Please review my proposal, which is in response to the suggestion by zkcroc here. To build a grant punch list dashboard:
Summary:
Build a dashboard to visualize Zcash community grants, allowing members to track progress transparently. The dashboard will be integrated into the Zcash Community Grants site, providing clear views of milestones, visual progress indicators, and alert mechanisms.
Problem Statement:
Currently, tracking Zcash grant progress can be challenging, with updates scattered across forum threads and limited transparency into milestone completion or delays. This lack of clarity can make it difficult for the community to assess progress, identify issues early, and understand potential deviations from grant scopes.
Proposed Solution:
To develop a Grant Milestone Dashboard that will:
Track Individual Grants: Each grant will have a detailed milestone list, with progress bars or percentage indicators for clarity.
Provide Alerts: Automatic alerts will flag delays or deviations from the approved scope.
Offer Unified Access: A single, user-friendly location for monitoring all active grants.
Budget Breakdown & Milestone
Milestone 1: Design & Feedback (1 week)
Cost: $400 Activities:
Design a simple, intuitive dashboard layout to display each grant’s name, progress status, and milestone details.
Initial wireframes to include:
Grant Overview Page: Displays a summary of all active grants with status indicators (e.g., percentage complete, “On Track,” or “Delayed”).
Individual Grant Pages: Detailed view of each grant’s milestones, completion percentages, and timelines.
Milestone 2: Frontend Development (1 week)
Cost: $800 Activities:
Build a front-end responsive framework for desktop and mobile accessibility.
Develop and integrate:
Milestone Tracking: Allow admin to list each grant’s milestones with status, completion bars, and estimated completion dates.
Progress Indicators: Visual indicators (bars or percentage markers) to represent progress at both the overall grant and individual milestone level.
Milestone 3: Backend Development & Finalization (1 week)
Cost: $800 Activities:
Build backend functionality to support data updates for milestones, status tracking, and alert management.
Implement an Alert System:
Automatically flags and sends alerts for overdue milestones or any deviations from the original scope.
Notifications can be sent to community members or displayed on the dashboard.
Total: $2000 - 3 weeks
Benefits to the Zcash Community:
Transparency: Enables real-time tracking of grant progress.
Accountability: Provides a visual progress overview to keep grant recipients aligned with their milestones.
Engagement: The dashboard’s unified design improves accessibility and ease of monitoring.
Sure, here you go! I’m Emmanuel. Some of you may recognize me from my previous introductions here and on Discord. I’m a former Dash Incubator developer and Ethereum CAT contributor, as well as a full-stack developer with over seven years of experience building dApps. LinkedIn: Emmanuel O. - Eclipse Web | LinkedIn GitHub: Emmanueleclipse (Emmanuel E) · GitHub
Thanks for you submission @Emmanuel. This is a good time to remind everyone that ZCG will be making a few changes in the coming weeks with the transition to FPF. This will likely include transitioning the “source of truth” for information regarding grants and their status to parsable files stored within a GitHub repo. More info the come and preview coming soon. We will give everyone the opportunity to review the new platform, and provide feedback over the coming weeks, and we can assess and amend any grants related to the platform in context with these changes when thes changes have been finalised.
@Emmanuel Thank you for your submission. After consideration from @ZcashGrants and sufficient time for the community to provide feedback on the forum, the committee has decided to reject this proposal. ZCG is open to grant applications to improve the new GitHub platform after the transition is completed.
The committee appreciates your grant submission efforts and encourages you to continue as an active member of the Zcash community going forward:
Thanks for your application. We are simply closing the application until we complete the transition to FPF, adjust to the new GitHub workflow, and the Zcash community grants site has been updated to reflect the new process . Once this transition is complete you are open to resubmit the application by making any necessary adjustments to adjust to the new platform.
I appreciate the clarification and look forward to the transition. I’ll keep an eye out for more details about the new platform. Please let me know when the new GitHub workflow is ready for review. I’d be happy to assist with the process. Thank you!
