Expansion of the Cardano Foundation and the global community
The Cardano Foundation empowers the global community for gradual decentralization and equips it with necessary tools. The Community Management team is leading these efforts through various projects, including its flagship initiative, the Cardano Ambassador Program. In addition to the Ambassador Program, the team also supports community activities, keeps it safe by moderating the official channels and provides information and educational materials through its regular newsletters and project breakdowns.
The Cardano Foundation expanded its in-house team by bringing much-needed skills to broaden its coverage, and to improve the management of the rapidly growing community. With the addition of recently-appointed Senior Community Engagement and Strategy Lead Casey Monroe, the Community Management team’s size has significantly increased, with Tiago Serôdio, Tommy Kammerer, Niels, Andy Hendrikx and Ryan He joining the Foundation. The Cardano Foundation’s largest team now covers time zones across Asia, Europe and the Americas. The Foundation has added German along with Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean content as our officially-supported languages.
Besides expanding the language and time zone coverage to better manage the community, the Cardano Foundation is laying the groundwork for community-led projects, as well as enhancing the Ambassador Program. The next phase of the program will include rewards to gradually increase the autonomy of the community. @Nathan_Kaiser, Chairperson of the Cardano Foundation, says: “The next step is to streamline the Community Management function and optimize the organizational structure, engagement processes and project management to improve our interaction with the community, as well as diversify the profile of the community.”
In 2019, the Foundation also strengthened the Operations and Tech teams by onboarding Hinrich Pfeifer, Gianna Abegg, Kerstin Lin, Frédéric Johnson and added two new Council Members. The Cardano Foundation’s in-house team is now made up of 18 nationalities (
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@Hinrich Pfeifer, General Secretary of the Cardano Foundation, highlights the exponential growth of both the Foundation’s talent and the community in 2019 and our expansion plans for 2020.
Watch the Cardano Foundation: 2019 in review in full here.