Spanish News, Insights, Onboarding

Library of original educational articles and news in Spanish, to include Cardano basics, current events, and insights for newcomers.

14+ Yrs Software & Cloud Engineering, Blockchain development, business consulting, world languages, technical writing, teaching.

This project proposes to make our library of Cardano educational content available in Spanish. These translated resources will include both written and audio versions of **beginner-friendly** Cardano news, insight, and community resources.

The technical and relational framework built in this phase will allow us to quickly extend our translated content to more languages, and to produce new translated content on an ongoing basis. Language tags, Search Engine Optimization, and grass-roots marketing efforts will be leveraged to spread accessible Cardano resources to new audiences.

Our current website covers Cardano network basics, onboarding paths, news, and insight articles. We invite community involvement by providing an interface to submit new content, comment and respond to existing content, record audio versions of articles, and propose new article ideas. We have 20 existing articles and pages to translate immediately, and we publish new content on a weekly basis. This project will fund translated content for the next 6 months.

Our website already supports multi-language, including:

• Detecting User's preferred language, and presenting content in that language if available.
• Allow users to toggle between available languages.
• Some content is already available in translation. This project will allow us to continue and expand translated content.

We have a Spanish translator on our team, and are ready to jump into the work of translation.

About Us

We are two Cardano enthusiasts. With our community of contributors, we provide hype-free, educational news and insight about the Cardano network that is accessible to everyone. Most online blockchain content is written by and for developers and finance geeks. We are building a network of contributors who break down complicated technical ideas for everyday people, and provide relevant news in quick bites.

Our website is a resource for anyone who wants to learn what Cardano is, why they should care, and how they can participate. We want to make these resources accessible to as many people as possible.

Darlington is an engineer by day and at all times a dancer, humanitarian, idealist and entrepreneur.

Stephanie is a teacher and technologist with a passion for helping non-profits navigate and capitalize on technology.

Motivation

We see that the next frontier of growth for Cardano won't be confined to Developer forums and GitHub repositories. Instead, it will be among our friends and neighbors, as they start to see and understand the applications of blockchain technology for their own lives and futures. We hope they will see Cardano as the most exciting project out there, and we want to provide a trusted resource to help them learn, get involved, and contribute.

Our Values

We believe that Cardano is a powerful platform paving the way for a future that works for everyone. To help connect that future with "everyone", information and resources must be available to all kinds of people, and written by all kinds of people. So we put a high value on accessibility and cross-cultural collaboration:

• Explain groundbreaking technology in simple terms
• Provide a User-Friendly interface and thoughtful resources
• Meet ADA standards for differently-abled users, including Audio versions of all content
• Provide our content in other languages, including Spanish
• Facilitate original content creation from Spanish speaking community members

How big is the market?

Nearly 600 million people speak Spanish - outnumbering native English speakers!

Budget

$1,500 Translation of 20 existing news, insight and Cardano onboarding articles for beginners. Paying .15/word for written translation

$1,500 Ongoing translation of 1-2 new articles per week plus other site content in the next 6 months. Article average length is between 500-1000 words, other site content includes additional resources and links for people to learn about Cardano, changing and growing on an ongoing basis.

$1,500 Audio recordings of site content in target language, making resources accessible to more people. This amount allows us to record existing 20 articles, plus new content for the next 6 months.

$1200 Developer Cost to continue the buildout and maintenance of multi-language support. Darlington has donated ~60 hours to build a basic framework for multi-language content. This amount will allow him to spend the time needed to enhance and support the back end of our multi-language content at a discounted rate

$500 Administrative cost to hire, coordinate, and support translation resources. 

Definition of Success

Current website content available in Spanish. (20 existing pages/articles in translation)

Spanish translations of new Cardano news and insight articles over the next 6 months (additional 20 pages/articles)

Translated Content is being viewed in native-Spanish speaking parts of the globe (as captured in Google Analytics)

Roadmap

• 1 month milestones: Website UI finalized to support multi-languages, responsive language settings based on end-user language settings, toggling between languages, and participation by community translators. Begin gathering & publishing translated content.
• 3 month milestones: All core educational resources on the site are translated and available in Spanish, and a cadence has been established for translating new content (ongoing news, insight, and community-submitted articles)
• 6 month milestones: Full library of 6 months of new and existing Cardano content is available in Spanish: written and audio.
• Future: Ongoing Spanish content beyond this launch phase can be sponsored by Cardano Community Support and Stake Pool Rewards.