Sat 3 Oct 2015 3:47PM
Contributions done as part of an independently paid job
Fabio Balli
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Some contributors such as researchers will contribute to the project while doing it as part of a paid job.
Should this kind of contributions be registered in the VAS ? How should this be taken into account for our value equation (financial acknowledgment of former contributions) ?
Fabio Balli Tue 20 Oct 2015 12:31AM
That seems a very good solution, so that we both try to capture all work done and have differentiated acknowledgments. Thanks !
Lynn Foster Tue 20 Oct 2015 12:42AM
I'll put an issue into github for that.
Lynn Foster · Sat 3 Oct 2015 5:49PM
Just FYI: One way to differentiate in the VAS is to create a different type of work for work that won't be part of a value equation, or will need a different formula in a value equation - such as work paid from another source. Then you can filter by type of work and apply different formulas in a value equation.
Another thought: We have a flag on the economic events (so this includes work, financial contributions, etc.) saying whether the event is a contribution or not. We mostly haven't exposed this flag, we just make assumptions. We could expose the flag (which we need to do for payments anyhow now) and then people could select if it should be a contribution for payback or not.
There might be other ways we could deal with it in the software, could think about it more.
This is if people would like to record all the work done, whether it will be paid or not, which there are reasons to do. Like to be able to accurately understand what it took to do a project, for future estimates, looking for where process improvements can be made, etc.