Proposal for video content in English & Romanian about Dotsama
Hello Dotsama community & Happy New Year !
I'm Claudio and I run the Youtube channels of KryptosChain (in English) and Polkadot Romania (in Romanian).
I have been doing video content on Youtube since early 2018 and have been covering Dotsama content soon after its launch in late 2020.
You probably know that I've previously submitted 2 proposals (Ref 38 and Ref 46) for funding the continuation of these 2 channels and they're both failing right now and have gotten a lot of feedback from the community. I took all the feedback into consideration and I appreciate you all taking the time to go through it and have decided to try one last time, but rather than push this proposal through a Referendum on chain directly, I've decided to open up a discussion and share it here so you have time to review it.
To be fair I was close to giving up, but many of you have told me not to lose hope and that if I merge the 2 proposals together and incorporate that feedback you will give me another chance and so I thought I will do that because I really like this ecosystem and love its growth in the last year & would be a shame to step out because of a misunderstanding.
My motivation to push out content has been nothing but this ecosystem and at the same time, I hope you understand that just like all the other content creators who have reached out to the Kusama treasury, funding is needed in order to continue to deliver and even improve on that content, making it easier for regular users and also the community to understand what's going on in the ecosystem as well as how to navigate it and stick around just like you did.
I hope you can help me continue helping the community and so I welcome each and every one of your feedbacks after you go through my proposal,
which you can find here ---> Proposal
Thanks,
Claudio
Update !
Referendum 46 is currently winning and there are 8 days and 13 hours left from the time of writing this before a decision is made.
Should it pass, this proposal will no longer happen until a later time when funding for both channels will be requested and re-calculated
based on the KSM price at the time and the dates. However, that being said, should 46 pass, I will continue to also deliver Polkadot content to my English channel so as to maintain the community up to date, but the quality will not be the same as if funding would be allocated to it due to the inability to pay a video editor and having to do the work myself.
Should referendum 46 not pass, I will then go ahead and launch this proposal as a referendum on chain.
I hope this is understandable. Thanks as always for your time.
Comments (5)
I am not a content creator like you more a consumer but I know and understand all the hard work behind a video. It takes a lot of time to do all the research and to edit the video to be ready, and this is happening daily, even on the weekends. The hard part is that people who are following your channels are always expecting for you to deliver so you need always to create quality content to satisfy their needs and curiosity. And in this case we are speaking about 2 channels in 2 different languages. If for your english channel the subscribers that you have and the views are enough to understand how important is your content for the people that are watching, on the other hand the romanian one is something that is raising incredible fast together with the telegram channel as well, which means that you are doing a great job. Honestly speaking in this period of time for the crypto market when a lot of bad things happened, you succeeded to grow very fast a romanian community very interested in Polkadot&Kusama ecosystems, that day by day is becoming bigger and bigger. When you have somebody that is putting a lot of effort to explain in simple words, but with all the necessary details, to make people understand what this ecosystem has to offer you cannot ignore, instead it raises your curiosity for learning, at least for me in this way it worked. Adding to that I think I am in first 10 people that entered the telegram channel and I am reading daily all the messages and there is no single question raised by someone without an answer or explanation, which is awesome. I hope that your next proposal is going to be successful because all your time spent for youtube and telegram must be rewarded and most important sustained. Polkadot&Kusama needs people like you to spread the words of how big and important this ecosystems are AND your followers need all your educational videos, discussions on telegram and twitter for better understanding.
IMO, 4 videos a week for news seems excessive. There isn't that much news to discuss. I think you could probably cut that down to 1 news show per week. If you do cut it down to once a week, maybe you could have people on to discuss the important topics. Having just one show a week would allow you the time needed to coordinate that and would make that one news show more valuable. If you opted for live-stream format for that show instead of video format, you could simulcast on YouTube and twitter spaces. Just a thought. Looking forward to seeing what you produce. From the proposal: "If you have seen similar proposals before: why is yours different?" Don't make the assumption that you need to be different. You don't need to 'out-do' anyone, you just need to produce quality content that covers the polkadot ecosystem and try to cover areas that are being neglected. That said, it's always important to craft a brand.