📥 Project Submission

At Factory24 we're always sourcing and onboarding projects with great ideas for building the next generation products and solutions to support the startup ecosystem. This public repository hosts the complete guideline of how to submit project ideas including templates and step-by-step instructions.

Scope

We are interested in onboarding projects that support both the Mission and Values of Afrolynk. The scope of our focus areas is broad, and can include: Big data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & Quantum computing, Internet of Things(IOT), Blockchain, Augmented Reality /Virtual Reality, Connectivity (Next Gen - 5G), API platforms (integration), Robotics & Automation, Smart Machines, Instant Payments and appropriate technologies (USSD).

With the ultimate goal of being the platform and the source of disruptive innovations in Africa, Factory24 will help coordinate the efforts of teams working together to develop and build solutions that overcome current social-economic challenges.

Our view is that Factory24 will play a pivotal role in transforming Africa's human capital in technology and leapfroging the continent into the 5th industrial revolution thus the coordination of efforts will include helping to connect teams, cross-promote the products and protocols, as well as provide strategic grants.

The intended scale is 1 to 6 person-months of effort, plus direct expenses such as servers and cloud services. If your project falls within our scope & scale refer to our Structure of Submission to begin submission process.

Structure of a Submission

To smooth out our collaboration process we request all proposals to be supplied through our standard response template. The formal submission document should be structured as follows:

• Motivation and overview
• Technical approach
• Team background and qualifications
• Evaluation plan
• Security considerations
• Schedule
• Budget and justification
• Email address(es) for direct contact

We would appreciate getting to know the key details as clearly as possible. You are free to modify this example template to suit your response, but we are aiming for structured correspondence with the community.

Examples

If you would like to see some example responses then check out the following document in this repo: submission-examples.md

Submitting Process

Once you've familiazrized yourself with the submission template & example, submit your project by following this easy steps:

• Fork this repository
• Create a new-branch labelled the title of your project e.g data-mining-project
• Update your changes on the new branched repo
• Push to branch and open a new PR

If your project is accepted, the branch will be merged and new repository for your project will be created at Factory24.