I had such an interesting call today with someone from @ethereumfoundation about funding the #opensource ecosystem.
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@Gina I like the concept, not the idea.
1. No part of this proposal needs a blockchain or Ethereum. Proposing this idea is a marketing effort by stapling an attractive idea to the side of an unattractive one.
2. Deriving a contribution-splitting model from an SBOM is interestingly difficult! Even more so if you try to walk a dependency tree instead of a flat list. How are contributions split? Equally among dependencies? Does every library dependency contribute equal value? To whom?
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so one idea we've been working on for determining the split in contributions;
1. host a kaggle sort of data science competition where people predict the value of each dependency in an SBOM
2. collect ground truth data from maintainers for a subset
3. model with least error score gets its weights across entire SBOM
Deep Funding GG24 Web3 Tooling and Infra Round
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(not the EFer OP refers to, but i work on funding mechanisms there)
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@projectmoon @Gina @ethereumfoundation
Im not the one that spoke to OP, but broadly blockchains help in price discovery which can be applied to getting weights across a large dependency graph
for example check out deep.seer.pm where we're trying to distribute $350k across 98 repos and their 3,677 dependencies
there's a genuine need for low overhead in weights to SBOM, unless you prefer government consultants like deloitte deciding how valuable dependencies are?
@devanshmehta@fosstodon.org @Gina@fosstodon.org @ethereumfoundation@mastodon.social how would you deal with repos that have no declared way of receiving funding? Which I assume is most of them?
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