swarms/ideas/324-meritocracy.md

id	title	status	lead-contributor	contributors	budget
	Meritocracy	implementation	richard/jarrad	jarrad, ceri, jb, rajanie	actual xxx estimate yyy currency ETH/USD/SNT

Swarm proposal

Summary and Goal(s)

Kudos DApp - an experiment with awarding kudos each week between Status contributors. Heavily inspired by Giveth’s awesome RewardDAO concept, the idea is that contributors get a weekly allowance of SNT which they can distribute amongst other contributors as they see fit. The awarded totals can be withdrawn by contributors who have earned kudos.

More here: https://discuss.status.im/t/kudos-rewards-building-the-status-meritocracy/1019

Swarm goals

• Create DApp
• Launch DApp
• Encourage regular (weekly) CC interaction with DApp to recognise others

Communication

Channel: #324-meritocracy

Sync frequency: async via text

Research

• Influenced by Giveth's Reward DAC concept.
• Initial proposal and discussion here.
• Idea developed on Discuss here.
• Collected sign-ups here - 42 people signed up 🎉

Specification

• DApp spec here courtesy of @jarrad

Implementation

Timeline [Mid-Feb - 5 April]

• Deploy DApp to Mainnet (@richard)
• Add @jb and @rajanie as additional Admins if possible (@richard) - only the contract owner (richard) can add admins
• Seek help with adding Design to the UI (@richard/@people-ops)
• Test DApp and share feedback (@people-ops)
• Create budget and plan for transfer of SNT into contract (@people-ops / finance)
• Create People Ops site page / FAQ (@people-ops) - https://people-ops.status.im/meritocracy/
• Draft launch post for Discuss (@people-ops)
• Launch on 5 April with post on Discuss (@people-ops) - delayed to 8 April
• Present/demo in TH (@richard / @people-ops)
• Schedule weekly reminders to ping all contributors to let them know a new reward cycle has started (@people-ops)
• Leaderboard UI

Updates

• 22 March - Added @ceri as admin in Ropsten testnet
• 25 March - @richard and @ceri walkthrough to get admin role set up, before doing allocations in mainnet.
• 26 March - pinged Finance about funding the wallet with SNT & ETH. Did another test run on Ropsten of the weekly allocation by admin of funds to the meritocracy contract.
  • DApp does not currently have leaderboard UI, but the contract can be queries for each individual's balance, so this info can be pulled manually if needed.
• 28 March - Finance have transferred a small amount of ETH and SNT into @ceri's Metamask wallet ready for first cycle (equivalent to SNT 5 per participant).
• 1 April - 5 SNT distributed to all participants.
• 3 April - troubleshooting issues with Richard. Drafting launch comms
• 8 April - launched with 10 SNT allocated.

Maintenance

• @ceri, @rajanie, and @jb will act as DApp admin to make the weekly allocation of SNTs.
• Ask CCs to log any issues either in #324-meritocracy or creating an issue here.
• Review quarterly (first review early July 2019) to review success of DApp:
  • Engagement - > 50% of core contributors (currently = 32 people) using the DApp regularly (at least once a month)
  • Functionality - all open issues closed and volume of problems reported reduced
  • Feedback - anecdotal feedback from users positive, do CCs enjoy and benefit from using the DApp?
  • Utility - does the data generated through the DApp accurately represent a Meritocracy, or are there any concerns/issues.

Copyright

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.