Topic: This forum has resources to make significant changes (Read 271 times)

I don't know if you know about this but there is one great open-source project that helps people to become web developers for free and it's way better than any paid bootcamp.
I think that if anyone is interested into it, should visit the following link => https://www.theodinproject.com/about

So, why did I create this thread?
Blockchain development, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are a very popular things today. There are a lot of people who want to build career into it. Some wants to become a developer, some wants to accept it as a means of payment and so on.
As far as I see, this forum has some reserves.
I think it will benefit the whole society if this forum spends tiny amount of money to support the development and management of the project similar to TOP (The Odin Project) that will focus on bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrencies and that will help people to have basics that will help them to land a job and build career.

Also, the forum where 21th century's financial revolution has begun and the forum where the most innovative and gamechanger currencies were created, shouldn't look like the 90's web page. Blame me if you want but this is the truth. Theymos shouldn't let this forum down!

Yeah you made some point though, but there is what they called diversity, despite the its purpose for bitcoin (cryptocurrencies) and blockchain at large that doesn't mean it should be limited to only bitcoin rather trying extend and buy more technicalities and implements variety of happenings around world. This forum has been known for a greater place and for that should be open for discoveries, and to further expand and educate people in all areas of life rather than just focusing on bitcoin, blockchain development and discussion.

Also, the forum where 21th century's financial revolution has begun and the forum where the most innovative and gamechanger currencies were created, shouldn't look like the 90's web page. Blame me if you want but this is the truth. Theymos shouldn't let this forum down!

If you consider the forum well, you will doscover that it was purposely on targeted on bitcoin and how it could engage others across the world, I don't think introducing another implementation aside the forum software that has been in place will be a good idea in considering the blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency network in all, bitcoin will always be as it has been and if there should be an improvement then not about the forum here, there have been bip's already in place to the bitcoin itself but the forum here should be left as it is for now.

So, using old forum software is a bad thing to do? There is no question this forum system is all good, it just needed some tweaks or two.

The forum already has a long-term project that won't be finished any time soon. I honestly really doubt we need another one.

This website and the curriculum it hosts are completely open source. That means anyone can work on new features or fix existing bugs on the website. This also extends to the curriculum itself, anyone can work on new lessons, add new resources and improve existing lessons.

The Odin project would not be possible without the hard work of contributors from all across the world. If you're interested in helping us make Odin better please find out how to contribute.

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You have already mentioned the points - there is a lot of hard work involved. Searching for material for courses, writing courses and then having them reviewed/controlled by 3rd parties.
There are surely other and especially smaller things that could be done by theymos with much less effort. But the past has shown that changes are reduced to the minimum.  

I would still be happy about such courses under the right conditions. Let's see...

Yeah, it was a long time ago when it was first brought up. There's been some discussion about it here, and there since then though. It could potentially be implemented in the future, who knows. theymos seems to have a todo list, that is established based on a priority based system. So, who knows. It'll probably require a lot of work though, and ideally it wouldn't be just theymos contributing to it. I don't know how many users would be interested in contributing either, at least to the standard it would need to be. Potentially, that's why the badges would be a good idea. Something like; "Course Instructor", but the courses would have to be reviewed before being made public, and therefore the badge also only granted when it's deemed good enough for public consumption.

Thanks for that. I think I didn't find this thread because it's even older than my account here, but after a first quick look there it seems to me anyway that the idea has already been discarded. 

Is it necessary? Probably not. However, we'd probably have a dedicated section for disucssion related to the courses, and would be subject to the same moderation as other sections. Maybe, not a dedicated moderator, but potentially users who have put the courses together maybe. I don't know, most of this is speculation on my behalf. There hasn't been much said about it for a while now, and not a whole lot of detail was included. It was simply an idea.

Badges would likely only be given for completing a course. So, it wouldn't rely on posting or anything like that. Therefore, it shouldn't create too much of a problem in terms of spam issues.

You can read about it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/idea-courses-4609442

But is that really necessary? All real Bitcoiners who are really interested in Bitcoin already meet in the right subboards like Discussion, Technical & Development, .. ? I'm just afraid that people will get lost and post stuff there just because of the badges.  
That would be comparable to the Gambling section, which mainly consists of spammers for the Bounty signatures.

Maybe my thought is too exaggerated but it would be nice if the quality of the posts in the above mentioned subboards does not suffer from the introduction of the batches.

Have any comments been made about the implementation of this course?

What you can find on this forum is good, however it's anything, but structured. I was in support of the courses idea, and think if it's executed well, it would be brilliant. I've always said that Bitcoin's stumbling block really is its ease of use. Whether or not the forum is the best place for that is another thing. I imagine, it would need specific software for it, and would have to be hosted on a subdomain to keep it separate from the SMF installation. That's the only way I se that working.

Tying in with badges if they do get implemented would also encourage existing users, as well as new to complete the course.

If this could implemented, it would be a great addition to the forum.
Bitcoin knowledge is all over the place, but what I learn from this forum is better content than I find in most online courses and articles and it operates in a decentralized manner where each user has a voice and can use that.

theymos has toyed with the idea of some sort of Bitcoin related course before, which would tie in with the forum potentially via badges if I remember correctly.

Also, the forum where 21th century's financial revolution has begun and the forum where the most innovative and gamechanger currencies were created, shouldn't look like the 90's web page. Blame me if you want but this is the truth. Theymos shouldn't let this forum down!

Also, the forum where 21th century's financial revolution has begun and the forum where the most innovative and gamechanger currencies were created, shouldn't look like the 90's web page. Blame me if you want but this is the truth. Theymos shouldn't let this forum down!

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