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4 years ago Notes from the group discussion of the expert network at the Aragon Berlin Meetup
Summary: The proposed expert network is a directory of all Aragon DAO members, together with their skills and associated reputation. The following opportunities and challenges were identified during the group discussion:
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A freelancer marketplace like Bounties.Network or Upwork could be created as part of the expert network. Alternatively, we could just integrate or fork bounties.network. This could be used for hiring proven talent, which is typically the largest challenge that founders have when building a startup.
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It was suggested that the expert network could also provide a critical missing part of the architecture for Aragon’s upcoming arbitration court. Specifically, it would enable a fairer system to decide who is qualified to arbitrate a specific issue.
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It was suggested that “reputation and tasks” could be a strong motivator to drive users to the Aragon network. Seeing what tasks you can perform for Aragon DAOs and knowing that you will earn a reputation score for doing them would likely increase the number of people wanting to work for Aragon DAOs.
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It could be used as a filtering system to reduce the amount of notifications to users and “Information Overload” through more targeted filtering of tasks based on a user’s skill sets. For example, when assigning new arbitration requests or other tasks created from within other Aragon DAOs (such as with the Open Enterprise “Projects” app), related notifications could be sent only to users with matching skills in that domain. This would also be useful in helping the overall communication and proposal making systems to scale through more targeted notifications.
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It was suggested to integrate Sourcecred, a reputation protocol for open collaboration. Sourcerank uses the PageRank algorithm to generate a score, called cred for every contribution. By integrating Sourcecred into the Expert Network, it would enable us to understand how worthy member contributions were to Github repos, Twitter, Discourse forums etc. This would generate valuable reputation-based data points for both technical and non-technical communities. It is envisaged that Sourcecred would just be one data source of many that makes up a users’ weighted reputation score. Other potential data sources include:
- a) The task rating given to a user upon task completion within the Open Enterprise “Project” app.
- b) Member reputations on Bounties.Network.
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It was also suggested to integrate 3box (already ongoing by Autark) to view more friendly user profiles together with their native user identity validation (Facebook, Twitter, Github etc). The idea would be to then display the user’s skills and reputation score next to their 3box generated profile.
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The exact formula to calculate reputation requires further research and continuous optimisation. Some members thought it was unfair to use “amount paid” to an individual as a reputation proxy, given that pay asymmetries exist based on people’s geographic location, discrimination etc.
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Another idea was to use “member reputation” as an optional method of distributing DAO proceeds between its members instead of existing distribution methods such as proportion of tokens held.
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Aragon Nest Proposal: Aragon Expert Network
Abstract
With knowledge and noise all around us, it’s hard to know who you can really trust. We propose to create a verifiable, reputation-based human resources marketplace: The Aragon Expert Network.
This network based app aims to connect DAOs on Aragon with subject matter experts including software engineers, sales & marketing engineers, designers, and business consultants globally - either for one-off consultations, longer-term projects, advisory positions or full-time hires. Subject matter experts are members of the wider Aragon ecosystem that have proven their skills through the completion of tasks within Aragon DAOs and have opted-in to be listed in the Aragon Expert Network.
Building a startup is currently much harder that it needs to be with founders often asking themselves questions such as:
Who would be a great mentor for my startup? Who should I contact for advice regarding X? Who should I engage for project Y? Who should be hired for role Z?
Built on top of Aragon OS, this network application aims to enable Aragon DAOs to access the smartest people across the Aragon network at lightning speeds whilst improving decision making.
DAOs can choose to pay experts in whatever token is available in their vault including their native token, helping align long-term interests with advisors and service providers.
Reputation
Colony.io have made some solid efforts with reputation tracking of Colony members. We propose to collaborate with the Colony core team to bring the same system of member reputation tracking into Aragon DAOs. Broadly, this will include:
We believe the future of venture capital lies in "venture-as-a-service", which includes expert networks - and we’re not alone.
“If I created a Venture Fund, I would create a firm with virtual services, not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, Engineering Talent, Marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services. The reach in that case may be greater than the reach we currently have. You would create a network of people who could help companies without necessarily hiring them. They would get shares, have the privilege of investing with the venture firm, maybe get a little carry…that would be cool!” Peter Livine, Andreessen Horowitz
Deliverables
NB: It’s possible we will be able to build this on top of Aragon ID and the ongoing integration work with 3Box.
Grant size
Funding: Up to 50k DAI, split into chunks paid out over achieved deliverables. Success reward: up to 50k ANT, given out when the final public release is ready.
Proof of Concept
Numerous examples exist of successful centralised expert networks, including:
Clarity.fm - 30,000 experts globally, aimed at startups. GLG - 650,000 experts globally, aimed at investors.