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Darlington has the brains of an engineer and the heart of a humanitarian. He's been using his skills and experience to help small businesses use a wide range of technologies since 2007. Darlington has a deep understanding of cloud technologies, computer programming languages, and blockchain technologies.

The blockchain is a powerful, disruptive technology that is changing the world. Darlington wants the LIDO Nation community to be a part of that change, to create a better future for you, your neighbor, and the rest of us.

Darlington Wleh own proposals

Community Reviews across funding rounds

129
Total des critiques
Addresses Challenge
4.11 Star
Feasibility
3.91 Star
Auditability
3.49 Star
Impact / Alignment
5 Star

Proposals Across Funding Rounds

4
Completed
5
Approved
7
Proposed
₳0
$151.4K
Requested
₳0
$101.7K
Awarded
₳0
$92.5K
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Darlington Wleh Proposals (28)

Swahili News, Insight, Onboarding

$8,200 Received
$8,200 Requested

<p>150 Million people speak Swahili in Africa. There is a need for user friendly content in Swahili.</p>

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
completed Awarded 3.28% of the fund.
4.47 (15)

Spanish News, Insights, Onboarding

$6,200 Requested

<p>Cardano education and resources for everyday people are few and far between in any language. The gap is even wider for Spanish Speakers.</p>

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: Multilingual resources
over budget Requested 8.267% of the fund.
4.71 (21)

Treasury & Catalyst Proposal API

$17,200 Received
$17,200 Requested

Solution: A non-gated, filterable repository of all proposals. Funded projects are followed, measured & updated in a public space. API for toolmakers

Fund: Fund 6 Challenge: F6: Improve and Grow Auditability
completed Awarded 17.2% of the fund.
4.38 (21)

Opensource PHP SDK for COTI ADA Pay

$32,800 Requested

Solution: Créer un SDK PHP (batteries incluses), enveloppé d'un plugin Laravel & Woocommerce pour ajouter ADA Pay à tout site Laravel ou Wordpress.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Catalyst Natives COTI: Pay with ADA Plug-in
over budget Requested 32.8% of the fund.
3.11 (36)

Simple fund management DAO SDK

$16,900 Requested

Solution: Un SDK typographique opensource auto-hébergé ou alimenté par Dandelion pour créer une DAO de gestion de fonds. Des règles DSL qui régissent les entrées et sorties d'argent.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: DAOs ❤ Cardano
over budget Requested 3.38% of the fund.
3.17 (12)

Cardano Blockchain Lab in Kenya

$38,255 Received
$38,255 Requested

Solution: Extension du centre étudiant de la communauté des ONG pour ajouter un laboratoire Cardano Blockchain avec des ordinateurs dédiés, un mentorat pour les développeurs et une formation communautaire.

Fund: Fund 7 Challenge: F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs
completed Awarded 10.93% of the fund.
4.67 (12)

ADA Pay Plugin - Wordpress/Laravel

$31,289 Received
$35,200 Requested

Solution: Create a WordPress & Laravel plugin to enable ADA payments for the market of 1.4 Billion websites built using PHP.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Open Source Development Ecosystem
funded Awarded 2.933% of the fund.
4.81 (21)

Open Source Translate 2 Earn Webapp

$26,000 Requested

Solution: Opensource our current translation tool so anyone can deploy it to manage translations & compensate participation using ADA or Native Tokens

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: F8: Open Source Development Ecosystem
over budget Requested 2.167% of the fund.
4.2 (15)

Proposal Translation with Human QA

$20,862 Requested

Solution: Incentivize native Spanish-speakers to QA and edit machine translated funded proposals details and breakdowns in Spanish.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: Improve and Grow Auditability
over budget Requested 10.431% of the fund.
3.89 (18)

Migrating from ETH: Newcomer Setup

$11,700 Received
$11,700 Requested

Solution: Des articles sur le démarrage, le mode d'emploi, les perspectives et les aspects techniques des technologies Cardano, destinés spécifiquement à un public Ethereum.

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: The Great Migration (from Ethereum)
completed Awarded 2.34% of the fund.
4.4 (15)

Content & Insights: Multi-Channel

$8,200 Received
$8,200 Requested

Solution: Articles about Catalyst roles & topics, Interviews w/ Catalyst participants, Community leadership on twitter w/ 100+ live participants daily

Fund: Fund 8 Challenge: New Member Onboarding
completed Awarded 4.1% of the fund.
4.62 (39)
$38,200 Requested

Swahili Learn to Earn Quick Pitch

$38,200 Received
$38,200 Requested

Solution: Lido Nation has 50+ articles about Cardano & Catalyst in Swahili. Next: incentives for Swahili-speakers to learn, open wallets, earn ADA+NFTs by engaging with educational content & taking quizzes.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
completed Awarded 7.64% of the fund.
4.72 (39)

Catalyst Research & Voter Tool

$34,560 Received
$34,560 Requested

Solution: Consacrer plus de temps à l'outil de recherche Catalyst de la LIDO afin d'obtenir plus de données, d'aider les propriétaires de propositions à raconter des histoires plus riches et d'aider l'ensemble de la communauté à donner un sens aux données Catalyst et aux humains qui les sous-tendent.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
completed Awarded 0.44% of the fund.
4.73 (15)

Mehen: Fiat-backed Stablecoin USDM Quick Pitch

$193,660 Requested

Solution: Mehen is working with the community to build a Cardano Native Asset stablecoin, USDM.

USDM uses stablecoin best practices: fully-backed 1:1 with high-quality, liquid, transparent, audited USD assets.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Dapps, Products & Integrations
over budget Requested 2.467% of the fund.
4.39 (18)

Catalyst Turbo - Community Catalyst Infrastructure Experiments Quick Pitch

₳192,000 Requested

Solution: We will create more ways for people to run the system (Kubernetes, helm), use community tokens instead of ada, and use Catalyst Core modules for tasks not related to catalyst innovation rounds.

Fund: Fund 10 Challenge: SPO Tools & Community Projects
not approved Requested 4.053% of the fund.
4 (21)

Catalyst Explorer dRep module: Directory, Community, Draft Ballots Quick Pitch

₳148,000 Requested

Solution: Expand the Catalyst Explorer to provide a home for dReps & their delegators to connect, co-create Draft Ballots, & discuss. The tool would also display dRep profiles & voting history for the public.

Fund: Fund 10 Challenge: dRep improvement and onboarding
funded Awarded 37.487% of the fund.
4.31 (26)

Catalyst Completed Project NFTs Quick Pitch

₳49,800 Requested

Solution: Completed Projects mint custom "Project Completion'' NFTs via NMKR API &amp; LidoNation Catalyst Explorer. Minting a completion NFT is a celebration, a ceremony, a shareable trackable community artifact.

Fund: Fund 10 Challenge: Building on NMKR
funded Awarded 12.614% of the fund.
4.33 (33)

Incentivized Onboarding & Identity in Africa - Leveraging Atala PRISM Quick Pitch

₳239,200 Requested

Solution: Building on our successful "Learn to Earn" program in Swahili-speaking Africa: add Atala DIDs to the program to solve issues of accountability & trust; increase impact via incetivized user referrals!

Fund: Fund 10 Challenge: Atala PRISM: Launch Ecosystem
funded Awarded 7.573% of the fund.
4.26 (27)

Monthly Reports

This project will be complete on Dec 31, and we are so proud of what we have accomplished, and where we might go next! This project funded the construction of a physical Cardano blockchain lab building in Nairobi Kenya, and to employee mentees to both learn and start contributing to the Cardano ecosystem. Further funded projects in later funds mean that we currently have work to keep these new Cardanians keeping the lab lively into 2023. Several new collaborations within the Cardano ecosystem also offer potential for future work and expansion. Stopping now to save some words for our final report, coming in early January.

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Complete
Completion Target
1. In the next month
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One of lidonation's mentee that just finished our mentorship program with me has been onboarded to help with the development of the project.

We have have a game plan, with the stability of lucid we're rewriting some of the prefunded transaction builder and wallet integration code. New repo will live at https://github.com/lidonation/goaskada.com. Expect to start pushing actual code with in the week or two.

Disbursed to Date
$25,344
Status
Still in progress
Completion Target
4. After 6 months
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Translation work has been delivered by the community team. We have onboarded two new developers to the developer mentorship program. Existing developer mentees are delivering on work tickets and meeting with our lead mentor 2x/week. Our Community team is partnering with DirectEd.dev on their Nairobi pilot. Our translators have signed on to work with Gero Wallet to provide a Swahili translation. The Lab is looking to finish strong in December and we are thinking about ways to continue the work in 2023 and beyond.

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
1. In the next month
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It has been a busy month! Developer mentee Michael Ochara has hit a great stride and is delivering great work alongside lab mentor Darlington Kofa. Two more developer mentees are in the interview process now. Darlington is trialing a newly developed, more structured approach to the mentorship, which so far is working out well. Lab lead Stephanie took a trip to visit the lab in person. It was a fruitful visit making in-person connections with the Kenya team. While there we met with another Project Catalyst funded project DirectEd, and are working on possible partnerships with the lab. The translation team continues work on written and audio article translations in Swahili. The marketing and outreach team completed a PA training course with 6 new PA recruits. Looking forward to seeing what they are able to accomplish as PAs in Fund 10!

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
2. In the next 3 months
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We have interviewed 2 new candidates for developer mentorship at the lab. New mentees will start mentorship work with Darlington when the selection process is complete in the next few weeks. Outreach officers at the lab have recruited a team of 3 newcomers to train in on how to serve as PAs for Project Catalyst F10. They are using a new FREE PA training curriculum that was just developed by Lido Nation and published at blockchainlearning.center. The team participated in leading a global learning seminar about blockchain and Cardano with "United People Global" unitedpeople.global – a global community of learners who want to make the world a better place. The seminar was well attended and well received! It was recorded, but we are still waiting to get a copy of the recording, so we can hopefully share it later. The seminar took place in early September. Project Lead Stephanie King is travelling from Minnesota, USA to to Lab in Nairobi next week, to work with the lab crew in-person, and start planning for the future of the lab! This trip is funded out of Stephanie's personal funds, not Project Catalyst, but it is nevertheless an exciting opportunity to strengthen Cardano's community across continents!

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
2. In the next 3 months
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The developer mentorship program has added a third mentee. The outreach and marketing crew has completed one round of PA training and participation in Fund 9, and their next job is recruiting new PA trainees for Fund 10. They are also going to start maintaining a calendar of Catalyst and Community events as a public service.

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
3. In the next 6 months
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Our Community Outreach officers used the attached document to train up on Cardano and Catalyst, and to work as PAs in the recent Fund 9 round. Starting in August, they will be training new locals in Kenya to work as PAs. The Developer Mentee program added a third mentee in the last week.

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
3. In the next 6 months
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The attached video is a walk-through of the physical Cardano Lab that was built in Nairobi Kenya for this project! Last week we celebrated the "Grand opening" of the physical lab with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Lab participants now have a quiet, dedicated space, with new equipment funded by this project, to participate in Cardano work.

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
12/31/2022
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Community officers at the Kenya Hub are training to be CAs (training documentation attached) as a way to get more involved in the community, and learn a useful skill that they can share with others.

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$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
12/31/2022
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The short and the end is it works! We have a ci/cd pipeline that can now mass translate catalyst data with the setting of a parameter. The API (will be made public sooon), supports the Accept-Language header to localize data returned. This is the API powering the voter tool at https://www.lidonation.com/zh/project-catalyst/voter-tool. This will be demoed as well on townhall this wednesday the 27th!

Disbursed to Date
$3,475
Status
Complete
Completion Target
4/21/2022
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5 Cardano Lab mentees are engaged in developer mentorships, swahili content creation, and cardano/catalyst research. In the coming month we will launch the website and twitter account for the Lab. The lab now has an official name!>> Ngong Road Blockchain Lab

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Launched
Completion Target
12/31/2022
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The system to automatically translate proposals as well as provide a ui for humans to qa is live! Here's fund 7 in japanese. https://www.lidonation.com/ja/cardano-treasury

Bug fixing and crossing t and i are in the works, then we will run a job to run all proposal data through deepl translation api. Before we do this, we also need to port proposal details off ideascale.

Disbursed to Date
$3,475
Status
Still in progress
Completion Target
4/28/2022
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We met with the Kenya HUB Steering committee to finalize HUB launch details, and we have finalized the first 5 part-time staff of the HUB, with plan to onboard another part-time intern in May. Preparations are in progress, including sending funds to secure new computers, furniture, and equipment as outlined in the HUB plan, and the "Official" opening day of the Kenya Cardano Lab is set for April 1.

Disbursed to Date
$38,255
Status
Still in progress
Completion Target
12/31/2022
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