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July 27 Dolt Bounty retro

What went well?

  • engagement & re-engagement with community + potential supporters
  • iterated on our schema / planned and made some changes
  • we filled out the agencies table to a high level of completion → a prerequisite to the datasets table
  • excellent support from the Dolt team!
  • learned that volunteer interest plays a big role in determining our focus
  • got a start on refining the review process
  • we split the bounty into two pieces so we had an opportunity to learn

What could have gone better?

  • there's not currently an automated review process or script
  • we discussed the difference between a dataset URL and an agency homepage
    • people ended up focusing on the agency homepage URL more than the datasets
  • one person ran away with the scoreboard by using machine readable lat/long

Next steps

  • Katie to share some metrics on engagement
  • Minimize variables + types of submissions allowed, particularly differences in scraped vs. manually gathered data
  • Plan next bounty for ~8/25 start
    • Formalize the fact that our team should do the reviews + scripts
    • Smaller bounties help us iterate on a faster loop
    • Look at attribution + scoreboard code and make contributions to how rewards are given out.
    • Announce $50/participant (pending Katie + Dolt approval)

Notes for bounty success

  1. Pick a common schema for data (i.e. "incident reports")
  2. Allow people to submit data linking back to the source (i.e. dataset)
  3. Focus on discrete, scrapeable goals with relevant topics
    • e.g. hospital bounty was in response to a law which passed which required hospitals to publish data
    • national scope for a narrow data focus is a potential alternative to the narrow geo focus
      • helps with schema normalization + big stories + big moves
      • local is storytelling → action loop
  4. Focus on additions vs edits, enforceable by requiring properties