This idea is about creating a Youtube channel that posts Cardano development tutorials consistently to help people become Cardano devs faster and learn efficiently. As an education advocate, I do like this idea. If successfull, it would bring a huge traffic to the Cardano system. However, the way this idea is presented did not satisfy me. I think the proposer should presented the content such as what aspects would be tutored. The target audience and the impact on them should be included to strengthen the productivity of this project. There are two risks mention but the solution is so vague. Besides, I think there are more challenges that should be considered such as attracting people to this tutorial channel or lacking of topics. The team should discuss and have a more detailed plan for those.

The issue is that there is no YouTube channel where new developers may watch and learn Cardano Development Tutorials for free. The proposer proposes resolving it through a YouTube channel that constantly posts Cardano development tutorials in order to assist users become Cardano developers faster and more efficiently. The suggestion will benefit the community as well as the Cardano ecosystem. This proposal addresses the issue effectively.

There are many proposals for funding to create video tutorials on learning about Cardano on Youtube, although the idea is the same, each proposal has its own resources and topics to build content differently, all of which contribute to reducing the learning curve and creating a great experience for developers. So, conceptually, this project is a perfect fit for Challenge's key metric, the important thing to evaluate its growth potential is to consider which topics will be chosen to build the channel and commitment to the positive impact it will bring to Cardano. The main topic of their Youtube channel will be tutorials on Haskell and Plutus, it is relevant and ideal. The quality of the content will not be a concern as the team has experience working with projects with similar content before. However, the promise of positive effects is still very vague, it is missing the predictions expressed in specific numbers.

The proposal tries to tackle the lack of free, consistently updated Cardano development tutorials on Youtube. A quick search shows that the problem is indeed valid. As a software engineer myself, I can attest that tutorial videos on Youtube are one of the most accessed resources for new developers to start learning programming languages and tools. Based on what I read in the proposal, what the proposer means by Cardano development tutorials includes Haskell basics, advanced Plutus, and dApps development. This is a problem. The proposer plans on releasing 12 tutorials in total, but I would argue this amount is simply not enough to cover the aforementioned topics, at least not for new developers. There is also the problem of existing resources regarding Haskell and Plutus. Developers typically learn Haskell at learnyouahaskell.com, and there is a Plutus Pioneer Program playlist on the Input Output Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqC8oiurqsI&list=PLnPTB0CuBOBypVDf1oGcsvnJGJg8h-LII). The proposer could mitigate this by making tutorials around Cardano dApps development only. It would solve the problems of not having enough videos and having redundant learning resources. That being said, the sustainability aspect has not yet been touched by the proposer. Remember, the proposal statement centered around the lack of consistently updated resources. Therefore, I fail to see how the three-month implementation would solve that problem since it lacks details on how to keep producing tutorials sustainably. It could be mitigated by relying on Adsense, putting the video on other Youtube programming tutorial channels such as Traversy Media to gain a wider reach, or simply asking for a longer-lasting runway by requesting more budget. Whichever alternative the proposer picks, it would help them to resolve the problem. As presented to us, I have to disagree with the effectiveness of the proposal.

There is a clear need for more developers on the Cardano blockchain. There are currently a lot of people that want to participate in dApp development, but they don't know where to start. There are lots of people around the world that turn to Youtube for education purposes. This helps lead to an effective proposal that will address the challenge of lack of education in development. The main question that needs to be asked is how will people find out about this Youtube channel? Growing a community is extremely important because trying to start an educational platform without a large community can be hard. The purpose of these proposals is to bring growth to the Cardano space. There is a need for more free education for developers. However, there has to be candidates searching for this type of content. For these reasons, I give this section 3 out of 5 stars.

When compared to many other submissions for the challenge, this one is rather distinctive. While the majority of them concentrate on attracting new developers to the ecosystem and providing them with all the amenities they need, our suggestion ensures that aspiring developers have a reliable source to begin their blockchain journey so they are skilled at what they do. In turn, this boosts the ecosystem's overall productivity, adoption, and capabilities. The proposer has definitely read between the lines and has come up with a clever plan to include the developers in the chain. This idea clearly tackles this issue to some extent by ensuring that the proper assistance is provided to people who want to start off, which is why the majority of developers have given up owing to the lack of appropriate content to guide them. The proposal is all the more credible and effective for the readers since the proposer is aware of what needs to be done, is aware of the difficulties involved, and ensures that the community is aware of their strategy for overcoming those difficulties.

Cardapper- Youtube C-Dev Channel posts Cardano development tutorial consistently and help Cardano developers learn faster and more efficient. Since the challenge KPI is ease the learning curve for Cardano Developers, this Cardapper -Youtube C-Dev channel will make it easier for Cardano developers to get quick content and learn every week new development within Cardano. This will also attract developers from outside Cardano to give it a try learning coding in Cardano. Although the windows that show tutorial could be zoomed in more (video production issue), it is possible to follow along the course instructor explanation. Releasing the new content every week is also good as it is neither too frequent nor too slow. This cardapper -Youtube C-Dev channel proposal effectively addresses the challenge very well.

This proposal's impact statement is short, but to the point. It addresses a persistent pain point within the Cardano ecosystem: a lack of convenient, up-to-date educational programming tutorials for self-guided learners. The solution is, quite simply, to create them.

One potential risk factor not mentioned could be keeping the videos current after major hard forks like Vasil, but even slightly outdated materials could still be valuable. Otherwise, the proposal appears to adequate outline and address risk factors.

The problem being no YouTube channel posting Cardano Development Tutorials to watch and learn for free. The proposer wants to create youtube videos that would post cardano development tutorials regularly and would help become Cardano developer. This will help added new developers to the ecosystem and will be very helpful for the growth of cardano ecosystem. The proposal can be scaled to add tutorials of other cardano related topics as well. Therefore this proposal addresses the problem

Providing video tutorials about development on YouTube is a great way to reach out to developers and aspiring developers. If the videos would gain traction by the algorithm, it could on-board lots of new developers as well as bring more attention to the Cardano Ecosystem. This proposal suits the “Developer Ecosystem” challenge setting somewhat well since it could (1) Increase developer productivity and (2) Broaden the knowledge base, (3) Attract new developers from outside our community when they stumble upon the videos.

However, it is hard to make great educational development videos and from the proposal and the videos provided it is hard to tell what the course of direction is for the videos. It is stated that they will help developers by making tutorials. Questions I would like to have answered is: In what format will the tutorials be? Will they be courses, projects, small videos where you show a piece of code? What level of knowledge do you expect your crowd to have? What is your main target audience? Beginners, developers unfamiliar with cardano, experts, Plutus participants?

Objectively speaking, the provided video material displays interesting topics but it could be argued that they are not educational in their current format. Is the plan to keep the same format and educational style in the videos if you are funded? Have you in any way researched if this type of teaching is requested by developers/the community? If that's the case, it should be included to increase the credibility of the proposal. If not, you could do a case study and adjust your content according to your findings.

The intents and purpose of the proposal are great but the questions raised above bring the proposal score to a neutral standing. 3 points are given in terms of impact.

The proposal in theory is good, but in practice there is a lot of detail about what would be done, so that we could consider a project with a safe positive impact. According to the proponents, there is no youtube channel that works to post content aimed at developers to learn better about Cardano's technologies - with that, the idea is precisely to create a youtube channel that publishes Cardano development tutorials with a good frequency; it is also said that these videos would be created in a simple language accessible to everyone. In theory this serves very well what the challenge seeks, as is very clear in the excerpt: “Challenge KPIs include easing the learning curve for new cardano developers, and this proposal aims to do just that. Cardapper discord server, telegram and twitter will be posted with all updates. The comments, conversations and feedback from aspiring cardano developers on youtube and in the communication spaces will help in communicating the project results.” However, in practice some situations should be better exposed. The main issue that should have been clarified is the exact content that will be addressed, that is, what will be said in each of the videos, what knowledge will be addressed. It would be essential to have a notion of the curriculum that would be work here, let's say. It would also be important for proponents to explain in what way they intend to create easier and more accessible content than what is already available so far on youtube on this subject. For these reasons, my opinion on the impact is neutral, because while the idea is good, it is not adequately explained and developed.

This part in the proposal is not good. The KIPs mentioned to measure the progress of this project is so vague. What we got here are confusing one like constant growth or good quality. The KIPs should be more clear and measurable. Those should be qualified in order to make it easier to keep track. For example, the number of subcribers, the number of thousand-view videos or the number of regular visitors. The success picuture seems ideal but hard to imagine. The author should include exact number for the KIP like reaching 50000 subcribers in three months or so on.

The proposal is very easy to understand. 12 videos should be published, one every week, but the proposer has not offered any specifics about what will happen next, as well as a rough projection of how many people you expect to watch or how many viewers number will climb over the course of 12 weeks. by offering, this proposer will be able to apply for additional funds in a future round if the predicted metrics are achieved and make more videos. For audibility the details offered are adequate to evaluate the proposal's success and progress but metrics would have help a bit more

As metioned earlier, this project is lacking a clear audit roadmap. The given KPIs are suitable for evaluation, but the lack of targets for KPIs and the timescales for measurement reduces the reference value of the information provided by the proponent. An effective audit roadmap will be built according to the structure of timelines (short-term, long-term, medium-term) - KPIs - targets for KPIs.

I can’t entirely agree that the information is enough for auditing. I have to disagree with the currently provided metrics to determine the proposal’s success. The proposer stated that their target is to publish one video every week for the next three months and gain positive developer feedback. However, it is not clear how we measure the latter. There are a lot of metrics that could objectively quantify that. For example, the number of likes to views ratio, the number of comments, the number of average views per month, etc. As of now, the proposed KPIs around developer feedback are ambiguous. That being said, the one video per week based on the roadmap milestones does show that the channel is constantly updated. Since it's a Youtube channel, the community could keep track of the progress just by looking at their uploads, making sure they have uploaded a tutorial every week.

There is a lot of information included in this proposal. It has been written very well and has a great proposed idea. The problem is the uncertainty that there will be enough demand for this proposal to be executed properly and allow the Youtube channel to be of great use to developers. There are two principles that can help monitor the success. The first being accountability, and the second, openness and transparency. The proposer needs to be completely open with the community and allow for conversation to take place. Once there is a following or a community behind the project. The principle of accountability will help the project to flourish and, in this case, will lead to the success of the proposal. For these reasons, I give this section 3 out of 5 stars. I am still unsure about the potential success of the proposal. I would suggest including more information in regards to the community or people that will be interested in this proposal.

I feel the very same about the feasibility parameters and the quantifiable key measures. The proposal's proponent reiterates their statements regarding what they intend to do both during and after implementation. The success criteria are still to be explicitly defined, however, given the submission's enormous challenge and the work required in comparison to the other suggestions, it's difficult for me to see how the author or the community might demonstrate progress from an auditability standpoint. Given the novel strategy they suggest, I'm certain that the views are the only realistic measures available. A plan like this might give qualitative metrics more weight than quantitative metrics. Additionally, with regular videos, the consistency could be monitored, and the quality of the proposal could be evaluated with the rise in user interactions with the material. However, a much more sophisticated one that attempted to prove the worth of the proposal from multiple angles could have earned them full marks as opposed to a blunt success definition like the one the proposer provides ("Happy developers and them finding this helpful in easing the learning curve.").

The proposal success is to have happy developers who find it easy in learning to build in Cardano. The Cardapper team will post all updates on discord, telegram and twitter. They will use growth of subscribers on their youtube channel as the measure for the success. Alternatively the cardapper team could have measured the user engagement like retweet, replies, discord messages etc. to track the project progress and report back to the community in the form of bi-weekly meetings or report. The Cardapper -Youtube C-Dev Channel helps to ease the learning curve for developers both for developers within Cardano and attract developers outside Cardano. The information provided in the proposal is sufficient to audit the project progress and success.

Auditors should have an easy time keeping tracking of the weekly releases of the tutorial videos, and of assessing their general quality.

Ideally, I'd like to see more concise KPIs offered. What happens if a particular video isn't getting a great response? How will developer feedback be quantified? How much time will be spent answering direct queries?

The proposer has provided a clear plan and timeline that is 1 video per week for the next 12 weeks. This would be enough to track the progress of the proposal. The success of the proposal can be measured by the growth of viewers and subscribers. This will act as an indicator to know whether the videos are effective or no. The success of the proposal will be young developers able to learn about Cardano and becoming a part of Cardano community. Hence with these observation it can be said that the information given should be sufficient to track the progress and the success of the proposal

In terms of auditability, the nature of videos are very easy to audit. Video gets published, and the proposer has delivered for that week. The areas to improve upon in the proposal are the KPIs and definition of success. The current definition of success states “Happy developers and them finding this helpful in easing the learning curve.”. This is not measurable, unless you perform surveys, but there is no plan provided for that. A suggestion would be to define your success together with KPIs that are identifiable and measurable. A few examples could be: 12 videos produced, 1 video per week produced on time, 100 views per video after 1 month, 1000 views per video after 11 months etc. This proposal is easy to audit, but also very hard to measure the success since no measurable KPIs are provided. This should be included to raise the score. The score in terms of auditability will be 3 points as a result.

Unfortunately, this is the topic that leaves much to be desired in the entire proposal, there is very little information passed, both on the auditability of progress and success. For progress, monitoring would be done based on the analysis of “steady good growth in developer viewership on youtube, consistent quality video posts every week, and positive feedback from developers”. But how could we audit the pre-production process of the videos, the making of the scripts, the recording, the editing? We would need to know if the 20 hours of work combined for each video were fulfilled and also if they were done properly, I would like the proponents to provide us with ways to understand these processes that would be behind the scenes of each video made available. It would also be necessary for us to have an understanding of how the videos would be disseminated - how they would reach developers interested in working with the Cardano ecosystem. As for success, unfortunately defining it as just “happy developers and they find it useful to ease the learning curve” is pretty abstract. How can we verify if the videos were being put to good use, that is, if the students and professionals who watched them understood the past knowledge and put it into practice? In my view, a direct survey with the audience that watched the videos would be necessary, and the results should be shared with our community, so that we could understand if the learning curve was really enhanced through this new channel of the youtube.