Please describe your proposed solution
Bullet Points:
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As Marlowe is transitioning from an IOG-managed solution to a fully open source, community-maintained project (<https://marlowe.iohk.io/blog/the-past-present-and-future-of-marlowe-a-journey-of-innovation-and-community-empowerment>), the project's interactions with the community become a driving factor: its future is 100% in the community's hands.
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The next coming months will be busy for the core team of Marlowe maintainers. They will focus on optimizing and extending Marlowe's capabilities to make it the first choice for Cardano DApps builders: developers, infrastructure providers and Stake Pool operators. Next stop: small and medium-sized businesses (merchants, lawyers, traders, financial institutions, etc).
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The most effective way to capture the imagination of this wide range of users, pushing them to integrate Marlowe into their services, goes beyond outreach and community awareness. It is Education. But not just any kind of Education: one that has a track record of instilling skills in students, moving them to use those skills to collaborate and contribute using, in this case, Marlowe. That's where Gimbalabs comes in.
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Gimbalabs has created learning experiences based on its curated Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology for the following languages:
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Plutus PBL
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Mesh PBL
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Aiken PBL
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Cardano Golang PBL
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Of special mention is the Plutus PBL, considered among the Cardano development community as a cutting-edge tool for introducing new developers to the fundamentals of building on top of the Cardano blockchain.
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The infrastructure that efficiently supports such experiences is the Andamio platform (powered by Gimbalabs): each of them is an instance of Andamio. More about Andamio: https://www.andamio.io/about
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After getting to know each other, the Marlowe team, led by Professor Simon Thompson, one of the main creators of Marlowe, and the Gimbalabs team, led by James Dunseith, Gimbalabs co-founder, have concluded that a collaboration can benefit both the Marlowe project itself and its goals, as well as the community.
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“They build, we teach”, will be the premise that we will honor with this proposal and put at the service of the community, to contribute significantly to the adoption of Cardano by the real economy.
Technical Implementation:
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To streamline our process of building the Marlowe Project-Based Learning with the Marlowe Roadmap development activity defined by the Marlowe core maintainers. An Andamio platform instance will be assigned for the building of the Marlowe PBL experience.
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This proposal is closely related to the implementation of the “Marlowe 2025” proposal: <https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/122392>. So, our proposal will follow the “Marlowe 2025” roadmap defined by the Marlowe project.
- Example of the final product to be delivered: <https://plutuspbl.io/>