Cardano Learning Conversations

[IMPACT]

When people do not take action on something, it is often because they cannot visualize what life will be like after they take the action.

Therefore, as people have a clearer vision of what's possible within Cardano, engagement on all fronts will increase.

• Holders will stake more
• Artisans of physical art would be more likely to partake in the NFT movements
• People will see ways they can safeguard their wealth
• Small business owners (the lifeblood of any economy) will accept payment and driving Cardano's integration in their local economies
• Developers would clearly see opportunities to improve and innovate decentralized solutions.
• And much more!

This production will accomplish this in two ways:

1. By providing perspective for those new to Cardano and with little or no technical background, this production would help them in seeing ways they can use Cardano in their lives, either as a means of trade within their community, or within the numerous growth opportunities.
2. By giving developers with real-world (and nearly real-time) feedback (clear communication) on how users interact with their products and see how they can improve and innovate their solutions.

[If this is for FAM]

We will constitute a multimedia project that will be a venue for professionals, creatives, and the larger Cardano community to connect, collaborate and coordinate with other content developers (eg. 'guest appearances')

We will explore stories within the Cardano ecosystem, with a focus on practical problems and solutions.

[If this is for Miscellaneous]

• Because our project will be multimedia that will be a "a challenge platform for the facilitation of professionals and creatives to connect, collaborate and coordinate" (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/campaigns/26452/about), we initially thought F8: Film + Media creates unite! was the best home for this proposal. We feel there are kindred spirits in that group, since Paul and I are both creatives in the arts ourselves.
• However because the podcast will engage with technical issues and the development community, it won't be arts-focused per se. So our as we navigate the criteria and metrics we think Miscellaneous is the better category for this project.
• The Miscellaneous Challenge criteria, "to capture interesting and valuable projects that do not currently fit into other challenges" and "to be somehow related to Cardano" (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/campaigns/26441/about), we think are a better fit for our wide-ranging vision for the podcast.

One challenge will be to schedule expert guests in the short 4-6 month time line from when funding is in place. We can mitigate this by ourselves presenting topics we have depth in in an exploratory way, inviting dialogue with our audience.

Over time a challenge will be the huge number of interesting guests and topics related to Cardano. We can mitigate this by getting going with a limited series of podcasts, e.g. 12-15 episodes, in a proof-of-concept mindset, meaning, being flexible and open to feedback.

[FEASIBILITY]

Month 1

Finalizing gear, record and upload two episodes, establish social media presence (forum.cardano, Discord, Rumble)

Months 2, 3, and 4

Record and upload 10 more episodes including three interview/round tables from on legal, philosophical, developer, and token economy perspectives; continue updates.

Months 5 and 6

Transition to a wider project; expand the team; continue to explore participation with Cardano Foundation

TOTAL $15,840

Please see attached PDF for breakdown.

Team members have diverse, relevant experience in advertising, common law, K-12 and adult education, website development, educational technology, media production, project management, and the arts. We have the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.

https://sites.google.com/view/michael-cenkner-portfolio/home

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cenkner/

Paul has extensive web development experience as a marketing consultant since 2013. His work introduced him to business automation using complex user input interfaces (web-based forms, prompts, etc) to provide automated actions.

For the past 15 years, he has studied law as a hobby, focusing on the common law and contract law and how it relates to self-governance.

Today, he rings these principles forward to communities so they can establish a model of decentralization in every aspect of their lives.

[AUDITABILITY]

There are two types of indicators we would be evaluating to determine the progress.

1. Hard numbers.
2. Intrinsic value.

Hard numbers

• Number of productions (episodes created and published, at least 12)
• Web metrics showing increasing number of subscribers, views, interactions over the four months of the project
• Community engagement/number of related posts in various forums (Discord, Reddit, YouTube). This will include our own local network where we've been facilitating Cardano adoption as one aspect of building community.

Intrinsic value

We believe there are other local communities world-wide following the same journey we are. This production will be a means for all of us to compare notes with ours, as we all shift our mindsets from the chaos we inherited to a saner and more humane way of doing things.

We will have been successful when this becomes an ongoing venue for developers, investors, newbies, skeptics, anyone with an interest in Cardano will be able to learn from each other and connect with each other in exploring the new connections multiple perspectives can provide.

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