Introducing the CredSperiment

The CredSperiment
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An update on the timeline and prioritization:

I’m thinking about the CredSperiment in distinct phases:

Phase 1: Payments based on Cred

  • Every week, we allocate rewards to contributors based on cred. Those contributors can either take the reward in dollars (paid via OpenCollective) or mana (which is tracked and stored)
  • The mana and payments may be tracked in an ad-hoc manner (e.g. a Google sheet)

Phase 2: CredSperiment Infrastructure

  • We’ll build the infrastructure needed to track cred, payments, and mana in a more robust way
  • This might involve some significant changes to SourceCred (building out server infrastructure and actually having a backend for the website)

Phase 3: Mana and Boosting

  • We’ll use the infrastructure from phase 3 to add the “boosting” mechanic, where participants can use mana to influence cred and “invest in” boosting contributions.
  • See "Cred Historians" and Curators

My goal is to ship Phase 1 by the end month, i.e. we pay based on cred in the first week of October.

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