Lots of people did lots of cool stuff, but didn’t get the recognition or rewards they deserved. Without their contributions we would not be here today, but frankly, we’ve forgotten about them. In the best case their work is buried deep in the foundation of the forum. In the worst case their work was never documented at all. This initiative is to curate a list of contributions that could, should, and would be rewarded and recognized once we’re ready for retroactive Cred activation via Initiatives and Boosting.
Championed and in progress
@burrrata is taking the lead on this, but frankly it’s a team endeavor so happy to co-champion this with anyone who wants (even if that’s everyone here lol)
If the SourceCred community is viewed as a fair, reasonable, and collaborate community people will want to contribute more. This might also “awaken the dead” and inspire many old time contributors to come back with a second wind.
Create a big list of things that could be recognized and rewarded.
Discuss those things with the community (would be great if we had Cred weighted prioritization for this)
Cred will then flow to new Initiatives and Artifacts . (May or may not also include Boosting .)
Create a bunch of Initiatives and Artifacts for contributions that added value to SourceCred, but were not recognized or rewarded at the time.
Description:
We now have an initiatives category on Discourse (this one). However, SourceCred isn’t yet aware of it, so Initiatives don’t yet flow any special cred.
We should add initiatives directly to the SourceCred graph.
Status: In progress
The plugin has been merged into master! Release v0.5.0 .
Champion? :
[Avatar Be…
https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/about-the-artifacts-category/253
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…
What follows is a history of SourceCred (so far).
This post is a wiki, and is intended to act as a living document. Everyone is invited to add more information to the history. Discourse is not paper, so we don’t have to worry about running out of space. Feel free to add yourself and others to the history!
Prelude (2015-2018)
For many years, @decentralion had been thinking about using PageRank reputation networks to improve legibility and trust in the context of society.
Also for many years, @…
From what I gather, currently the app is aggregating historical data from the repo graphs to asses how a finite pool of cred could be distributed across all the actions and contributors at the current state.
So this lead me to wonder, this feels a bit historical and retrospective – have you considered or thought about ways to it could be more prospective or predictive? Two scenarios which came to mind for me were:
If you made a new contribution, could you predict or estimate how much cred it…
Currently, SourceCred’s cred is based almost entirely on activity-level data. As discussed at length in Supernodes: Moving past raw activity , this is a somewhat fragile metric, and misses contributions that don’t occur on GitHub or Discourse.
Once we have the supernode system (i.e. Initiatives, Artifacts, and Spotlights) working, I intend to re-orient cred so that it generally flows from the artifacts and initiatives to activity. This is likely to cause some material changes in the cred distrib…
As @Beanow pointed out here , it’s a little strange that Protocol Labs has so little cred and formal influence in SourceCred, given that they have been supporting the project since the beginning.
Part of the problem is that Protocol Labs has no Discourse account, so they couldn’t be referenced… until now! I made an @protocol account so that we can flow cred to Protocol Labs like any other contributor. I also took the liberty of editing some old posts that mention or thank Protocol Labs so that t…
The following Initiatives and Artifacts have been created to retroactively support past contributions
Description
Credao is a Github App. The [rough] goal is to enable github users to install the app to their org or repo and have an Aragon dao automatically made. SourceCred cred is retrieved and used as a metric for airdropping tokens into the Aragon dao. A modified version of the Aragon client is hosted and serves to facilitate use without the user having any initial understanding of Ethereum keys.
Status
In Progress
Champion
@cslarson
Benefits
This will help projects easily reward contribut…
@decentralion
@decentralio…
@mzargham
@mzargham
CredSperiment will turn out.
@s_ben
outreach , pilot programs , and go to market strategies.
@mzargham , @decentralion , @brianlitwin , @Brutalfluffy , @lb attended.
While there, we prototyped an ‘Odyssey Plugin’ which was intended to be a “manual mode” graph editor, allowing users to use the SourceCred protocol to assign cred in arbitrary projects. We also prototyped a pretty sweet graph visualizer for SourceCred:
[image]
@mzargham
@decentralion
SourceCred Discourse forum is where the SourceCred community share updates, discusses ideas, and plays the CredSperiment .
Knowledge is power. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information. This is because information is useless unless it’s organized. Keeping SourceCred’s Discourse forum organized will make it easier for people to find information, have intelligent discussions, and earn Cred for doing so. This creates leverage to empower the SourceCred community to mak…
Related tread that explains more how Cred will flow through the SourceCred protocol
Boosting .
SourceCred protocol makes it possible for us to calculate Grain payouts from Cred scores.
SourceGrain is the precursor to Grain .
@s_ben feel free to improve this lol
SourceCred Logo is featured on the SourceCred Podcast.
https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/initiatives-things-that-make-sourcecred-better/471
SourceCred Logo is featured on the SourceCred YouTube channel.
SourceCred Logo is featured in many places on the SourceCred Discord forum.
SourceCred Logo is featured in many places on the SourceCred website.
SourceCred Twitter account allows the SourceCred community to connect with a broad audience.
@decentralion set up the Twitter account and posted many announcements and updates.
The SourceCred Logo is featured on the SourceCred Twitter.
DRI s for an Initiative .
@decentralion
This was a note to self in the SourceCred Overview Presentation Artifact thread that turned into a broader discussion around how to assign credit for Initiative and Artifacts when "Cred Historians" and Curators are creating all the posts around a thing. We want the author of the content and the historians/curators to share the Cred, but it was not immediately intuitive how to accomplish this.
I think that since I (@burrrata ) created the threads in
@mzargham
original SourceCred codebase .
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Beanow
March 6, 2020, 3:39pm
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Write the Initiatives Plugin has been merged to master!
Next steps are to use it for our own SourceCred instance, and publish a release.
So this initiative will get a bump in priority :]
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