[Report] DiR fellowship - Progress of NEAR in Arabic, and supporting NU community. January 2022

Project title: NEAR in Arabic

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

Project Summary: A new project targets educating developers who speak 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 - @hiba
Mohammed Saudi - @mhassanist
Rasha Abdulrazzak - @rasha

Period:

Jan 1 → Jan 31, 2022

The following items are the results obtained for the team:

  • nearinarabic.com is up and running. More content coming soon.
  • Meeting with Arabcapmarket and looking into further collaborations.
  • Developing NEAR in Arabic visual identity (Colors, Logos, UI/UX).
  • Publishing Arabic videos, and articles on both the youtube channel and the website.
  • near-by-example.com is a platform that serves as an introduction to NEAR with simple examples developed by the NEAR in Arabic Team.
  • Adding more content and materials to near-by-example.com

Other works:

  • Supporting the NU community.
  • Researching and working on sputnikDAO2.
  • Meeting with other NEAR community members to learn more about AstroDAO.
  • Learned more about Rust and worked on building a CRUD DApp using Rust on NEAR.
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