S17 Musing - Gitcoin's "Most important Thing"

[DisruptionJoe]

@kyle

Finally the third most important thing is Gitcoin Passport - creating an identity and reputation aggregator that enables communities to connect in genuine and consensual ways while protecting us from Sybil attacks.

I might agree on this if Passport broadened its scope to being a protocol or primitive applicable to projects & programs as well as donors/voters. See my comment here:

@DisruptionJoe

Here are a few things that might surprise people. I think the passports system of reputation attestation, gating, and a shared ETL layer for transparent algorithmic policy decisions is needed for Projects and for Programs.

Passport is a protocol for using DIDs to:

• Scoring reputation for gating access in a transparent and auditable way
• Scoring behavioral interactions for retroactively discounting unwanted behavior in a transparent and auditable way.

If it was a comprehensive solution needed for all of our components, I would agree it is the third most important.

If not, then I think “empowering the community to participate in building alongside us” is #3.

This would include:

• Improving documentation to empower developers to build on our protocols
• Improving open data access to empower data scientists to conduct research and guide a community driven R&D cycle
• Development of educational materials and runbooks for Program Managers - maybe even training classes
• Defining ENGAGEMENT LOOP metrics for each of these constituencies to not only acquire their interest, but to make their participation “sticky” (The old 10 friends on facebook thing)

How might we have more of the community weigh in to see if we don’t change our minds before EthDenver in person sessions?