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title: Interplanetary Open Source SOW

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# Interplanetary Open Source SOW

One month exploratory contract to assess open source health of the interplanetary ecosystem and identify contributor and developer experience improvements, optionally providing fixes when possible.

Starting points listed below but may be changed with approval. Highly encouraged to independently identify and raise issues or opportunities discovered in the process of the work. It could be that one of these presents a clear opportunity or priority worth digging into more deeply, or uncovers something else not listed.

| Days | Initiative | Artifact |
| - | - | -
| ~3 | Create a high level map of the open source surface area of Filecoin, IPFS and libp2p | Document
| ~5 | Review a subset of open source code repositories for developer experience issues: presence of available documentation, clear getting started materials, links to specifications and where to get help | Document or issues
| ~5 | Review a subset of open source code repositories for contributor experience issues: ownership clearly marked, maintentance status, future plans, reviewer identification, CoC clearly marked | Document or issues
| ~5 | Build "hello world" applications for a couple of the projects and identify tool, documentation or specification gaps and report any issues found | Repos and/or issues
| ~2 | Review a subset of repos for license presence, compliance and determine need for automation, and if possible propose a design for it | Document
| ~2 | Identify and document opportunities for business-critical foundations and standards arenas | Document
| ~2 | Recommend a tool to audit the dependency graphs of critical PL applications/services, and identify risk areas such as deprecations, vulns, unmaintained packages, license conflicts, etc | Document
