July 27 Dolt Bounty retro
https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/pdap/datasets/bounties/default
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Announce $50/participant (pending Katie + Dolt approval)
- 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
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