ZecHub Monthly Updates

This, we are working to improve edcuation for the community, appreciate any feedback :slight_smile:

Also want to add that we have been having a blast working on this :fire: :zebra:

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Education and more education for better and greater adoption.

It is an honor for me to be part of ZecHub and to help everyone know about Zcash. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hello!

ZecHub is happy to present the community a roundup of our past few weeks of activity.

Major Achievements:

We are now Incorporated! This has allowed us to receive startup funding and begin to make ZecHub tasks available on a consistent basis.

The DAO completed a vote in full support of adding Iogy as a new team specialist, assisting with graphic design, managing platforms such as Crew3 and producing reports. The snapshot is also now verified.

Project:

There are 3 new additions to the Zero to Zero Knowledge series:
-TEE
-CryptoNote
-Lelantus

The intention is to continue exploring various privacy protocols and how they relate & differ to Zcash.

We successfully moved the site to Super.so, this has allowed us to use human readable links, customise site sections & add a bunch of features such as forms, dark mode, site search etc. A quick-start guide was published to show everyone where to begin.

ZecHub is now integrated with Dework, thanks to Vito for the idea! Tokidoki integrated it with the GitHub also supplying a set of useful site redirects. Members of the ZecHub Community on Discord are now notified of new tasks and able to claim them with one click.

The weekly sync meetings are going well. There’s been good involvement from DAO members & new people joining. Every Tuesday 15:00/22:00 UTC in Zcash Global Discord. We share an editable version of the meeting agendas now in the main channel to allow anyone to add their own discussion points.

Community:

We held a banner contest over the course of a week. The winning banner is now used on all official ZecHub channels.

There is now a community gallery which has several wallpapers, posters & logos that people can use for their own creations.

We held a Quest sprint on Crew3 with 32 participants joining, completing various tasks, a quiz on Zcash & proceeding to visit ZecPages & join Free2Z to make new pages.

Contributions:

We are pleased to see people from within the community engaging with ZecHub tasks. This month saw 67 Translations completed.

Big thanks to @artkor, @Michae2xl & @Edicksonjga for their translations of ZecWeekly. We are seeing indication there will be different editions coming soon!

ZecHub Global has seen the fastest growth so far, Very well done to @Olek almost completing the entire Italian site!

Our Dework has allowed the project to bring in several new contributors, many of whom are learning about Zcash for the first time, trying out ecosystem platforms all whilst contributing & earning ZEC.

Next Steps:

The question was put to the community of what they would like to see most on ZecHub and we have formulated a strategy in order to deliver quality video content on an ongoing basis. There were important lessons learned from our recent events and we’re taking them to heart in the upcoming ones.

Task budget, scheduling and payouts are now a formalised process. Into next month we will increase the frequency at which tasks are listed.

This will go hand in hand with exploring new avenues of outreach for ZecHub, inviting new people from a variety of communities to learn about Zcash and progress to help build on the project.

Thanks everyone for your continued support! Happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you very much Squirrel, we continue to add value to Zcash through ZecHub for the community to learn about blockchain, privacy, wallets and much more. :shield::sunglasses:

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This month I have been having a lot of fun helping new contributors navigate github to help build out ZecHub Global. Still have a bunch of work to do including adding more langauages/areas. In particular I would love to see:

  • ज़ेकहब हिंदी में
  • ZecHub auf Deutsch
  • ZecHub 中文版

I will continue partnering up with folks like @tim_ukrainian , @vito , and @AidenZ to help with translations :mechanic: Thank you everyone who has contributed so far :hearts:

If anyone has any questions or feedback, or wants to help out let us know!

:zebra: :owl:

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Hello Everyone, here is a recap of ZecHub’s progress this month.

Major Achievements

Project Updates

  • With the help of some outstanding Global Ambassadors: @Michae2xl @Edicksonjga @tim_ukrainian @Olek @AidenZ @artkor ZecHub Global (now 8 languages!) and the ZecWeekly ecosystem newsletter are progressing rapidly.

  • Creating video content has remained a priority, our initial target has been at least two videos per week. We’ve been working on the Youtube Channel + adding new Playlists, Featuring Zcash Channels etc.

  • A New website is under development! The ZecHub DAO members have filled in profiles for the new site that will feature our Portfolio.

  • Zero to Zero Knowledge series covered Coinjoin Mimblewimble & HSM. We are looking to do a few more & soon trying a new format.

  • There are 2 more wiki sections for: ZF A/V Club Portal & for Zcash Community Blogs. Please let us know if you’d like your blog to be featured.

  • The weekly sync meetings have seen increasing participation. It has really turned into a great platform for the @ZecHubCommunity to share ideas. Recordings are now available (Locked to Cypherpunk Zero NFT holders).

Community Contributors

  • There’s been a torrent of community involvement producing translated wiki pages, video tutorials, podcast clips & even assisting in event coordination during our syncs.
  • 2 New Wiki docs on Shielded pools & for Zcash Shielded Assets were worked on.
  • A Portal to the ZFAV collection of guides/kits/resources has been created. We invite anyone with expertise in the field to make a page for it! Let us know if you need tips on where to start.
  • We are currently holding a Crew3/Zealy quest sprint! Many thanks to our new team member @Iogy for the work here.

Planned Steps

  • Starting May 5th 21:00 UTC please join us for the first ZecHub Spaces! We will host Tivra from the Decred community to chat about their project, notably Decred Dex supporting shielded Zcash.
  • We are actively reaching out to members of the community with plans of forming a new blog, keep a lookout for the invites!
  • The Z2Z Podcast will return with another 6-8 more episodes!

There’s still a few other things we have planned for the community, we’ll be figuring out ways to make it easier for everyone to get involved. If you have suggestions, leave a comment!

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Happy to answer any questions.

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When this project was born, I had no doubts that it would be the biggest source of information about Zcash. I think this will be much bigger in the future!

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What CMS was choosen? I hope WP :blush:

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its github pages for the moment - we can always change it :+1:

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April has really sprung into action – thank you everyone who continues to further Zcash Education :owl: I wanted to post some internal KPI’s to add color to our performance. Any questions let us know :hearts:

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Impressive work!! Great development and impact on the ZCash Network… Keep up the good work!!

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You all are smashing it <3

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Hello Everyone! Here are project updates to give a clear summary of ZecHub’s month.

Project Updates

Zero to Zero Knowledge twitter threads have been phased out and we have started a new Video Series: “Zcash Explained.”

The intention is to have a selection of playlists with videos such as high level view of how Zcash works / Installing a full node / Zcash on DEX / Namada Bridge explained, etc.

We held two Twitter Spaces with Decred & Phonon DAO available on youtube with ongoing scheduling for our next discussion.

Core team now coordinates using monday.com, this will allow us to better track progress on tasks & accurately relay this during meetings.

Weekly Sync meetings are a joy, so many active participants giving suggestions & opinions on how we can better serve the community. A DAO meeting was held last week with full breakdown of expenditure and budget allocations toward Tasks.

We had a guest from LeoFinance came on to talk about the project and invite the community to the platform. Meetings are held in the Zcash Global discord on Tuesdays. All meetings are recorded and available to Cypherpunk Zero NFT holders.

We also had sessions with Geobrowser on how to add Zcash and Privacy pages to their platform.

The ZFAV portal has two new guides on IPFS. A Calendar for the club is coming soon. This will enable a shareable link to all events, meetups & workshops hosted by ZFAV.

The DAO site is now up. We will be adding more sections to it in the near term.

@januszgrze has set up research and comms channels. He has also reserved time every Monday for anyone in @ZecHubCommunity to speak with.

Contributors

Community involvement has been encouraging. Its great to see participation and planning between the different communities. This month community Github contributions far surpassed the core team.

We are super excited to share the videos @thedesertlynx has created for ZecHub. Can’t wait to share these!

A number of Tutorials and Shorts were created by the community. These have been a significant proportion of our Youtube traffic.

The Global Ambassadors have also been much more involved this month. Making invites to their communities to work on translations, design work and documentation.

Very grateful to @artkor, @Edicksonjga, @Olek, @tim_ukrainian and @vito for the weekly newsletters. These are needed for international visibility into the continual progress the Zcash ecosystem makes on a weekly basis. The first @ZcashNigeria newsletter with us soon thanks to @Hardaeborla.

Planned Steps

  • The main focus for ZecHub has been producing media content & are just now beginning to see positive results. We will continue to keep this a top priority.

  • We are in talks with a few other projects, more dates for Twitter Spaces TBA.

  • In an effort to recoup some percentage of operational costs, plans to offer a Subscription with exclusive items have been made. A Merch Store has been proposed with the DAO currently in discussion.

Thank you to all community contributors, the project moves forward because of your abundant dedication and skill.

If you have any suggestions please leave us a comment!

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Love these updates! The ZecHub team is doing some awesome work! Great job everyone!

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ZecHub is getting bigger every day, many are encouraging themselves to collaborate to continue building the best decentralized educational center for Zcash.

Delighted to be part of this growth :+1:

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Excellent! ZecHub continues growing up! :clap: :clap: :clap:

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May has been a dynamic month. Here are some of our KPI’s.

Highlights:

  • Twitter and YouTube followers are seeing double digit increases (%) each month
  • Biggest increase was in Dework members ( Discord is popular! )
  • Number of github active contributors dropped vs last month but quality has improved
  • Less PR’s, but each PR has been bigger
  • Most popular podcast video continues to be our interview with Zcash Media’s @David_Heisenberg
    • Most popular HOWTO videos:
      Zcashd Wallet Tool - Generate & Import Private Key
      Exchange ANY crypto into Shielded Zcash
    • Most popular shorts:
      Swap SHIELDED Zcash into Agoric!
      The Increasing Value of Privacy
  • Github commit activity exploded due to better educated contributors (how its done)!
  • Top tweets include Least Authority’s destiny demo and DCRDEX zcash support announcement.

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Any questions let us know :hearts:

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Excellent work!

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Hello everyone! Here is the report of ZecHub’s activity this month.

Major Achievements

Project Updates

  • Important Note: Bounties for Global Translations are stopping. The project will however continue to issue bounties for Translated Newsletters & Blogs.

  • We released new videos to the ‘Zcash Explained’ series. If you have suggestions for topics you would like to see next, please do comment.

  • Our focus on media is showing with steady growth of the Youtube Channel. Zcashd tutorials and Shorts were among the most popular content on the channel. We are interested in joining more platforms.

  • Our DAO site now accessible from the Wiki. Portfolio is being worked on.

  • Weekly operations meetings have been great for gathering ideas and feedback. We have had some issues getting usable recordings this month however. Meetings are held on Tuesdays in the Zcash Global discord.

Community Contributors

  • @Hardaeborla has set up a substack, Yoruba Newsletters + Blog posts available for Nigerian Zcashers available soon

  • The #design channel in discord is now open to all community members that wish to submit designs.

  • The Swahili wiki saw the most progress this month. We encourage any volunteers to help with translations!

  • The videos produced by @thedesertlynx were very well received. We are looking forward to sharing more.

  • Wiki edit permissions are now available to Global Ambassadors and members of ZFAV who want to make any changes.

  • Thank You to the Global Ambassadors who have continued to diligently translate the weekly newsletters!

Planned Next Steps

  • Media content - Video Tutorials, Shorts & Guides are the center of our efforts moving forward.

  • Launch of ZecHub Extras

  • Launch of Merch Store

  • More technical guides for zcashd & lightwalletd to be released.

  • Work on products & events to be offered with our patronage/subscription NFT are ongoing. Some elements are almost ready and will become available first.

  • A new landing page is being drafted.

  • ZecHub will feature during a presentation at Zcon4.

Very interested to hear community suggestions!

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ZecHub continues to grow and the community is kept informed and learning through the educational material that continues to be generated.

It is a pleasure to continue supporting ZecHub so that all Zcashers know more about Zcash and financial privacy.

I’m already waiting for ZecHub’s intervention in the Zcon4, it will surely be excellent. :sunglasses::+1:

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