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# General Grant Proposal

* **Project:** Front end developement for PSE communication and related projects.

## Project Overview :page_facing_up: 

### Overview

This proposal is to onboard the front-end engineer to help on PSE communication related projects, such as PSE website, learning courses & other projects in near future. The front-end engineer will collaborate & work closely with design and communitcation team in all aspects and the proposal is break down to multiple phases, with the PSE website as the main projects at this given time.

**About PSE website:**
Our website serve as the information hub about everything we do in the team, from projects, resources to community engagment. The website requires constant iteration and improvements, which covers the basis of scalable projects library, open issues from our repository for public to contribute, multi-language support and other funcationlity. 

**About learning courses**
Communication team has develop a cohesive material for non-tech audience to learn zero-knowledge. The material is developed by Kichong, which require a development planing and developement to ship the first public version. Noted, this learning course is intent to have community collaboration in the future which also require planning and strategic thinking.

**Other projects**
Communication and design team has huge responsibility to support and gain exposure for all our projects. This proposal might require priority shifting when the huge event is approaching, for ex: devconnect. The front-end develper will need to work closely with the team to support related activities.

### Project Details 
PSE website

* Develope interface based on design team's spec
* Tech stack: Next.js, Tailwind
* Development: AWS with github actions (setup by PSE's devop team)

## Grantee :busts_in_silhouette:

### Grantee
* Name: Kalidou Diagne
* Email: kld.diagne@gmail.com
* Telegram handle: https://t.me/kappa_io
* Github profile: https://github.com/kalidiagne



### Grantee's experience
Please describe the team's relevant experience. Some links would be useful.

- Part of the core team at Unlock Protocol: a protocol for memberships as time-bound Non-Fungible Tokens, with focus on Frontend. Following some blogpost write to describe new functionality: 

    - https://unlock-protocol.com/blog/settings-page 
    - https://unlock-protocol.com/blog/cerfification-launch 
    - https://unlock-protocol.com/blog/event-page-redesign 

- Tech Ambassador for "Bill" by Mooney Group:
as Tech Ambassador, brought contribution by providing reports, UX & UI analysis and improvement suggestions about “Bill”: a digital payment app similar to Alipay.
    
    - https://twitter.com/MooneyGroup/status/1092844084920754176
    - https://talentgarden.org/it/business-innovation/billambassador-lesperienza-di-alex-simone-kalidou-e-marzia/
    - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6536521168701140992/






## Development Roadmap :nut_and_bolt: 



### Overview
* **Total Estimated Duration:** 3 months
* **Full-time equivalent (FTE):**  Workload of an employed person ([see](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time_equivalent)) 
* **Total Costs:** Amount of Payment for the whole project.

### Milestone 1 - PSE Website v2.1
* **Estimated Duration:** 2 weeks (7/Aug - 17/Aug)
* **FTE:**  1
* **Costs:** $5.000
* **Estimated delivery date**:  17/Aug/2023


#### Deliverables and Specifications

| Items | Description | 
| -------- | -------- | 
| Project detail enhancement     | Convert to current project detail from json to hackmd format in order to display rich media     |
| Project library functionality     | Adding filters, sorting and search to the project library |
| New section: Resources     | Adding a new section to the website to host links for resources |


### Milestone 2 - PSE Website v2.2
* **Estimated Duration:** 2 weeks (30/Aug - 13/Sep)
* **FTE:**  1
* **Costs:** $5.000
* **Estimated delivery date**:  13/Sep/2023

#### Deliverables and Specifications
| Items | Description | 
| -------- | -------- | 
| New section: Message automation   | Enhance PSE's workflow from discord to webpage, display anoucement messages from discord to webpage so public can learn the most updated news. |
| New section: Our mission    | Adding a new section to the website so public can learn PSE's mission..etc  |


### Milestone 3 - PSE Website v2.3
* **Estimated Duration:** 2 weeks (13/Sep - 27/Sep)
* **FTE:**  1
* **Costs:** $5.000
* **Estimated delivery date**:  27/Sep/2023

#### Deliverables and Specifications
| Items | Description | 
| -------- | -------- | 
| New section: Open issues   | Using github REST.api to display all issues that marked as help wanted on the webpage so public can easily know which issue is open for contribution.    |


### Milestone 4 - PSE Website continous optimization & learn zk
* **Estimated Duration:** 4 weeks (27/Sep - 25/Oct)
* **FTE:**  1
* **Costs:**  $10.000
* **Estimated delivery date**:  25/Oct/2023

#### Deliverables and Specifications
*During this milestone, the design & communication team might start doing devconnect activities, so this milestone might shift the priority base on the ongoing activities.*
| Items | Description | 
| -------- | -------- | 
| Continous optimization on PSE website   | Loading performence, regular maintaince and enhance SEO performence|
| Learn ZK   | Kick off with communication team and plan developement  |

### Milestone 5 - Learn zk v0.1
* **Estimated Duration:** 2 weeks (25/Oct - 8/Nov)
* **FTE:**  1
* **Costs:** $5.000
* **Estimated delivery date**:  8/Nov/2023

#### Deliverables and Specifications
| Items | Description | 
| -------- | -------- | 
| Learn zk v0.1   | Public release of v0.1, spec to be defined |




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## Additional Information :heavy_plus_sign: 
N/A