Stacks Fairfield County Education Workshops

[wonder-phil]

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Email:                                                                    [email protected]

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GRANT BASICS

Grant Name:                                        Stacks Fairfield County Education Workshops

Total Budget:                              25,000

Total Duration:                 400

Grant Type:                                               Open Source Dev 1st time Grantees

Grant Track:                                          Stacks Education & Community

Grant Goal:                                               Strengthen Community

Grant Audience:             Developers

Specific Audience:         Fintech developers in/around Stamford Connecticut

Grant Team:                                       wonder-phil

Previous Grants:                      

Ecosystem Programs:      

GRANT MISSION, IMPACT, RISKS & REFERENCE

Grant Mission:          We want to establish a Stacks Chapter in Connecticut. We believe Stacks to be a top Web3 solution for developers to build their Applications on the Bitcoin network which is decentralized, secure, and most widely adopted.

Our program will work towards establishing and strengthening the Stacks community and education in the state of Connecticut as well as Fairfield county. We will host monthly workshops and one hackathon for various clean applications of stacks and Clarity. We aim use these examples to help build our local fintech community. We also believe these clean examples can improve the existing developer ecosystem on Stacks.

Physical workshops - our workshops will be in-person workshops/meetups once a month. This is an opportunity to educate people about Stacks and how they can build and contribute to Stacks Ecosystem. The focus will be twofold:

Web3 prospects for Stacks – particularly google-cardboard and generating a basic VR/AR experience for transactions

Focus on flutter/Dart based transactions based on Stacks but also including providers such as Stripe.

Educational content - We aim to publish high quality video content, brief articles and newsletters.

Grant Impact:               Videos of the monthly meetups, clear and concise examples in Stacks and Clarity

Grant Risks:                          We have to restart these meetups:

https://www.meetup.com/stamford-developers-meetup/ https://www.meetup.com/blockchainct/ https://www.meetup.com/stamford-financial-technology-meetup/

There is risk we will not be able to generate the excitement we had in the past. We will work hard to fix this.

Support Link:                                     

GRANT ROADMAP & DELIVERABLES

MILESTONE 1:

Deliverable:                   One meetup/workshop per month - validate by clean use-case examples, videos

MILESTONE 2:

Deliverable:                   Final workshop/hackathon in last meetup

FINAL DELIVERABLE

Deliverable:                   Videos, clean use-case examples, documentation driven by our meetups/workshops

[stacks-foundation]

👋 @wonder-phil Thanks for your application! We will do a pre-review and let you know if we have any immediate questions. In the mean time please refer to our review schedule here for a detailed timeline and response dates. Best, Will

[wonder-phil]

Thanks Will - look forward to any feedback.

We would be very excited to kick this project off!

[will-corcoran]

Hi @wonder-phil -

We have identified the projects we will be awarding grants as part of Stacks Foundation Grants Program Cohort 18. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your project was not among those selected.

This is no way means that we do not see the value of the work you proposed. We're lucky to have so many talented independent researchers, developers, and community leaders like yourself building on Stacks. Unfortunately, we receive many more proposals than we can actually fund with our limited means, so competition is extremely tough. While we generally support innovation in all forms, we tend to prioritize projects that have the potential to advance and differentiate the broader ecosystem from other blockchains, as well as projects that meet critical needs of the community at the time. These constraints mean that in several instances, several excellent projects may not make it into a cohort.

We very much appreciate the time and effort you've put into this process and encourage you to continue watching this repo and consider submitting a new application if and when you feel your project better aligns with the current priorities of the Grants Program.

If you should have any questions, please let us know in the comment section below. Also, it sounds like you have been in contact with Adam about the Chapters program. If not, please email him at [email protected].

Best, Will Stacks Foundation Grants Program Manager