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Implement interface that displays organization statistics #5

Open bnvk opened 9 years ago

bnvk commented 9 years ago

In the spirit of transparency and openness I want to experiment with publishing various statistics about my involvement with this community- for instance I've been tracking my hourly commitment for the last two months and want to publish that as CSV data and then visualize that in some way on a page on the site. I'm curious if others find this idea interesting? For instance some simple graphs of who is most active, etc... I see this is as something that could really useful should we start accepting donations, receive grants, or paying projects start emerging.

Ghost blogging platform recently published all their financials on a dashboard

The Buffer App publishes salaries of their whole team

Of course, as @simonv3 pointed out- it's careful to determine the "right" level of openness that lets people be as open as they like and not required.

evalica commented 9 years ago

Normally, in an open-source community, donations, grants, don't go to a certain individual, even if he emerges himself as 'most'/'very' active. They usually go towards the foundation in order to support infrastructure costs, partially covering transportation/admission costs for events, etc. Regarding who benefits from the events for example, there can be a vote or even taken randomly.

If you want to be payed for the work, then you will need a company behind and there sure the hours spent matter.

I think is very good that you track the time spent. My only problem is that I hope you are not doing this for the wrong reasons. If you expect money from Open-Source, if you expect them to come quickly, or if this is the reason you are doing all this activity, then I'm expecting that you won't stick around in this community too much.

Anyway I really appreciate the work you are doing and the initiative you are showing in order to get things started. I hope you won't be disappointed.

simonv3 commented 9 years ago

I don't think that's what @bnvk is trying to do here. To me publishing this kind of information is to make it clear how much work does go into open source work, rather than expecting to get paid for it. I think that's something consumers of open source software often don't take into consideration, and it might be interesting to see how publishing that kind of information plays out.

Edit: hold on, I don't think I read everything correctly. I'll be back with better drafted thoughts :stuck_out_tongue: