Radicle Grant Application
Title: Censor Resistant Peer Review Version Control
Legal Name: Vagabond Arthouse LLC (aka talentDAO)
Payment Address: 0x0406Bf2dAE6A42d567b4e3DbA6ADA99069622fF1
- Seeking $50k Seed
Censor Resistant Peer Review Version Control - Project Overview
talentDAO uses science to fix DAOs and DAOs to fix science. talentDAO is building the Journal of Decentralized Work (JoDW), a social knowledge repository for the DAO researchers of today and an archive for the DAO historians of tomorrow. Everything about the platform is built with decentralization and censorship-resistance in mind. The JoDW includes a peer review process, which requires version control as journal submissions reviewed simultaneously around the world need to be finalized for publication.
talentDAO and the JoDW team assume researchers will submit work thatâs considered controversial by some, and who may want to censor this work. The JoDW is using decentralized principles, including how reviewers are chosen and how the application is distributed, to ensure censorship resistance.
We propose integrating the JoDW with the Radicle peer-to-peer git versioning system to enable a smooth peer review experience.
Overview
Title: Censor Resistant Peer Review Version Control
Description:
The figure below summarizes the JoDWâs peer review process.
When Researchers submit for peer review, reviewers around the world can earn ETH for their feedback and approval/disapproval. When reviewers are done they each submit their work separately to be merged.
We propose integrating the JoDW with the Radicle peer-to-peer git versioning system to enable a smooth peer review experience.
Why Radicle?
Keeping track of each reviewerâs work and merging asynchronously requires version control, such as Radicle. A centralized service like github would undermine the âDecentralizedâ in JoDW. Integrating with Radicle helps ensure a decentralized architecture, enabling censorship resistance and more.
Benefits to Radicle
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Marketing partnership
talentDAO content rigorously focuses on science
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Distribution channel for Radicle
The JoDW provides a distribution channel to onboard
- The ~2k (two-thousand) talentDAO community members,
- The ~15k (fifteen-thousand) DeSci community members, and
- The traditional academic community of hundreds of thousands, even millions.
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New product for the Radicle community
An open-source product for the Radicle community, easily applied to existing challenges such as:
- the DAO governance/proposal process,
- document version control coordination for non-coders
Why JoDW?
The JoDW utilizes the principle value of Radicle, decentralization; Decentralization eliminates concerns about censorship, single points of failure, persistence and integrity of peoplesâ validated hard work.
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People should have the freedom to work how and when they want
Without relying on institutions or third parties for their livelihood. |
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Hierarchical Approaches to work have led to Human Coordination failures
These coordination failures can not be repaired within our current work paradigms. |
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Knowledge should be Open Source
Traditional researchers are forced to operate in a closed source universe because they are incentivized to publish or perish. This is unacceptable. At talentDAO we are creating mechanisms to incentivize open-source publications. |
talentDAO aims to unlock human potential in the decentralized, digital economy. We conduct scientific research that helps DAOs thrive while educating the public on the greater decency and agency offered from this decentralized future of work.
Core Team
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Saulthorin, Founder, Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Business Development
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Nemo, PhD â Founder, Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Chief Scientist
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Aphilos.eth â Data Scientist, Writer, BD & Sales, Developer
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k3nn.eth â Core Team Founder, Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Data Science & Research
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ItamarGo â Core Team Founder, Editor, Newsletter of Decentralized Work
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Sherifoz â Core Team Founder, Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, Researcher
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Lisa Wocken, PhD â Core Team Founder, Organizational Leadership, Researcher & Educator
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Mr. Nobody â Core Team Founder, Organizational Psychologist, Researcher
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Liagodoyf â Core Team Founder, Design Lead
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Jaxcoder â ****Engineering Lead, JoDW
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IsraelRex â UI/UX and Product Designer
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Swol Chasse - Product manager and web3 agile evangelist
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Point of Contact & Team Lead
Renee Davis
Legal Structure
Vagabond Arthouse LLC
7667 N Wickham Rd
Melbourne, FL 32940
Team Experience
Pietro Marenco
- Peer reviewed publications
- Non-peer reviewed publications
2. Practitioner outlet:
1. https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/rapid-evidence-assessment-of-the-research-literature-on-the-effect-of-performance-appraisal-on-workplace-performance_tcm18-16902.pdf
3. talentDAO outlet:
2. https://mirror.xyz/signornessuno.eth/ge4vca5mWk17uS-5Icf3tEaOyEbBWL6PiCiSK0UOOmI https://talentDAO.mirror.xyz/0E7og1I3akEV6V3_2_vxouk1aX1Hree_km8aw1glq1w
3. https://talentDAO.mirror.xyz/1rT8KGt6wHzC03UQphG-upuW8HqRX6bP9YfFTtijl0Y
Renee Davis
- talentDAO outlet
Sean Moore Gonzalez
- Non-peer reviewed publications
Jason Romero
- Full-stack engineer web3 technologies and protocols
- Current contributions
- Gitcoin DAO - GPC (Gitcoin Product Collective)
- Pharo DAO - CTO and Lead Engineer
- talentDAO - CTO and Lead Engineer
- Buidl Guidl DAO - Core & Support Team
Israel Rex
Behance Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/israelrex9
- Product design contributor at BanklessDAO, building web3 products within BanklessDAO.
- Product Design and user testing at TalentDAO.
- UI/UX designer at WhitehatDAO, building web3 products.
- Previously at OpenTelos Web3 design and frontend agency.
Itamar Goldminz
- Writes: https://medium.com/@itamarg
- Curates: https://talentdao.substack.com/archive
Team Code Repos
- https://github.com/Talent-DAO/JoDW-Demo
- https://github.com/talentDAO?tab=repositories
- https://github.com/talentDAO/DAOHealth
- https://github.com/Talent-DAO/JoDW-Backend
- https://github.com/Talent-DAO/tdao-contracts-foundry
Project Description
There are limits to volunteer projects. Good work requires focus, and volunteers have limited time, which limits the scope talentDAO can responsibly accept. The JoDW has ambitions well outside the scope of talentDAO volunteers, including integration of the decentralized peer review process with a decentralized git service like Radicle.
Form first, or function? To integrate with Radicle, JoDW must first design a peer review interface user experience optimized for the people conducting peer reviews. This requires defining how papers will be distributed (google doc? Pdf? Word? etc.), how papers can be edited and feedback submitted without training reviewers, and how to verify progress for the peer review process(es) theyâre associated with.
With the basics of an UX/UI defined, integration with Radicle will be straightforward. Knowing what actions users can take allows us to scope the work, then create and assign tasks.
Finally, test, test, test test, test test, everybody! With great testing comes great product experience. All possible types of edits, submission times, procrastination periods, git manipulations, change rejections, peer review merges, merges of merges, every branch of the action tree will be exercised.
Deliverables
If awarded a Radicle grant for $50,000 (fifty-thousand), the project will be broken up into three parts:
- UX/UI inspired by the Quark Publishing Platform: https://www.quark.com/products/quark-publishing-platform
- Backend integration with Radicle
- End-2-End Testing
Total Estimated Duration: 4 months
Full-time equivalent (FTE): Amount of time (in days) required for a single person to complete this project (see)
Total Costs: Amount of Payment in USD for the whole project.
Milestone 1: Peer Review Actions Defined
The primary blocker to integration with Radicle is a precise definition of what actions the peer review process requires, and how those actions utilize Radicle. The action/decision flow is a first step to the UX/UI deliverable, as well as all overall project deliverables.
Estimated Duration: 2 weeks
FTE: 12 weeks
Costs: $6,250 (six-thousand-two-hundred-and-fifty)
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Specification |
| 1 | Actor responsibility descriptions |
Actor examples include: peer reviewer, researcher, admin, browser, etc. Their expected capabilities and limitations such that they can be independently verified by someone in that position. |
| 2 | Activity diagrams |
Detailed decision process from each actorâs perspective. |
| 3 | Use case diagrams |
Detailed flow of system actions given user actions. |
Milestone 2: Radicle Integration
With the peer review user actions defined, the JoDW integration with Radicle can begin. Radicle integration involves the functional capability required to support user actions, and their integration with a user interface.
Estimated Duration: 4 weeks
FTE: 12 weeks
Costs: $12,500 (twelve-thousand-five-hundred)
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Specification |
| 1 | Command line interface |
Ability to execute expected actor actions from the command line or other basic interface demonstrating basic functionality. |
| 2 | Code repo |
The code enabling the basic functionality interface. |
| 3 | Demo |
Demonstration of the milestone capabilities, as a video or simple independently verifiable instructions. |
Milestone 3: UX/UI
In parallel with the Radicle Integration, the UX/UI front end will be developed according to the Peer Review Actions from Milestone 1. This involves wireframes, art, and code development (typescript, react, redux, css, etc.) for common browsers.
Estimated Duration: 6 weeks
FTE: 18 weeks
Costs: $18,750 (eighteen-thousand and seven-hundred and fifty)
| # | Deliverable |
Specification |
| 1 | Wireframes |
An artist rendition of what actors will see from their point of view, as well as expected navigation from interaction. |
| 2 | Code repo |
The code enabling the basic functionality interface. |
| 3 | Demo |
Demonstration of the milestone capabilities, as a video or simple independently verifiable instructions. |
Milestone 4: Integration Testing
Unit testing will occur throughout code development, then integration testing of milestone deliverables. This involves choosing an overall testing framework, mapping untested functionality, specifying acceptance criteria, and verifying the test code execution.
Estimated Duration: 2 weeks
FTE: 6 weeks
Costs: $9,375 (nine-thousand three-hundred and seventy-five)
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Specification |
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Integration test plan |
An artist rendition of what actors will see from their point of view, as well as expected navigation from interaction. |
| 2 | Test Code repo |
The code testing and verifying expected capabilities from system integration. |
| 3 | Demo |
Demonstration of the milestone capabilities, as a video or simple independently verifiable instructions. |
Future Plans
Short Term
In the short term, talentDAO and the JoDW team plan to use the new Radicle functionality internally and with trusted groups and partners. Our goal is to âdogfoodâ our work with our own research efforts and research partnerships, utilizing the strength of our relationships to refine the product.
Long Term
With validation from our closest peers and partners, talentDAO plans to more broadly market the JoDW, onboard thousands of new users, and create The Standard for web3 peer review publications. As new users are onboarded, system development will be stressed in unpredictable ways, requiring a dedicated on-demand development team. Additionally, talentDAO will need personnel to manage user feedback and reduce that feedback to clear tasks for the development team. Finally, the system tokenomics of peer review supply and demand will be monitored, evaluated, and updates made as expectations meet reality. Kickstarting this long term process will be the focus on any follow on grants.
Additional Information
talentDAO learned about Radicle through multiple channels, including word of mouth, socials, and announcements.
The Journal of Decentralized Work is one of many talentDAO initiatives. If awarded, the Radicle grant would be the first significant financial contribution, and would represent a new workstream for the JoDW product and the overall DAO.
Previous grants talentDAO has applied for.
Grantor / Investor |
Amount | Links |
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https://barracuda.io/talentdao |
Ocean Protocol |
$13k raised in OCEAN | DAO Contributor Health Assessment Development |
PolygonDAO |
$15k in USDC | Reference on request |
Smart Contract Research Forum |
$20k DAI as of 9/30/22 | Reference on request |
Arweave Ecosystem Investment |
$15k DAI as of 9/30/22 | https://arweave.news/owf-6-community-spotlight/ \ https://list.weavescan.com/ |
NEAR Foundation |
$30k USDC requested pending decision | Reference on request |
Gitcoin Grant |
$50k DAI raised in matching funds | https://gitcoin.co/grants/5091/talentdao-is-building-the-journal-of-decentralize \ https://go.gitcoin.co/blog/gr15-results |
