2024 CHAOSS Community Survey is open!
We encourage all past and present CHAOTICs to share their CHAOSS experiences with us so that we may better center diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the project. This is the second time we have conducted this survey, and we look forward to hearing from you all! Whether you are a long-time CHAOTIC or a brand new face here, your input is extremely valuable! All answers are anonymous, so we encourage you to be candid and honest with your answers.
You can read more details about the survey or jump right to the survey itself.
This survey will be open until October 31, 2024.
Hacktoberfest is here!
If you’re interested in contributing to open source during the Hacktoberfest event, CHAOSS has some exciting opportunities for you! We will have issues and tasks in not only code, but also in technical writing, accessibility, and other areas. Join the #hacktoberfest-2024 slack channel and subscribe to the CHAOSS Hacktoberfest calendar to stay current with the planned events and initiatives.
New Working Group! UN SDGs and Open Source Community Metrics
At this year’s Open Source Summit EU, several CHAOTICS held an unconference to discuss the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and the role open source plays in achieving these goals. And as such, a new CHAOSS working group was born! If you are interested in discussing the ways open source health metrics can contribute to these goals, we’d love for you to join this group! The first meeting happened on October 2, so you can catch up with the minutes and notes here.
Meeting times and dates: Bi-weekly Wednesdays at 10:00 am US Central / Chicago time
Subscribe to the calendar here: https://ics.teamup.com/feed/ksk9vit7vig1w48j3s/13658871.ics
Minutes and agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17VAYItNIw_i36mCUyBs1t9fEK_Ks1vjhOJFRfIA1CjM/edit
Thank you to David Lippert and Ruth Ikegah for leading this working group!
CHAOSScast Episode 93: Joint Podcast with Sustain OSS on CHAOSS Practitioner Guides
In this very special crossover episode of CHAOSScast, host Richard Littauer (Sustain) chats with CHAOTICS Dawn Foster, Luis Cañas Diaz, and Elizabeth Barron about the CHAOSS Practitioner Guides. From the podcast page:
The show delves into the purpose of these guides, which are designed to help open source projects interpret and utilize metrics to improve community health and sustainability. The guests explain the significance of metrics in open source projects, the challenges of defining and making them accessible, and how the guides can benefit different types of projects, from large corporations to individual developers. Topics covered include the background and format of the guides, specifics on the metrics discussed, and the practical applications and improvements these guides aim to facilitate.
You can listen now! https://podcast.chaoss.community/93 .
Tickets Available to All Things Open
The kind folks at All Things Open have offered CHAOTICS 5 Free Tickets to the conference! Once these are spoken for, interested people will still receive a 20% discount. The conference is October 27-29 in Raleigh, NC USA. To claim one of these tickets, reach out to Elizabeth Barron on Slack and she will provide you with a link.
CHAOSS will also have a booth at the conference, so be sure to stop by and grab a sticker!
Help Us Celebrate our CHAOTIC of the Week: Alice Sowerby!
A little about Alice
Hi, I’m Alice. I live near Bath in the UK. I enjoy making a difference, especially in communities with a mission and a heart. I enjoy getting to know people and giving time to help others 1:1.Over the years I have worked in a lot of different organisations and roles. To each new opportunity I bring curiosity, deep thinking and candour. It matters to me to be an anchor of psychological safety for those who have the least positional power, and I find myself working to make systems better, through influencing leaders and sponsoring those who need a chance to shine.I am currently self-employed, providing program management, management coaching, operational leadership, and thinking partnership for leaders.I enjoy dancing, spending time in nature, and learning languages.
What Alice works on at CHAOSS:
I produce the podcast, and often host it. I’ve also been on booth duty at Open Source Summit, as well as initiating the Comms working group to help coordinate our communication efforts.
Alice’s advice to newcomers:
Take time to get to know a community. A lot of open source happens asynchronously, and in places you might not normally hang out, like IRC and mailing lists. Try to find out whether there are meetings you can attend. You might have to attend a few before you get a feel for how you can help, and whether the community is for you. Remember that leadership looks different in open source, and you probably won’t find someone who can give you an assignment like you would when you have a boss!Once you get to know the community a bit, and make some connections, you should be able to see where you can get involved – and you can always ask. You really can craft your own path in open source and that takes some getting used to. It can be a very powerful and valuable realization.
You can connect with Alice here:
LinkedIn
Learn about her services here:
http://www.rosmarin.co.uk/
Website
Community Reminders:
Add your Community Contributions via an Issue on GitHub
We now have an easier way to add your community contribution to our community-contributions.md document. Simply open an issue using the CHAOSS Contribution Issue Template, and when you submit your issue, your contribution will be added.
Let the Comms Team Help You Spread Your News!
Are you giving a talk at an upcoming conference? Have you appeared on a recent podcast or been a guest contributor to a blog? Is your working group looking for volunteers for a project? If you have something CHAOSS related and you’d like to share it with the CHAOSS community (both internally and externally) then let the Communications Working Group know! We will be happy to share things on the official CHAOSS channels. Simply login to Slack and then go to the Comms Team Submission Form (or type the command /comms team submission form) to let us know what you’re working on.
Looking for Podcast Questions and Ideas for CHAOSScast
Alice Sowerby and the CHAOSScast team would love to hear your questions, comments, and ideas for new episodes of CHAOSScast! Feel free to send an email to podcast@chaoss.community with your thoughts.
CHAOTIC of the Week Nomination Form
Have you noticed a fellow CHAOTIC doing something amazing for CHAOSS? Has there been someone who is going above and beyond? If you’d like to nominate them for CHAOTIC of the Week, now you can! With our CHAOTIC of the Week feature, we like to celebrate their contributions to CHAOSS and enable our whole community to get to know them a little better. It’s a great way to show appreciation for our fellow CHAOTICs so don’t hesitate to nominate someone here.
Upcoming Meetings
Please refer to the CHAOSS Community Calendar for details on all upcoming meetings. Meetings should show in your local timezone, but you can convert to another time zone here. You can also subscribe to individual meetings on the CHAOSS Community Calendar by right-clicking the .ics file and adding to your calendar as a URL.