Description
This is an overview of contribution opportunities. These are ideas we have that would be nice, great, or amazing to have in SourceCred. They range from fleeting ideas (“oh that’d be neat”) to the downright invaluable (“omg how have we lived without this for so long?!”).
Think of this as an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) of an opportunities system for the Creditor.
If something catches your eye that you’d like to work on:
- Determine if it’s a smaller one-person task, or something bigger that you should explore with other contributors.
- Start a new Discourse topic proposing how you’d like to create or implement it, and list what resources or help you might need, and if you’d like to champion the initiative or just want to contribute.
- Once you’ve posted that topic, link it in this thread below and I’ll edit this post to link to yours, so that Cred from this post flows to you.
I’m making this thread in part to not lose track of ideas we want to implement, but mainly to create an overview for newcomers to see what kinds of contributions they could make.
There is no good way to “vote” on any specific opportunity below (until there is a dedicated topic proposal for it), because it’s an MVP. Heck, we might even call it a proof of concept.
Open Opportunities
We have open projects & opportunities in:
- Audio/ visual work
- Copy & technical writing
- Community Care & Cultivation work
- Design & Visualization Work
- Web Development & Software Engineering (SWE)
- Project Management
Audio / visual work
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SourceCred 101 Explainer Video / Animation
An animation, accessible to non-techies, illustrating how Cred and Grain work on the CredGraph (nodes, edges, flows)
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Call Recording Audio Conversion
Converting the recordings of our calls from Audacity format to an audio file and uploading them for easier listening and sharing (on SoundCloud? Elsewhere?)
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Discourse Cred Flow Graphic
A visual and/or interactive explorer to illustrate how Discourse Cred flows from threads (see context)
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Copy & technical writing
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Documentation Support
Work with @bex to ensure our SourceCred documentation is up to date, and accessible to newcomers and non-crypto/tech people.
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Improve clarity of our implementation documentation
The documentation for setting up a SourceCred instance of your own, managing it, and keeping it nicely operational (how, where, what, when, etc.) is lacking in clarity and cohesion. We can make it much more intuitive and clear, mostly through technical writing alone.
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Website Redesign project — copywriting
There is a work-in-progress website / homepage redesign; somewhere (I believe) there is a spreadsheet with draft copy text for the front page. Taking on this copywriting and working with the team to ensure it accurately represents what SC is, how it works, and why communities would want to use SC, would be very helpful to moving the website redesign forward.
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Community Care & Cultivation work
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Write Your Own Onboarding
This is a repeatable opportunity: document the process you’ve gone through and what your experiences have been like upon discovering, learning about, and joining SourceCred (and becoming a Creddie
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Help @KuraFire with Discourse reorg
The Discourse forum for SourceCred is not very well-organized and structured. Lots of old categories, tags, and templates that need updating, as well as the design. Current blocking task is updating the threads spreadsheet with all the new topics since December 9th, and collaborating with Faruk to create a new organization structure for our forum. (see the current reorg proposal thread)
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Organize Community Events
We love community; help create it by organizing educational events. Examples: film screenings to help us better understand important state-of-the-world issues for marginalized groups; book club readings (currently active: Emergent Strategy), Gather.town socials, etc.
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Additional Cultivation Projects
Our Roam knowledge base has its own cultivation projects/opportunities list. Peruse it for more!
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Design & Visualization Work
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Help create the SourceCred Design System in Figma
Work with @KuraFire and @CortanaV to create a SourceCred design system, refine the color palette, and design UI components. (Figma competency required)
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Create interactive visualizations
A lot of SourceCred is explained verbally and in text, but an interactive visualization for the inner workings of how it all works, especially for something like tweaking weights, would be hugely valuable.
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Website Redesign project
There is a work-in-progress website / homepage redesign that @KuraFire started, but it’s been pushed back due to lack of bandwidth and other priorities. The IA (Information Architecture) is in a good place, it just needs visual design and finalized text copy. (Blocked by: Design System task, above)
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Web Development & Software Engineering (SWE)
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Website Redesign project — implementation
There is a work-in-progress website / homepage redesign. Once copy text and visual design are close to finalization, the next step is implementing it. (Blocked by: copy & visual tasks, above)
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Other…
Many more opportunities exist in the domain of the SWE team. Attend their weekly Monday’s at noon (PST) Dev Meeting to learn more about SWE opportunities.
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Project Management
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Basically… just doing Project Management work
SourceCred has been very decentralized and distributed in its operational approach from the start. We’ve been adding structure and processes best we could so far, but a good project manager could streamline this and improve the state of SC tenfold if not more.
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Add your own ideas for opportunities below, and I’ll include them in this list (and Like your reply 
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Postscript:
This is also an exercise in seeing what frictions and shortcomings come from this approach.