# Contribution Chains Exploration Questions ### Assumptions to validate - contributor pain points - collaboration - seeing other work - feeling left out - what to do next - seeing impact of your work (did it enable other work) - understanding previous context (have ppl tried similar things previously) - unblocking - how they conceptualize connection - how would use context-building functions like chains help or hinder - What contextual conditions would make the intended use cases actually useful? - Consider both the DAO-wide and individual contributor perspective. ### Considerations phrased as questions - When you participate in your DAO, how do you figure out what to do? - Maybe Describe your work and organization process for your DAO? - how do you relate work tasks? - what type of project management do you do? - Could you Describe to me your unique framing of granular work vs grouped work? - What comes to mind when we say "connecting your work?" - Describe to me how your DAO highlights/celebrates inputs? Would love to hear about how members share what they've done? - Could you tell me about a time an initiative or project was catalyzed or inspired by previous work/something that happened in the DAO? - tell me about a time when that didn't happen - Could you unpack how tasks/inputs interact? - Could you tell me about how work informs other work? - Does learning about what others are doing factor into how you participate or what you choose to do next? - Who can you suggest contributions or work to? - Describe to me how you catch up on work? - Describe to me how you continue work where you left off? - Describe to me how you continue others work at handof? - What comes to mind when we say discovery? - How does your DAO connect tasks? --- :::::spoiler {state="open"} **Notes from Christine 2/3/23** branching logic thoughts contribution chains can enable: - single player mode - rolling up your work or contributions into quests, milestones, or projects that you feel proud of - the above is more self-directed, but a dao-directed singleplayer use case could be onboarding quests: - roadmap of required/suggested contributions to go from recruit to mature contributor - multi-player mode - crediting inspiration sources (e.g. my contribution was inspired by tim's contribution) - surfacing suggested new contributions (e.g. I'm new to the DAO and want to help, but don't know what to do! Tim brought a speaker and suggested someone make a playlist. I'll do that) - partners (e.g. I worked on this contribution with Tim) I think think the number one useful thing for us to get signal on is: - should we start building the single player or multiplayer version features of contribution chains? What to ask on the interviews: - Would it be too direct to ask questions like - "We're exploring features that would allow users to connect contributions together. Do you think you'd use features that ... [the above]" --- --- :::::spoiler {state="open"} **Notes from diana** Good questions are open-ended and exploratory - Tell me about the last time you… - Then what did you do… - How did you feel - Describe to me… - Show me how… - Why always - What comes to mind... - Why do you think that is? - Do you find this to be the ideal scenario? ::: ---