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title: Contribution Chains Exploration Questions

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# 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?

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:::::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]"


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:::::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?
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