Cardano L-EARN (for Developers)

[IMPACT]

Cardano L-EARN is a Learn to Earn platform designed to supercharge developer education with learning incentives.

We provide structured lessons which anyone with access to a computer and internet can follow. Lessons include theory and step by step how-to's, in English and Spanish.

Check our github for the latest lessons and lesson structure available - https://github.com/Cardano-LEARN. Our telegram community is at https://t.me/Cardano_L_EARN

Each lesson includes a test and ADA incentive. Pass the test and you receive the ADA! The test is to verify knowledge and practical ability described in the lesson.

Students must verify unique identity via BrightID or video call before withdrawing earnings.

Cardano L-EARN involves a team of lesson planners and creators, test administrators, and community managers

Education is peer-to-peer, which means you will be able to teach and test lessons you have already passed. This aspect is volunteer based for now.

We are regularly updating lessons to reflect the evolving state of Cardano Developement so instructions will always be accurate and up to date..

Everything created by Cardano L-EARN is open source.

Are you excited to Learn and Earn ADA with Cardano L-EARN? Let us know and help us make it happen!

Our main strategy is to provide an incentivization structure for developers to learn Cardano Develoment. An ADA reward is earned for every lesson completed.

Guiding questions

• How do we attract developers from outside of our current community to participate in Catalyst?
• Many developers, especially from low income countries will be attracted by Learn to Earn.
• What do developers want, and how do they get it from the Cardano dev ecosystem?
• Some developers want structured lessons, others are looking for sources of income. We can provide both
• What would make it a developer motivated to grind through the docs and code no matter how hard it is to create an app?
• ADA incentivization.

Potential directions

• Knowledge base & Documentation
• Our main value add here is structured lessons. We can use a combination of existing, modified and brand new lessons.
• Samples, recipes and templates
• Lessons include many practical guides with such samples
• Support structures
• Our telegram community can provide some form of support structure.
• Incentivization structures
• This is what we are all about!

Why is it important?

Learn to Earn is a very powerful way to train and teach developers. The most important skills can be rewarded the most.

Challenges

• Updating potentially broken tutorials as Cardano ecosystem evolves
• Guaranteeing continuous content creation
• Language barriers to adoption
• Overcoming Barriers to onboarding new users

Risks

• Sybil attackers
• Possibly broken tutorials as Cardano ecosystem evolves
• Running out of funds to pay learners
• Students copying answers

Risk Mitigation

• Sybil attackers
• proof of person, brightID and video calls

• Running out of funds to pay learners 
• We will week to raise more funds from Catalyst if necessary, and receive sponsorship from other Cardano organizations and holders.

• Students copying answers
• Use long formk answers
• check for plagiarism
• use practical exercises for testing
• write questions with unique answers 
• update test questions regularly

[FEASIBILITY]

These are our milestones. You can compare them with our KPIs provided below.

Milestones

1-3 Months

- Add 5 Cardano lessons & tests

- Intro to Cardano & Beginner Developer Lessons

- 300+ Lessons completed

- 150 community members

- 5+ contributors

3-6 Months

- Add 10 Cardano lessons & tests

- Intermediate Developer Lessons

- 1500+ Lessons Completed

- 600 community members

- 10+ contributors

6-12 Months

- Add 20 Cardano lessons & tests

- Advanced Developer Lessons

- 3000+ Lessons Completed

- 2000 community members

- 15+ contributors

- Connect 50+ newly trained devs with Cardano Projects

Growth beyond 12 months may require securing additional sponsorship

Lesson Development (20 lessons in 12 months)

• Lesson Creators - $4000
• Average $250 per lesson + test x 20 lessons
• Lesson Updaters - $2000
• $10 to $50 per lesson update

Total - $6000

Teaching and Testing

• Live Monthly Workshops - $1200
• Workshop Presenters -$100 per workshop x 12
• 2 Test Administrators - $5000
• Monthly Salary - $225 (part time) x 12

Total - $6200

Community Development

• Community Manager Salary for 12 months- $2400
• Monthly Salary - $200 (part time) x 12

Total - $2400

Learning rewards

• Beginner Lessons - $2300
• ~ $3 per lesson
• Smart Contract Lessons - $4000
• ~ $5 per lesson
• dApp Development Lessons- $4000
• ~ $5 per lesson
• Cardano Infrastructure Lessons - $3000
• ~ $5 per lesson
• Cardano Blockchain Theory Lessons - - $2000
• ~ $4 per lesson

Total - $15300

Total - $29900

Team Members -

Our team includes

• experienced Cardano Community members from Cardano Hub Buenos Aires
• Individuals experienced running another L-EARN platform, called BDU L-EARN (https://github.com/blockdevsunited/l-earn).

The following is the list of our team members and their roles, experience and profiles

Antoine De Vuyst - L-EARN Coordinator,

Experience - Founded BDU L-EARN

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoine-de-vuyst-49a74194/

Github - https://github.com/antron3000

Co-Founder of Cardano Hub Buenos Aires

Milangeli Romero - Test Administrator, Community Manager

Experience - Running BDU L-EARN, developing content, test administration, blocking sybil attackers,

Telegram - @Msrl8

Jose Ramirez - Lesson Creator, Test Administrator

Experience - Creating Lessons for BDU L-EARN

Telegram - @jose1406

Lucas Machiavelli - Lesson Creator,

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-macchiavelli-0525581a9/

Co-Founder of Cardano Hub Buenos Aires

Ivanna - Community Manager

Experience - Community manager of Cardano Hub Buenos Aires

[AUDITABILITY]

We will measure progress and provide auditability by providing monthly KPI reports, with data on the following KPIs

• number of tests passed
• number of users reaching learning milestones
• number of lessons created
• number of community members in telegram
• Spending report
• number of successful montly KPI reports

We will also hire Cardano developers, as well as students to audit lessons for accuracy and functionality. Details of audits will be provided in the KPI reports.

Qualitative Success

We would like to provide a safe and inclusive environment to learn about Cardano Development, while supercharging Cardano developer learning by leveraging the power of ADA.

Quantitave Success

We measure quantitative success by defining monthly KPI goals. These goals have already been defined in the milestones section

This is a new proposal.

However it has the backing and support of Cardano Hub Buenos Aires, a community which was funded by Catalyst.