Proyecto El Arca "The Ark Project" | 2019 RoadMap + Actualizaciones "Updates"

^{“Quiero iniciar esto con algo que quizás para muchos signifique poco pero que para mi resulta algo muy importante en el transcurso de todo el tiempo que he pasado en la blockchain. Esto aunque sea algo muy personal lo considero importante por muchas razones que puedo decir, cambiaron mi vida.}

^{La blockchain de steem no llego a mi por casualidad sino más bien por causalidad, se podría decir que casi por cosas del destino. Me llamo Carlos Serrano y tengo 24 años, desde muy joven he sido no solamente un escritor empedernido sino también un soñador, un visionario y una persona presta a crecer y ayudar a quienes están a mi alrededor porque se de mano propia lo que es no ser reconocidos y lo que es ver como tu trabajo quizás no llega a ningún lado. Steemit fue el inicio de ese cambio y se que asi como yo a muchos hispanos le paso lo mismo, vieron en este lugar un espacio para crecer, un espacio para conocer nuevas personas y un espacio en el cual sus sueños se volvían realidad. De allí nace además la oportunidad de construir algo grande, algo que represente el inicio de un largo camino a recorrer y que se y tengo la certeza de que puede cambiar vidas así como a cambiado la mía.}

^{El arca no es solamente un proyecto, es una familia, una casa y un lugar de compartir mutuo entre mentes creadoras, un espacio que quizás dada a mi condición de provenir de uno de los países con la peor economía del mundo como lo es Venezuela, no ha sido posible darle el crecimiento e inversión necesaria para que siga siendo autosustentable, pero un espacio que de alguna forma se que puede crecer con el apoyo mutuo de diferentes comunidades y de aquellas que puedan sumarse a la labor, para que algún día representemos un ejemplo para muchos y un proyecto que sirva para brindarle a los artistas hispanos una ayuda en su crecimiento como tales.}

^{A todos aquellos que hasta ahora han servido de apoyo, colaboración y miembros activos de este espacio, gracias.”}

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^{"I want to start this with something that may mean little to many but is very important to me in the course of all the time I have spent in the blockchain. This although it is something very personal I consider it important for many reasons that I can say, changed my life.}

^{The blockchain of steem did not come to me by coincidence but rather by causality, one could say that almost by things of destiny. My name is Carlos Serrano and I am 24 years old, since I was very young I have been not only a hardened writer but also a dreamer, a visionary and a person lends to grow and help those around me because I know by my own hand what it is not to be recognized and what it is to see as your work perhaps does not get anywhere. Steemit was the beginning of that change and I know that just as I did to many Hispanics, they saw in this place a space to grow, a space to meet new people and a space in which their dreams became reality. From there is also born the opportunity to build something big, something that represents the beginning of a long road to travel and I know and have the certainty that it can change lives as well as changed mine.}

^{The ark is not only a project, it is a family, a house and a place of mutual sharing among creative minds, a space that perhaps given to my condition of coming from one of the countries with the worst economy in the world as Venezuela is, it has not been possible to give it the growth and investment necessary for it to continue being self-sustainable, but a space that can somehow grow with the mutual support of different communities and those who can join the work, so that someday we represent an example for many and a project that serves to provide Hispanic artists a help in their growth as such.}

^{To all those who so far have served as support, collaboration and active members of this space, thank you.}

^{Jose Carlos Ocanto Serrano | @zaxan}

We are very excited every day to grow a project that for almost a year has been responsible for providing support around the arts in the Hispanic community. The Ark has been a meeting place for more than one thousand two hundred Hispanic artists where through the implementation of our activities and spaces we have seen how users have satisfied their needs around this beautiful aspect that makes life in the general culture of the world.

The vast majority of people within the Hispanic community have been participants, know or at least have heard about the ark, it is not a secret for anyone the hard work we have put in hands and the work we have done to give the greatest support to artists not only within the steem blockchain but also bring new talent to this wonderful medium.

When we began that March 02, 2018, @zaxan had the initiative to bring together a group of young people with potential talent and a capacity to create and implement projects which gave life to the ark. Since its inception people like @aidarojaswriter, @exzorltg, @dreamsaboutcats and @heibert210 were the fundamental pillars to grow this project, today the team has grown and the work has become more bearable with the support of each of the members of it including a comprehensive team of users such as @jwilhelm87, @juandvg, @jorgeddln, @johannfrare, @ilazramusic and @melaniesaray.

Visión del proyecto | Project vision

To be a project of support, promotion and participation for the Hispanic community of artists.

" The Ark" appears inviting users, willing to lend a space for cultural exchange and creative development, taking the best of Steem as a platform to explore content as well as be rewarded through it.

Objetivos | Objects

— Serve as a platform for creativity and the arts at Steemit.
— To create a space of coexistence and learning between artists and art lovers.
— Promote artistic content within and outside the Steemit community.
— Become a reference of curation platform for the arts in the Hispanic community.

Valores | Values

As an artistic community we seek to give value to the projects and works that everyone can bring, in an environment of constructive criticism and free of plagiarism.

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2019 RoadMap

For this year we want to continue growing as a project, so we have divided this growth in 3 simple steps:

Step 1: Grow the platform of the ark allowing greater interaction of users and create spaces for the spread of art as well as the development and implementation of their own blogs around the DApp existing in the blockchain de steem.

Step 2: Initiate the massive power up in our curation account @stellae, thus providing greater rewards to Hispanic artists in the community as well as allowing the self-sustainability of the project through the organic growth of our SP.

Step 3: Initiate offline activities that promote the use of steem blockchain as a means of Hispanic artistic growth and entertainment in the world.

The first step has been developing for almost a year, demonstrating in such a way that the artistic work is present in the blockchain and the artists demonstrate it with their participation in our activities, contests and discord server, however, we believe that this work can continue to grow rehabilitating the podcasts, radio program as well as activities to help and tutorials to users.

The second step has been a little slower due to the low support the project has as far as Steem Power is concerned. If we add the amount of SP that the project has in its accounts @capsula, @stellae and @elarca, we have a total of almost 200 SP, to which must be added the percentage of SP that various users share with us through their autovoto in the curation trail on the platform of steemauto.com, however, in this new period we are certain that this percentage can continue to grow and many people will give their contribution so that the project grows and can be self-sustainable in the near future.

We will also make use of the @steemmonsters platform to power up our curator account by selling cards using our games @elarca.play account.

As a final point, the ark not only wants to be a project that makes life internally in the blockchain of STEEM, we want it to serve in turn to expand the growth of the same with the implementation of activities in various cities that encourage the participation of artists in this online infrastructure, likewise, we want to create art and develop it using the STEEM / SBD as a medium sponsor allowing low-income artists to develop their work.

¿Como vemos el proyecto a futuro?
How do we look at the project in the future?

The ark is already an ecosystem for us where diversity is present and everyone is welcome. We want to demonstrate that projects that support artists can not only come from offline organizations or groups, but also that the technology and power of crypto coins can provide this help to humanity to continue providing art as a means of cultural promotion and social recreation.

In this way, The ark project wants to provide in the near future a space where artists can be sponsored, can participate in large competitions, can make trips, talk shows and be recognized and receive remuneration in exchange for all that talent that brings day by day in the blockchain.

Beneficios para la blockchain | Benefits for blockchain

The main benefit of our project is the correct artistic spread in the blockchain. By this we mean how these Hispanic artists bring with them their artistic proposals and how they are presented in a virtual environment. The Ark brings with it a whole space of social learning in which we have seen Hispanic artistic work evolve in a completely exceptional way.

Whether in writing, music or photography by name some types of art; we have seen many people experiment and evolve in their areas of interest in a completely positive way. People who began with small publications, a markdown not so well managed and perhaps even failures in the management of elements for the presentation of their art have been identified with our work and it has been in this space where through various activities have seen how to continue growing in the blockchain, In such a way the ark has offered an interactive space of cooperation and mutual growth making use of thematic contests, podcasts, recitals, editorials and diverse tips that have motivated the users to follow their evolution what not only adds value to their art but that responds to the final end of giving value to what is published in the blockchain: exceptional and quality content.

¿Y ahora qué? | What now?

It has been a year of much effort, work and dedication on the part of a young and enterprising team. It is not easy to meet the needs of a whole world of users and is much less easy when the support you receive is still small, but we know that this year will go much better and we want to thank all those who trusted us in this first season: @steemcreative, @swelker101, @isaria, @curie, @randomwanderings, @gnashster, @bluemist, @elegance, @steempress, @howo, @fredrikaa, @jrswab, @limabeing, @yabapmatt, @lukestokes, @timcliff.

Without your effort and selfless support nothing of this first year would have been possible, thank you very much.

We hope this information will serve to reach more people in the blockchain and keep growing to bring the best to the Hispanic artist community.