Open Source Training

Open-source training materials for Entrepreneurship-Toolbox

Workshops explaining open-source infrastructure to early stage entrepreneurs.

Stephen has 30 years' experience in organizing academic, community and business projects (See Detailed plan).

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Revisiting the Problem Statement

Project Catalyst is rapidly expanding, and its decentralized funding platform needs to support industry standard collaborative coding, tracking and documentation tools such as GitHub. 1000s of Cardano developers use version control tools such as GitHub, but there is often a gap in knowledge for early stage entrepreneurs who do not have the knowledge to take advantage of GitHub's organisational and collaborative features.

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Introducing the Solution (How I address the challenge question).

In partnership with the Catalyst School – QA-DAO will offer introductory training materials for early stage entrepreneurs to develop skills in open-source tools such as GitHub.

This will be a series of workshops comprising of a short screencast, screen share and a Q&A on the use of GitHub in Project Catalyst projects.

Short screencasts

The short screencasts will be produced in advance of Saturday workshop sessions and uploaded to Youtube. These will provide bite sized introductions to GitHub tracking and documentation tools.

Saturday workshop sessions

The Saturday workshop sessions will be introduced by the pre-recorded screencasts and followed by a screen share demonstration of the GitHub use cases for that week. The session will conclude with a Question and Answer (Q & A) to explore individual areas of interest and provoke discussion.

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Training Material Content

The training materials will cover :

Introduction to GitHub for entrepreneurs - focusing on using issues and project boards (Kanban) to track and manage projects.‌

Intermediate use of GitHub for entrepreneurs - focusing on GitHub's document revision features. Pull requests and reviews.‌

Advanced use of GitHub for entrepreneurs - static site generation and GitHub Actions. Continuous Integration features.

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Documentation

All the workshop materials will be documented and made available in a GitBook documentary format for ease of reference and re-use. All materials will be released under an open-source license.

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Distributed Auditability

The direction of the workshops will aim to discover participants workflows and examine how these may be documented, reported on, and automated using GitHub. This part of the proposal is offered in collaboration with F6: Improve and Grow Auditability : Distributed Auditability ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Distributed-Auditability/366707-48088 )

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Relevant experience (identifying information)

Stephen Whitenstall has 30 years' experience in organizing academic, community and business projects. He develops, maintains documentation and provides technical project management support for Catalyst Swarm.

In Fund 5 of Project Catalyst Stephen's QA-DAO (https://stephen-rowan.gitbook.io/quality-assurance-dao/) submitted a proposal "Quality Assurance DAO" in the Developer Ecosystem Challenge that was funded in August 2021.

Stephen is currently working in collaboration with the Catalyst School to develop documentation and to host workshops. He has also co-hosted Tevo Sak's Mini-Proposal workshops since 24th July 2021.

You can support the activities of QA-DAO by becoming a GitHub sponsor https://github.com/sponsors/Quality-Assurance-DAO .

​https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-whitenstall-166727210

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Roadmap ( Definition of success after 3, 6 and 12 months)

Prior to funding

In collaboration with the Catalyst School – QA-DAO will develop introductory training materials for entrepreneurs to take advantage of open-source tools such as GitHub.

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Expected launch date : November 13th 2021 (Workshop 1)

Expected completion date : February 2022 (Final documentation)

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3 months (November 2021 to January 2022)

Once funded QA-DAO will offer introductory training materials for entrepreneurs to take advantage of open-source tools such as GitHub.

Provisional* Schedule of workshops

- Workshop 1 - Saturday, November 13th 2021

- Workshop 2 - Saturday, November 20th 2021

- Workshop 3 - Saturday, November 27th 2021

- Workshop 4 - Saturday, December 4th 2021

- Workshop 5 - Saturday, December 11th 2021

- Break

- Workshop 6 - Saturday, January 8th 2022

- Workshop 7 - Saturday, January 15th 2022

- Workshop 8 - Saturday, January 22nd 2022

* Some workshops may be rescheduled to accommodate Idea Fest or Hackathons etc.

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6 months (February 2022 to April 2022)

Screencasts and Workshop recordings will be available on Youtube

Course documentation will be available on GitBook and GitHub and can be updated via pull requests and/or issues.

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12 months (May 2022 to October 2022)

Screencasts and Workshop recordings will be available on Youtube

Course documentation will be available on GitBook and GitHub and can be updated via pull requests and/or issues.

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Budget

Workshops

8 Workshops each with 6 hours preparation and 2 hours duration

= 64 hours

Youtube

8 Screencasts each with 2 hours preparation

= 16 hours

8 Youtube Session recordings – editing and timestamps

= 64 hours

Course Documentation and presentation

8 sections with 8 hours preparation each (1 for each workshop)

= 64

Marketing

Promotion, engagement and communication on Social Media (Twitter, Telegram, Youtube, Discord).

10 hours for 8 sessions

Total Hours = 218

$ 40 per hour

Total = $ 8720

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Key Metrics

The following metrics will measure the progress and success of this proposal:

1. Number of users attending workshops sessions, viewing Youtube videos and visiting online documentary materials.

1. Survey difference in understanding open-source between those using the workshop sessions and those not.

1. Survey if gaps have been filled in the entrepreneurial skills base of participants.

1. Survey if use of open-source infrastructure promotes sustainability of venture plans.

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