencies.
It is open forum, open to all developers.
Background:
We being part of the Cardano community for the last two years and worked on a project to train senior developers in India on Plutus and Haskell, we realized that there is bigger need to build awareness at larger community level and build community of developers for Cardano Ecosystem.
There is a serious shortage of qualified senior developers in Cardano Ecosystem impacting plans to deliver various solutions to the problems envisaged by community builders and thinkers.
The Indian IT industry employs 2 million plus software developers, only less than 0.5% of developers possess the necessary blockchain development skills.
Solution:
Indian skilled and experienced developers pool could be a solution to fill the gap of the developers requirement for Cardano Ecosystem. These developers are engaged in developing complex applications using other technologies in web 2.0 and they have the ability to quickly grasp and be ready developers for Cardano blockchain.
Our program Design and key pillars
Implementation:
Connecting Cardano blockchain developers is pivotal in unlocking the full potential of the ecosystem. By providing a supportive environment, educational resources, project opportunities, and networking events, we aim to support Cardano Community to increase Developers in its Ecosystem.
We already have a module designed for any new developers to start learning and developing on Cardano platform.
Here is some example of educational materials from Cardano India Developers Community Github repository
https://github.com/CardanoIndiaDevelopersCommunity
India is a Large Country, it is a sub-continent, hence it is difficult cover all key locations for offline events. For this practical reason, we shall do in person/offline events in two major cities of East India region, that is Kolkata and Bhubaneswar. All Online events will be open for Developers from all over India and our digital Initiatives will continue focusing on India.
Without the supportive environment for developers, new innovations would be stalled. By supporting this challenge settings, more developers would be drawn into Cardano. There would be a bigger talent pool of developers that Catalyst projects can collaborate with and turn project concepts/Proof of concept into successful protocols which would enhance the growth of Cardano.
Today, Cardano Community to grow, it needs to attact developers from outside of our current community to participate.
For this, as India provides talent pool, there is need of catalyst program to reach to this pool, attact them and facilitate smooth on boarding on Cardano Development Ecosystem.
In addtion to online campaigns, there is need to have offline events like Meetups and workshops to complement the online campaigns effort. This is proven most effective way to Marketing and outreach.
In todays highly competitive development tech environment, A supportive program for developers can encougage and keep the developers motivated and engaged.
This proposal helps in making available more trained developers on Cardano by attracting existing web 2.0 developers in India and supporting them on their journey to be part of Cardano developers Eco Systems. Cardano community can meet their objectives and project timelines as there is wider talent pool available.
Target:
In 8 months, we shall build 100+ developers’ community which is engaged in learning and development on Cardano Ecosystem. This approach can help to quickly fill the shortage of developers in Cardano Ecosystem.
Number of developers engaged with Cardano community and developer ecosystem is a good measure of impact of this proposal. We shall share number of enganged developers in our monthly reports. For detailed audit, we can facilitate developers attedance, feedback and repositories.
As it is community based project, community feedback will be collected and shared.
We are passionate about blockchain technology, and we have been leveraging Cardano blockchain Technology for more than 2 years. Since we got introduced to Cardano by a Cardano community Evangelist 2.5 years ago, we have learned Cardano tech stack as well delivered multiple projects on Cardano blockchain.
Our team's capability to deliver this project with high levels of trust and accountability is grounded in our extensive experience and expertise in both blockchain technology and our network/connection of developers in India. Here’s how we validate our approach and ensure the feasibility of the project:
Team Expertise and Experience:
The Team experiance is a great commbination of tech/developmnet expertise and events and community management with extensive network of developers in India. We have worked together more than 10 years.
Validating the Approach:
Trust and Accountability in Fund Management:
Steps to Ensure Trust:
By combining our team's expertise with a rigorous approach to project management and stakeholder engagement, we believe we are well-positioned to deliver this project successfully. Our commitment to transparency, accountability, and continuous communication ensures that we can be trusted to manage funds properly and achieve the project’s objectives.
Timeline: Month 1 and 2
Description:
Cardano India community Setup: Communication materials prepared
Deliverables/Output:
Acceptance criteria: Cardano India Developers Community Website is created with social media accounts and 20 developers are member and one meetup is organized with attendance record.
Month 3-4
First Cardo meetup
20 members in community
Timeline: Month 3 and 4
Description:
Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Deliverables/Output:
Acceptance criteria: Cardano India Developers Community is growing to number 40 and a meetup happened. A Webinar with an expert or influencer with Members.
A Developers workshop/training happened
Timeline: Month 5 and 6
Description:
Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Deliverables/Output:
Acceptance criteria: Cardano India Developers Community is growing to number 60 and a meetup happened. A Webinar with an expert or influencer with Members. A Developers workshop/training happened
Timeline: Month 7 and 8
Description:
Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Deliverables/Output:
Acceptance criteria: Cardano India Developers Community is growing to number 100 and a meetup happened. One day event in parson with industry experts, project sponsors and Members. A Developers workshop/training happened
Our team is engaged on Telegram, Discord and Cardano Forums. Udai has relationships with Project Catalyst Fund operational and technical team members and are involved in various forums. Narendra is active participate in various technical forums on Discord.
Udai Solanki ( Program Manager, Community Manager, Workshop Trainer) ,
CTO at www.erevmax.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/solanki
Technical Architect |Java Programmer|Plutus and Haskell Programmer
20+ years Technology and programming experience
2+ years Cardano Tech Stack experience
Narendra Das (Workshop Trainer)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naren4das/
Technical Architect |Java Programmer|Plutus and Haskell Programmer
20+ years programming experience
2+ years Cardano Tech Stack experience
Neha Ginoria (Social Media Content Creator and Campaign Manager)
Events Marketing Director @ Cendyn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehaginoria/
18+ year Global Experience in Marketing, Communication and Event Management
Quotus software Solution, www.quotus.co.in (Website Design and Developement)
The company has team of web designer, web developers to build and manager community website.
Milestone 1: Cardano India community Setup: Communication materials prepared.
Duration: 2 months
Community
Website Design and Development: 20 person days x $120 =$2,400
Content Preparation: 20 person days x $120 = $2,400
Social Media Marketing: 20 person days x $120 = $2,400
Project Coordination and Documentation: = $2,000
Meetup Organization Expenses =$800
Total: $10,000
Total ADA @ 0.38 = ADA 26,300
Milestone 2: Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Duration: 2 months
Workshop Organizing and Trainer =$1,000
Content Preparation: 10 person days x $120 = $1,200
Social Media Marketing: 10 person days x $120 = $1,200
Developers Technical Support(Ad hoc) = $1,000
Webinar hosting with Expert = $800
Project Coordination and Documentation: = $2,000
Meetup Organization Expenses =$800
Total: $8,000
Total ADA @ 0.38 = ADA 21,000
Milestone 3: Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Duration: 2 months
Workshop Organizing and Trainer =$1,000
Content Preparation: 10 person days x $120 = $1,200
Social Media Marketing: 10 person days x $120 = $1,200
Developers Technical Support(Ad hoc) = $1,000
Webinar hosting with Expert = $800
Project Coordination and Documentation: = $2,000
Meetup Organization Expenses =$800
Total: $8,000
Total ADA @ 0.38 = ADA 21,000
Milestone 4: Cardano India Developers Community Expansion
Duration: 2 months
Workshop Organizing and Trainer = $1,000
Content Preparation: 10 person days x $120 = $1,200
Social Media Marketing: 10 person days x $120 = $1,200
Developers Technical Support(Ad hoc) = $1,000
One Day Event, Experts and Members with Venue = $4,000
Project Coordination and Documentation: = $2,000
Meetup Organization Expenses =$800
Total: $11,200
Total ADA @ 0.38 = ADA 29,500
Total Budget $37,200
Total Budget ADA @ 0.38 = ADA 97,900
The Cost of the proposed project is less than 1% of the Category budget to bring Developers to Cardano Ecosystem to benefit community at large. This is an open source project, it will work in colloboration with community and increase active developers and support them.
For this smaller cost, Increasing Cardano awareness in India among large community of Developers and bringing more delvelopers for Cardano community. This community building program is initially suggested for 8 months and this may be sufficient to build base. This can have exponential impact on expanding developer network in India. In future, after 8 months, this community can self sustain with industry spoonsership and members contribution.
It brings indirect value by increasing Cadano blockchain adoption. As more developers are attacted to ecosystem and the developer scarcity is reduced that is immense value in terms of adoption to the Cardano Ecosystem.