Rainer and I have been collaborating on this for a while with the guidance of Griff… which is part of the reason we started looking at using Pairwise (Budgetbox) to begin with… to balance out GIVpower. We have taken a lot of steps to consider the complications and complexity of implementation and maintenance and have chosen methods that take little to no overhead, assuming we were going to use Pairwise either way. The suggested additions to the verification process for impact measurement are little to no extra work for the team and are things that we are already asking for (theory of change, etc). The main decisions would be around Pairwise and how it could work to serve as a great balance to GIVpower as well as the weighting and points system. I dont think it is a question as to whether or not this is a valuable initiative. What we really need is feedback around the parameters - the weights and points that certain data is worth… what does the community think?
I dont think it is fair to token gate our public forum - I think anyone should be allowed to leave feedback around what they think the weights should be. Eventually this will go to a DAO vote where token holders will vote to pass it or not - that feels like the token holders do get to decide the weights right?
HIstory of this Initiative
This is something that has been a hot topic for a while now… There has been numerous discussions and strategy sessions formed to contemplate and strategize around these topics. There was a whole connect working group formed around how to meet the needs of projects and how to make Giveth less plutocratic… and if Giveth is really about revolutionizing philanthropy we should really take these things into consideration. Do we want to keep building the same system that is already not working?.. Where those with the money have the power and the make the rules?
This post was created for ideation and brainstorming… no big decisions are required… Lets start with something to work with and adjust it as it evolves… once we can get a visual of how it functions as a whole.
Here are a few resources where relevant discussions have happened around this topic in the past… its really not a new topic.
Forum post on Revising Quality Score
Forum post on Project Ranking Metrics
Forum post on GIVmatching
Forum post on Rewarding Projects
Strategy Session on Imapact
Work done in the Connect WG