Open Source Observer: Measure the impact of open source contributions

OSO x Octant Epoch 2 Update

Achievements since the last Octant Epoch

We completed a HUGE amount since the last epoch. Here are some of the highlights:

  • Migrated to a new, more scalable infrastructure for our data warehouse

  • Released the V1 of our API and are already working on integrations with Buidl Guidl, Gitcoin, and other teams

  • Added a complete set of docs for contributors, data scientists, and developers

  • Deployed our first set of impact metrics for code and onchain contributions

  • Expanded our OSS coverage to include projects building on Arbitrum

  • Completed a longitudinal study of the impact of Gitcoin Grants

  • Went to ETH Denver and co-hosted a Schelling Point session all about impact metrics

Upcoming milestones on your project roadmap

Now that our docs and infrastructure are in place, we’re focused on building a network of impact data scientists. More than 30 people have already signed up to join the Kariba Data Collective. We’re creating learning materials and “data challenges” to help people get started with our data and tools. Our goal is to run the first 2-3 challenges by the end of Q2.

We’re also working on expanding our coverage of onchain data (more chains!), onchain funding (including an integration with Drips), onchain identity (including collaboration with Gitcoin Passport), and adding more impact metrics for code contributions.

Finally, we’re going to be giving our project dashboards on opensource.observer some long-overdue love. We’re going to be adding more metrics, more visualizations, and more ways to explore the data.

Funding

How funds from the previous Epoch were utilized and plans for any funds raised from Epoch Two

We have claimed the funds and kept 100% on our multisig as of 2024-03-11 but will be moving them soon. We have not spent any of the funds yet. As stated in our application, we will use the funds to pay the core team and support the infrastructure costs of running our data warehouse and API.

Grant funding received since the last Epoch (e.g., RetroPGF, Gitcoin, etc.), including funding amounts

We started receiving our RetroPGF3 stream of 127,914 OP in February 2024. We also received a grant of 75K ARB from Arbitrum.

Other non-grant funding sources (like user payments, donations, staking or LP contributions to treasury, VC investments, etc.)

n/a

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