Welcome Jaskirat and Xiaoya to GSoD! We are thrilled to have Jaskirat Singh and Xiaoya Xia officially joining CHAOSS under this year’s Google Season of Docs! Jaskirat will be working…
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Volunteers Needed for D&I Badging Phase 2 Maybe you’ve always wanted to be an event organizer, but thought “nah, that’s a lot of work.” (You’re not wrong, it is a…
Metric Release 2020-08 is Finalized
After six months of hard work, CHAOSS is proud to release eight new metrics that can be used to measure open source community health, bringing the total number of defined metrics to 46. We also revised three existing metrics, added new focus areas, and restructured our Value Working Group to take a more accurate look at measuring value within projects.
CHAOSScast Episode 12: How Social Marketing Interfaces with Community with Michelle Dalton This week we spent time with Michelle Dalton to speak about community management, communication, and how the world…
Weekly Newsletter (July 27-31, 2020) Late is the hour in which this newsletter chooses to appear! (Apologies for the delay, friends. Let's see what's been happening in the CHAOSSsphere.) CHAOSScast...
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Weekly Newsletter (July 20-24, 2020) Managing Risk and Opportunities in Open Source on CHAOSScast Episode 10 This week we were incredibly honored to have Frank Nagle (Harvard Business School) and...
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Matt Broberg and Venia Logan Talk Vanity Metrics On CHAOSScast
CHAOSScast #9 features two of our podcast organizers: Matt Broberg and Venia Logan. They chat extensively about the concept of “vanity metrics” and determining how we can distinguish them from helpful metrics based on social science. They also touch on issues like community management strategy, GDPR, and the curious case of what happens when the wrong behaviors end up being the ones that are incentivized. https://podcast.chaoss.community/9.
Review Period Still Open – Please Review! There have been some excellent comments on our release candidate metrics thus far, but we’d love even more participation! We encourage you to…
Review Period for Next Metrics Release Candidates Has Begun – Please Review!
After months of hard work and preparation, we have released the next set of metrics releases for the public review period. We would love your help in reviewing the current candidates and we encourage you to visit our metrics page and click on each item marked with the “under review” label. Any and all feedback is appreciated!
Meeting Cancellations for OSSNA Next Week
Because there are a lot of CHAOSS members also participating in Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA) in some capacity, some of the Working Groups have cancelled their regular meetings next week. It’s a good idea to double-check the agendas and calendar for the meetings you usually attend. Or, if you show up next week and no one else does, you’ll know why.