Hi Celo community, Eric here from Dev Rel Circle. This season we’ve updated our framework for how we categorize programs and initiatives.
The goal with this post is to provide transparency and insight to the work we’re doing at the Celo Foundation and ask our community for feedback on the plan and activities listed below.
If you want to learn more about Celo Foundation’s Season Planning, check out this forum post introducing the Season Planning Process.
Working Group Purpose
The Developer Relations (DevRel) team at Celo Foundation is focused on Attracting, Growing, and Retaining values-aligned developers. Our ultimate goal is to support all developers building on Celo.
In Season 13 we are focusing on 4 key objectives to Attract, Educate, Nurture, and Integrate developers. We accomplish this through a variety of programs and resources like hackathons, developer education, developer tooling, founder programs, and office hours.
Objective 1: ATTRACT new developers to Celo with developer programs
In Season 13 we plan to continue our work attracting new developers to the Celo ecosystem through Celo owned and Celo sponsored hackathons.
| Attract | Programs & Initiatives | |
|---|---|---|
| ETHGlobal hackathons | Create a cohesive IRL hackathon experience. Sponsoring ETHGlobal Tokyo April | Anna |
| Event Sponsorships | Web3 Ladies, UC Berkeley ZKP Hackathon, Celo Gather community events | Anna |
| Build With Celo ( B_WC) | A recurring online monthly hackathon experience. In S13, we’ll launch and execute items 1 and 2 of B_WC series. Build Tokenized Carbon dApps is currently live. | Daniel |
| Developer email list | We are working to improve developer communication to engage and support builders before, during, and after hackathons. | Lyle+All |
Objective 2: EDUCATE developers who are interested in becoming Celo builders
| Educate | Programs & Initiatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Celo Academy | An engaging, scaled, on-demand developer education program. | Joe |
| Stackshift | A cohort-based education experience for tech ambassadors. | Ernest |
| Celo Sage (Content) | Drive developer interest with community driven technical tutorials. | Joe, Viral |
| Celo Spark | Drive developer interest with technical video content | Nestor |
| Docs | Seeking to produce a world-class reference resource for developers. We aim to reduce the time to find reference information on site and increase visits to the site. | Viral |
| Localization | Our localization efforts target 2 strategic languages (Spanish, Portuguese) | Nestor |
| Office hours | Developers are invited every two weeks to bring their questions and receive help on Discord. Sign up to the community calendar to be alerted about the next session. | Harpal |
Objective 3: NURTURE Celo developers and community contributors
| Nurture | Programs & Initiatives | |
|---|---|---|
| All-Core Devs Call | Recurring call about CIPs and relevant engineering work. | Nestor |
| Governance | Supporting the governance process and supporting CGP editors, Mainnet approvers. Sign up to the Celo Signal calendar for latest updates. | Eric |
| Forum and Discord | Create a delightful online community experience. | Anna, Daniel |
| Toast | Launching a participation badges protocol | Daniel, Viral,Harpal, Anna |
| Celo Signal | A weekly no-frills update for the Developer, Governance participants, and Node + Validator community members. Sign up to the mailing list here. | Eric, Lyle |
Objective 4: INTEGRATE active developers, contributors and founders into a strong developer ecosystem
| Integrate | Programs & Initiatives | |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation Voting Program | Improve the diversity of validators on the Celo network through a pool of staked CELO. | Dave |
| Audits | Improve security of the platform through audits and reviews and supporting the bug bounty program. | Ryon, Dave |
| Enterprise | Strengthen DevRel and support enterprise adoption of Celo blockchain technology | Eric, Harpal |
| Founder inbound | Support Celo founders with 1:1 engagement | Jason |
| Founder Programs | Launch programs Celo Camp and Startup Pathway with high NPS | Jason |
| One-to-Many | Launch 1:Many support platform for ecosystem founders | Nestor |
Shout out to the team (Anna, Brandy, Daniel, Dave, Ernest, Harpal, Jason, Joe, Nestor, Ryon, Viral, and Lyle) for your contributions to this Season’s Plan and for your work ongoing work on programs and initiatives! If you have any feedback, please leave a comment here or reach out to the DevRel team on Twitter @celodevs, Discord, or by email devrel@celo.org.