Onboarding Indian College students to Cardano

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

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

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

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

A series of lecutres on cardano ecosystem, technicals and development onboarding in hindi. Mostly targeting the college student and young developer demographic of India .

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

[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.”

no dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

[GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

All lectures will be in the public domain

[METADATA] Horizons

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution

Currently, India is churning out lots of engineers each year which take up a lot of jobs and become entrepreneurs in different IT fields. There are huge tech influencers in India which push the public developer and student engineering narrative towards a specific industry or job. Most of these influencers make Youtube videos in Hindi and are aimed at college student and young developers. Although, we have solana and ethereum based content in Hindi on youtube, there is none yet on cardano and pushes more and more students towards these blockchains. Therefore, there is a gap of such content for Indian student population which churns out more than 1 million people every year . I am planning to solve this by proposing to release high quality lectures on cardano fundamentals (both technical and non-technical) which would onboard these young engineers to cardano.

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

The project would bring a lot of new users, investors and entrepreneurs to the cardano ecosystem which would lead to new innovation and use cases and a reduced developer cost because of the new entrants in the developer pool

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

I have been involved with the cardano ecosystem since 2 years now and also have a degree in computer science. I have made tutorial videos on cardano development on my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@blocktech26/videos and have also served as a Cardano Ambassador as a content creator. In these years, I have been active with development communities on cardano on discord , twitter, telegram and cardano forum .I have also completed the cardano architect course offered by Emurgo. Therefore, I have a high degree of familiarity with the ecosystem and the knowledge required to complete this project.I have already tried publishing lectures in Hindi language which was appluaded on cardano forum and also the cardano foundation.

[PROJECT MILESTONES] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Generating the list of lectures and the contents of each lecutres. This milestone would also setup online spaces for the Indian cardano community for interacting with each other on telegram and discord.

Lectures 1-4

Lectures 5-8

Final lecture and publishing all the code to github. This milestone would also have a livestream and a Q&A session if there are any questions by the community.

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Prerak Malik

I will be involved with the lecture curation, generating the lecutres, video editing and managing the community

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Video editing and publishing the lecutres 10,000 ADA

Coding , research and generating study material for the lectures 25,000 ADA

Miscellaneous and community handling 5000 ADA

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

This content would ensure that a lot more developers are onboarded to the cardano community. This would lead to more innovation, reduced development costs due to influx of new debelopers and varied use cases cause of new enterprises that might onboard to cardano.