Japanese SPO community management

Managing Japanese SPO community to support stakepool operators

Creating and updating technical support website about operating a stake pool

Server engineering  6years 

WEB system development 18years

Stake pool operator

Updating Stakepool building instruction JP manual

#日本語内容について

※添付ファイルに日本語版のPDFを添付しており、是非ご覧いただけますと幸いです。

#Why Japan matters?

Historically, Cardano ICO was principally taken in Japan in 2015, so there are a significant number of "whale-holders" in Japan. Currently, 600M ADA are staking with Japanese Stakepools, and that shows Japan is one of the most important countries in the Cardano community.

ADA is going to be listed on Japanese exchange BITPOINT(https://www.bitpoint.co.jp/) in 25th August 2021 even though cryptocurrency regulations in Japan are very strict. It will be more important for Japanese communities to increase Japanese SPOs, in order to deliver the right information about Cardano to Japanese crypto-investors.

#Why Japanese support is necessary?

According to an educational research, the average English skill of Japanese people is merely the 53rd in major 100 countries. This research says that majority of Japanese working adults can only make a simple conversation in English.

Likewise, there are a few English-speaking people in Japanese Cardano community, and this leads few people to share technical updates.

There is only a little Cardano technical information written in Japanese, so that this is one of the biggest problems to make Cardano communities larger in Japan.

・English skills of Japanese

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00594/japan%E2%80%99s-english-proficiency-drops-among-non-english-speaking-countries.html

#Our issues to operate stake pool in Japan and measures that we have done

All literatures of Cardano ecosystem are written in English.

So there is a little opportunities for non-English-speaking Japanese to build a Stakepool.

e.g.

・Difficulty of understanding instruction manuals in English

・Difficulty of communicating within English speaker's community when we need to solve technical issues

After Shelley hard fork, we started to manage SPO Japan community(SPO JAPAN GUILD) and created a stake pool building instruction manual because we thought that the number of Japanese SPO would not increase without linguistic and technical supports.

Our community and manuals are free of charge, and we have supported all the people even if they don't have knowledge of server operating.

The fact that there were a few Japanese SPOs in 2020 (before our community run), but now we have more than 60 SPOs in our community! And 424 people have already joined.

◆SPO JAPAN GILD discord channel

https://discord.gg/U3gU54c

◆Stake pool list

https://adapools.org/alli/spo-japan-guild/13

◆Previous Online meetup

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjN_050y9Mti3uWELADtgjjPQrna6jrTk

◆SPOs introduction video

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjN_050y9MtjwG__8vT4fvwB9glx-dX9j

#Our current issues

We are going to continue managing the community, updating manuals, and having SPOs study meetings on a regular basis because the amount of work and the knowledge required as a SPO are increasing due to smart contract and so on. We would like to sustain our activities, however, the maintenance costs are increasing.

We have stake pool building manual and Japanese community but there is no Japanese documents about ouroboros protocol. So far, searching past logs in our community channel is the only way to find the information of those.

To secure Cardano ecosystem network, all SPOs should be provided common information.Japanese contents of operating Stakepool will lead Japanese Cardano community to the right path.

#What we will do with the budget

We would like to ask for a fund for creating content and managing community for the next 6 months, and for all the work we have accomplished on our community.

◆Created and updated Japanese stake pool operating content

・・・$4,926($821/month × 6months)

◯Updated stake pool building instruction manual

◯Created and updated stake pool operating instruction manual explaining

　・how to monitor stake pool

　・key file

　・topology

　・protocol

　・reward system

　・node maintenance

　・security settings

etc...

#Managing costs

◆Domain and web server for stake pool decentralized marketing

・・・$84 ($14 × 6 months)

◆Server to get information of stake pool

・・・$438($73 × 6 months)

◆Server for Cardano-node testnet

(For testing new node version release)・・・$438($73 × 6 months)

◆Activity costs for this 1 year(included server costs)

・・・・・・$10,944($912/month × 12 months)

※添付ファイルに日本語版を添付しております。

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English Translators

[SRP] Smile Rose Pool - ERI

[COFFE] CoffeePool️ - hix