SourceCred: Measuring DAO Contributions

[ephemeralrogue]

SourceCred is a tool developed to monitor and measure individual contributions to online communities. The Research Guild is looking to implement a contribution measurement system within the DAO to more accurately assess who is contributing and by how much. After various conversation regarding the best way to do this, SourceCred has been selected for a set up and trial run. SourceCred requires an instantiation of an “Instance” that will collect data and run it through the SourceCred algorithm. This data is collected via plugins that scrape from numerous sources, namely Discord, Discourse, and Github.

The feature we want to build is an implementation of the Discord plugin that will run via the bot. The Discourse and Github plugins can also be setup, in which case the bot will aggregate all the data before running it through the SourceCred algorithm.

We will be working closely with @yvesvandenmeerssche from the Research Guild, and possibly members of the SourceCred team to get this up and running.

[ephemeralrogue]

After doing some research into SourceCred, the Discord implementation is weak in terms of accurately reflecting contributions in the DAO’s server. Closing this issue to pursue other avenues.