SalmonNation Decentralized Alliance

TL;DR:

• Offer three local educational seminars to teach people about Cardano and Catalyst with the goal of educating local people about blockchain and Cardano
• Launch a community in the Salmon Nation bio-region both online (Discord) and with a physical presence for better networking and connecting with local people and getting them involved with Catalyst.
• Reflect, evaluate, and iterate for greater and greater impact to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano in Salmon Nation

Detailed Plan:

This is a proposal to launch the Salmon Nation Decentralized Alliance (SANADA) as a Cardano Local Community Center for a six month trial period. During this time, we will hire a part-time community manager (20 hrs./mo) to build and create a local community center in Victoria, BC, plan and run three educational seminars which will be open to the public, start on online community on Discord for SANADA, hold weekly online meetings to bring the community together, and engage in networking and discussion with the local community to spread the word and introduce them to Cardano and Catalyst.

Setting up local community centers in the region (starting with Victoria) will give us the opportunity to connect with and recruit people to solve local problems using Cardano decentralized blockchain technologies. Opportunities exist here in the areas of focus on local governance (decentralization), Indigenous empowerment and sovereignty (decolonization), and sustainability/climate change initiatives (decarbonization). Cardano can help in those areas by creating solutions to those problems, and involving local people to address local issues will be key to creating social and economic impact in these areas.

The long term (multi-year) goals of SANADA will be to:

1. Teach and communicate the benefits of the Cardano ecosystem to the local community and bring them into the Catalyst community,
2. Act as a developer hub to educate and teach developers to create these blockchain solutions, and
3. Discover innovative solutions to help grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem and accelerate the creation of world changing solutions by local talent, particularly in the areas of decolonization, decentralization, and decarbonization.

Thirty-three million people share our home in this place we call Salmon Nation. It spans 9.7 million square miles of land and sea—about the size of North and Central America. From central California north to the Arctic, it includes 1.2 million square miles of land in Canada and the United States and generates between $1.2 and $1.9 trillion in economic activity each year. Salmon Nation (https://salmonnation.net/) is a multi-country bio region that extends from Alaska down to Northern California. Salmon Nation is a unique and beautiful bio-region that is home to millions of people, including Indigenous populations in both the US and Canada. From issues of Indigenous sovereignty, to re-envisioning democracy and governance, to the challenges of sustainable resource extraction, the issues and challenges of the region are many and require new ways of thinking and collaborating. Cardano brings the blockchain and smart contract solutions to help solve many of these issues with enough creativity and passion from the people on the ground trying to solve these problems.

Goals and timeline for Fund 6:

December 2021: Fund SANADA for 6 months as a trial period to launch the organization and spread the word about Cardano and build up interest and excitement about Catalyst in the local community.

December 2021: Start SANADA as a non-profit organization incorporated in Victoria, British Columbia (heart of Salmon Nation) and set up a physical presence. We will operate out of a co-working space for lower costs, have access to event space, and to increase opportunities for serendipitous networking.

December 2021: Set up our virtual online presence with a Discord server, weekly Zoom calls, and a website. We will also build an on on-line community with weekly virtual collaboration meetings.

December 2021 - February 2022: Host introductory Cardano seminars for the local community. These will start with monthly educational meetups and networking events for 3 consecutive months to raise awareness of Cardano in the local community and get them involved with Catalyst (ideally these will be in-person events, but they may need to be on-line to accommodate COVID-19 safety recommendations):

• December 2021 seminar: What is Cardano and blockchain? What is Web 3.0 and decentralization?
• January 2022 seminar: How to buy Cardano. Setting up your own wallet, keeping your keys secure. Staking. Sending ADA, tokens, and NFTs.
• February 2022 seminar: Introduction to Project Catalyst and getting involved

Lesson materials and notes will be put up online for the community to see and use for reference, and support those that were unable to attend the seminars in person.

February 2022 - May 2022: Focus on regional community involvement in Catalyst for Fund 8+ by working with the local community and developers on ideas and potential areas where proposals can be made to solve local challenges.

During this 6 month trial period, the community manager will also reach out to existing local cryptocurrency meetups, meet with local entrepreneurs and developers, and begin to build up a regional community of change-makers, developers, and entrepreneurs to get involved with Catalyst.

We will also do deep dive retrospectives of all events and community engagement to reflect on what is working and what is not so we can iterate and improve to drive greater and greater adoption and awareness of Cardano and Catalyst in the Salmon Nation bio-region.

How will we measure success (for this Fund 6 proposal):

Building community is a key outcome measured by:

• Engagement metrics on Discord
• Number of people participating in the community (diversity and inclusion) over time
• Number of attendees for weekly online community meetings
• Number of educational seminar attendees
• Number of partnering organizations and companies
• Number of developers participating

Getting the local community involved with Catalyst is a key outcome measured by:

• Number of people from the community participating in Catalyst voting in Fund 8
• Number of people from the community participating as Catalyst community advisors in Fund 8
• Number of people from the community submitting Catalyst proposals in Fund 8

Budget

• Part-time community manager: $50/hr. x 20 hrs/mo x 6 mo = $6000
• Co-working space fee: $400/mo. x 6 months = $2400
• Preparation of seminars and materials: 4 hours @ $50/hr. x 3 seminars = $600
• Renting large meeting space for seminars (up to 42 people): 2 hours @ $150 / hr. x 3 seminars = $900
• Running seminars: 2 hours @$50/hr x 3 seminars = $300
• Publishing seminar materials for the community: 1 hour @ $50/hr x 3 seminars = $150
• Technology budget (Zoom, Miro, Gitbook): $372
• Zoom: $20/mo. x 6 months = $120
• GitBook (Team): $8/mo. x 6 months = $42
• GitHub (Team): $4/mo. x 6 months x 3 individuals = $72
• Miro (Team): $8/mo. x 6 months = $42
• Website hosting: $10/mo. x 6 months = $60
• Misc: $36
• Incidentals: $150

Total: $10,872

About SANADA

SANADA (Salmon Nation Decentralized Alliance) (https://www.sanada.eco) is a Cardano Local Community Center founded to educate, connect, and foster the development of decentralized blockchain solutions in our local bio-region. Salmon Nation is a multi-country bio region that extends from Alaska down to Northern California. If you are new to the concept of Salmon Nation, here is a thesis that describes the movement: https://salmonnation.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Salmon-Nation-Thesis-v2-Pages-Web-v2-91520.pdf

SANADA is not an official representative of the Salmon Nation organization or Raven network. We are a collective of blockchain enthusiasts who believe in the Salmon Nation mission and hope to contribute to the body of wisdom and practices to share with the community, particularly how we can apply blockchain solutions to local and global challenges. SANADA seeks to act as a resource for software developers; connect with and educate the local community, creatives, and businesses; and raise awareness of Cardano and the power of blockchain and decentralization. We seek to solve local challenges to bring creative and sustainable solutions to the region and empower regional communities.