Round 1 / B<>rder/ess Developers Programme

Contributions from October 2023 - April 2023

EDUCATION & OUTREACH 📗B<>rder/ess has onboarded 44 University Students to learn Solidity in the last 3 Cipher Sessions and introduced them to FVM and Filecoin.

⏳We had a cumulative of 130 hours in class sessions.

🏠Opened a physical infrastructure, the B<>rder/ess web3 Hub, and supported the File Coin community developers to host their meet-ups, and use the B<>rder/ess hub facilities at any time, for hacker house activities, hackathons, events, Dev collab sessions and more.

👨🏽‍👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Held a Web3 Event and Filecoin Showcase, which is the B<>rder/ess 2.0 event that had 1,750+ attendance in 9 locations (1 City + 8 Universities) and Filecoin had a booth stand, to onboard attendees and presentation sessions.

PRODUCTS & END USER UX 🤓We got our solidity students to Hack and Build on Filecoin, they're in the Filecoin Hackathon on Dorahacks and are building a food/organic marketplace solution that utilizes Filecoins IPFS to create online shops as NFTS.

TOOLING & UTILITIES 💻We organized BYTE 11:23 Hackathon for our students to build using Solidity, and for Data Analysts and Cyber Security students to build using Solidity and deploy products onchain.