[Report] DiR fellowship - Progress of NEAR in Arabic, and other support . March 2022

Project title: NEAR in Arabic

One-liner: Development of a platform that serves as an entry point for the Arabic-speaking community.

Project Summary: A new project targets educating developers who speak the Arabic language to build DApps on NEAR. The main goals are to build courses, articles, communities, and projects for the Arabic-speaking world.

Project members:
Hiba Machfej
Mohammed Saudi
Rasha Abdulrazzak

Period:

March 1 → March 31, 2022

The following items are the results obtained for the team:

  • Launching NCD Program in Arabic.
  • We soft-launched the program and the first NCD orientation is to be held on April 2nd, 7 AM GMT
  • We Started our marketing campaigns and social media presence [Facebook and Twitter]
  • Developing projects on NEAR in Arabic GitHub.
  • Writing articles and creating educational content.
    Maintaining and adding more features to the existing website.

Other works:

  • Add articles from nearinarabic to the web3isnear website.

  • Help in designing the pre-work of NCD in Arabic.

  • Design and implement the needed forms for the NCD in Arabic.

  • Set up the LinkedIn page for nearinarabic and post content.

  • Supporting the NU community:
    Answer some of the questions raised by the NEAR community about NCDs, fellowship, certification, and some technical issues.

  • NCD assistance
    helps NEAR team instructors during NCDs and answers some questions.

  • Start learning to write contracts in Rust.

  • Start learning Rust from the Rust book.