Cardano Builders' Hub India

Why build a builder's hub in India

IT-ITeS Industry in India is well developed and is the topmost off-shoring destination for IT companies across the world, employing close to 5 million professionals. In addition to driving the growth of the digital economy internally India offers cost-effectiveness to global companies.

Plan

• Lay the groundwork for moulding a workforce able to develop on Cardano. Provide guidance to learning about Cardano and learning Haskell and Plutus.
• Raise awareness and promote adoption of Cardano in the Indian subcontinent which has a population of more than 1.5 billion. This will offer significant windfall gains as once the IT sector starts building indigenous solutions on Cardano catering to the needs of the economy, Cardano will be viewed distinctly compared to other blockchain solutions.
• Bring together experts from in the traditional industry into an informal group where they can discover about Web3.0 and what Cardano offers.
• Act as an incubator for innovation.

Deliverables

• Set up social platforms for a community of builders from the engineering domain interested to build on Cardano.
• Connect the builders with Catalyst School as well as veterans from the Cardano community.
• Loxe Inc which has Cardano ambassadors, Plutus and Prism pioneers will coordinate guidance sessions spanning a few weeks.
• Run a hackathon for the builder's hub members to showcase their ideas for solutions using Cardano.

Roadmap

February 2022

• Set up communication channels
• Coordinate with partnering teams and prepare schedule for guidance sessions.
• Publicise the programme

March 2022

• Run the guidance sessions
• Prepare the scheme and schedule for Hackathon

April 2022

• Hackathon

May 2022 and beyond

• Self sustaining Builders' hub

Success measures

After 4 months

• A self sustaining hub for builders to learn about Cardano ecosystem, share ideas and collaborate.
• More candidates from the subcontinent signing up for upcoming iterations of Plutus and Prism Pioneer Programs.
• Contribution of high quality catalyst proposals for future funding rounds for Cardano across the world like it is the case for traditional web technologies.
• Companies have options to hire members of the community with diverse skill set.

KPI

• Number of members in the builders' hub after 1 month
• Growth rate of members in the next 3 months
• Number of submissions in hackathon
• Number of participants in the next iteration of Plutus & Prism Pioneer programs.
• Number of catalyst proposals from India region in Fund 9 and Fund 10

Team

The proposing team works closely with other educational initiatives in the Catalyst ecosystem, such as Gimbalabs and Catalyst School.

We are a team of Plutus Pioneers and experienced web developers. We won 3 prizes in the Cardano Summit hackathon, and won 3rd place in the CardStarter hackathon, both in 2021. We have been funded through Catalyst in Fund 6 for some of our proposals:

• Win-Win Dispute Resolution: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/368353-48088
• Gravatar for ADA Wallets: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/367448-48088
• Proof of identity for mediators: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/368367-48088

Matthias Sieber

• Professional Software Engineer for over 20 years
• worked on Liqwid through MLabs internship
• Conflict Resolution Specialist (Mediator, Facilitator, Peacekeeper, Educator)
• BA in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding
• Master of Dispute Resolution
• Community-elected Moderator on Cardano Stack Exchange
• Plutus and Prism Pioneer (1st cohorts)
• Project Catalyst Community Advisor and Veteran Community Advisor
• Catalyst Circle member representing the Cardano Foundation
• Cardano Ambassador
• Built successful marketplaces, startups, SMBs, and mission-driven teams
• Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member

Eli Selkin, L.C.S.W., M.S

• Professional Software Engineer for over 5 years
• Plutus Pioneer
• Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• MS in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning
• ML architect
• B.A. in Psychology

Victor Corcino

• Energy Industry Engineer for 6 years
• Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• Member of the 1st Catalyst Circle as Community Advisors representative
• Catalyst Veteran Community Advisor and Proposal Mentor
• Co-creator of AIM Community Tools (CA/vCA Tools, Voter Tool)
• BSc Chemical Engineering and MSc Chemical Engineering and Software Development
• Specialization in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• PhD candidate, researching the field of Machine Learning applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics

Ganesh N

• Professional Software Engineer for over 8 years
• Plutus Pioneer (1st cohort)
• Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Has lead development of large scale applications
• Experience in the financial services industry

Budget

• Tech services for communication channels = $1000
• Hackathon prizes in total = $6000
• Supporting team expenses 3 devs + 1 project manager part time for 3 months (4 x 3 x $1500) = $18000
• Total = $25000