Proposal Details
Revisiting the Problem Statement
One of the main reasons distributed organisations or cooperatives cannot transition to a sustainable reward system is the lack of a trusted & working mechanism to track, to attribute value and to successively reward contributions of individuals.
An Experimental Solution
To develop an open-source attribution, valuation & reward system - we are going to set up, configure and test a SourceCred instance in parallel with a contribution survey. We will also prepare guidance materials to onboard new users and document the results of the experiment.
SecretDecks will use
GitHub to track task items, to create written content, to maintain a wiki (Gitbook), to record ideas and meeting minutes.
Discord for informal and formal communication
SourceCred instance
We will setup a SourceCred instance to aggregate data from GitHub & Discord. SourceCred is a tool for communities to measure and reward value creation (https://sourcecred.io/).
Using SourceCred we will distribute "Can-D" (a community currency) according to the amount of positive or negative contributions or reactions each individual member has impacted within the community.
This proposal will trial how and for what "Can-D" can be exchanged or redeemed in the future.
A parallel Contribution Survey
In parallel to the SourceCred instance SecretDecks maintain a manual process for core members to attribute value to their work via a monthly "Contribution Survey" (Example : https://github.com/SecretDecks/Documentation/issues/43).
Each survey will be validated & reviewed by two other team members for final approval.
Test runs
SecretDecks will conduct test runs for 4 weeks over December 2021 and January 2021.
Core contributors will be rewarded first and the remaining ADA will be distributed evenly to everyone that has enough "Can-D".
📊 Milestones & Roadmap
Preparation - November 2021
Prepare documentation - a GitBook chapter on "Distributed Work-Reward Mechanism"
Prepare a tutorial / educational content on the experiment.
Develop and deploy a tool template - refine contribution survey template
Configure SourceCred instance
Test Runs - December 2021
Test Case 1 - Week Beginning 6th December 2021
Test Case 2 - Week Beginning 13th December 2021
Test Case 3 - Week Beginning 3rd January 2022
Test Case 4 - Week Beginning 10th January 2022
The launch date will be : 6th December 2021
The completion date will be : February 2022
Definition of success after 3, 6 and 12 months
3 Months - January 2022
Final Report on experiment - will inform our configuration of source cred and process automation.
6 Months - April 2022
Completed weighted voting pilot - achieved self-funded status
12 Months - October 2022
Able to deliver scalable solutions
₳Budget
Preparation
Prepare documentation - 10 hours
Prepare a tutorial / educational content - 20 hours
Develop and deploy a tool template -10 hours
Configure SourceCred instance - 5 hours
SubTotal : 45 hours at $ 40 hour = $ 1800
Test Runs
Each test run will be resourced at 16 hours per week at $ 40 hour = $ 640
SubTotal : For 4 test cases - $ 2,560
Final Report
SubTotal : Final Report on experiment - 10 hours at $ 40 hour = $ 400
Total : 4,760
🔍 What is SecretDecks ?
SecretDecks is a colourful collective of mindful spirits who work towards leaving this dimension a better place. Find out more about us on our "Arcana" GitBook at https://secretdecks.gitbook.io/arcana/introduction/who-and-what-is-secretdecks.
SecretDecks is building a Distributed Collective by discovering and exploring new tools for self organising communities. We share an agreed upon value system, defined in the Mindfulness Policy [https://github.com/SecretDecks/Documentation/blob/main/Mindfulness-Policy.md] that sets the base vibration of our work.
The primary goal is goal is to create a Tarot metaverse on web 3.0 architecture within a distributed cooperative and freely share the tools discovered and created to help other cooperatives grow and prosper.
This pilot is driven within SecretDecks DisCo - DisCo stands for Distributed Collective.
Key metrics to measure
ROI - Enable contribution tracking & test a SourceCred instance on GitHub and Discord.
Community participation – 50 participants contributing to improving Catalyst decision making systems
Proof of iteration - SecretDecks has identified pain points through the running of a series of test cases.
Embracing failure – SecretDecks ill report on how well or how badly it performs.
UPDATED KPIs (8th November)
Sentiment Analysis
Leading KPI: Create & Distribute 1 sentiment poll per month
Lagging KPI: have SourCecred running and distribute Cred, take a sentiment vote on how much the community feels the distribution is fair; vote should be 75% (or more?) positive
Future leading KPI: Create GitBook chapter with sentiment poll template
Adoption
Leading KPI: setup 1 SC instances per month including onboarding workshop
Lagging KPI: 1 organisation per month is adopting SC without asking for help after the workshop
Tangible deliverables
Leading KPI: Documentation template; each month 33% of content is delivered: setup documentation for our case (tracking private channels), publish config, demo usage, update with tweaks
Lagging KPI: adoption is increasing our support rate is decreasing (ratio)
🔗 References
SecretDecks has a website at https://www.secretdecks.com/ and is developing an "Arcana" GitBook at https://secretdecks.gitbook.io/arcana/ .
News and updates are posted on our Twitter at https://twitter.com/SecretDecks .
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