Wrapping up the Developer Onboarding Program

[piber-dev]

Wrapping up the Developer Onboarding Program

Introduction

The Developer Onboarding Program is officially at a wrap and here is how it went.

The community program targeting marketing and education is complete! Three months of missions, WG-meetings, and tons of interactions was run successfully and most of the goals were met. At the end, the program had received both public endorsement and donations from different Overclock Labs employees.

Expected Outcomes

Total user count ✔️

• Expected outcome: 250-1000 unique users partaking in missions learning and earning from the different missions. This is about 3x or more than the pilots achieved but all learnings and ideas will help adapt the program to achieve these goals.
• Actual outcome: While not all users are developers and new, we got the lower end of our expected user count at 326 total unique users with 255 users completing missions. The available statistics are not super precise but it grew by by about 219-234 users during the duration of the proposal.

Getting users to be active ✔️

• Expected outcome: a big number of traffic to other Akash-related topics such as: the Insiders program, Akash EDU, the bounties page, different WGs/SIGs and more. Missions will be created to encourage the participation of these other Akash activities but will be carefully thought over as not to bring spam into these topics.
• Actual outcome: during wg-zealy meetings, we recognized that a lot of new users and old & inactive users were able to complete the full process of dockerizing and deploying on Akash with guides. Other users also recognized that members that came from Zealy engaged in the Discord channels. Even 22 insider applications came from the program!

Designing a user flow ✔️

• Expected outcome: A clear path for users will be created so that they can learn how to use Akash with minimal technical experience, and get enough AKT to get started whilst doing so. The hope is that users will stick around and remain active for longer than just the bare minimum that the missions are requesting.
• Actual outcome: We successfully delivered on this through making missions where many users followed the full process of creating and deploying a Python app on Akash and multiple missions related to deploying, building, and tweaking different apps on Akash. This was huge and we want to reintroduce something similar in a more permanent way in the future.

Spending budget ✔️

• Expected outcome: $6500 USD worth of role payments, $7500 USD worth of rewards payments, and no additional spending.
• Actual outcome: $6500 USD worth of role payments, $6576 USD worth of rewards payments, and $630 for a Zealy subcription. This leaves us $294 to spare in the original budget.

PS: We received an additional $10-15k USD worth of AKT (2500 AKT) from Greg Osuri (link), founder of Overclock Labs, which remained unspent. This was to be used on rewards, but we did not have the reach nor the missions to spend this in this quarter. This will be kept in the rewards pool regardless of the results of the next proposal and is to be used on mission rewards only.

The unspent budget will be returned to the community pool if the next proposal does not pass or by the original deadline within a month. The plan is to release a discussion and submit the proposal before the end of this month.

Zealy Roles ❌

• Expected outcome: successful implementation of "Zealy Developer Roles" on Discord or "Zealy Developer Certificates" where users can get access to a private channel on Discord and have a colored name and badge on Discord.
• Actual outcome: these roles were never implemented due to security concerns from some members of Overclock Labs related to the permissions required for this bot. More discussion can be made on this topic to introduce this in the future if there is demand for it.

What we want to do next

We want to craft better missions than ever before. A lot of the missions we created could have been improved, and we want to dedicate more time for this.

Furthermore, we want Zealy users to be able to contribute to the network to grow the number of contributors.

We are currently considering different ideas to improve the program and whether or not to try alternative platforms and we will release more information soon.

Thanks for this run everyone! Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the #wg-zealy meetings and the original discussion, this could never have been done without your collaboration.

Submissions

Akash Alpha's walkthrough for a mission
LukeWarmer's Akash AI Animation Project
cr07nis's TTS on Akash Project

Plus countless of other fun and serious projects!

[instafinanzas]

Thank you for putting this up Piber, it was a pleasure working with you throughout this campaign

For next steps we will look for projects to do joint collabs on Zealy and will review the platform Galxe, although similar to zealy in functions, Galxe community is bigger and more matured, and we believe there can be more exposure for Akash Network and more chances to onboard new developers and enthusiasts

[oiclid]

@piber-dev @instafinanzas Great job guys! Looking forward to what you would be doing next. 💪🏿

[rodri-r]

Congrats guys!! The Zealy program did bring attention to the network in my opinion and I did see more people using it, as well as devs becoming providers and learning at the same time.

[instafinanzas]

Akash Dev onboarding campaign on Zealy Season 2 launched on Ago. 1st
1st sprint is running

Also Zealy WG calls to be resumed in Ago. 5th
Call Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MUSJxEObjxlVuLQlPEN0yKtLE9C1BjdnGcnoEYlrCI0/edit?usp=sharing

[instafinanzas]

Shared Statement of Work during WG call Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o0nBqUegJeaOnV9DmB-iWux9JnnitKvJBfy3vH3uHyQ/edit#heading=h.koqp1zr190fb

Set up expectations for campaign milestones and procedures