In this step, you will be asked to articulate the goals for Praise as a reward and reputation system. What you want to achieve and how you can later measure the success of those goals.

You will make decisions about the Praise parameters that need to be configured and who will take on what responsibilities to make sure Praise runs well.

Step 1 checklist:

Introduce Praise to stakeholders

Who are the community stakeholders? If they have not yet been introduced to Praise, this is a good time to do a demo for them about Praise and then get ready to open a discussion about Praise goals and the decision to come.

Here is the demo that the Praise Product Manager, Kristofer, gave to the Giveth community

Discuss and decide

Stakeholders should discuss and make decisions on some key configuration options for Praise.

One of the first decisions to make is who will join the Reward team and who will take on the responsibilities of the roles described below.

The Reward team is responsible for configuring and managing Praise. They mint or custody tokens, distribute them and inform the community about Praise, quantification, distributions, etc.

Good candidates for the Reward team are knowledgeable about the community, are reliable, and have the bandwidth for about 1-2 hours per week to dedicate to Praise.

Reward team roles

Here are the key roles in Praise and their responsibilities:

• Recruit quantifiers
• Assign quantifiers for each period
• Open and close quantification periods
• Host quantification reviews
• Answer questions from the community about Praise | | Praise Minter | This is a more technical role than the Praise Lead. | - Mint or acquire tokens
• Distribute tokens
• Produce analysis reports | | Cultural Analyst | This person is responsible for checking that the outcome of Praise is aligned with the community's stated objectives and overall project's mission. | - Evaluate the analysis reports
• Gather the community's sentiment about how Praise is working
• Share cultural insights about the community. |

Other Roles

(Number of quantifiers is a configuration option that can be changed at any time. Individual quantifiers can be added or removed. It is also possible to have quantifiers automatically selected from a pool.) | - Read Praise documentation.

• Quantify the praise assigned to them for a given period
• Identify duplicate or invalid praise
• Seek clarification from the praise giver for difficult praise
• (optional) Attend post-quantification review sessions | | Praise Givers | This is the group of people that are allowed to dish praise.

(Praise Givers is a configuration option that can restrict who can dish praise. This is useful for communities that want to restrict dishing praise to a specific group of people.) | - Read and understand how to use Praise

• Write excellent praise. |

Here is a list of topics and discussion prompts to get a good conversation going about expectations for Praise and the decisions that need to be made.

General decisions