This is a copy of a two-part post on the Optimism Governance Forum. You can find the original post here.| Open Source Observer Blog
This is a copy of a two-part post on the Optimism Governance Forum. You can find the original post here.| Open Source Observer Blog
The first (of six) periods of rewards for Season 7 Retro Funding were just announced. Here's the official post; you can view the results on OP Atlas. This marks a significant milestone in Optimism’s journey toward scalable, transparent, and data-driven token allocations.| Open Source Observer Blog
Over 2024, OSO's technical architecture went through several major| Open Source Observer Blog
We're excited to introduce Pyoso, a new Python library that makes it easy to query and analyze open source software data and metrics from OSO. Whether you're a data scientist, researcher, or builder, Pyoso gives you direct access to all our production data sets from your favorite analysis environment.| Open Source Observer Blog
Octant is an important funding partner for OSO and dozens of other open source projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. Since 2023, Octant has contributed approximately $5 million (in ETH) to over 60 projects.| Open Source Observer Blog
OSO is partnering with Gitcoin to enhance data infrastructure and analytics capabilities on top of Grants Stack.| Open Source Observer Blog
This is the final post in our Opening up the Ballot Box series for 2024. Changes planned for Retro Funding 2025 will likely reshape how we analyze voting behavior.| Open Source Observer Blog
Open-source projects power innovation across industries, yet they often face a| Open Source Observer Blog
Optimism’s Retro Funding Round 5 (RF5) just wrapped up, with 79 projects (out of ~130 applicants) awarded a total of 8M OP for their contributions to Ethereum and the OP Stack. You can find all the official details about the round here.| Open Source Observer Blog
Open Collective is a platform that enables groups| Open Source Observer Blog
One of our primary goals at Kariba (the team behind Open Source Observer) is to build a network of Impact Data Scientists. However, “Impact Data Scientist” isn’t a career path that currently exists. It’s not even a job description that currently exists.| Open Source Observer Blog
In baseball, there’s an advanced statistic called WAR, short for Wins Above Replacement. It measures a player’s overall contribution to their team by comparing them to a “replacement-level” player—a hypothetical average player who could easily be brought in from the bench or minor leagues. The higher a player’s WAR, the more valuable they are to their team.| Open Source Observer Blog
The voting results for Optimism's Retro Funding Round 4 (RF4) were tallied last week and shared with the community.| Open Source Observer Blog
At Open Source Observer, we have been committed to building everything| Open Source Observer Blog
This post is a brief exploration of the before-after impact of Optimism’s Retro Funding (RF) on open source software (OSS) projects. For context, see some of our previous work on the Optimism ecosystem and especially this one from the start of RF3 in November 2023.| Open Source Observer Blog
Voting for Optimism’s fourth round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding (“Retro Funding”) opened on June 27 and will run until July 11, 2024. You can check out the voting interface here.| Open Source Observer Blog
Filecoin’s first RetroPGF round ("FIL RetroPGF 1") concluded last week, awarding nearly 200,000 FIL to 99 (out of 106 eligible) projects.| Open Source Observer Blog
Open Source Observer is working with the Optimism Collective and its badgeholder community to develop a suite of impact metrics for assessing projects applying for Retro Funding 4.| Open Source Observer Blog
We’ve been thinking a lot about advanced metrics lately. We want to get better at measuring how specific types of interventions impact the public goods ecosystem.| docs.opensource.observer
