virtual meetup - looking at attestations & campaign donation disclosure schemas

Meeting Co-hosts:
Kyle Smith - (AKA "bestape") is a core contributor at LexDAO, the International Legal Engineering guild. He founded and operates LexClinic, an apprenticeship DAO that teaches students practical skills with on-the-job aid for impact DAOs.

Spencer Cavanaugh - (AKA "Clinamenic") is on the core teams of three DAOs (Lobby3, PubDAO, and JournoDAO), and is passionate about how DAO technology can improve organizational efficiency and professional culture.

Lobby3 is a web3 advocacy group based in Washington DC involved in multiple initiatives including DeVox - aimed at considering the emerging space of decentralized communities and campaign finance.
https://discord.gg/aVQ9nbqQ?event=1100423067697692672

LexDAO is a web3 legal engineering 501(c)3 non profit that works in the cross-section of blockchain technologies and legal + regulatory frameworks to safeguard and promote best practices in the modern fintech and decentralized industries.
https://discord.gg/lexdao

One project we're working on is a review of legal disclosure requirements in campaign donations and how to promote and simplify best practices.

Attestations (attest.sh) are an innovative approach to providing an on-chain schema product that seem especially promising in public good spaces where transparency is important.

https://lexagon.xyz/event/wikidata-schema-for-campaign-finance/

Legal background reading:
We have been working from
https://www.ifs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20194406559120.pdf

Current technical approach:
and testing code via chatgpt
https://github.com/alibama/eddie-van-datum
using streamlit github codespace deploys for visual

Wikidata - metadata & schema with human-based quality control
plan is to include metadata in wikidata format and considering inclusion in the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1352232 section