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By BAF: Summer of Stellar
Workshops, content, and tutorials, culminating in a Builders Retreat and demo day in the heart of the Bay Area.
Stellar Builders Retreat: This will be a 3-night retreat taking place in the heart of the Bay Area in five weeks. With space for 15 talented builders, this will be the second iteration of the BAF x Stellar Builder House. Whereas the need for additional events that engage technical talent has been identified; whereas the demand for student sponsorship to attend a builders' retreat has only increased since the completion of the BAF x Stellar Builder House; whereas high-performing students from various regions of North America have been identified as ideal candidates for the builder house, and spaces are available for first-time builders to begin their web3 foundations by building on Stellar. There is a noted lack of engagement from the academic field during the summer with web3 initiatives, and the builders' retreat caters to students with a strong desire to build for philanthropic purposes while strengthening their skillset. Workshops will be conducted each day of the retreat, and all projects are to be built on Soroban/Stellar's platform, with final presentations being done on the last day of the retreat. The theme of the retreat will be "empowerment", focusing on financial justice in developing regions through the power of decentralization.
Open Builders' Day: This will take place at a venue in SF during the retreat, and will serve as a demo day for the residents of the retreat and a chance for others to showcase their Soroban-built projects with the greater community. Here, the BAF team and community of Stellar enthusiasts will come together to exchange knowledge and know-how surrounding Stellar and its capabilities. Food will be served, and this event will highlight the work put in by builders at the retreat, with the eventual goal of each project being pursued further beyond the conclusion of the retreat. With builders sharing their stories and projects, the open builders' day aims to allow the creativity and passion of those in the Stellar ecosystem to flourish.
Soroban Saturdays (Educational/Content for University Series): A content initiative with frequent posts weekly featuring a mix of both technical and non-technical use cases for Stellar technology, meant to inform and educate members of the academic community who possess varying levels of blockchain proficiency. This will be an open-source series that allows for all to benefit from technical content, tutorials, and articles that can be understood by someone with limited or advanced proficiency of the web3 space. This initiative will solve the learning curve issue that many have when entering the blockchain ecosystem, and serve as a guide for those wanting to build out full projects on Stellar. The BAF team and former participants of the builder house have achieved a proficiency in Soroban, and with assistance from the SDF developer team, educational content will be distributed to a number of students and university blockchain organizations -- who will conclude the Soroban Saturdays program with a full plan for an event to be hosted on their university campus, thus expanding the reach Stellar has in the academic world, and BAF will take care of logistics and event planning with each university to ensure success of events.
$37.5K
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