SourceCred design jam notes
Audiences
Creators
Researchers, filmmakers, artistic communities, academics (citation networks), archives such as Dublin Core, deep-thinking people, those with an analytical mindset, who are altruistic to some extent
Maintainers — Primary group
Open-source maintainers, community managers, “altruist anarchists,” crypto project maintainers, DAO sensory organs, people who think open source should get paid, and humans not machines!
Contributors — Second most important
Under-appreciated non-technical contributors, those who’ve read Sacred Economies, crypto anarchists
Explorers
Researchers, DAO sensory organs, potential beneficiaries of open-source projects
Sliders
Tone
- Algorithmic / Human: Spread out. False dichotomy? Maybe the solution weds these extremes (and the two below)
- Organic / Engineered: Toward organic, but spread out. False dichotomy?
- Mass appeal / Exclusive: Toward mass
- Exciting / Banal: Toward exciting
- Active / Passive: Toward active
- Nuanced / Binary: Toward nuanced, but spread out
- Friendly / Authoritative: Friendly with one Authoritative outlier
- Conventional / Hip: Even
- Serious / Fun: Even
- Loud / Understated: Even
Graphical direction (group’s initial thoughts, to gauge predispositions)
- Abstract / Representational: Toward abstract
- Familiar / Revolutionary: Toward familiar
- Nuanced / Obvious: Toward nuanced
- Illustrative / Typographic: Toward illustrative, with one typographic outlier
- Gridded / Fluid: Slightly toward fluid
- Flat / Dimensional: Slightly toward flat
- Intricate / Austere: Very slight intricate bias
- Chunky / Fine lined: Even (slight spread)
- Vivid / Muted: Even
- Write-in candidate for a logo with an animatable design element, showing state / personal involvement
Real-world Analogues
- Amazon collects product user reviews and star ratings
- Home inspector examines a house and issues a report
- Someone cleans the dishes, and another notices and appreciates them
- Get paid to browse with Brave Browser (something you do anyway that brings you benefit)
- #didathing (add a hashtag when you post to report a contribution you made)
- Earning a medal
- “Employee of the Month”
- Volunteer awards or recognition
- 360 reviews
- Jira reports → Management bonus decisions
- Computer Games Scores Assignment
- Minority Report heads up display
- Small town, everyone knows everyone
- Word of mouth (when you’re looking for a service)
- China’s social credit system (dark authoritarian pattern)
- Ethical OS (beware of “ForceCred”)
- Mozilla badges (old pg)
- Movie credits
- Research citations
- humans.txt
- Read the glossary of a history book to find how many times and in which places (pages) a specific person was named.
From shared links
SourceCred and the Quest to Outcompete Capitalism
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Our rewards system is off kilter: amazing teachers are paid far less than mediocre investment bankers, eg
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Capitalism is the worst system, except for all the others
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It’s good at
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- Creating incentives
- Feedback
- Investing in what gets results
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But
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- Everything is transactional
- Which skews perceived values
- Public good is under valued
- Tries to wedge non-transactional domains into transactional forms
- With bad consequences
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An improved system might
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- Recognize the value in non-transactional things (People)
- Retain accountability
- Be difficult to game
- Flow cred rather than a value exchange
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Open-source products are better when more people are involved
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Hypothetical example
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- Math teacher gets cred based on the work her students subsequently do
Maintainers User Stories Discussion
- Key need: balancing/coordinating Maintainers & Contributors