Hello Aurora Community,
My name is Mucunguzi Moses and I am the lead of the Blockchain Club of Uganda Near Guild https://www.blockchainuganda.io/. Please take a look at the proposal to reveal what our guild has been cooking on growing Aurora presence in East Africa.
Also note that this proposal is deferred from August. However with discussions from Aurora Africa Lead @israel_igboze we came to a conclusion that an Aurora Community is worth building.
On that note, have moved to build an Aurora Guild named; Aurora Mashariki Guild, a Kiswahili based guild that will focus on creating and building a formidable Aurora ecosystem in the region of East Africa.
Africa is beginning to take shape in blockchain technology with a great deal of discussions surrounding the new technology as a new form of reclaiming the internet by the people and for the people.
The Blockchain Club of Uganda Guild has been executing Near Protocol activities in Uganda which has helped us achieve enormously in the Near ecosystem. We have been able to achieve greatly through coordination of other guild in Africa including NPK in Nigeria and our immediate neighbours, Sankore S2 in Kenya who were graduated to a regional hub of recent and now Aurora Africa. We shall thus leverage this Web3 network in the region to establish our Aurora Mashariki Guild.
Basing on our contributions in the Near ecosystem such as onboarding local devs, especially students graduating with Near certified developer certificates from the Near University program. That said, the Aurora Mashariki Guild shall be mandated with growing the Aurora ecosystem in this campaign designed to raise awareness of Aurora and the Near ecosystem at large among the developers, creators, academia, researchers, and the general blockchain audience in the region.
In this particular project, we shall embark on mass Aurora and blockchain awareness among researchers, artists, academia, local developers and university students by onboarding them onto Aurora and blockchain in general with a major focus on local devs and tech students to prepare them to build the blockchain infrastructure that will drive Africa’s technological future.
We shall structure our outreach based on the City Google developer groups, University Art Clubs, Google Schools Developer Clubs and other existing local dev organizations as these are preexisting tech groups and clubs in major cities and universities. This will help our efforts to land on the right audience as we are at the technical stage of our awareness.
We shall then seek partnerships with blockchain university Clubs and local dev Groups premised on Aurora in Universities and cities respectively. These will act as blockchain think tanks and our campaign shall be aimed to invoke blockchain pitches among these formations.
We shall also set up meetup groups for these clubs and cities and our major focus will be in Uganda and beyond like Kenya through our already established ties with Sankore, Tanzania and Rwanda.
Throughout this campaign, we shall advance blockchain education with a primary aim of addressing the current traditional challenges. We shall envision blockchain in particular, Aurora as a modal building platform to achieve the SDG’s. We shall outline Aurora cutting edge features in solving most problems affecting the legacy blockchains, scaling Near and bridging Ethereum.
Our cause will be championed on a generational sharded blockchain that is fully scalable, provably secure, and energy efficient(carbon neutral) which addresses the problems of existing/legacy blockchains.
We believe that being an open source platform, everyone is able to build borderless applications on the Aurora bridging with other networks thus full decentralisation due to its heterogeneous feature on the internet. Through this, the limitations of existing blockchains will be eradicated and thus envisioning our systems built on smart contracts.
Given the above context, we hope to tackle topics ranging from smart contracts, Decentralised Finance(DeFi), Metaverse Non Fungible Tokens(NFT’s), Gaming, DAO’s which are practically ideal solutions to our societal challenges with key emphasis on Aurora and Near ecosystem in general. We shall also expound Aurora’s novel support for Ethereum tools such as Metamask, Truffle and Hardhat. All putting keen emphasis on writing smart contracts on by leveraging Aurora as smart contract hub on Near, building Decentralized Apps(DApps) by the on boarded devs in a bid to build solutions affecting our society.
This shall be executed through social media challenges, content(Articles, infographics, memes) challenges, meetups and AMA’s
We shall also hold weekly office hours with the local devs embarking on solidity and Rainbow Bridge.
TYPE OF CONTENT TO BE SHARED
It should be noted that our events will be both technical and non-technical. Our biggest focus will be a clear and concrete understanding of Aurora.
Below is a brief syllabus of our events.
- Blockchain overview. This will explain major evolutions of the Web. Distributed Ledgers, Public and Private keys, Blockchain consensus (POW, POS, POH…)
- Introduction to Aurora. Here, we shall give an overview of Aurora clearly explaining it as a Fast, scalable, trustless bridge on Near and EVM compatible. Precisely, we shall introduce audiences to:
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What Aurora is
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What can be built with Aurora
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Where to find Aurora courses/docs
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Creating Near Wallets and how to sign up for Aurora community hub and
Go on to walk the audiences through where they can get live support on Aurora, such as: -
Discord
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Reddit
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Twitter
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Forum
- Aurora smart contracts on Near and EVM compatibility
- Rainbow Bridge.
- Aurora Testnet facets.
- Oracles( Flux Protocol & Dai Oracle) and Public API’s
Deliverables
- On boarding tech students onto Aurora
- Having local devs start to build DApps on Aurora
- Building local solutions on the Aurora
- New developers will be on boarded and Nationwide awareness of Aurora as we shall be advertising our events in the local mainstream and social media
- Aurora will be a platform for benchmarking for the National Blockchain Bureau.
- Growth of the Aurora and the general Near ecosystem.
- New Aurora contributors will be brought on board. These will contribute to code, content, social media marketing and community growth and management.
- An organic Aurora as an Africa community will be built
Proposed Budget for October
| Item | Qauntity | Unit Cost($) | Total($) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campaign Logistical Equipment(Barners, flyers, stickers) | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Event Venue Hire | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Swag(T-shirts&capes) | 70 | 10 | 700 |
| Social and Mainstream Media Marketing | 500 | 500 | |
| Team Honorareum | 4 | 60 | 240 |
| Total | 1840 |
Target address auroramashariki.near
Tagging Aurora Grants Team @Alex_J @ell