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The Kernel Podcast
About

Kernel is a web3 educational community that has touched the journeys of many in the Gitcoin ecosystem.

This is a project to help fund a podcast to support and extend the existing Kernel content.

The story

I’m a KB4 alumnus and KB5 guide. When I was going through the block, I found myself really struggling to absorb the content. I was finding absolute gold both within the core lessons and the reference material but tending to skim read and get distracted. 

I really value hearing someone talk through their ideas - the nuance and accent are revealing and I just engage a lot better.

So I came to ask whether the Kernel content was available in audio format. On finding that it wasn’t, Andy and Vivek were kind enough to encourage me to go make one. Others in the Kernel slack were up for it too and so here we are!

What’s the vision?

We want to make the entire Kernel syllabus available as a sequential podcast - one episode per lesson. We decided that a good format would be:

1. Lesson reading (as it is written) by Andy
2. Q&A with Andy (usually with me but also others)
3. Reading of reference materials (or excerpts where they’re already videos) where it enriches the lesson reading

The Q&A was really driven by two ideas. First, just a straight lesson reading felt like it would be a bit dry. Second, I always had a ton of ideas and questions after reading the lessons and I thought it might help/entertain others to interrogate the content a little by talking it through afterwards so that folks listening can either choose to stop the podcast after the lesson, or continue for the Q&A.

Ultimately we’d like to push the podcast further; to try to capture some of the magic of Kernel firesides, juntos and people. We’d like to interview folks as they pass through and help spread the good word of Kernel.

What’s been done?

So far (April 23) we’re about 90% through the Q&A session recordings and I think Andy has done most of the core lesson readings. The core lessons are up on the site and ready for KB7 :) E.g. https://www.kernel.community/en/learn/module-0/trust

Thank you for your support so far!

What remains to be done?

We’re still recruiting folks to read some of the references (please do volunteer!) and we need to work on:

- Finishing all the recordings
- Overall podcast series intro
- Production

What do we need funding for?

So far the project is entirely voluntary and unfunded. To cover the whole Kernel syllabus would mean about 60 hours of podcast material. That all needs to be planned, recorded, cleaned up, edited, produced and distributed. The primary goal of the funding is to remunerate to some extent the project team for their time. If we can pay for the team’s time, we could also look to invest in a (better) logo, find some great music and contribute to the hosting, distribution and promotion of the series.

It also makes it far more likely we’ll be able to build on this initial run to start capturing more of what happens within Kernel as new blocks pass through.

The Kernel Podcast