# Champions

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/champions/527>\
**Category:** The CredSperiment\
**Tags:** 📦artifact\
**Created:** [December 30, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/champions/527 "2019-12-30T04:21:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/champions/527/1 "2019-12-30T04:21:43Z")

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# Description

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Champions are the [DRI](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/directly-responsible-individuals/)s for an [Initiative](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives/508).

  

# Contributions

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> [@About Champions and Heroes](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/about-champions-and-heroes/291):
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> So, I brought up a term “Champions” and it’s been floating around for a little bit. This is to figure out what it is exactly and what we can do with it. Origin I originally got this idea from this talk: [[Technical Direction: Communication, ROI and Triage] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQlf9UIzF14) Very much worth a watch, but something he didn’t do is give a concrete term like champions. There are bits and pieces of it spread around in the talk. Part of it is me taking his ideas and filling in the term. Especially later o…

> [@Champions: lead the charge on Initiatives](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/champions-lead-the-charge-on-initiatives/403):
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> [placeholder] I think a wiki to explain this would make sense. Kicking that off here. Along with discussion. References: [About Champions and Heroes](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/about-champions-and-heroes/291)[Weekly Community Call Agenda (12/10/2019)](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/weekly-community-call-agenda-12-10-2019/391/4)

  

# References

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> [@Initiatives](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives/508):
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> Description Initiatives provide a framework to plan, execute, and attribute Cred to work that adds value to SourceCred. Initiatives make it easy for the community to keep all the information on a project in one place. Then via the Champions, References. and Contributions categories it’s easy to flow Cred to the appropriate nodes. Contributions References [https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-things-that-make-sourcecred-better/471](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-things-that-make-sourcecred-better/471)

> [@Initiatives Template](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-template/455):
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> Description Creates a standard format for the Initiatives plugin and makes it easy for new users to create Initiatives. Contributions References

> [@Supernodes: Moving past raw activity](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/supernodes-moving-past-raw-activity/340):
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> So far, SourceCred has tracked contributions at the level of raw activity. Here are some examples of activities we track: GitHub pull requests GitHub comments GitHub Reactions Discourse posts Discourse likes The activity data has been a great starting point. Activity data is easy to collect automatically, so we can get a reasonable baseline for cred scores. However, using activity data alone has serious issues. Valuing any individual piece of activity can be quite hard, and the activity data…