Encode Club x Akash Club Education Series

[anthonyencodeclub]

Hi Everyone!

We've been big fans of Akash from the outside now and wanted to jump in to get feedback on running an Education initiative to drive developers to Akash!

Encode Club, the community I run, has been fostering developer education in web3 for over 5 years now! Our main focus to engage and onboard developers is around high-quality live content and support. We work with most of the leading protocols as long-term clients! We now train over 20k developers per quarter and have had over 100 vc-funded startups out of Encode such as Euler Finance!

We'd like to run a public education series of 8 events across 8 weeks to bring 2,000 developers to Akash, ready to build in the hackathons and other events the ecosystem is supporting. Encode will be responsible for all marketing, programme management, curriculum and speaker arrangement. We'd also love to engage as much of the community as possible in this effort.

We envisage starting this initiative in April, allowing plenty of time for the community to digest, engage and market this programme! We'd like to call it 'Akash Club'.

Our track record of this sort of event includes:

Sui Educate
Polkadot Educate
Internet Computer Educate
Near Educate

A deck is attached.

For running this initiative, we would request a grant of $25,000 to help support the setup of this programme!

We would love to discuss with the community!

[CaptainSplince]

Hey Anthony - Thanks for the proposal! I have a few questions stemming from your overview.

• Your website says you're community has 100,000 developers in it, but the Akash deck you linked says you have 500,000. Just a little confused on the total size of your community.

• How much of this program would be done in-house and how much would you require Akash network community members or Overclock employees to participate? Is this basically, pay the fee and you handle the rest?

• I think it's important to include a detailed framework for how the $25k would be spent and what the estimated outcomes will be aligning with historical outcomes from previous initiatives with other similar projects. eg - how many new community members can we expect to join our community? not only join but begin activly participating.

• You mention that you want to host 8 events across 8 weeks to bring 2,000 developers to Akash. What are these events and what does "bring 2000 developers to Akash" mean? Historically speaking, do those 2000 developers start activly building on the various protocols you have partnered with? I'd love to better understand the end results of these initiatives. What's the funnel look like?

• Looks like the focus of your programs are around "high-quality live content and support." What does support look like? How do you support developers outside of live events?

• In the Akash Deck, you mention 5 seperate programs. Will all of these programs be part of this proposal? A detailed timeline would be useful for review.

• From what I see this is really an "awareness" campaign. I don't see any long term thinking in the proposal eg - What happens after the 8 weeks is over? Do the developers who participate have a support system in place?

Thanks Anthony

[anthonyencodeclub]

Hey! First, thank you for these considered questions! - Website needs updating! It's 500,000! We are scaling a lot atm! - We always handle everything! - This programme should engage about 2000 developers. How they actively participate depends on the opportunities within that ecosystem but if there were, say, a hackathon you could expect 25-50% to convert in the short-term to building projects! We've seen this across many ecosystems including Solana, Polkadot, Near and many more! - See answer above! - We supposed develops in several ways: 1) during the programme, we have dedicated programme managers to answer administrative questions and help them have a great experience 2) we have a dedicated talent and investment team for jobs or/and raising money 3) we have an in-house technical team to answer technical questions! - That was just an example of what else we do, this programme would place take over 8 weeks, 1 session per week with 6 weeks marketing beforehand. Subject to being funded, we'd aim to start the marketing process by the end of Q1 with the educations starting in Q2! - This is the first step of a broader initiative. If successful, we would follow it up with a hackathon and then accelerator (in a separate funding request). Our focus is actually always towards long-term building and engagement (as evidenced by our long-term partnerships with many blockchains) but we know we need to build trust with new ecosystems before scaling! I'm happy to answer any others here or on call, and adjust our proposal accordingly! Best, Anthony Anthony Beaumont CEO and co-founder +44 7590 213 269 ***@***.*** <https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-beaumont-623894164/> <https://twitter.com/anth0nybeaumont?lang=en> www.encode.club

…

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:28 AM Adam ***@***.***> wrote: Hey Anthony - Thanks for the proposal! I have a few questions stemming from your overview. - Your website says you're community has 100,000 developers in it, but the Akash deck you linked says you have 500,000. Just a little confused on the *total size of your community*. - How much of this program would be done in-house and how much would you require Akash network community members or Overclock employees to participate? *Is this basically, pay the fee and you handle the rest?* - I think it's important to include a detailed framework for how the $25k would be spent and what the estimated outcomes will be aligning with historical outcomes from previous initiatives with other similar projects. eg - *how many new community members can we expect to join our community?* not only join but *begin activly participating.* - You mention that you want to host 8 events across 8 weeks to bring 2,000 developers to Akash. What are these events and what does "bring 2000 developers to Akash" mean? Historically speaking, do those 2000 developers start activly building on the various protocols you have partnered with? I'd love to better understand the end results of these initiatives. *What's the funnel look like?* - Looks like the focus of your programs are around "high-quality live content and support." What does support look like? *How do you support developers outside of live events?* - In the Akash Deck, you mention 5 seperate programs. Will all of these programs be part of this proposal? *A detailed timeline would be useful for review.* - From what I see this is really an "awareness" campaign. I don't see any long term thinking in the proposal eg - *What happens after the 8 weeks is over?* Do the developers who participate have a support system in place? Thanks Anthony — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#458 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXLWCKDFLITVTFLJDCZZFO3YQBIR5AVCNFSM6AAAAABCHSPQ4CVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DEMRWHAYDC> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[brewsterdrinkwater]

this discussion is inactive.