On-boarding French Developers

[IMPACT]

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Context:

A few years ago we set out for something new in our software developer careers and we stumbled upon the functional programming paradigm (F# and Haskell). The learning journey has brought us so much joy and efficiency both in our personal life and in our careers. One of our core goal is to share that knowledge starting in our local communities (Cameroon) then expanding to the Wada Network.  This journey has come with a lot of ups and downs given that we were mostly french speakers and most resources were only in English.

The main takeaways, that are at the core of this proposal:

• Switching to a new programming paradigm and language can be incredibly hard
• Learning a new programming language/paradigm in a language other than your native one makes it even harder
• Training materials that do not take into consideration your local reality is difficult to digest

Solution:

Our solution is very simple and straightforward. We want to recreate all 3 programs / courses and core documentation in French.

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Making this invaluable material available in French will not only attract more developers to the Cardano ecosystem, but also will ease their on-boarding process and learning curve.

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One risk is that once the course materials are translated into French, there is not enough interest in it or support for those who do engage (given that Haskell / Plutus learning curve could be steep for object oriented programmers).  We will mitigate this risk by making sure we offer extra support available to the French learners through Wada's education initiative and Hackathon projects funded in previous round 7.

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Spread-Plutus-through-Africa/381332-48088

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/DLT-adoption-via-clubs+hackathons/381318-48088

[FEASIBILITY]

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Our plan is very straightforward:

2 months post funding:

Elaborate a schedule for each course and select documentation to translate.

5 months post funding:

Translate Haskell and Cryptocurrencies Mongolia 2020 course

8 months post funding:

Translate Plutus pioneers course  and resources

11 months post funding:

Translate Atala Prism course and resources

12 months post funding:

Curate the content and make it available on YouTube, and GitHub

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Total Budget: $18,000

• Team coordination and logistic: $3,000
•  Haskell and Cryptocurrencies Mongolia 2020 course translated video / resources: $4,000
• Plutus pioneers course translated video and resources : $6,000
• Atala Prism course translated video and resources: $4,000
• Curating the content: $1,000

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Core Team & Roles:

Wada Cameroon Hub

Manfo: Cameroon Team Co-Lead, Senior software architect & developer, 12+ year of experience programming, 3+ years in functional programming paradigm (F#, Haskell, Elm), Multilingual (French, English, Italian, Ngiembo)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicienfotiomanfo1642a479

Nkalla: Senior software architect & developer, 12+ year of experience programming, 3+ years in functional programming paradigm (Haskell), Mathematics teacher (Education Systems Engineering), Multilingual (French, Italian, English, Mbo)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-junior-nkalla-ehaw%C3%A9-2a40a463

Arcel: Senior Software developer in Closure 7 + years experience, Project manager, Multilingual (French, English)

Megan: Cameroon Team Co-Lead, Central Africa Coordination Lead, Wada core team member (Education and Event Lead), Math & Physics teacher, bilingual (French & English)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-hess-5b853292

Wada Network

Wada Devs: This will be one of the projects which we will lead through the Cameroon hub but also leverage our network of Wada Devs that we will be training in Plutus and Haskell to support the development of this project and also make a solution that can be applied to other countries within our network.

Wada Marketing team

[AUDITABILITY]

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As we produce the material for each course, we will publish videos on YouTube and documentation on GitHub, making it available to the public. We can anticipate the following item to measure our progress:

• Number of document resources published to GitHub
• Number of weekly commits to GitHub
• Number of monthly videos posted to YouTube

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Success to us will translate into all the courses and documentation retained being publish/translated on the spaces we cited above.

• We hope to have 21+ and growing number of subscribers to our Channel wih the first month after publication
• We hope to have a total of 700+ views of all our combined videos within the first month after publication

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This is a new proposal