nft school

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+# NFT school
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+Authors: @atopal
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+Initial PR: TBD <!-- Reference the PR first proposing this document. Oooh, self-reference! -->
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+This template is for a proposal/brief/pitch for a significant project to be undertaken by a Web3 Dev project team.
+The goal of project proposals is to help us decide which work to take on, which things are more valuable than other things.
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+
+## Purpose &amp; impact 
+#### Background &amp; intent
+_Describe the desired state of the world after this project? Why does that matter?_
+* The NFT space is exploding, people are defining a bunch of practices in the wild, and we want to make sure they encode best practices for addressing and persistence to ensure NFT data is protected
+* We intend this to be a one stop shop for any developer interested in the NFT space. That includes learning about concepts, and  hands on tutorials guides. A cross between a docs site and a marketing site
+
+
+#### Assumptions &amp; hypotheses
+_What must be true for this project to matter?_
+* Most people who’ll be active in the NFT space haven’t joined it yet, so there will be a lot of people who need to be convinced that they should care about how NFTs are addressed and stored
+* Most people in this space are not aware of best practices when it comes to addressing, storing, metadata, minting etc.
+
+#### User workflow example
+_How would a developer or user use this new capability?_
+* Googling "nft metadata" and similar keywords bring devs to this website
+* developers use resources to learn about metadata
+* developers use resources to build their own applications
+
+#### Impact
+_How would this directly contribute to web3 dev stack product-market fit?_
+NFT content addressing is a perfect use case for IPFS, establishing it as the default will make it easier to transition to persistence with Filecoin, effectively utilizing the PL stack.
+
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+Explain how this addresses known challenges or opportunities.
+What awesome potential impact/outcomes/results will we see if we nail this project?
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+#### Internal leverage
+_How much would nailing this project improve our knowledge and ability to execute future projects?_
+This has the potential to massively increase the community using and experimenting with our stack.
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+Explain the opportunity or leverage point for our subsequent velocity/impact (e.g. by speeding up development, enabling more contributors, etc)
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+#### Confidence
+_How sure are we that this impact would be realized? Label from [this scale](https://medium.com/@nimay/inside-product-introduction-to-feature-priority-using-ice-impact-confidence-ease-and-gist-5180434e5b15)_.
+Confidence: 7
+<!--Explain why this rating-->
+While the content part of this is fairly straightforward, getting people to the site is not. It will take a significant amount of work in generating enough backlinks for this site to rank in search results, at which point it can become self-sustaining.
+
+## Project definition
+#### Brief plan of attack
+
+<!--Briefly describe the milestones/steps/work needed for this project-->
+* Agree on mvp content
+* Get started on content
+* In parallel design and set up website
+* Launch with mvp
+* Keep adding content regularly
+
+
+#### What does done look like?
+_What specific deliverables should completed to consider this project done?_
+The initial milestone is to have a set of documents online that cover the basics, backed up by partners. We’d then need to agree on follow up milestones. As a product this would be an ongoing concern.
+
+
+####  What does success look like?
+_Success means impact. How will we know we did the right thing?_
+
+
+<!--
+Provide success criteria. These might include particular metrics, desired changes in the types of bug reports being filed, desired changes in qualitative user feedback (measured via surveys, etc), etc.
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+* Lagging indicator:
+  * Ultimately, success is developers choosing to use IPFS for content addressing and Filecoin for storage for all of their NFTs
+* Leading indicator:
+  * Developers linking to this from stack overflow
+* Significant traffic
+
+
+#### Counterpoints &amp; pre-mortem
+_Why might this project be lower impact than expected? How could this project fail to complete, or fail to be successful?_
+For this to work developers need to actually land on the site either through googling or via backlinks.
+Developers need to believe that this is an unbiased source of actual best practices
+Maintaining an active site like this requires a long term commitment. If we can’t sustain regular new content, it can appear abandoned quickly.
+
+
+
+#### Alternatives
+_How might this project’s intent be realized in other ways (other than this project proposal)? What other potential solutions can address the same need?_
+* We could add the content to protoschool. That way we could focus on the content primarily.
+* We could publish the content in a series of blog posts
+* We could include the content into the current IPFS and Filecoin docs
+
+The downside of all of those alternatives is their close connection to PL, making it potentially harder to come across as unbiased, but also the dilution of focus.
+
+
+#### Dependencies/prerequisites
+<!--List any other projects that are dependencies/prerequisites for this project that is being pitched.-->
+* Content
+* Design
+* Some of the standards might not exist yet (metadata schema)
+
+
+#### Future opportunities
+<!--What future projects/opportunities could this project enable?-->
+There is an opportunity to turn this into a community co-owned space in the medium to long term. NFT hackathons in particular create a lot of opportunity for new tutorials that we can showcase on this site.
+As we create new tools in this space, this site can be leveraged to generate interest and traffic.
+
+
+## Required resources
+
+#### Effort estimate
+medium
+<!--T-shirt size rating of the size of the project. If the project might require external collaborators/teams, please note in the roles/skills section below). 
+For a team of 3-5 people with the appropriate skills:
+- Small, 1-2 weeks
+- Medium, 3-5 weeks
+- Large, 6-10 weeks
+- XLarge, >10 weeks
+Describe any choices and uncertainty in this scope estimate. (E.g. Uncertainty in the scope until design work is complete, low uncertainty in execution thereafter.)
+-->
+
+#### Roles / skills needed
+<!--Describe the knowledge/skill-sets and team that are needed for this project (e.g. PM, docs, protocol or library expertise, design expertise, etc.). If this project could be externalized to the community or a team outside PL's direct employment, please note that here.-->
+* PM
+* technical writer
+* web dev
+* design