How is the maintenance of the site planned? Is there a person in charge of periodically checking the different sources of grants and updating the page, or is there something automated? As a possible feature it would be nice if it would show somewhere when this database was last updated :)
Yeah that’s the hard part that I’m going to be thinking about a lot this week. My guess is some funders will be easy to automatically update because they release their grants in a CSV and I already have scripts for reading them (EA funds, Open Phil), but others need to be done very manually which seems super annoying (ACX). I would probably only add the donations of major funds and not scrape people’s blogs or whatever Vipul/Issa did to add a lot of smaller donations, excepting maybe connecting with Giving What We Can from individuals’ donation data.
Anyway, I probably don’t want to spent more than ~3 hours once per month updating the data, but I’ll try to be as efficient as possible with that time!
This is very helpful, thanks for doing it!
How is the maintenance of the site planned?
Is there a person in charge of periodically checking the different sources of grants and updating the page, or is there something automated?
As a possible feature it would be nice if it would show somewhere when this database was last updated :)
Yeah that’s the hard part that I’m going to be thinking about a lot this week. My guess is some funders will be easy to automatically update because they release their grants in a CSV and I already have scripts for reading them (EA funds, Open Phil), but others need to be done very manually which seems super annoying (ACX). I would probably only add the donations of major funds and not scrape people’s blogs or whatever Vipul/Issa did to add a lot of smaller donations, excepting maybe connecting with Giving What We Can from individuals’ donation data.
Anyway, I probably don’t want to spent more than ~3 hours once per month updating the data, but I’ll try to be as efficient as possible with that time!