CHAOSS Governing Board

Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She previously worked at a small Open Source e-assessment company in Luxembourg where she was the Open Source Community and Global Training Manager.  Previously she was the OpenStack Instructor at Linux Academy and a Linux System Engineer on the Platform Engineering Cloud Operations team at Rackspace. She currently serves on the OpenStack Board, is an active member of the Openstack Ansible project, chair of the OSF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and previously the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy spends her free time competing in performance events (agility, FASt Cat, and dock diving) with her Dalmatians and competing in Dressage with her Connemara pony.

Anita is a Developer Advocate and technical writer passionate about Open source, Cloud, and Emerging Technologies. Anita serves as a maintainer in the CHAOSS DEI WG and as a member of the DevNetwork Advisory board. She leads efforts around Documentation, DEI, and community management in open source.

Armstrong is currently affiliated to the MCIS Laboratory @queensu working on software engineering topics such as software ecosystem releases, DevMLOps, data science models, and swarms intelligence. In particular, Armstrong’s research uses mixed research methodology, including grounded theory, to investigate ecosystems’ health and release mechanisms for large-scale software ecosystems. Moreover, his skills in AI and edge computing is an asset to distribute models and swarms massively.

Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company
that provides software analytics for open and inner source ecosystems. Currently holding the
position of Chief Data Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics,
analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Izquierdo
Cortázar earned a Ph.D. in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in
Madrid in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developer’s activity patterns in the Mozilla
community. He is an active member of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source
Software) as GrimoireLab contributor, as well as in the D&I working group. He is an active
member of the InnerSource Commons as well with

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for the CHAOSS project. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community building, strategy, open source, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a BS in computer science, an MBA, and a PhD. In her spare time, she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. Her career began at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modelling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013. As an active contributor to OpenStack she drives NFV related feature development activities in projects like Nova and Cinder. Beyond code and documentation contributions she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities, which is one of her focus areas within the OpenStack Foundation.

Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, responsible for embedded and compliance programs. With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China.

Kevin Lumbard is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Creighton University. Kevin’s PhD is in Information Technology and Human Centered Computing.  His work focuses on the sociotechnical aspects of design, which assumes both social and technical factors influence the design, functionality, and usage of technology. He is a former web developer and a certified project manager. Kevin’s research explores open source software development, corporate engagement with open source communities, and the health of open source communities. He uses engaged field work and trace data analysis to research open source software communities and the changing nature of technology work. Kevin’s work has been published in CSCW, CAIS, HICSS, IDETC, IEEE Computer, and SoHeal. Kevin is a charter member and maintainer of the Linux Foundation’s Community Health Analytics OSS Project (CHAOSS).

Dr. Matt Germonprez is an active open source community researcher and member with a particular focus on that changing nature of open source engagement. The National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, and Union Pacific have funded his applied and basic research work in this area. Matt is the co-director of the BRIDGE Lab at the University of Nebraska – Omaha’s College of Information Science & Technology. The BRIDGE Lab is dedicated to the advancement of IT design, architecture, and education. He is an accomplished researcher in the areas of IT design and engagement, having published work in top journals, including winning best paper in his field (Association for Information Systems) in 2011 for his work on information technology design. Finally, he actively engages students in research projects, giving them direct insight into open source communities and the practices of engaging in this area.

For over 20 years, Nicole has applied her aptitude in storytelling to the technology industry, communicating the broader importance of the work of her engineering colleagues in a way that delivers business value. She dove into the world of open source at Intel over eight years ago, quickly becoming a strong advocate across Linux, virtualization, cloud, containers, orchestration, mobile and web technologies, and more. She is passionate about cultivating inclusive communities that welcome diverse perspectives and invite intelligent, thoughtful debate to benefit us all. As an active contributor to the CHAOSS Project’s Diversity & Inclusion Workgroup, she is helping establish a consistent, cross-community definition and metrics for diversity. She serves on the CodeChix advisory board, is an evangelist for the Women Who Code Portland organization, participates in speed mentoring workshops across the OpenStack and Linux communities, and is also a frequent moderator, speaker, and writer in the areas of diversity and mentorship. Nicole holds an MBA degree from Marylhurst University, with an emphasis in Marketing, and a BA from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism.

Ruth Ikegah is an Open Source Program Manager, Technical Writer, and GitHub Star. She currently works as an Open Source Consultant at Bitergia and serves as the Community Lead at CHAOSS Africa, a community that focuses on improving the health of Open Source software, contributions, and communities across the continent.

After a decade as a software engineer, Sean decided his calling was in research. He is presently a social computing researcher and professor of computer science at the University of Missouri. He is also a co-director and founder of their Data Science Masters program. Sean’s publications focus on understanding how social technologies influence organizational, small group and community dynamics, typically including analysis of electronic trace data from systems combined with the perspectives of people whose behavior is traced. Group informatics is a methodology and ontology Sean has articulated with the aim of helping build consensus among researchers and developers for how to ethically and systematically make sense of electronic trace data.  Structural fluidity, a construct Sean developed with his collaborators Peppo Valetto and Kelly Blincoe, aims to make sense of structural dynamics in virtual software organizations, and how those dynamics affect performance. His other work includes collaborations with Matt Germonprez on the Open Collaboration Data Exchange and Open Source Health metrics projects. He lives in Columbia, MO with his wife Kate, two step daughters and a dog named Huckleberry.

Sophia Vargas is a Program Manager in the research and operations teams within Google’s Open Source Programs Office. In this role, she leads multiple research efforts and metrics programs designed to measure project health and improve open source sustainability and contributor experience. Sophia has been working with the CHAOSS community since June 2020, refining metrics for project risk and viability. Prior to Google, Sophia was an analyst at Forrester Research, covering data center infrastructure and cloud strategy.

Wayne Beaton is the Director of Open Source Projects for the Eclipse Foundation. His responsibilities include running the Eclipse Projects and Intellectual Property Teams, and generally ensuring that open source project teams are successful. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader.

Yehui Wang is a master developer at Huawei Open Source Competence Center, responsible for health measurement of communities and the experiences of contributors engagement journey, focusing on metrics model design and data analysis. He previously worked as a software architect at Ericsson where he was a team leader of LF Networking ONAP in China and single point of contact of the open source core team in one Development Unit.