This interview is a part of our on-going series, where we highlight our epoch 3 participants.
What's Open Source Observer?
Open Source Observer maintains a growing registry of open source software projects contributing to Ethereum and adjacent ecosystems. We also work with funders, developers, and citizen data scientists to measure impact and surface insights to the open source community.
Why should Octant users vote for Open Source Observer in epoch 3?
We believe open source is woefully underfunded relative to the value it creates for humanity. OSO aims to bridge that gap by highlighting the impact of open source projects and giving funders confidence to allocate more capital to open source. Our platform is free, fully open source, and an important foundation for the nascent field of "impact data science".
Your project is interesting because:
Our data coverage has grown to 1600+ projects, 36K+ OSS repos, ~8K OSS contributors, ~50K smart contracts, and 5 public goods ecosystems (including Octant!). We've indexed several TBs of impact data -- all of which is open and free to use (even the underlying infra).
Progress in the last 3 months:
We have shipped a TON of things the past few months:
- Released a free developer API; already being used by various public goods partners.
- Released an open data warehouse for the data science community; announced our first data challenge for OSS impact metrics.
- Partnered with Funding the Commons to host an OSS conference in Berkeley and with Gitcoin to host impact day at Schelling Point/ETH DEnver.
- Published lots of new dataviz and ecosystem reports on our blog, as well as docs.
➡️ Follow on X at @OSObserver
➡️ Read the Open Source Observer update on our forum
🐻 Vote for Open Source Observer this epoch
