Prastik Gyawali

WITHDREW

1.Do you have any questions about the Giving Chain project and what the project GOAL is?

  - All my doubts were cleared during the interview itself.

2.Do you have a preference to part time (20 hours a week from June to November). Or Full time  (40 hours from June to August)

 - I would choose a part-time (20 hours/week) role. 

3.Describe what you feel the project must overcome

 - Firstly, the project should overcome the very problem that led to its inception, i.e swiftly connect farmers with extra food to the needy ones with high transparency and quality assurance. Previously these tasks would be conducted by High School volunteers or NGOs or so, but in the case of summer/winter vacations where volunteers are sporadic, our project must stand as a proxy for them, digitizing the entire supply chain with high precision using blockchain.

-Second of all, our technology must work on multiple "touchpoints" from an android application to a web application adhering to the diversified resources available to the various nodes in the chain.

-In a world where private blockchains currently are not as popular as the public blockchain, successfully implementing this project would be an achievement in itself. As the full-fledged application involves multiple parties with varying needs, expanding and strengthening our open-source developer's network would be vital for the scaling of the project.

-Since tokens and cryptography might not be common topics for middlemen like drivers, volunteers, or even the donors and recipients for that matter, so while building the application we must gamify these intricate concepts and present them with the simplest articulation. This I think would be a challenge for ourselves to overcome.

-Lastly, the giving chain project would have shown its full potential if later(after development) it could be easily extrapolated into similar other situations like flood reliefs, disaster relifes, etc which happen to be the notch currently surrounded by doubts and inefficacy. This way, the project will touch multiple case scenarios through this common project we develop this summer.

4.What does success look like for this project.

-Without many hitches, if this project could help deliver things from donor to recipients then it would be a great success.

-However, challenges to find conducive volunteers would always be a challenge for us, so the project must run to such an effective level that contributors/volunteers would trust the cause and hence this invites diversified helping hands for volunteering.

-Also, the project would justify its cause to the fullest when it is fully decentralized with no one central authority, this would mean that no one would have to work full time for the entire charity process and the work gets distributed evenly. Thus this decentralized approach would be more sustainable and this would what success look like for the giving chain project.