[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

Background:

Being part of the Cardano community for the last two years and worked on a project to train senior developers in India on Plutus and Haskell, I realize there is bigger need to build awareness at larger community level and build community of developers for Cardano Ecosystem.

There is a serious shortage of qualified senior development on Cardano impacting plans to deliver various solutions to world problems envisaged by community builders and thinkers.

The Indian IT industry employs 2 million plus software developers, only less than 0.5% of developers possess the necessary blockchain development skills.

Solution:

Indian skilled and experienced developers pool could be a solution to fill the gap of the developer requirement for Cardano. These developers are engaged in developing complex applications using other technologies in web 2.0 and they have the ability to quickly grasp and be ready developers for Cardano blockchain.

Process:

1. Marketing and Selection: We shall run awareness campaigns on social media and in private groups and invite interested developers to join the community.
2. Awareness Sessions: We shall run once in a month awareness webinar or offline meetups to bring awareness about Cardano ecosystem.
3. Development Support: Interested participant will be provided guidance on various tools and solution for learning and development available.
4. Industry Connect: Once every two months an online webinar will be conducted with global perspective with potential project sponsors and developers community so there is direct interaction.

In 6 months, we shall build 100+ developers’ community which is engaged in learning or developing on Cardano Ecosystem. This approach can help to quickly fill the shortage of developers on Cardano.

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

The Campaign Brief states:

Without the supportive environment for developers, new innovations would be stalled. By supporting this challenge settings, more developers would be drawn into Cardano. There would be a bigger talent pool of developers that Catalyst projects can collaborate with and turn project concepts/Proof of concept into successful protocols which would enhance the growth of Cardano.

Guiding questions

How do we attract developers from outside of our current community to participate in Catalyst?

What do developers want, and how do they get it from the Cardano dev ecosystem?

What would make it a developer motivated to grind through the docs and code no matter how hard it is to create an app?

What are enterprise dev managers looking for in order to be able to build out enterprise projects - either internal or commercial?

This proposal is fully aligned with the challenge setting and guiding questions in a very direct way. Making available more trained developers on Cardano by attracting existing web 2.0 developers in India and supporting them on their journey to be part of Cardano developers Eco Systems.

We already have a module designed for any new developers to start learning and developing on Cardano platform.

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

Udai is well connected with Software Development industry in India. He has trained 20+ senior developers on Plutus and Haskell.

Having 20+ years of development and industry expeirence and from last two years deeply involved on Cardano devlopment and community.

More details about Udai can be found on linkedin

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

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/399697

[Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Month 1-2

Cardano India community Setup

Communication materials prepared

Month 3-4

First Cardo meetup

20 members in community

Month 5-6

Second meetup

Online Community Event

50 members

Month 7-8

A Major Event expect 100 attendees

100 members

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Udai Solanki

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

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Milestone 1 = ADA 20,000

Milestone 2 = ADA 30,000

Milestone 3 = ADA 30,000

Milestone 4 = ADA 40,000

[VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

Increasing Cardano awareness in India among large community of Developers