Radicle Grant Application
See the Grants Program Process on how to submit a proposal.
- Project Name: LearnWeb3 DAO - Radicle Track
- Team Name: LearnWeb3 DAO
- Payment Address: 0xD14033Fe2Da1DBFbe9A500D063BeF86368DB44B2
- Level
-Seed
Project Overview 
Overview
LearnWeb3 DAO is the fastest growing, and best, education platform to onboard new and experienced developers onto Web3.
In less than a month, we have grown organically to over 10k on socials and ~5k students registered and taking lessons on our website and buidling with the community in Discord.
Our team is seasoned with years of experience, having held positions at Coinbase, Ceramic Network, Dapper Labs, Metamask, etc. and contributed open source to W3C, Hyperledger Foundation, and more.
We were already, individually, helping friends and family onboard web3 for years, and decided to get together to formalize and structure it into something that is now known as LearnWeb3 DAO. Before doing this, we looked at existing alternatives, and realized that good education options are paywalled or limited, and free alternatives are not up to what we have come to expect from web2 edtech.
We focus on the āwhyā more than the āhowā. Our students learn a mixture of conceptual and practical topics, and get tested on their knowledge after each level. This has created a great feedback loop.
We are built on the core belief that education must be inclusive and free for all students. As such, to keep up with our fast growth, grants are the only way currently to sustain ourselves and keep buidling this public good.
As students progress through our tracks, they are over time looking at decentralization from different perspectives to grok the value of blockchain technology. So far, we have had them use Github as for a lot of newer developers it was an easier option and they could find a lot of existing resources on it.
However, in the spirit of open source, censorship resistance, and decentralized protocols - we want to introduce them to Radicle.
Our team is a strong believer in the good that decentralized technologies provide, and have personally faced issues with centralized protocols. (Even the LearnWeb3 DAO twitter handle got banned by Twitter for a couple of weeks in December, for reasons only they know and understand, followed by a mystical unban a day before we decided to restart with a new handle)
Team 
Team members
- Name of team leader: Haardik
- Names of team members: Sneh Koul, Kacie Ahmed
Contact
- Contact Name: Haardik
- Contact Email: hhaardik@uwaterloo.ca
- Website: https://twitter.com/haardikkk
Legal Structure
- Registered Address: A1880, 49th Street Marion, IA 52302, USA
- Registered Legal Entity: FullSend, Inc.
Teamās experience
Haardik:
Developer for over 10 years, blockchain developer for almost 5. Previously worked at Dapper Labs and SecureKey, currently working at Ceramic Network as Protocol Engineer. Spent 2+ years deep in the decentralized identity space, contributing to open source libraries for the Decentralized ID Foundation and the Hyperledger Indy and Hyperledger Aries projects.
Sneh:
(Blockchain) developer for 4 years. Previously worked at Metamask, and currently working at Coinbase as a Software Engineer in Blockchain Security. Won 5+ ETHGlobal hackathons, and developed a few NFT games.
Kacie:
Developer for ~2 years. Excellent at DevRel and Growth.
Other than Radicle, we have applied for grants from other web3 cos that we would also like to make educational content for. Amounts vary dependent on scope of work.
Team Code Repos
Please also provide the GitHub accounts of all team members. If they contain no activity, references to projects/repos hosted elsewhere are also fine.
Team LinkedIn Profiles (if available)
- Haardik H. - Hypotenuse Labs | LinkedIn
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sneh-koul-394ab8150/
- Kacie Ahmed - LearnWeb3Dao | LinkedIn
Project Description
We would like to include a level or two in our Junior track about Radicle. The Junior track is widely focused on the web3 ecosystem and learnings about the platforms, frameworks, and tooling that exists. Radicle would be a great fit there as an open, decentralized alternative to Microsoftās github.
In the future, it may also be interesting to explore further and build a depth track for Radicle diving deep into the technical design of the system.
Deliverables 
For this grant, we will only consider the Junior track levels
- Total Estimated Duration: ~1-2 weeks
- Full-time equivalent (FTE): ~1 weeks
- Total Costs: 5000 USD
We expect the Junior track to release around end of February.
Milestone 1
Please add additional milestones in the same way:
- Estimated Duration: 3-5 days
- FTE: 3-5 days
- Costs: 2500 USD
| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Conceptual level which explains what Radicle is, the motivation behind Radicle, how it works, comparison to Github, what tech stack it is built on, etc | Will be present as a level in our Junior Track |
| 2. | Accompanying skill test for above level | We test our studentsā knowledge by building skill tests for each level. By doing this, we can verify that they are learning, and are awarded graduation NFTs if they can pass the skill tests for all levels in a given track. |
Milestone 2
Please add additional milestones in the same way:
- Estimated Duration: 3-5 days
- FTE: 3-5 days
- Costs: 2500 USD
| Number | Deliverable | Specification |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | How to use Radicle as a VCS | Practical level which explains how to use Radicle as an alternative to Github |
| 2. | Skill test | Automated verification for a Radicle repo |
Future Plans
Please include the following:
- How you intend to use, enhance, promote and support your project in the short term
- The teamās long-term plans and intentions in relation to it. In other words, how will it be made sustainable?
In the future, we would like to explore dedicating an entire depth track to Radical. Typically, depth tracks include ~10 levels in them, which dive deep into specific topics. We could talk about Radicleās system design and go really deep into it. This would be a larger project and would likely require additional funding.
Additional Information 
How did you hear about the Grants Program? Radicle Website
Here you can also add any additional information that you think is relevant to this application but isnāt part of it already, such as:
- Work you have already done.
- If there are any other teams who have already contributed (financially) to the project.
- Previous grants you may have applied for.
LearnWeb3 DAO currently has two tracks - Freshman and Sophomore - publicaly available. Junior is in progress with the aim of releasing by end of February. We are a small, but highly dedicated team, doing this as a public good to give back to the community which has given us so much over the years.
We have requested grants from other teams, but have not yet received a contribution.
We shall not disappoint.