Education Material for Workshops

Funds Fund 8 Proposals F8: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano Education Material for Workshops

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Amount
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$6,598

Amount
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$6,598

Percentage
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100.00%

Solution

Prepare professional Slides and Practical Guides that can be translated and used to run Workshop in Africa over 4 to 8 days in length

Problem

Lack of a standardized template and content for Workshops. That can be translated into multiple languages

Addresses Challenge

Feasibility

Auditability

Education Material for Workshops

Impact

Educational material will be written covering the basics of blockchain technology and how Cardano fits into it. I will be prepared for a workshop spanning between 4 to 8 days where the basics are covered for those who don’t know what a blockchain is and up to the point where the more tech minded participants set up a Cardano node and learn how to interact with it and run smart contracts.

The basics of blockchains and its various use cases will be covered. This will prepare the participants to appreciate what Cardano brings to the table and what sets it apart from other blockchains. All participants will leave knowing what is a blockchain and what is Cardano.

Educational material will be split into 2 parts. The first part will run over the first 2 to 4 days and will be for the general public covering the basics of the blockchain and how Cardano fits into it. The second part will run over the second 2 to 4 days and will be more hands-on, for those who want to learn how to interact with and build on Cardano.

The following is a schedule of an example workshop running over 4 days. The material that will be prepared is marked with capital letters <<MATERIAL PREPARED>>. This schedule and the material can be used to run future workshops.

Example Day1 - Introduction to Blockchain Technology

8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants

9:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Introduction to blockchain. What a blockchain is, what are blocks, what are transactions, who upkeeps the blockchain and how is it different to a centralized infrastructure

10:45 - Coffee Break

11:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Use cases for blockchains. What blockchains are currently being used for (DeFi, Lending, Identity management, Logistics) and Industries for large scale adoption

12:30 - Lunch

14:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano and other blockchains. Similarities and differences

15:45 - Coffee Break

16:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> DeFi, Lending and Remittances. A deep dive into how they work

17:30 - Q&A, Refreshments and Socializing

Example Day 2 - Cardano Ecosystem

8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants

9:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> What is Cardano and how is it different from the other blockchains? The roadmap and the key deliverables at each of the phases

10:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> The trilemma of Decentralization, Scalability and Security - where does Cardano fit in

10:45 - Coffee Break

11:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Building blocks of Cardano - node, stake pools, wallets, UTXOs, smart contracts, onchain vs offchains

12:30 - Lunch

14:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Projects Building on Cardano, Djed and Catalyst. How to get involved

15:30 - Coffee

16:00 - Summary of the two days followed by the speech from organizers

17:30 - Q&A, Refreshments and socializing

Example Day 3 - Cardano Hands On

The third day is geared towards the more technical participants who want to understand how the Cardano ecosystem works. The intention is that after this day the users will be armed with the necessary knowledge to start exploring the Cardano ecosystem by themselves. For this a computer lab will be required.

Participants will need to preregister to participate in the third day and will need to demonstrate basic knowledge of how computers work and experience working with a terminal. Those who struggle working with a terminal, but still wanting to participate will be given a series of tutorials to work through prior to registration.

8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants

9:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Discuss the plan for the day and what we aim to achieve at the end.

9:30 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Launching the virtual machine and making sure the packages are installed

10:30 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Compiling the Cardno node, launching and setting the topology information to connect it to the rest of the network (testnet). Monitor that transactions are being processed

12:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Create an address and fund it with tADA. Discuss what the different keys are and how they are generated

12:30 - Lunch

14:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Discuss web wallets and differences between Daedalus and web wallets. Advantages and disadvantages of each. Install a web wallet send transactions to and from the address create in the morning

15:45 - Coffee Break

16:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Native assets and NFTs. Mint tokens and mint an NFT with the favorite picture from each participant

17:30 - Q&A, Refreshments and socializing

Example Day 4 - Cardano Hands On continued

8:30 - Reception and sign in of participants

9:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> What is a smart contract? Build and run an “always succeeds” contract, send some ADA and then redeem. Explain what UTXO, Datum, Redeemer and Context are.

10:45 - Coffee Break

11:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Go through the available resources for participants so they can start exploring themselves. Cardano Forum, Stackexchage, Discord, Telegram channels, Explorer, Plutus Pioneer program

12:30 - Lunch

14:00 - <<MATERIAL PREPARED>> Assignment and time to explore and ask technical questions. The assignment is to create an address, fund it with tADA, build an always succeed script, send ada to it and then redeem from a web wallet

17:30 - Hading out of certificates of participation and Closing remarks

The educational material will be written in English and made available on our website for the community to use under the Creative Commons License

In future proposals the material can be translated and used to run workshops online or in person.

Delivering the workshop increases the awareness of what blockchains are in general and Cardano in particular. The first 2 days of the proposal give a general introduction about blockchains and Cardano and the second 2 days give a hands-on experience of how to interact and build on Cardano. This workshop gives the tools to participants to start exploring and further progress their knowledge of Cardano. This directly addresses the challenge question of “how do we continue to seed and grown Cardano in Africa”

The training will be prepared in English with the view to translate it into multiple languages in future proposals

The project is to prepare educational material

Risk that delivery overruns the proposed schedule due to unforeseen circumstances such as Covid, War or other Force Majeure - in which case delivery will be rescheduled to a later date.

Feasibility

The educational material will be prepared over the course of 4 months June/July/August/September and will be released at the end of September.

The education material will be free of charge for the community to use and will be distributed under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) that allows copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format, as well as remixing, transforming, and build upon the material for any purpose including commercial as long as attribution is attribution to the creator is made. The material will be made available on our website.

The workshop material will be divided into 2 sections. The first section for the general public and the second section for the hands-on interaction of the Cardano ecosystem, two types of material will need to be prepared. For the first part Slides will be prepared for each of the sessions and of the second part a Gitbook will be prepared with the set of commands and supporting explanations

The following schedule outlines when supporting material will be prepared. Each month is divided into 4 weeks with any left over days for sundry and feedback requests from the community

1 month - Prepare material for the first day of the workshop

Week1 - Introduction to blockchain. What a blockchain is, what are blocks, what are transactions, who upkeeps the blockchain and how is it different to a centralized infrastructure

Week 2 - Use cases for blockchains. What blockchains are currently being used for (DeFi, Lending, Identity management, Logistics) and Industries for large scale adoption

Week 3 - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano and other blockchains. Similarities and differences

Week 4 - DeFi, Lending and Remittances. A deep dive into how they work

2 month - Prepare material for the second day of the workshop

Week 1 - What is Cardano and how is it different from the other blockchains. The roadmap and the key deliverables at each of the phases

Week 2 - The trilemma of Decentralization, Scalability and Security - where does Cardano fit in

Week 3 - Building blocks of Cardano - node, stake pools, wallets, UTXOs, smart contracts, onchain vs offchains

Week 4 - Projects Building on Cardano, Djed and Catalyst. How to get involved

3 month - Prepare material for the third day of the workshop

Week 1 - Prepare an image of the virtual machine with Ubuntu

Week 2 - Instructions for compiling the Cardno node, launching and setting the topology information to connect it to the rest of the network (testnet), creating an address and funding it with tADA

Week 3 - Web wallets and differences between Daedalus and web wallets. Advantages and disadvantages of each. Instructions for installing a web wallet sending transactions

Week 4 - Instructions for minting assets and NFTs

4 month - Prepare material for the fourth day of the workshop.

Week 1 - Instruction on how to build and run plutus scripts and how to interact with the smart contract

Week 2 - Document the available community resources: Cardano Forum, Stackexchage, Discord, Telegram channels, Explorer, Plutus Pioneer program

Week 3 - Prepare assignment

Week 4 - Check for consistent wording across all the material and table of content

1 - There will be 8 sets of slide decks for the first 2 days of the workshop for the general public. Each slide deck will support a timeslot lasting around 1:30h and will be between 10 and 20 slides (average 15 slides)

In total 8 decks * 15 slides @ 25 EUR per slide = 3 000 EUR

2 - There will be a Gitbook with instructions for the second 2 days of the workshop and an image for the virtual machine will be created.

Cost to produce the content the same as the slide decks for the first 2 days: 3 000 EUR

TOTAL: 6 000 EUR (6 598 USD)

Dmitry Shibaev will lead the project. Linked in profile: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shibaev/>

Corporate Experience and Speaker at events:

5 years experience in big tech delivering large scale projects on the SAP system at energy companies in south of Europe

15 years experience in financial markets at an investment bank in London, Singapore and Amsterdam.

Built and delivered tools to manage the bank’s capital, balance sheet and trading positions and led large investment projects and ran workshops on how to use them to 300+ participants

Speaker at events:

<https://app.qwoted.com/opportunities/event-liquidity-funding-risk-summit-london-2019>

Builds community tools and has a good knowledge of how Cardano works:

A wallet connector between DApps and Wallets that gives the boilerplate code for a new dapp developers. This an example of how the web app will interact with the user’s web wallet

Github: <https://github.com/dynamicstrategies/cardano-wallet-connector>

App: <https://dynamicstrategies.io/wconnector>

A Public GraphQL endpoint with web client letting anyone query the Cardano blockchain from their browser or API.

Github: <https://github.com/dynamicstrategies/cardano-public-graphql>

App: <https://dynamicstrategies.io/gqlclient>

Staking Reward Calculator synced to the blockchain that shows how much payout can be expected from different pools and analytics around it

App: <https://dynamicstrategies.io/crewardcalculator>

Cardano Wallet Functions that can be used in React Native apps to communicate with the cardano-wallet backend service

<https://github.com/dynamicstrategies/cardano-wallet-functions>

Received recognition for building community tools at Adafolio:

<https://adafolio.com/portfolio/8f7da192-0257-11eb-9684-a45e60be653b>

Dmitry was part of the first cohort of Plutus Pioneers:

NFT celebrating course completion: <https://pool.pm/asset1357ggsrjp232jwn5g7qqc9zetpsphzdawalgez>

We run a Stake pool on Cardano:

Ticker DSIO registered in 2020, previously received a delegation from Cardano Foundation. Link with pool details: <https://adapools.org/pool/6ae0fb9fc19ad1b82521d6e4b9f6e9bad4d150529673c95c5b5cf4e4>

Active on Cardano forum and Cardano Stack Exchange:

<https://forum.cardano.org/u/dstratio/summary>

<https://cardano.stackexchange.com/users/6196/d-s>

Auditability

A report with the following KPIs will be produced at the end of each month

Documentation KPI

Number of Slides prepared
Number pages in the Gitbook
Virtual machine image prepared
Reviews of material with community

The project will be a success if 8 slide packs are prepared for the first 2 days of a workshop and made available on our website and a github book is prepared for the other 2 days of the workshop.

Positive feedback from the community

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