Hey @CeloAfricaDAO, I’m excited to see Celo Africa return with another proposal!
Applying for Celo Public Goods Funding
You’re likely aware you can apply for Celo Public Goods funding under the Regional DAO strategy. We’ve just published a thread with more information here and created a Public Goods Funding Wiki to provide more guidelines. I propose adding [DRAFT] to the Title of your Forum Thread and updating that to [FINAL] when you believe you’ve incorporated feedback and would like to progress toward a vote.
Feedback on the proposal
I was glad to see the progress and reports of Celo Africa last year, and I see value in continuing to have Celo Africa operate.
Given that the request is significant, I feel some areas need more clarification or further specification.
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Given a lot of the budget is allocated based on a number of events and hires - I propose adding comparable Payment Terms to CeloEU’s proposal to ensure the proper budgets are allocated: A first tranch to be allocated for the period of Feb - April, followed by a second tranch after a progress report by Celo Africa around mid-April.
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Focus Area 1: The grants are specified as 1-5K, but the budget assumes the complete 5K is allocated to each. Propose to bring it down to for example $2500 each.
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Focus Area 1: I am curious about what the 8 level 1 developers are and what they would each do for $2500 per person for these projects. Can you imagine leveraging existing Celo Builders to provide mentorship and feedback - instead of having level 1 developers paid and coordinating them? Alternatively - I would just increase the prize for winners (let’s say 7.5K each) and have them decide what they do with that budget (incl hiring lvl 1 devs).
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Focus Area 2: No comments, seems reasonable.
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Focus Area 3: No comments, seems reasonable.
Cheers,
Luuk