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End-of-Year Schedule for CHAOSS Meetings

As we usually do, CHAOSS will take a few meeting breaks as the year comes to a close. The holiday/end-of-year schedule for CHAOSS meetings is:

•  Week of November 25: No US-based CHAOSS meetings
• December 9 – January 6: No CHAOSS meetings

There is one exception, and that is for the UN-SDG Working Group. Because this group is new, they have decided to keep the December 11 meeting on the calendar. The CHAOSS Calendar is updated, so if you are subscribed to any or all of the meetings, these cancelations should be reflected. You can always check the online CHAOSS calendar if you are uncertain of a meeting time/date.

CHAOSScon EU 2025 CfP Open Until December 17

We are thrilled to be hosting CHAOSScon EU in Brussels again on January 30, 2025! Here is some pertinent information:

• The CfP for talk proposals is open until December 17, so we encourage you to submit your ideas!
• Registration is also open! Tickets are $10 and include a post-event social gathering. As always, you can attend CHAOSScon to join the conversation about open source metrics and open source community health, and connect with some of our CHAOTICs!
• And if you’re working for a company that is open to sponsorship, we could really use the help! Sponsorship allows us to provide snacks and drinks throughout the course of the day.

Read more about our CfP, registration, and sponsorship opportunities on the CHAOSScon EU 2025 page of our website: https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2025-eu/

New Badger Orientation November 19

If you are interested in becoming a badge reviewer (Badger) for our DEI Event Badging Program, or if you’d just like to learn more about what’s involved, there is an orientation session scheduled for Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 am US Central/Chicago time. You do not need to know about CHAOSS or the metrics to become a Badger. This is a great way to get involved and start contributing to CHAOSS as a newcomer. You can find the connection details on the calendar invite. This will be the last session of the year. Please join us! 

New Metrics Template Implemented

We have switched all metrics into a new template, designed to improve the visual experience when accessing these documents on our website. Instead of being shown all the information at once (which can be a little overwhelming!), the new template hides most of the information behind a markdown dropdown block. Now when you access a metric on the website, you will be able to see the most important information upfront. Thank you to Yigakpoa Ikpae (Yiga) and Peculiar Umeh for their hard work on this project!

If anyone in the community has some free time and would like to do random spot-checking for anything that looks off, that would be incredibly helpful to the website and metrics teams. You can report any issues you find in the wg-metrics repository.

New Location for All CHAOSS Meeting Minutes

If you have the CHAOSS meeting minutes bookmarked, you will need to update your browsers! We have chosen to move all CHAOSS minutes into one centralized document, which can be found here. Meetings are separated by tabs in the Google Doc, which is a newer feature provided by Google. Let us know if you have any issue connecting to or accessing this document.

CHAOTIC of the Week (November 4-8, 2024): Leon Nunes! 

Leon Nunes

A little about Leon:

Hey there folks, I’m a tinkerer, I dabble with different things in tech from Devops to Hardware and I love participating and helping communities.

What Leon works on at CHAOSS:

Currently I’m still new but we’re trying to find communities and conferences where we can meet people, while also working with Divya and Yaya, we’re trying to get the word out in different communities about CHAOSS.

Leon’s advice to open source newbies:

Opensource has always been something I keep going back to, I’d say the most important thing is to contribute to projects you’re familiar with so you don’t over-exert yourself.

You can connect with and learn more about Leon here:
https://bsky.app/profile/mediocreDevops
https://dev.to/mediocredevops
https://x.com/mediocredevops 

CHAOTIC of the Week (November 11-15, 2024): Harmony Elendu! 

Harmony Elendu

A little about Harmony:
I’m Harmony Elendu based in Nigeria, West Africa. I like putting in my best is something I cherish doing every time regardless of where I find myself. Although I’m naturally shy at times but generally a people’s person—jovial, filled with smiles, and always eager to help out while getting to know others better. Transitioning from Graphic and Design Experience to Product and Project Manager merged with a Program experience, it has been 8 years in the technology industry building diverse products and working with great people while leaving my mark in blockchain, edtech, Fintech, Open Source, Ticketing, Volunteer communities and more. Sharing knowledge and attention to details has been the ingredient in my journey but I value seeing that everything works, and the next person gets better as well. Currently, I am seeking the right opportunity specifically in Project and Program Management while contributing my own quota in making the world a better place through Tech and Support to others. Aside from writing, speaking and playing board games, I enjoy cooking and taking shots with friends mixed with loud laughter and knowledge sharing.

What Harmony works on at CHAOSS:
I lead the Technical Writers’ Focus Group, ensuring that documentation needs are met, improved or enhanced. I also co-produce and host CHAOSScast. Additionally, I contribute to CHAOSS Education, the Project Management Focus Group, DEI Badging Project and a bit more. I’m excited to have championed the Doc Scavenger Program and “20Min with CHAOSS Africa,” where we highlight the experiences of contributors from Africa and the incredible work they do within CHAOSS and beyond. Please reach out if you’d like to be featured—your experiences and feedback will make the community better and may just be what another contributor needs to get going.

Harmony’s Advice to Newcomers:
I understand that navigating the community and figuring out what to do can sometimes feel overwhelming and draining. Start from attending meetings casually to hear what’s going on and see what others are working on. Ask questions and offer suggestions where you can. Remember, it’s open source — we’re all here to learn, improve things, and contribute.Know that the way things work here might be different from what you initially envisioned. But once you’ve figured things out a bit, you’ll find your ground, discover what works for you, and identify where you can contribute. It’s always okay to ask questions and seek help while making connections. Open source allows you to create your own path, which may take time but will be incredibly valuable at the long run. Just ensure you’re comfortable and having fun in the process.

Feel free to connect with Harmony here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmonyelendu
https://substack.com/@harmonyelendu

New CHAOSScast Episode: #97 Security Practitioner Guide

In this episode of CHAOSScast, Dawn Foster and Harmony Elendu are joined by the esteemed Emily Fox to discuss security and how it relates to CHAOSS metrics and our Practitioner Guide. Together, they discuss topics such as vulnerability reporting, basic incident response policies, the Open SSF Scorecard, and other helpful ways maintainers can keep their projects safer and more resilient. This is a must-listen! You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/97.

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.

Reminder: 2024 CHAOSS Community Survey is only open until October 31! 

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.

CHAOSScon EU 2025 Registration Now Open

We are thrilled to be hosting CHAOSScon EU in Brussels again! If you’re traveling in to Brussels for FOSDEM, you may consider coming in a little early and attending CHAOSScon on Thursday, January 30, 2025. Tickets are $10 and include a post-event social gathering. As always, you can attend CHAOSScon to join the conversation about open source metrics and open source community health, and connect with some of our CHAOTICs!

Read more and register here: https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2025-eu/

CHAOSScast Episode 95: Planning an Open Source Project or Event with DEI Badging

Listen now as host Harmony Elendu chats with some of CHAOSS DEI Badging Program core members Adeyinka Oresanya, Enock Kasaadha,  and Ruth Ikegah! In this episode, they talk about the evolution of the DEI Badging program for events and projects, the impacts that they have made in the open source space, and how you can apply for your own badge for your event or open source project. Access the podcast here or on your favorite streaming platform: https://podcast.chaoss.community/95.

New and Improved DEI Event Badging Application Process Released

We want to extend a huge thank you to Adeyinka Oresanya, Gift Uhiene, and Desmond Obisi for their hard work updating the DEI Event Badging application process. Improving this process has been a goal for us almost since we launched this program years ago, and thanks to this team, it was finally implemented! We can’t thank you enough. (And I’m sure our open source event organizers would say the same!)

If you are an open source event organizer, you can test out the new process by applying for your badge here: https://badging.chaoss.community.

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.

Reminder: Daylight Savings Time Ending is Imminent 

TL;DR: this is your reminder to check the CHAOSS Calendar for up-to-date meeting times over the next few weeks!   

It’s that time again! In the US, Daylight Savings Time will be ending on November 3, and for some other countries it happens on October 27. There are other countries that end Daylight Savings on a different weekend entirely, and others don’t observe the practice at all. Whew!

Most CHAOSS meetings are tied to the US Central/Chicago time zone, which means if you are not in the US and you are not subscribed, you should definitely double-check meeting times on the CHAOSS calendar.

Regional CHAOSS meetings are tied to a nearby timezone in the region in which they exist. For example, CHAOSS Africa Community Meetings are tied to WAT, so they won’t be changing for those in the region but will change for those who are on Daylight Savings Time.

We try to indicate which meeting time the meeting is tied to as such:

If you are ever uncertain about which time zone the meeting is tied to, you can find this information by clicking on any meeting’s details on the CHAOSS calendar.

See you on the other side!

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!

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.

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! 

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.

CHAOSS Meeting Change: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group

The DEI Working Group has decided to switch to a bi-weekly cadence, to align with the format of the meetings of the other working groups within CHAOSS. The next meeting will be on September 25, 2024 at 10:00 am US Central. To keep up-to-date with future meeting changes, you can subscribe to the DEI Working Group calendar.

New Practitioner Guide Available: Security

The latest CHAOSS Practitioner Guide on Security provides a high-level overlook of how you might start to retrieve and interpret basic security data for your open source project. It speaks to these three metrics as a starting point:

• OpenSSF Best Practices Badge
• Libyears
• Release Frequency

Like the other Practitioner Guides, it is recommended that you read the Practitioner Guide Introduction first, for more context on how the guides are written and important information about collecting and interpreting data.

If you have feedback or suggestions for other guides, please refer to our Data Science repository on GitHub.

Call for Event Badgers – New Event Badger Orientation Sessions

If you are interested in becoming (or learning about) a DEI Event Badger, good news! We have scheduled two upcoming orientation/informational sessions. There is no obligation to becoming a Badger by participating in these events, but you will be given the option to join the Badger team at the end of the event. You can attend either of these sessions:

• September 25 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago
• October 2 at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago

No prior CHAOSS experience is needed, and this is an easy and impactful way to begin contributing to CHAOSS.

New CHAOSS Slack Channel Available: Open Source Job Postings

For those who are hiring or seeking a job in open source, we now have a Slack channel dedicated for these kinds of posts. Feel free to join (and post!) in the #open-source-jobs channel.

CHAOSScast Episode 92: ISO Standards for Open Source Community Health Metrics

In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby is joined by Sean Goggins, Georg Link, and guest Divya Mohan, to discuss the importance and process of establishing ISO standards for open source community health metrics. The panel talks about the basics of ISO standardization and how this can be of use for all those trying to define and track these types of metrics, which is of particular interest to the CHAOSS community! This is an incredibly educational discussion and you can listen in here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/92.

Open Source Summit EU CHAOTICs Talks

If you’ll be at Open Source Summit EU next week and you’d like to connect with some of our CHAOTICs, you can do so! We have a calendar of upcoming talks or you can see the full list of talks in our LinkedIn post.

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.

New on the CHAOSS Blog: Defining and Measuring the Value of Working in the Open: Key Takeaways from the workshop at “What’s Next for Open Source?”

Last month, CHAOTICs Georg Link, Venu Vardhan Reddy Tekula, and Stephanie Lieggi had the opportunity to present a workshop on the challenges of OSPOs and working in the open. In this latest blog post, Venu and Georg summarize the key findings and high points from the workshop. You can read all about this on the CHAOSS Blog.

CHAOSScast Episode 91: Red Hat OSPO: Contextual Community Analytics and the AI Hype Cycle

In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Matt Germonprez is joined by Red Hat’s Senior Data Scientist Cali Dolfi and Community Architect Josh Berkus to discuss their experiences in measuring and maintaining open source community health. They delve into their day-to-day roles, challenges, and key projects like Project Aspen, the importance of contextual metrics, and the impact of generative AI on their work. Also, they emphasize the importance of goal-oriented metrics and establishing repeatable processes in OSPOs. You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/91.

CHAOSS GitHub Sponsors Profile is Live!

After much work by the CHAOSS Finance Team, CHAOSS is now a part of the GitHub Sponsors community. If you would like to help us spread the word, or if you would like to become a GitHub sponsor you can do that on our GitHub Sponsor Profile Page. Thank you to all who helped get this set up, but especially to Georg Link who spearheaded this effort. 

Reminder: Request for Feedback on CoC Response and Reporting Documents

The CHAOSS Code of Conduct Team drafted documents related to incident response and reporting, and they are requesting feedback from the community:

• Procedure for making a Code of Conduct report
• Code of Conduct Incident Response Plan

Please provide your comments directly in the documents above. Your input is highly appreciated!

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: Meeting Break August 5-16

The community is taking a break from meetings from August 5-16, so CHAOSS meetings have been removed from the calendar. We would appreciate your help in communicating this to the working groups you’re a part of, so that everyone knows. Thank you so much and we hope you all enjoy the break!

Announcing Ruth Ikegah as the new Co-Chair of the CHAOSS Governing Board

We are honored to have Ruth Ikegah as the new Co-Chair of our Governing Board! And we extend a heartfelt thank you to Sean Goggins who steps down from the role, but remains a valued member of the Board. You can read more about this transition on the CHAOSS Blog.

CHAOSScast Episode 90: 20min in CHAOSS Africa with Victoria and Kingsley

In the first of many episodes highlighting stories from CHAOSS Africa, new CHAOSScast host Harmony Elendu spends 20 minutes with CHAOTICs Victoria Ottah and Kingsley Mkpandiok. They share their personal open source journeys, their experiences in getting started in technology, and the impact of community engagement and authentic connection. Listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/90.

CHAOTIC of the Week: Divya Mohan

Please join us in celebrating our CHAOTIC of the Week: Divya Mohan!

Divya Mohan

A little about Divya:

My name is Divya Mohan. As a Principal Technologist with SUSE, I work on building communities around and advocating for all of our projects. In the broader open source ecosystem, I’m also one of the maintainers of the Kubernetes documentation and the co-chair of the special interest group around community efforts for the WebAssembly ecosystem under the Bytecode Alliance. In my spare time, I prefer staying as far away from technology as possible and can often be found with my nose in a book, building endurance for my next hike, experimenting with fusion cooking, or lounging in bed with my cats.

What Divya works on here at CHAOSS:

I joined the CHAOSS Slack in early 2023, having heard about it from several folks. However, it wasn’t until 2024 that I made my first contribution – restarting the CHAOSS Asia local chapter as its regional lead. Through the rebooted initiative, I was also able to help bring (and hope to continue bringing) more Asian voices to the conversation around ISO standardisation of our metrics and metric models and having them work alongside the larger community. Lastly, I love working on our badging initiative and am a newly minted badger!

Divya’s advice to newcomers:

The open source ecosystem is vast, and it’s easy to believe that your journey in the ecosystem will be all about the technology we’re building collectively. But it’s not only that. It’s also about the friends you make, the experience you gain, and how you give back to the community. So, there is no one way to contribute, and if you’re at a point where you need help – be curious, engage with the community, and ask for it! Most people will be delighted to help or point you to resources if they don’t have the time. And when the time comes, pay it forward by being the person who offers up help. This is the only way to ensure we continue the legacy of open source & help make it better for future generations.

Special thanks from Elizabeth and the CHAOSS Community:

Divya is a whirlwind of enthusiasm, experience, creativity, energy, and positivity, and she single-handedly breathed new life into our CHAOSS Asia chapter. Her fearless curiosity and dedication to building open source communities and connecting others make her a vital piece of our project. I only met Divya this year, but she immediately puts others at ease and makes you feel like you’re a long-time friend. And her passion for open source is contagious! Divya, we are thoroughly grateful for all the hard work you’ve put into managing and rebuilding the CHAOSS Asia chapter and for the expertise you’ve brought!  You’ve been a huge driver not just in the chapter, but throughout CHAOSS through the ISO standards discussions, improving project accessibility, and evangelizing the project to students and others in the area. I wish I could accurately express how much your energy has impacted and improved the project. A heartfelt thank you for all you’ve brought here, and all you’ve accomplished so far! This project just wouldn’t be the same without you. 

If you’d like to connect with Divya, you can do so here:

• X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Divya_Mohan02
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/divya-mohan0209/

Reminder: Request for Feedback on CoC Response and Reporting Documents

The CHAOSS Code of Conduct Team drafted documents related to incident response and reporting, and they are requesting feedback from the community:

• Procedure for making a Code of Conduct report
• Code of Conduct Incident Response Plan

Please provide your comments directly in the documents above. Your input is highly appreciated!

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: 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.

We are thrilled to welcome long-time CHAOTIC, Ruth Ikegah, as the new Co-Chair of the CHAOSS Governing Board. Ruth has been a Board member since 2023 and she currently serves as the Regional Lead for CHAOSS Africa. Ruth brings her expertise, creativity, and vision to CHAOSS leadership and we are very excited to she’s agreed to the role. Ruth joins Dr. Dawn Foster as the other CHAOSS Governing Board Co-Chair.

We also want to extend a mound of gratitude to the previous Co-Chair, Sean Goggins. Sean’s leadership via the Governing Board has been invaluable and we are grateful for all the time and energy he has dedicated through the years. Under Sean’s leadership, the CHAOSS project has evolved from a few hundred folks into what it is today. Sean will remain on the Governing Board as a Member. 

Meeting Break August 5-16

During this week’s Community Meeting, we decided to take a break from meetings from August 5-16, so CHAOSS meetings have been removed from the calendar. We would appreciate your help in communicating this to the working groups you’re a part of, so that everyone knows. Thank you so much and we hope you all enjoy the break!

Request for Feedback on CoC Response and Reporting Documents

The CHAOSS Code of Conduct Team drafted documents related to incident response and reporting, and they are requesting feedback from the community:

• Procedure for making a Code of Conduct report
• Code of Conduct Incident Response Plan

Please provide your comments directly in the documents above. Your input is highly appreciated! 

Attending FOSSY next week? Check out These Talks by CHAOTICs

While CHAOSS won’t have an official presence at this conference, many of our CHAOTICs will be at FOSSY next week in Portland, Oregon, sharing their knowledge and connecting with the community. If you’ll be there, be sure to attend these talks! (For more information about FOSSY, visit the FOSSY website.)

• From Data to Action: Using Metrics to Improve FOSS Communities (Dawn)
• A review of valuation models and their application to open source models (Sophia Vargas
• How to Chart your own Career Path in Open Source – A Panel Discussion (Ray Paik, Allison Randal, Dawn Foster, Ildiko Vancsa)
• Discussion: Scalability Through Open Source Hygiene (Ria Farrell Schalnat)
• The University of California OSPO Network: Building a Multi-Campus Efforts to Promote Open Source (Stephanie Lieggi)
• Your FOSS Productive Life! – The Vibrant Ecosystem around Applications (Sriram Ramkrishna)
• My Neighbour in Open Source (Harmony Elendu)

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.

Request for Information on Open Source Communities in Asia

The CHAOSS Asia Pacific Community is compiling a database of other open source communities in Asia. If you have any information to add to the database, please place it in this issue on GitHub. Thank you so much for your help!

CHAOSScast Episode 89: CHAOSS Practitioner Guides: Organizational Participation

In this episode, hosts Alice Sowerby and Harmony Elendu join panelists Dawn Foster and Elizabeth Barron to discuss the importance of tracking and measuring organizational participation in open source projects. This is the final installment of the series on our Practitioner Guides and you won’t want to miss this! You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/89.

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: 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.

Meeting Cancellations Week of July 1-5

July 4 is a US holiday, and as such, we decided at this week’s CHAOSS Community meeting to take a break from meetings that week!

The following meetings are canceled:

• Newcomer Hangout
• CHAOSS Weekly Community Call
• App Ecosystem Working Group
• DEI Working Group
• Data Science Working Group
• Metrics Models Working Group
• Metrics Development Working Group
• CHAOSS Africa Designers Sync
• CHAOSS Africa Developer meeting

Meetings will resume as usual July 8. Thanks, and enjoy the break!

New Playlist of Videos for Practitioner Guides

Thanks to our Director of Data Science, Dr. Dawn Foster, we recently released the first few Practitioner Guides to help users of our metrics interpret and analyze data from metrics that are pertinent to the kinds of insight they’re looking for. Dawn has now created short videos to accompany those guides which provide a little more information about them and why they may be helpful in your context. 

You can subscribe to the playlist to be notified of new videos, or you can watch them individually:

• Practitioner Guide Introduction 
• Practitioner Guide: Contributor Sustainability
• Practitioner Guide: Responsiveness
• Practitioner Guide: Organizational Participation

CHAOSScast Episode 87: Celebrating 2 Years of CHAOSS Africa!

In this episode, host Elizabeth Barron and guests Ruth Ikegah, Anita ihuman, Enock Kasaadha and Maryblessing Okolie talk about their journeys into open source, the impact CHAOSS and CHAOSS Africa have made, and where CHAOSS Africa may be headed. You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/87 .

Reminder: 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.

Reminder: 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.