docs: add Gitcoin and scaffold-eth to blog post

website/blog/2024-04-10-roadmap-q2.md

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-Greetings anons,
+Greetings anon,
 
-Glad to have you here. We have a few MACI roadmap updates to share.
+Glad to have you here! We have a few MACI roadmap updates to share.
 
-Before we hop into our Q2 plans, let's take a look at Q1:
+Before we hop into our Q2 plans, let's take a look at what we did in Q1:
 
 ## Q1 in review
 
@@ -23,19 +23,34 @@ In Q1 we aimed at [a few major goals](https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explora
 
 We completed a significant refactor to simplify the codebase and improve developer experience. After an internal audit, revamped documentation and educational resources, we released a new MACI version the world - see our [MACI v1.2 release post](/blog/maci-v1-2-0-release) to read up on all the benefits of that upgrade.
 
-### ✅ clr.fund upgrade
+### ✅ Support clr.fund upgrade
 
 [clr.fund](https://clr.fund/#/), a quadratic funding (QF) project which has distributed millions of dollars to Ethereum public goods, is the longest-running production application built on MACI (since 2020!). Thanks primarily to the hard work of their core dev [yuetloo](https://github.com/yuetloo), clr.fund successfully upgraded from 0.x to our fresh v1.2 release. Nicely done!
 
-### ✅ ETH Latam QF round
+### ✅ Support ETH Latam QF round
 
-What better way to celebrate the annual Ethereum conference of Latam than with a QF round? We teamed up with [ETH Latam](https://ethlatam.org/) to support their efforts to run a successful QF round on clr.fund with this latest version of MACI. Over 60 attendees participated (using [Zupass](https://zupass.org/) tickets as the faucet and round gatekeeper) to distribute over $30,000 DAI on Optimism to projects across Central America and the Carribean - [view the results here](https://qf.ethlatam.org/#/leaderboards/0x86F33909474c0dEf2Cb7F93d2eE0B8aF26112BF6/networks/optimism)!
+What better way to celebrate the annual Ethereum conference of Latam than with a QF round? We teamed up with [ETH Latam](https://ethlatam.org/) to support their efforts to run a QF round using the clr.fund stack running on the latest version of MACI. Over 60 attendees participated (using [Zupass](https://zupass.org/) tickets as the gatekeeper to the faucet and round) to distribute over $30,000 DAI on Optimism to projects across Central America and the Carribean - [view the round results here](https://qf.ethlatam.org/#/leaderboards/0x86F33909474c0dEf2Cb7F93d2eE0B8aF26112BF6/networks/optimism) and learn more in [ETH Kipu's ETH Latam recap post](https://mirror.xyz/ethlatam.eth/OoDqW3Omy8NbOGosdDQ8XUp_fZjP4sf_s4VHkaPWZXM)!
 
-https://mirror.xyz/ethlatam.eth/OoDqW3Omy8NbOGosdDQ8XUp_fZjP4sf_s4VHkaPWZXM
+### ✅ Support ETH Colombia QF round
 
-### ✅ ETH Colombia QF round
+Kudos to the ETHColombia team who also ran a [QF round for their community](https://www.ethcolombia.org/quadratic-funding-ethco-2024-q1) on the [#RumboaETHLatam](https://twitter.com/hashtag/RumboaETHLatam) - [view the round results here](https://qf.ethcolombia.org/#/leaderboards/0xa73Ec044b47186646D84D614b8a194dA3bE00260/networks/optimism)!
 
-Bonus points! Kudos also to the ETHColombia team who ran a [QF round for their community](https://www.ethcolombia.org/quadratic-funding-ethco-2024-q1) on the #RoadToETHLatam - [view the results here](https://qf.ethcolombia.org/#/leaderboards/0xa73Ec044b47186646D84D614b8a194dA3bE00260/networks/optimism)!
+### ✅ Community engagement via events
+
+We participated in a series of hackathons
+
+- ETHGlobal Circuit Breaker
+- ETHGlobal London
+- ETH Latam
+- ETHDam
+  Distributed a total of $XX in bounties
+
+Spoke at conferences:
+
+- Sam & Vee ETH Latam
+- Sam Ethereum Lima
+- Sam & Vee ETHDam
+  It was amazing to engage with hackers and collaborators in the space.
 
 ## Q2 Roadmap
 
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 ### 🎯 MACI Core Protocol Improvements
 
-After a thorough refactoring of MACI's code, which lead to the release of v1.2, we are now in position to integrate new features and improvements to the core protocol. As always, we are open to suggestions from the community, so if you have any ideas of a feature that should make it into MACI, please let us know! 
+After a thorough refactor of MACI's code, which lead to the release of v1.2, we are now in position to integrate new features and improvements to the core protocol. As always, we are open to suggestions from the community, so if you have any ideas of a feature that should make it into MACI, please let us know!
 
-Currently, we have a few ideas in mind:
+Currently, we have a couple of ideas to focus on next:
 
-**Unconditional privacy**
+**Unconditional Privacy**
 
-As of now, MACI's coordinator can track user key changes, and thus collude with bribers to deanonymize users. We are looking into ways to prevent this from happening. The [3227](https://3327.io/) team implemented a [proof of concept](https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/maci/issues/796) for this, using El-Gamal to remove the link between a new MACI key and their original key. Furthermore, there is a proposal currently being discussed on how to implement anonymous poll signups, which would provide the same benefits of the El-Gamal protocol, though with a much better user experience.
+As of now, MACI's [coordinator](/docs/workflow#coordinator) can track [user key changes](/docs/key-change), which allows them to associate voters with their respective votes, and thus collude with bribers to deanonymize users. We're looking into ways to prevent this possibility. The [3227](https://3327.io/) team implemented a [proof of concept](https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/maci/issues/796) for this, using El-Gamal to remove the link between a new MACI key and their original key. Furthermore, there is a proposal currently being discussed on how to implement anonymous poll signups, which would provide the same benefits of the El-Gamal protocol, though with a much better user experience.
 
 **Deployment Improvements**
 
-MACI's deployment process can certainly be made easier, and it is in our plans to improve this. We are looking into ways to make this cheaper, for instance by avoiding to deploy contracts which can be reused, as well as to make it more user-friendly, by providing a better interface to deploy MACI instances.
+MACI's deployment process can certainly be made easier and more efficient. We will explore ways to improve this, for instance making it cheaper to deploy MACI by implementing patterns to only deploy contracts once if they can be reused across MACI instances. We aim to make it more user-friendly as well by providing a better interface to deploy MACI instances.
 
 ### 🎯 Support Gitcoin Allo protocol integration
 
-Gitcoin has expressed interest in integrating MACI into their Allo protocol, their on chain stack for public good funding. We are currently in the process of supporting this integration, which is already underway, thanks to [Nick Lionis and Tse Lao](https://taikai.network/cryptocanal/hackathons/ethdam2024/projects/cluxse8cz00pjz3010wbq3thf/idea) hackathon project. 
+We mentioned in our [initial 2024 roadmap](/roadmap) that we intend to engage more with the broader Ethereum ecosystem in order to validate the value of MACI by exploring integrations and gathering input from community developers. Gitcoin is a great example: we've been in discussions with them to explore a MACI integration into their Allo protocol - the smart contracts that power Gitcoin Grants Stack - in order to increase user privacy and bribery resistance in their public good funding initiatives.
+
+We're already in the process of supporting this integration, thanks to [Nick Lionis and Tse Lao and their ETHDam hackathon project](https://taikai.network/cryptocanal/hackathons/ethdam2024/projects/cluxse8cz00pjz3010wbq3thf/idea). We're excited to see this integration come to life in production and to support Gitcoin in their efforts to improve public goods funding on Ethereum!
+
+### 🎯 Support ETHDam hackathon QV round
+
+Given the privacy focus of [ETHDam](https://www.ethdam.com/), we are excited to support a private QV round for the hackathon powered by MACI. Conference attendees will use clr.fund to vote on their favorite hackathon projects in order to allocate an additional $10,000 to hackathon projects building novel privacy and security solutions in the ecosystem. The round is live at [ethdamqf.com](http://ethdamqf.com/#/), so stay tuned for results!
+
+### 🎯 MACI starter kit
 
-We look forward to seeing this integration come to life and to supporting Gitcoin in their efforts to improve public goods funding on Ethereum. It is certainly great to see an increased interest in bribery resistance for funding public goods.
+We're teaming up with Buidl Guild and the scaffold-eth dev community to build a MACI starter kit - a web app that integrates MACI. We expect this to be a useful resources for any developer prototyping on MACI or just looking for a simple reference implementation / prefer reading through code vs. documentation when trying to learn how to integrate MACI into a project / learn how to build a web application on top of MACI, or for any builder who merely wants to understand how the user flow works.
 
 ## How does that sound?
 
 Questions? Concerns? Ideas? We’d love to hear from you!
 
-If there is a feature you think we should work on, or an initiative you'd like to collaborate with us on, please let us know! We welcome input from anyone in the community.
+If there is a feature you think we should work on, or an initiative you'd like to collaborate with us on, please let us know! We welcome input from anyone in the community. The best ways to get in touch are to hop in [our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/sF5CT5rzrR) (`#🗳️-maci` channel), [tag us on X](https://twitter.com/zkmaci) or [create an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/maci/).
 
 Onward and upward 🚀