Grant ID: 8686uh7uy
Summary:
I am very excited about this new feature and I hope the community share this excitement and together we can onboard more community members as Graph Advocates. The grant previously passed handsomely within the community and Graph Advocates votes but failed by 2 votes at the on-chain votes. I hope this time round this grant will be accepted on-chain also and the whole community will benefit from this new feature.
As always I have already started developing this feature and it is ready for Beta Phase 1 with community members and Advocates ready to test. It is live right now, visit GRTDataHub. So far I have wrote the questions and answers for the Code of Conduct with 3 difficulties. There is still all the other categories that I need to write these for and finish the certificate so that the user can hopefully gain a POAP for passing the final exam.
It is a 4 part feature, all of this was new to me so I was / am learning as I code so the timeline for this project has been longer than I had hoped. Plus I had to go away with my work for 4 months with no Wifi. Causing a stop to the building phase. I want this to be the best I can possibly make it and benefit the community and future advocates.
The feature has guided revision / guided documentation section where the user can find all the documentation, guides etc at the tips of their fingers, this has a search feature to aid the user in finding the answers they seek. “what advocate roles entail”, “the code of conduct”, etc.
Then there is another revision section. Where the user can test their self with flip / flash cards, a question on the front and the answer on the back, the questions taken right out of the documentation that they have access to learn.
There are quiz’s with multiple choice for those who prefer to learn by taking mock test where they can see the answer within a group of answers to trigger their memory. The user can specify the topic they want to concentrate on, along with easy, medium and hard difficulties.
The user will see the timer and their score as they progress through the revision mock tests and an option to have a pop-up with the correct answer if they get the question wrong.
And then final exam is where the user will be questioned without any timer or score shown. They select the topic they want and a selection of easy, medium and hard questions. The certificate is downloadable as proof to the AdvocatesDAO members conducting the interview, there is a minimum pass mark of 80% and the time is displayed on the cert to ensure the user didn’t take 3 hours to answer the question (cheating). Allowing more time if needed for dyslexia in the future, I hope to utilise a text to speech additional feature so that the user can have the questions and answers read to them if they struggle to do so under exam conditions.
I hope to evolve this feature in the future to provide the users with POAPS for completing the quiz and successfully enrolling as a graph advocate.
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Describe what your project does or is aiming to do in 50 characters or less:
“Are you Advocate Ready?” enhances The Graph community’s onboarding process for potential advocates. It includes a comprehensive set of questions, flashcards, mock and final exams covering advocate roles, responsibilities, and more. The tool aims to ensure aspiring advocates are well-prepared and confident, fostering a higher caliber of community participation.
If available, please enter a link to your project below:
https://grtdatahub.com/advocateReady
How far along are you?:
Timeline & Further detailed explanation about each component within the feature:
The Beta Phase 1 testing is ready! However, each question can take up to 5 minutes to write, depending on the content / context. These will likely need to be altered and tailored in the future. I wish to create an expansive question bank, with this being open source I will allow advocate DAO members to push their new questions to GitHub and merge to ensure it is ever growing. But this is also something that I will continue to do.
The community knows me and that I take pride in my work, I will ensure the end result is finished to the best of my ability before moving onto the next phase. I want this feature to be an asset to the community and produce the next generation of high calibre Advocates that will teach tomorrows applicants.
- “Are you Advocate ready?” start date, 10th Apr 2023. The development has started and I am building all the logic and layout etc of the Quiz homepage with options to what feature the user want to use.
- Build the Question set, assign them to topics and categorise difficulty. This will be ever expanding. Each question can take 5 minutes or longer to ensure it is non-ambiguous, well worded and the answers are correct and justified to not lead the user astray. - Built and finished June 23
- Build the flip / flash card revision feature with Questions on one side and answers on the other to allow users who learn this way to gain knowledge and utilise the app for their learning prior to taking the final exam. – Built and finished July 23
- Build the mock exams for each topic, once again allowing the users who learn best this way by seeing a correct answer amongst other answers that they can select from memory as this is the best way they learn. - Built and finished July 23
- Building the documentation / tutorial finder with the potential for a search function to ensure the user can find the content needed to learn about the advocates scheme, the roles, code of conduct and what the benefits of being an advocate are. - Built and finished August 23
- Build the final exam where the user will take the test without being able to see their time or score until they are on the downloadable certificate at the end, which can be used when applying for an interview with the possibility of a POAP to be claimable in the future. -Built and finished August 23
This total timeframe was 3-4 months to make this feature. I was then away with work for 4 months. Hence the re-submission of the grant now in Dec.
Comments from community members and advocates previously :
Positive:
The quiz feature has the potential to be a valuable resource for new advocates and improve their learning experience.
A very cool and interesting proposition that justifies the amount of money asked for the creation.
I had the opportunity to learn about this proposal from Liam. I support it on account of several factors. First, I think it will add support to the education and quality of Advocate applications via a well-known, existing application. Second, I think the community would be excited about the potential of certificates (and POAPs) related to demonstrating their knowledge of The Graph
Thank you for all your effort to present a strong proposal aiming to grow The Graph and web3 ecosystem!
Negative:
In my opinion it should be about funding projects that directly add value to our community, in the most efficient and impactful way possible. To my knowledge you are not an expert in development, nor an expert in education. Therefore, it does not seem efficient to me to fund this grant proposal.
Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you’re making?:
I have been informed that it has been an issue in the past where advocates have been conducting interviews with budding advocates who are simply not ready or do not know enough about the roles and responsibilities of the advocate role that they desire. Causing time wasted for both parties and taking up the valuable time of advocates who could have spent their time doing other tasks or interviewing other capable candidates. Also discouraging community members with good intentions of re-applying to become a Graph Advocate. On the flip side I have pushed and guided many community members towards advocacy after doubting myself for a long time. And the question I asked myself was the same as others have asked me directly… “Am I Advocate ready?”. Well, until now the only way to tell is by doing your own research, learning through reading the documentation and then applying for the interview and see if you have what it takes.
This is where my new feature idea came from, it is a quiz / revision and educational aid for those community members who may be sitting on the fence. For those people who are not sure what it takes to become an advocate and want to learn. For those who know what it takes but want to give their self a confidence check before applying. All of those who have asked their self, “Am I Advocate ready?” or “What does it take to be a Graph Advocate?”.
What’s new about what you’re making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn’t exist yet (or they don’t know about it)?:
There isnt an educational tool within The Graph ecosystem that aids community memebrs to take the step to become an advocate or current advocates to improve within their role.
What’s your vision for how your project will impact The Graph and/or web3?:
I believe this feature will bring a higher calibre of advocates joining up to the scheme. It will allow those who are sat on the fence to take that step forward to becoming an advocate, taking on a role and becoming active within the ecosystem. The questions are surprisingly hard to write, ensuring they are unambiguous with a clear correct answer and others that are close but not misleading. The beta testing phase of this feature will be long due to its complexity and “categorising” and testing of the questions from each topic. For example an experience Technical Teacher will find certain questions a lot easier than a Content Creator. But as more advocates test and provide feedback to the question set and the questions will be placed into their correct difficulty ranges.
What can you share about any past work that is relevant to this grant?:
Since GRTDataHub has been brought to life which was once a dream to me. I have pushed myself to work on it on a daily basis (3-5 hours each evening). I have fallen in love with coding and I want to build tools to help others to participate within The Graph and wider Web3 ecosystem. So far the other tools and features within the app have received a great reception from all communities and advocates that I have had the pleasure of collaborating with. I always put 100% effort into any feature that I build, ensuring it is beta tested and ready for public use. Only then will I release it. Thus far I have build 8 chatbots for communities all around the world.
My work on this new feature will be no different, I will make it the best it can possible be before releasing it for the communities to benefit from.
How will you measure success?:
For me, the success of this feature will be based on how many community members I can get to take that step into become a graph advocate that actively contributes within the community and is a positive force in aiding others wanting to do the same.
What milestones will you achieve in the coming weeks/months, with or without the grant?:
In the coming weeks I will be making the questions set and answers for the rest of the catagories with the 3 difficulty settings. Collaborating with community members and advocates to make this feature the best it possible can before the next influx of new GRT holders. Improving the feature as a whole for the user, recieveing feedback and implementing improvements.
Please select who you think will benefit from your project?:
Other, Delegators, Curators
How much funding are you looking for? (USD):
3000
Provide a breakdown of your requested funding:
The community knows me and that I take pride in my work, I will ensure the end result is finished to the best of my ability before moving onto the next phase. I want this feature to be an asset to the community and produce the next generation of high calibre Advocates that will teach tomorrows applicants.
- “Are you Advocate ready?” start date, 10th Apr 2023. The development has started and I am building all the logic and layout etc of the Quiz homepage with options to what feature the user want to use.
- Build the Question set, assign them to topics and categorise difficulty. This will be ever expanding. Each question can take 5 minutes or longer to ensure it is non-ambiguous, well worded and the answers are correct and justified to not lead the user astray. - Built and finished June 23
- Build the flip / flash card revision feature with Questions on one side and answers on the other to allow users who learn this way to gain knowledge and utilise the app for their learning prior to taking the final exam. – Built and finished July 23
- Build the mock exams for each topic, once again allowing the users who learn best this way by seeing a correct answer amongst other answers that they can select from memory as this is the best way they learn. - Built and finished July 23
- Building the documentation / tutorial finder with the potential for a search function to ensure the user can find the content needed to learn about the advocates scheme, the roles, code of conduct and what the benefits of being an advocate are. - Built and finished August 23
- Build the final exam where the user will take the test without being able to see their time or score until they are on the downloadable certificate at the end, which can be used when applying for an interview with the possibility of a POAP to be claimable in the future. -Built and finished August 23
This total is for the 3-4 months to make this feature. I was then away with work for 4 months. Hence the re-submission of the grant now in Dec.
The time for labour building the feature, writing the questions and hosting within the app.
Continuous improvement as new potential roles come up within the Graph Advocates, along with refreshing the question set and answers over a period of time to ensure the content is not old and stale. As new documentation is pushed out this will be incorporated into the feature to ensure the user can easily find it, learn and test their self.
Working within the communities within the extensive Beta testing phase, ensuring the topics, question set and content is 100% accurate with questions correctly categorised for users and making the relevant changes / updated where necessary throughout the feature.
Have you applied for (or already received) funding from somewhere else?:
Yes
If yes, please describe where you’ve received funding from and how much you have, or will, receive:
The Graph - GRTDataHub App Analytics - Wave 6 = $2,000
Graph Advocates DAO
$2,000 per chatbots, English, German, French, Turkish, Spanish. = $10,000
Hindi, Urdu, Ukraninan chatbot grant awaiting final payment for work carried out. - $2,000 per chatbot = $6,000.
Can you share any information about current/past web3 experience?:
I, myself have not always been on the technical side of Web3. I start off as a Community Helper, Web3 welcomer and Content Creator within Graphtronauts before the Advocates program was live.
It then took me almost 12 months of working daily, teaching myself how to code via a ÂŁ15.99 online course. Hours upon hours of frustration, learning, loathing and loving my new hobby / skill. I am very fortunate to be in a position now where I can create tools to help those within The Graph and Web3 who were once in my position. Unsure where they can assist without being a dev, unsure where to find the documentation, content, tutorials and how to test their self to see if they have what it takes without being shot down with the feeling of failing an interview.
My goal is to encourage those who are under confident, who need a touch a guidance or re assurance to take that leap and give it a go. The gentle nudge to assist someone who is sat on the fence to take that leap and go for it! Just become someone is not a developer does not mean they cannot contribute within Web3 or The Graph ecosystem.
There are lots of other roles that will be well suited and where individuals will thrive, only if they take the time to learn, test their self and go for it. My aim is to make this feature will facilitate that.
As there is a lot of content within this feature I am unsure of the timeframe right now to build it, as you can see from the proposal I have the idea and how it will work but I will be learning and developing at the same time, which is great because it is what I love and what I push anyone within the communities to do!
Why are you interested in contributing to The Graph and/or web3?:
I believe this new tool within the community will increase the community’s awareness around the advocate program, promote new and further engagement of new and old community members, bring a deeper level of understanding, and allow more participation from fresh eyes with new ideas and views in The Graph and / or Web3 ecosystem.
As per the whole app. It will all be open-source and the code available within GitHub. So the community will be able to access it, amend and proposed improvements whenever they like. And I welcome this!
I have made sure the questions and answers logic within the code are in their own separate files. I have kept in mind that questions will be added and updated in the future. Making this easy for advocates to contribute, so making the quiz multi-lingual with advocate text-translators will also be easy! I would love to see that happen. It would be great seeing this tool used within all communities and I would happily build the infrastructure for that!
Are you applying as a team or individual?:
Individual
What type of grant are you pursuing?:
Project (one-off)
Please select the category your project best fits into:
Education
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