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CHAOSSweekly (April 3-7, 2023)

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Weekly Newsletter (April 3-7, 2023)

Schedule is Published for CHAOSScon NA 2023!

The CHAOSScon planning committee has released the schedule for CHAOSScon NA 2023, to be held in the afternoon of May 9, 2023 in conjunction with Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver BC, Canada. You can view the schedule here.

In-person registration is $20 USD and registration for OSSNA is a pre-requisite. Live streaming will be available for free, but registration for OSSNA virtual is required. You can register for both events on the OSSNA registration page. Sponsorship is also available, so if you’re interested in sponsoring, feel free to reach out.

Hope you can join us, either in-person or virtually!

Save the Date! CHAOSScon Africa June 14

The CHAOSS Africa community is planning the very first CHAOSScon Africa for June 14! This will be in Lagos, Nigeria and will be co-located with the Open Source Community Africa Festival. Specific details for the event are still being coordinated, so stay tuned for more information! 

Next Badger Orientation April 12

For anyone who is interested in participating in the next round of Badger Orientations, there is a meeting starting at 9:00 am US Central / Chicago time on Wednesday, April 12. (This orientation will take up the second half of the regular DEI Badger meeting). In this meeting we will go over the badging process and how to review applications. If you are interested in becoming a new badger and would like to learn more, you can fill out this form and someone will contact you.

Evolution Working Group Rolled into Common

In case you hadn’t been part of this discussion in the Weekly Community Call, metric development and discussions that had previously taken place in the Evolution Working Group will now happen in the Common Working Group, and this Working Group will cease to exist. Any metrics previously developed will remain in the wg-evolution repository, but this group will no longer hold meetings or develop any new metrics.

If you are interested in participating in “evolution” discussions, you are welcome to join the Common Working Group, which currently meets every other Thursday at 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. The next meeting is on April 13.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, April 10

2:00am  CHAOSS Asia Pacific Monthly Call
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, April 11

7:30am Metrics Models Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)

Wednesday, April 12
8:30am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda) / New Badger Orientation
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, April 13

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)
10:00am  Common Metrics Working Group Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm Risk Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (March 6-10, 2023)

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CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (March 6-10, 2023)

Reminder! Daylight Savings Time is Here! 

Now that Daylight Savings Time (DST) is rearing its ugly head again here in the United States, this is a reminder that if you are not in a place that observes DST, then CHAOSS meeting times may change for you, starting next week.

Starting March 13, CHAOSS meetings will be UTC-5. You can always check the current times of meetings on the CHAOSS calendar.

Next Badger Orientation March 15

For anyone who is interested in participating in the next round of Badger Orientations, there is a meeting starting at 9:00 am US Central / Chicago time on Wednesday, March 15. (This orientation will take up the second half of the regular DEI Badger meeting). In this meeting we will go over the badging process and how to review applications. If you are interested in becoming a new badger and would like to learn more, you can fill out this form and someone will contact you.

Registration is open for CHAOSScon NA 2023!

We have a confirmed date for CHAOSScon NA 2023! Hooray!

We will be hosting a session in the afternoon of May 9, 2023 in conjunction with Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver BC, Canada.

Registration is $20 USD and registration for OSSNA is a pre-requisite. You can register for both events on the OSSNA registration page. Sponsorship is also available, so if you’re interested in sponsoring, feel free to reach out.

The schedule is coming soon, so stay tuned for details. Hope to see you there!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on April 5, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, March 13

2:00am  CHAOSS Asia Pacific Monthly Call
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, March 14

7:30am Metrics Models Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)

Wednesday, March 15
8:30am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda) / New Badger Orientation
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, March 16

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)
10:00am  Common Metrics Working Group Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm Risk Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (February 20-24, 2023)

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CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (February 20-24, 2023)

CHAOSS Has Badged 100 Events! 

We have officially badged 100 events as part of our DEI Event Badging initiative! We want to send a huge thank you to all those who have submitted applications and of course to our wonderful team of Badgers! Together we have helped 100 events center DEI and create more inclusive spaces for attendees and speakers! We keep a running list on the Event Badging repository, if you’re curious about who has achieved a badge thus far.

Change to Metrics Models Working Group Time

The Metrics Models Working Group decided to change the time of their meeting to 7:30 am US Central/Chicago Time, every other Tuesday. As always, you can join the working group meetings on the CHAOSS zoom link, and subscribe to the CHAOSS calendar so you are always up to speed on when meetings are happening.

New Metric Model: Starter Project Health

The Metrics Models Working Group released a new metric model: Starter Project Health. This Metrics Model is aimed to be a good place for an open source project to start, when taking a high level look at their project. There are four metrics in the model:

  • Time to First Response Determine the amount of time between when an activity was opened (e.g. Issue or Change Request) and when it received the first response from a human.
  • Time to Close Determine the amount of time between when an activity (e.g. Issue or Change Request) was created and when it was closed.
  • Bus Factor Determine the smallest number of people that make 50% of contributions
  • Release Frequency Determine the frequency of project releases (including point releases with bug fixes)

You can read more about the context around this model, and implementation on its metric page.

Registration is open for CHAOSScon NA 2023!

We have a confirmed date for CHAOSScon NA 2023! Hooray!

We will be hosting a session in the afternoon of May 9, 2023 in conjunction with Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver BC, Canada.

Registration is $20 USD and registration for OSSNA is a pre-requisite. You can register for both events on the OSSNA registration page. Sponsorship is also available, so if you’re interested in sponsoring, feel free to reach out.

The schedule is coming soon, so stay tuned for details. Hope to see you there!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on March 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, February 27

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, February 28

7:30am Metrics Models Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)

Wednesday, March 1
8:30am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00am Welcome to CHAOSS! Onboarding Session (No Minutes)

Thursday, March 2

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)
10:00am  Common Metrics Working Group Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm Risk Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (February 13-17, 2023)

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CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (February 13-17, 2023)

New Blog Post: How can designers contribute to an open source project on GitHub?

Huge shout-out to Kingsley Mkpandiok for contributing a new article to the CHAOSS blog! In his post, Kingsley talks about the challenges with contributing when you aren’t familiar with open source or GitHub. Here’s an excerpt:

This week, one of our design contributors at CHAOSS Africa came up with a great idea that could enhance one of our ongoing projects. This idea wasn’t listed among the open issues in our GitHub repository. The contributor was unsure of how to proceed with her contribution, which is a common scenario for many designers who are not familiar with GitHub.

If you’re a designer interested in making open-source contributions, here are two key things you should know about contributing to projects in any GitHub repository…

We highly recommend reading the full post! And if you’d like to comment or respond to Kingsley, you can do so on the CHAOSS Discourse thread.

If you’re in the CHAOSS community and would like to write for the CHAOSS blog, we’d love that! You can read more about how to do that in our Community Knowledgebase: How to contribute content.

Save the Date for CHAOSScon NA 2023!

We have a confirmed date for CHAOSScon NA 2023! Hooray!

We will be hosting a session in the afternoon of May 9, 2023 in conjunction with Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver BC, Canada.

As soon as registration and more details are available, we will let the community know. But in the meantime, mark your calendars!

Web Content Working Group Going Asynchronous – No Meetings

The Web Content Working Group decided to forego meetings altogether and switch communication to asynchronous only. This group works on all things related to the website, and the publication of the Community and Metrics Knowledgebases. If you’d like to connect with this group you can do so in the #wg-website Slack channel.

Shift in Common Working Group

The Common Working Group has typically fulfilled a few roles at CHAOSS. From developing metrics that spanned more than one working group, to handling project-related operations, this group has been one of the core groups at CHAOSS since the beginning. This group will be expanding its metric development focus to include all potential metrics. In other words, this group will be doing the heavy lifting with regard to developing new metrics regardless of working group or focus area: starting the metrics, sending them to the appropriate working group for review, then completing the publishing process. This group will still maintain the publishing process and metrics templates. If you are interested in connecting with or joining this group, you can find them in the #wg-common Slack channel.

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on March 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, February 20
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, February 21
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, February 22
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, February 23
8:00am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am Evolution Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (February 6-10, 2023)

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CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (February 6-10, 2023)

CHAOSSconEU 2023 Wrap Up!

Thanks to all our friends who attended CHAOSSconEU 2023 in Brussels last week! Although the day was filled with interactive sessions and discussions, we recorded the panel discussion with Ildikó Váncsa, Dawn Foster, and Sean Goggins about implementing and using open source community health metrics in your context. You can find the recording on CHAOSStube.

Some other stats and observations from the conference:

  • We had 45 attendees in the morning session and about 30 for the afternoon software workshops
  • We are summarizing the notes from the breakout discussions and will share them with everyone
  • The venue was amazing, and we will try and use that venue again in the future if possible. Great views from the 8th floor!
  • As always, our swag was very popular
  • Next time we want to include a dedicated scribe to keep notes during the sessions that we can share with others

We are hoping to host CHAOSScon NA 2023 in Vancouver, BC in May, in conjunction with OSSNA. Stay tuned for details!

CHAOSS attendees acting silly in a group

Quickstart on Joining CHAOSS Discourse

If you haven’t heard, we are shifting a lot of our asynchronous strategic discussions away from the Mailing List onto CHAOSS Discourse. We don’t want you to miss out on those discussions! And you can absolutely use Discourse in an email-only interaction, so don’t worry if you’re hesitant to add one more thing to your list of places you have to keep tabs on. 🙂

Here’s your reminder to join Discourse if you haven’t, and a quick guide to joining:

  1. Go to https://chaoss.discourse.group and click on “Sign Up”
  2. You’ll get an email to activate and confirm your email address with Discourse
  3. Visit the START HERE post to get an overview of how we are using categories and tags to organize our conversations

For new users to Discourse, here is a great guide to getting started. If you’d like to have a little practice posting to the Discourse forum, you can add a reply to the Introductions thread. Hope to see you over on Discourse!

New Metric from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group: Public Health and Safety at Events

We have been collaborating with the folks at the Public Health Pledge to create a new metric that will help event organizers surface and think about their policies around masking, vaccinations, and COVID testing at events. So as not to duplicate efforts with their event badging, we will be incorporating a check for their badge in our badge application process. In other words, we will ask our event applicants to provide a link to the URL for the badge they received from the Public Health Pledge folks. We are super excited about this collaboration and not only will it result in a new metric, but it will also result in more visibility for this important inclusivity consideration at events. Thank you to Josh Simmons in particular for joining the DEI Working Group and leading these efforts! You can join our DEI Working group meetings or also join this conversation on Discourse if you’d like to chime in!

New Metrics Development Working Group 

Traditionally, the development of new metrics has happened in each individual working group. As conversations in those groups have become more high-level, and we have many metrics that are needed for metrics models and for specific users, we would like to create a group of folks who are dedicated to developing metrics across working groups as their main focus. This group would collaborate with the working groups to build out the metric, but they would make sure these metrics are pushed across the finish line.

We invite you to join the conversation on Discourse if you are interested in joining a group like this, or if you have comments or questions.

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on March 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, February 13
1:00am CHAOSS Asia-Pacific Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
7:00am Getting Started with Augur (no agenda)
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

❤️Tuesday, February 14❤️
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)
6:00pm Metrics Model WG (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, February 15
8:30am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, February 16
9:00am  CHAOSS Web Content Meeting (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)
10:00am  Common Metrics Working Group Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm Risk Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (January 30-February 3, 2023)

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CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (January 31-February 3, 2023)

Welcome to Discourse! 

We are super excited to have launched CHAOSS Discourse this week! Discourse is an open source forum-type platform where we can have longer term asynchronous discussions. Discourse is meant to replace our listserv mailing lists, not Slack. Slack will continue to be a main channel of communication for our Chaotics. (Our mailing lists are no longer active.)

A few points of note:

  • To join the CHAOSS Discourse, go to https://chaoss.discourse.group/ and click on “Sign Up.”
  • We recommend going to the START HERE post when you join. This has links to the categories, our FAQ, Code of Conduct, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and a link to a handy Getting Started Guide for those who are new to Discourse.
  • To use Discourse as a mailing list and interact only through email, you can adjust your email preferences by going here: https://chaoss.discourse.group/u/yourusername/preferences/account
  •  If you want to join a conversation, but aren’t sure where to start, feel free to introduce yourself in the Introductions thread and get that first post out of the way!

Discourse is a grand experiment for us so we will see how it goes! If you have feedback on your experience and have suggestions for making it better, feel free to post something in the Site Feedback Category.

New Mastodon Account for CHAOSS

We’ve ventured into the Fediverse and opened an account on Fosstodon. If you are also using Mastodon and would like to connect with us, you can do so here: https://fosstodon.org/@chaoss. See you there!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on March 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, February 6, 2023
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, February 7
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, February 8
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, February 9
8:00am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am Evolution Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (January 23-27, 2023)

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CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (January 23-27, 2023)

Important Meeting Changes

A new year often brings the opportunity for working groups to reassess their meeting days and times, to make sure they are still convenient for those who enjoy participating in them. The following changes are happening on the CHAOSS calendar:

  • Starting February 9, Evolution Working Group will move to every other Thursday at 12:00 pm US Central/Chicago
  • Risk Working Group is shifting by a week to offset the OSPO Working Group schedule. They will still happen every other Thursday at 1:00 pm. The next meeting is on February 16.
  • February 2 all CHAOSS meetings have been canceled for CHAOSScon. This includes Communications, Common, and Web Content Meetings.

As always you can see the most updated CHAOSS calendar on our website.

Reasons to Join us for CHAOSScon EU 2023

We are super excited to invite you to CHAOSScon EU 2023, happening in conjunction with FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.  CHAOSScon day will happen on February 3 from 8:00 to 17:00 Central European Standard Time. Did you know:

  • Morning sessions will consist of interactive chats and panel discussions
  • The afternoon will be dedicated to GrimoireLab and Augur
  • During lunch there is an optional OSPO++ session titled Measuring OSS in Universities
  • The event is not able to be livestreamed, so you’ll have to join in person!
  • Registration is open and is $10USD to attend

You can learn more about this conference on the CHAOSScon EU 2023 website. 

Hope you can join us!

New CHAOSScast: Revisiting Metrics Journey with Chris “Mercer” Mercer

We were thrilled to welcome Chris “Mercer” Mercer back to CHAOSScast for another episode! Our panelists Venia Logan and Lori Goldman chat with Mercer about measurement marketing, the ACE model, Google Analytics, and how these can be applied to an open source project. Of particular interest is the discussion on a potential new team at companies and projects specifically around measurement. You won’t want to miss this episode! You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/70.

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on February 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

The Last Newsletter Via the Mailing List

Typically when we publish our newsletter, we publish on the website (which triggers a Twitter post and a post in Slack), and then we send it to the CHAOSS mailing list. This will be the last edition to go to the mailing list, and we will be switching to Discourse next week! We plan to launch Discourse on Feb 1 so stay tuned to hear more about that transition.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, January 30
7:00am Getting Started with Augur (no agenda)
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, January 31
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)
6:00pm Metrics Model WG (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, February 1
8:30am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00am Welcome to CHAOSS Onboarding for Newcomers (no agenda)

Thursday, Febrary 2
No Meetings for CHAOSScon.

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (January 16-20, 2023)

By News
CHAOSS Project

Weekly Newsletter (January 16-20, 2023)

Change to Communications Working Group Meetings

The Communications Working Group is changing a few things with regard to their meetings:

  • Meeting is changing from a weekly cadence to twice a week, 30 minutes each
  • Meetings will happen on Mondays and Thursdays
  • Time of the meeting moves to 9:30 am US Central/Chicago
  • Zoom Link moves back to the CHAOSS link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Remember you can always see a fully updated CHAOSS calendar on our website: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

Did You Know About the Software Workshops at CHAOSSconEU?

Did you know that CHAOSSconEU 2023 features afternoon tracks and workshops dedicated to GrimoireLab and Augur? Learn from project leaders who will cover everything from installation tips to advanced implementation of metrics. As a reminder, CHAOSScon is Feb 3, 2023 right before FOSDEM. Registration is open and you can learn more about this conference on the CHAOSScon EU 2023 website. 

Hope you can join us!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on February 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Recent Topics in our Weekly Community Meeting

If it’s been a while since you attended a weekly CHAOSS Community Meeting, we’ve had lots to talk about! Some recent topics that have come up include:

  • Launching Discourse in the next few weeks
  • Creating a CHAOSS Ambassadors Group to support and recognize CHAOSS advocates
  • Creating a CHAOSS Onboarding team to help newcomers to the project
  • Potentially launching new groups for Community Managers and Event Organizers to understand their metrics needs
  • 2023 Goals of our super popular OSPO WG
  • Adding links to stable URLs to all our metrics
  • CHAOSScon details and planning

We know this timing doesn’t work for everyone but you are highly encouraged to connect with us here if you can or to watch the recordings and connect on Slack. These weekly meetings happen every Tuesday at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. (You can convert to your time zone here.) Hope to see you there!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, January 23, 2023
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, January 24
9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
10:00am Evolution WG (Minutes and agenda)
11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, January 25
10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, January 26
8:00am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm Risk Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (January 9-13, 2023)

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Weekly Newsletter (January 9-13, 2023)

Welcome Back! 

Happy new year and welcome back to CHAOSS meetings! We missed you! This is a reminder that working group meetings have now officially resumed. If you need to dust off the CHAOSS calendar and reorient yourself to when meetings happen, you can do any of the following:

Hope to see you at one of our meetings very soon!

Change to CHAOSS Asia Pacific Meeting

In an effort to better align the CHAOSS Asia Pacific group with the TODO group, the CHAOSS Asia Pacific group will be making the following adjustments to their meeting:

  • Meeting is changing from a bi-weekly cadence to a monthly cadence
  • Day of the meeting moves to the second Monday of the month
  • Time of the meeting moves to 3 pm UTC+8 (China Standard Time)

What is not changing is the zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss) and the amazing folks who attend these meetings. Pop in to say hello if this is in your region!

CHAOSScon EU 2023 is Happening! 

We are super excited to invite you to CHAOSScon EU 2023, happening in conjunction with FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.  CHAOSScon day will happen on February 3 from 8:00 to 17:00 Central European Standard Time. Morning sessions will consist of interactive chats, and the afternoon will be dedicated to GrimoireLab and Augur.  Registration is open and you can learn more about this conference on the CHAOSScon EU 2023 website. 

Hope you can join us!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on February 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, January 16, 2023
7:00 am Getting Started with Augur (no agenda)

Tuesday, January 17
9:00am  CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00am  CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)
1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)
6:00pm Metrics Model WG (Minutes and Agenda)
Wednesday, January 18
8:30am  DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
9:00am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am  Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
Thursday, January 19
9:00am  CHAOSS Web Content Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00am  Common Metrics Working Group Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS Weekly (December 12-16, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (December 12-16, 2022)

Reminder: Holiday Schedule for CHAOSS Meetings and Pausing Slack Notifications

This year we are following our tradition of taking a little break from official CHAOSS meetings at the end of the year. Please note the following meeting cancellations:

  • December 12- January 9 – no CHAOSS working group or community meetings

During the break, CHAOSS work can still occur asynchronously if an individual Working Group wishes, and many of us will be around in Slack periodically if anything urgent arises.

We have also received feedback that it’s helpful to continue to receive meeting confirmations in Slack even if there are no meetings :). You can follow the guidance in this article if you’d like to mute any notifications during our break.

Although there may be Slack activity, the hope in canceling meetings is that we all take this time to rest and protect ourselves from burnout so that we can come back refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to start anew in 2023!

Register for CHAOSScon EU 2023! 

CHAOSScon EU 2023 is happening in conjunction with FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium.  CHAOSScon day will happen on February 3 from 8:00 to 17:00 Central European Standard Time. Although we are still finalizing some details, registration is open and you can learn more about this conference on the CHAOSScon EU 2023 website. 

Hope you can join us!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on January 11, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

December 12, 2022 – January 9, 2023
No Regular CHAOSS Working Group or Community meetings

Meetings (Open to All)

All meetings at: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Calendar at: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

CHAOSS Resources