# Contribution Graph

**What:**
- Recap discussion from Nov offsite
- Link to relevant docs

**Why:**
- Provide enough context for Nick to start playing around with low-code graph tools + ask follow up questions

**Docs:**

- [Figma link](https://www.figma.com/file/SCH4vobcBpd4O8oxB35AxT/Contribution-Graph-Draft?node-id=0%3A1&t=sjXuabwKxzEjyd6F-0)

**Summary:**

**Nodes:**
- Contributions
- Contributors
- DAOs

**Relationships:**

First order:
- **Contributor <> Contribution:**
- Contributors have agency over their contributions. They can edit/mint them, make choices about how their connectivity, and push them to DAOs.
- **Contribution <> DAO:**
- Contributions can be associated with a DAO via two way consent; push and pull
- Contributor: push/attribute
- DAO: verify/accept to steward a contribution/pull

Second order:
- **Contributor <> Contributor:**
- Contributors are connected to other contributors via mutually associated contributions.
- **Contributor <> DAO:**
- Contributors are connected to DAOs through their contributions.

**Edges:**
- (Note: we can definitely rephrase/relanguage these).
- for linking contributions:
- inspired/suggest or precede/follow
- for linking contributions and contributors:
- own/member
- contributor owns contribution
- contribution has contributor members
- for linking contributions to DAOs
- attribute/steward
- contributor attributes a contribution to a DAO (push request)
- DAO verifies and agrees to steward the contribution

**Additional:**
- attest: edge(?) from contributor to contribution that they don't own
- assign value: edge (?) from DAO node to contribution that is stewarded by DAO

**Open Questions:**
- Is there a layer one and two of this graph?
- i.e. layer one is base primitives
- layer two is a structured collection of primitives
- What is the difference between the technical arch. representation of the database, versus graph viz for show users?

**Notes (Nick, Dec 14)**
The core idea here is that existing contribution records / representations can be viewed through the lens of various networks/graphs (We're using "graph" mainly, it looks like)?

My questions:
- How low code? Where is the main constraint coming from, e.g. is it that we want all users to be able to explore the graphs?
- Can we just have a computational notebook with mostly black box code?
- What are the most important graph metrics here?