ALDEA Wiki - Phase 2 - Portuguese

Intro

ALDEA is an already growing community. Within it, people from all over Latin America and the Hispanic world are getting together to collaborate on many initiatives. Some at the regional level, others -like this one- with worldwide potential.

There is a wealth of information that already exists within the Hispanic Community of Cardano. Writers, promoters and early adopters are actively creating this content. We have brought them together in a standardized way and leveraged the information and expertise in order to create the initial set of articles for the wiki, in Spanish. Now, we would like to continue with the development of the Portuguese side of our Wiki; so we can onboard Brazil, a key player in the Latin American ecosystem.

All these coordinated efforts will serve as a launching platform to become the biggest Cardano Wiki, not just in Spanish or Portuguese but for all languages.

To build any respectable repository of information takes time. To make it properly and multi-language, takes even more time. But not when we're working as a community to make it happen for the benefit of all.

The intent is not only to share relevant articles and topics, but also to grow the community and foster collaboration. We encourage writers and content creators from around the world to bring on their own projects and grow their reputation at the same time.

How will ALDEA achieve this?

A phased approach is only natural, when the most important metric to measure growth is the number of active members, driven by the up-to-date, relevant articles and documents.

Our Phase 0 Wiki or MVP consists of a working engine, with a given number of articles, members and roles, to serve as a pilot for the project. This has already been achieved and it's available at https://aldeawiki.org

Phase 1 (Fund5) aims to both grow the number of articles and gain traction within the Spanish Community by promoting awareness and spreading the word. This will help bring more writers and content creators forward, making the number of articles and collaboration to grow exponentially. The first phase of our Wiki has already been funded in Fund5: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/ALDEA-Wiki-Cardano-Encyclopedia/352436-48088

Phase 2 (Fund6) will bring ALDEA Wiki to the worldwide stage with focus on the creation of Portuguese content and promoting awareness across the whole Cardano Community.

Phase 3 (Fund7) and subsequent phases will keep on adding languages, organically building the number of articles and promoting awareness and adoption around the globe and the many different community hubs within the Cardano Ecosystem.

BUDGET

Similar to Phase 1, Phase 2 will take 8 weeks.

We are asking funds ONLY for ALDEA Wiki | Phase 2 - Portuguese.

• Content Creation / Incentives for the Community -> USD 1500  
• Wiki Configuration: 60 hours -> USD 1200
• Profile Management / Security / Administration: 50 hours -> USD 1000
• Marketing & Promotion: USD 1200
• Hosting Infrastructure for 1 year: USD 720
• TOTAL: USD 5620.-

BUDGET DETAILS

Content Creation / Incentives for the Community

We have plans to actively reach out to the Portuguese-speaking community and encourage them to participate in the Wiki, by generating the first relevant content and articles. To gain more traction on the first weeks of the development, we would like to professionalise this task and not only count on volunteers.

This is the list of the main topics that will be covered by the articles of our Wiki (starter kit):

• Blockchain + Blocks + Transactions + Consensus + Consensus Attacks + Hashrate
• Cryptography + Cryptocurrency
• Wallets + Nodes + Keys + Addresses + Token
• Exchanges + CEX + DEX + P2P
• Wallets + Nodes + Keys + Addresses
• Mainnet + Testnet + Forks
• Whitepaper + Roadmap + MVP
• Bitcoin + BTC + Lightning Network
• Proof of Work + Mining
• Satoshi Nakamoto + Vitalik Buterin + Charles Hoskinson
• UTXO + eUTXO
• Ethereum + ETH + ERC-20 + Gas Fees + EVM
• Smart Contracts
• Solidity + Vyper
• DAO + Governance
• Decentralisation + dApps + DeFi
• Protocols + Layers + Oracles
• Cardano + ADA
• Proof of Stake + Stake Pool + Staking + Delegation
• Project Catalyst + Funds + Roles + Cohort + TownHalls + Catalyst Voting App
• Plutus + Marlowe + Haskell
• Cardano Foundation
• IOHK + Papers
• Emurgo
• Yoroi + Daedalus + Otros
• Ouroboros
• Byron + Shelley + Goguen (Mary + Allegra + Alonzo) + Basho + Voltaire
• PoolTool + Adafolio + ADAPools + Pool.pm + ADAStat
• ALDEA + ALDEA Wiki + ALDEA Catalyst
• Cardano Components + cardano-node + cardano-CLI
• KEVM / IELE
• Adrestia
• Hydra
• Atala PRISM

Wiki Configuration

At the moment, ALDEA Wiki only supports content in Spanish. We would like to convert it to a multi-language platform during this Phase, starting with Portuguese.

Profile Management / Security / Administration

We need to allocate a few hours for maintenance and general housekeeping of the platform to assure a good quality of the service.

Marketing & Promotion

We would like to work together with Cardano YouTubers & Influencers and Marketing Specialists to promote the Wiki.

Hosting Infrastructure

We need USD 65 monthly to pay for our dedicated t2.medium AWS instance. We have already asked for USD 60 on Phase 1.

KPIs

We will measure the growth of ALDEA Wiki using the followings metrics:

• Number of relevant articles
• Number of active members (visitors, content creators, reviewers, translators)
• Number of languages in which the articles are available
• Number of countries using the platform

Checklist

How my proposal impacts the challenge metrics

The main metrics of the challenge we impact with this proposal are:

- Number of non-English speakers joining Cardano community: we will measure this by the number of users who join our Wiki. All of them are going to be non-English speakers since the platform only supports Spanish (at the moment), and will support Portuguese with the developments stated in this proposal.

- A sense of community and conversations. Having people around to talk with: we already have this! And we would like to keep growing our community both in Discord (https://discord.aldea-dao.org) and in Telegram (https://t.me/elFogonDeALDEA).

Definition of success after 3, 6 and 12 months

This is explained in greater detail in the 'How will ALDEA achieve this?' section above.

Within the 3 months time frame, Phase 1 will be completed and the team will already be working on Phase 2, which will take place between the 3 to 6 months time frame.

For the 6 to 12 months time frame, we'll be working on Phase 3 where the community will already be organically building up the number of articles and promoting awareness on a global scale within the Cardano Ecosystem.

Defined expected public launch date.

The Phase 2 MVP will be live by September 30th in preparation for Fund6 Governance Phase. In this MVP we would like to show the first Portuguese articles, so the community has a sense of what is going to be to have a multi-language support for our Wiki.

How I address the challenge question?

How can we motivate non english speakers to learn and grow Cardano ecosystem in the next 3-6 months?: Phase 2 of ALDEA Wiki aims to motivate non-English speakers (in this case Portuguese speakers) to produce content. By doing this, everyone using our platform is learning about key concepts from our ecosystem, and an educated community is the bedrock for future grow of Cardano.

Our Team

With 70+ years of combined IT experience in software development and digital transformation across a variety of industries, our core team of 6 people includes Technical Leads, Business Analysts, Product Wizards, UX Designers, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and Foreing Trade and Banking Analysts.

This combined experience brings all sorts of skills and knowledge to the table. These include technical and business-oriented skills, but above all, it brings creative thinking, problem-solving, resiliency, experience in working for global and diverse teams remotely among different languages and cultures, reporting to stakeholders, and the ability to do all this while having fun!

We are lucky to already have the support of several Stake Pool Operators from the region, senior Cardano enthusiasts and key members of our community, acting in an advisory and promoter capacity, with whom we meet regularly and are already essential members of ALDEA.

This proposal is backed by ALDEA (the Latin America DAO - https://aldea-dao.org)) and its Community.

LinkedIn Profiles of our Core Team

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/matias-falcone/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/federico-canavessio/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauro-hernan-falcone/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eramallo/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-lanfranchi/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-falcone-682726109/