Duration: 6 months 

Updated: Re-community feedback

In our last proposal, we gathered feedback on compensation, milestones, and scope. Opinions varied; some felt the proposal was too ambitious for its duration, while others thought it wasn’t ambitious enough. We also heard from community members and fellow agents who wanted clearer KPIs, updated compensation details, and more committed hours.

We reflected on this feedback and we have updated the following parts of the proposal:

• Shortened duration: The proposal now spans 6 months instead of the original timeframe.
• Success metrics/KPIs: These are now clearly outlined in the milestones section.
• Updated compensation: We’ve reduced the number of roles and focus countries, increased commitment hours for the team, and ensured rates are fair and in line with similar initiatives and other rates globally.
• Scope: The scope remains the same, but we’ll roll it out in smaller, intentional steps, scaling as we deliver results, reflected in our updated KPIs.

Short description

(Updated) Continued support of dedicated agents focused on building and growing Polkadot’s builder and community presence in Africa.

In the past 6 months, Polkadot Africa has focused on activating local communities through high-quality events, developer engagement, and grassroots education through online workshops and online bootcamps. 

So far, we've achieved the following in the past 6 months:

• Engaged 3,000+ people in person.
• Hosted 45+ events across multiple countries. With different types of meetups.
• Onboarded 20+ PBAx participants and 5 currently accepted to PBA Bali!!!
• Participated in the global Encode x Scalable hackathon. Some of our community members won OpenGuild bounties.
• Hosted Runtime developers' calls. Thereby, attracting builders to contribute to the Polkadot SDK.
• Steadily streamlining resources for the community through our website.
• Grown our online community to 1,000+ active members.

This proposal seeks 6 months of funding to expand on that momentum, shifting from activation to retention.

Category: Developer community, Community Building, Growth and Products.

You can read more here.