We’re excited to announce The Graph Academy Grants program! To foster the growth of our community-driven platform, The Graph Academy is offering grants to contributors to incentivize the creation of high-quality educational material.
The Graph Academy Grants
Come join us as a contributor.
The Graph Academy is all about collaborating. If you like to contribute to our joint endeavor of building a universal knowledge base for The Graph, you’re more than welcome to do so.
Current RFPs
For a list of our current RFPs and how you can get involved, have a look at the following.
Description: Introduction to indexing and onboarding course for those interested in becoming Indexers which includes best practices for Indexers (infrastructure, troubleshooting, syncing, etc.)
Skills: Technical Writing, Indexer Operator, Devops
Bounty Size: $2,500
RFP Category: INDEXER COMMUNITY
Details
Indexers in The Graph Network play a key role in securing the network and in providing accurate data that powers Web3. At the same time, the entry barriers for becoming an Indexer (both economically and technically) are high. For this reason, it is of central importance to develop resources that help interested individuals in getting started as Indexers.
Profile
The Graph Academy is seeking an experienced Indexer within The Graph Network to develop an Indexer Onboarding Course to help new Indexers in getting started.
RFP Requirements
It is intended that the onboarding course is broken up into parts which take would-be Indexers step-by-step through the journey of setting up the infrastructure for launching an Indexer. The course should cover all aspects of successfully running an Indexer node from start to finish (choosing infrastructure & setup, deploying node, maintenance, performance improvements, subgraph selection, and network interactions [POI, allocation management, reward collection & cost modelling].
Deliverables
Onboarding Course broken up into parts
Short Quizzes at the end of each part (Multiple Choice, Yes/No, etc.)
MVP: Initial document (addressed content to be agreed upon) for quality assessment by The Graph Foundation and The Graph Academy
It is expected that the work you do in collaboration with The Grant Foundation and The Graph Academy under the scope of this grant will be open source and public for the ecosystem. We believe that the ecosystem as a whole is better than its parts and encourage all network participants to build in public.
Skills: Technical Writing, Subgraph Developer
Bounty Size: $2,500
RFP Category: Subgraph Development
Details
Subgraph developers use The Graph to query data that is stored on a blockchain and play a critical part in securing the functionality of decentralized applications. To empower developers in creating a radically better Internet, it is critical to provide interested developers resources helping them in getting started.
Profile
The Graph Academy is seeking an experienced subgraph developer within The Graph Network to create a Subgraph Development Course to help new developers in getting started.
RFP Requirements
It is intended that the onboarding course is broken up into parts which take would-be developers step-by-step through the journey of deploying subgraphs from start to finish (creating subgraph manifest, deploying subgraphs locally / Hosted Service / Studio, as well as defining a subgraph.
Deliverables
Onboarding Course broken up into parts
Short Quizzes at the end of each part (Multiple Choice, Yes/No, etc.)
MVP: Initial document (addressed content to be agreed upon) for quality assessment by The Graph Foundation and The Graph Academy
It is expected that the work you do in collaboration with The Grant Foundation and The Graph Academy under the scope of this grant will be open source and public for the ecosystem. We believe that the ecosystem as a whole is better than its parts and encourage all network participants to build in public.
Tbd. Feel free to get in touch with us to explore the options for a grant on writing an explainer on arbitration.
Description: Tooling for automatically forking the latest version of The Graph’s official docs repository which is then republished at docs.thegraph.academy (ideally via GitBook).
Skills: Technical, Developer, HTML, GitHub
Grant size: tbd.
RFC Category: The Graph Academy
Details
The Graph is publishing the network’s official documentation by pulling the content from The Graph’s repository on GitHub and publishing it via https://thegraph.com/docs/en/. Doing so provides a seamless solution for multiple authors from different core dev teams to contribute to the ecosystem’s documentation via GitHub.
For The Graph Academy, we are looking for a solution that automatically forks the official repository and publishes the content to the academy’s repo. From the repo, the content is then automatically pulled and published via docs.thegraph.academy. As such, The Graph Academy is looking for an individual or team to provide a solution for dynamically updating the docs section of the academy website whenever updates to the official documentation of The Graph are being made. The ideal solution utilizes GitBook, which is used in production for automatically pulling content from the repo and publishing to this URL: docs.thegraph.academy.
The key challenge of the project is to prevent formatting conflicts resulting from the markup being used to stylize the docs section of The Graph’s website (thegraph.com/docs/en/). Should it not be possible to use GitBook for automatically pulling content from the repo, another solution for pulling content and publishing it on an academy-branded website layout needs to be developed.
RFC Requirements
- Tool must automatically fork The Graph’s official docs repository
- Content must be automatically published in the academy’s repo
- Must automatically pull and publish content on docs.thegraph.academy
- Tool must use GitBook or provide a solution for pulling content from GitHub and publishing it via a website layout that is branded based on the corporate identity of The Graph Academy
Note: The scope of the RFC can be extended to include the functionality of pulling content from GitHub and designing a website layout where the content is published – should it not be possible to use GitBook for this functionality.
Deliverables
- Functional MVP: A complete functional demo showcasing the above described functionality
- Final solution: The documentation of The Graph is automatically republished via docs.thegraph.academy
Apply for a Grant
You can use this form to apply for a grant: Google Forms.
Make a Grant Suggestion!
Your area of expertise is not covered in the above-mentioned RFPs? Do you have an idea for a grant? If so, feel free to submit your idea via the form above or reach out via Discord
Our Vision.
The Graph Academy is a community-driven initiative that was built by members of the The Graph community. The academy is a strategic initiative that seeks to help members of the community to accelerate their knowledge about The Graph. These are the goals we have in mind with establishing the academy:
- Provide a seamless onboarding experience for new community members
- Help new members to quickly familiarize themselves with The Graph
- Provide helpful tools such as calculators to the community
- Accelerate the community’s knowledge of The Graph Protocol
- Reduce support inquiries sent to the core devs considerably
- Becoming an outlet for documentation
- Building a platform for community members that want to contribute to a universal knowledge base about Eco
How you can contribute:
If you have a passion for helping others understand complex subjects and if you would love to spread the word about Eco, you’d be a great fit as a collaborator to the Eco Academy.
Writing Guides
Detailed guides to help other community members
Video Tutorials
Create explanation videos about Eco
Build tools
Create tools that are helpful to the community
Documentation
Document events and actors in the ecosystem
