Lovelace Academy Marlowe Plutus

BACKGROUND

Cardano has built a game-changing smart contracts and native assets platform. We need builders and visionaries building great products on top of it!

Some of the world's most brilliant minds in programming language design and computer science laid the foundations for this platform. Formally verifiable safety-first languages and tools assist in catching mistakes and vulnerabilities before they are deployed, giving our platform a deeper level of assurance for critical solutions while also providing a great developer experience.

We cannot ask for a better time to evangelise Cardano as the future decentralised financial operating system of the world. The existing blockchain platform of choice, Ethereum, is struggling with high fees, network congestion, broken smart contracts and a series of technical mishaps delaying the rollout of its much-needed upgrade.

ROAD MAP

Using YouTube as a main platform we will deliver 25 episodes in 6 months, with 1 episode per week

Making Sense of Cardano Series: 10-30 minutes each. Guest interviews, news and updates centred around the usage of Cardano to solve real-world problems.

Cardano's Smarter Contracts Series: 30-60 minutes each with accompanying GitHub Tutorials and Repositories

{ Learn * Experiment * Verify } in an { Open * Interactive * Safe } environment

A draft plan for episodes:

1. Introducing Cardano and its relevance to the world
2. Smart Contracts in Cardano and why it is a game changer for developers
3. Building and Testing a Smart Contract in Marlowe I
4. Building and Testing a Smart Contract in Marlowe II
5. Live Stream Developer Q&A for Marlowe
6. Building and Testing a Smart Contract in Marlowe III
7. Setting up to build a Smart Contract for Cardano with Plutus Tx
8. Advanced Smart Contracts in Cardano with Plutus Tx and Functional Programming Concepts
9. Building and Testing a dApp in Plutus Tx I
10. Building and Testing a dApp in Plutus Tx II
11. Live Stream Developer Q&A for Plutus
12. Building and Testing a dApp in Plutus Tx III
13. Building and Testing a dApp in Plutus Tx IV
14. Recap of Plutus and building dApps for real world use cases

Note that this is a draft and subject to change depending on the feedback from our watchers. A crucial part of our creative process to iteratively evaluate and improve our material.

TEAM

Member 1: The first woman stake pool operator on Shelley. Creator of "Ladies of Cardano"- A safe place for women to discuss Cardano where no question is a silly question https://t.me/CardanoWomen

Supporting existing and aspiring woman stake pool operators with technical and non-technical queries

Operator of kBLOCKs stake pool, Technical Lead at Accenture Denmark and SPOCRA member

Member 2: Lead Software Developer at an e-commerce giant.

I love teaching others and have the knack to be able to explain complex software engineering and other technological concepts in an easy-to-get way. I have been writing software for 25 years, 15 of which professionally for software consultancies, startups and large enterprises.

With expertise in scaling teams and technology, my role involves not only designing, building and supporting complex distributed systems but also teaching, mentoring and assessing the technical foundations of the five teams that I am accountable for.

Member 3: Educator, Cardano Ambassador, Cardano Portuguese official Telegram Mediator, SPO and also run my own channel on YouTube in Portuguese. I´ve learn who scary can this environment be and I think we could attract people bring on different perspectives how to approach the subjects.

I will be doing the back end of the Channel. For example Editing, posting and Marketing

OBS: Anything we do in this podcast could be easily replicated in Portuguese or Hindi as it is our 2 mother tongue. (The only cost affected is the production time as we would have all necessary tools)

My channel it is a link for a sneak peak of the voting system on FUND1: https://youtu.be/1fyqr1born8

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

We have acquired a deeper understanding of Cardano as a technical ecosystem through our journey as SPOs regularly producing blocks to assist in its decentralisation. We take pride in open-sourcing technical resources for our amazing community (e.g. https://github.com/SafeStak/pool-construction-kit)) and have guided both SPOs and delegators towards understanding the technical fundamentals.

In the smart contracts space we have had exposure building smart contracts in Ethereum using Remix and Truffle.

Much of our knowledge for Cardano's rapidly evolving smart contracts platform had been developed through the following materials:

The Udemy Courses

https://www.udemy.com/course/plutus-reliable-smart-contracts/

https://www.udemy.com/course/marlowe-programming-language/

Tutorials

https://alpha.marlowe.iohkdev.io/tutorial/index.html

https://prod.playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/tutorial/

Playgrounds

https://alpha.marlowe.iohkdev.io/#/

https://prod.playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/

LONG TERM PLAN

Expanding the Cardano ecosystem through education is our main goal and this constantly evolving space means our work is never done. As larger updates are rolled out (e.g. KEVM, IELE, etc.) we want our watchers be fully aware of breaking changes, newly established best-practices and killer features.

RISK

The Marlowe and Plutus languages with their associated APIs and environments are ever-evolving and we will try our best to ensure written tutorials and source code are up-to-date. However it is not a straightforward process to produce a new video with every update so a judgement call will determine if an updated video needs to be released upon a new release to the smart contracts platform.

COSTS

Staff costs: Team of three cost for 6 month 7,500 USD

Equipment/licensing costs 4,574 USD

Total: 12,074 USD (With Ada price at 0.10 => USD 120,740 ADA)

MILESTONES

The funds can be first for the equipment that we need and than monthly as we deliver our work

IP

All accompanying educational material (GitHub tutorial and code) is open-source under the MIT license

Video content will be under Creative Commons 2.0

METRICS

Number of views, geographic data, subscribers and how long are the people actually watching the videos

If you would like to talk more with us please go to https://discord.com/invite/tgcVvNx