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Reminder: Check CHAOSS Meeting Times in Your Time Zone

This is just a reminder that over the weekend, (most of) the US moved their clocks forward one hour for DST. Because CHAOSS meetings are based in the US Central/Chicago time zone, our meeting times may have changed for you, depending on where you are.

It’s probably a good idea to double-check the CHAOSS meetings, which you can do on the calendar here: https://chaoss.community/participate.

(The #general channel in Slack should also show you meeting reminders adjusted for your time zone.)

It’s Official! CHAOSS is in GSOC ’22

We are so excited to be officially participating in Google Summer of Code again! If you are a student and would like to see what kind of projects we have in mind, you can see the list of ideas. To learn more about the GSOC process, or register your interest in participating with CHAOSS, we have a doc for that, too! Your deadline for registering your interest and completing some microtasks is April 19, 2022. Good luck!

Reminder: Last day for CfP for OSSummit NA

The LF’s Open Source Summit North America is happening June 21-24 in Austin, Texas and today is the last day to submit a talk. This conference aims to bring together a group of mini-conferences for the price of one. There are a multitude of topics you can speak on, and you can submit a talk here. This conference is also very welcoming to first time speakers, so if you haven’t had this opportunity before, now’s your chance to submit something.

Working Group Spotlight: Common

This week in the Community Call, we heard updates from the Common Working Group. This group looks at metrics that have a common interest to more than one other working group, and they handle operational issues and processes internal to CHAOSS itself.

Currently, this group is finalizing a Data Privacy/Ethics Document for those who are consuming our metrics. We will point to this document in every metric we have, to encourage those who are gathering and using the data to do so responsibly and lawfully.  This group is looking for more links on published guidelines on ethics, so if you have anything to add to this doc, they’d love your input.

The Common Working Group has also been working on a few new metrics for the upcoming 2022-04 metrics release (Occasional Contributors), and CHAOSS-wide operational issues such as project boards, standard labels, using the .github repo, and creating a metrics style guide.

Dawn Foster leads this group and they meet every other Thursday at 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. The next meeting is this week, on March 17 🍀. And of course, as is the case with all our meetings, it’s open to anyone who would like to attend!

Reminder: Metrics Review Period is Open

Now is the time for you to offer last-minute feedback on our metrics candidates prior to their release in April. You don’t have to have worked on metrics, or participated in the CHAOSS Community before; we value feedback from everyone. This release will include 8 new metrics and 1 metric that will be moving to a metrics model.

• Occasional Contributors – https://chaoss.community/metric-occasional-contributors/ (Issue for feedback)
• Event Accessibility – https://chaoss.community/metric-event-accessibility/ (Issue for feedback)
• Project Demographics – https://chaoss.community/metric-project-demographics/ (Issue for feedback)
• Change Request Commits – https://chaoss.community/metric-change-request-commits/ (Issue for feedback)
• Change Request Reviews – https://chaoss.community/metric-change-request-reviews/ (Issue for feedback)
• Conversion Rate – https://chaoss.community/metric-conversion-rate/ (Issue for feedback)
• Defect Resolution Time – https://chaoss.community/metric-defect-resolution-time/ (Issue for feedback)
• Contributor Recommendability – https://chaoss.community/metric-contributor-recommendibility/ (Issue for feedback)
• Project Popularity – https://chaoss.community/metric-project-popularity (moving to metric model)

Thanks for helping make our metrics the best they can be!

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Metrics Review Period is Open

Now is the time for you to offer last-minute feedback on our metrics candidates prior to their release in April. You don’t have to have worked on metrics, or participated in the CHAOSS Community before; we value feedback from everyone. This release will include 8 new metrics and 1 metric that will be moving to a metrics model.

• Occasional Contributors – https://chaoss.community/metric-occasional-contributors/ (Issue for feedback)
• Event Accessibility – https://chaoss.community/metric-event-accessibility/ (Issue for feedback)
• Project Demographics – https://chaoss.community/metric-project-demographics/ (Issue for feedback)
• Change Request Commits – https://chaoss.community/metric-change-request-commits/ (Issue for feedback)
• Change Request Reviews – https://chaoss.community/metric-change-request-reviews/ (Issue for feedback)
• Conversion Rate – https://chaoss.community/metric-conversion-rate/ (Issue for feedback)
• Defect Resolution Time – https://chaoss.community/metric-defect-resolution-time/ (Issue for feedback)
• Contributor Recommendability – https://chaoss.community/metric-contributor-recommendibility/ (Issue for feedback)
• Project Popularity – https://chaoss.community/metric-project-popularity (moving to metric model)

Thanks for helping make our metrics the best they can be!

Interested in Mentoring? Let us Know!

CHAOSS is a hopeful participant in a variety of student mentorship initiatives this year, including:

• Google Summer of Code
• Google Season of Docs
• Outreachy
• She Code Africa

We have an array of interesting proposed projects, and although we’re waiting on our official acceptance into these programs, we are hopeful that they will come to fruition. If you have been in the CHAOSS project for a while, and you’d like to become a mentor (or co-mentor!), please let Elizabeth know and she can point you in the right direction.

Working Group Spotlight: Risk 

This week in the Weekly Community meeting we heard an update on our Risk Working Group.

This group has been working on a metric called the Defect Resolution Time metric for the upcoming 2022-04 release. This metric aims to answer the question “How much time does a project take to resolve defects once they have been reported and recorded?” and you can add your feedback to this issue if you have any comments on this metric.

Next up for this group is working on cleaning up some repo labels and deciding what metric to work on next from the list of ideas in our Metrics Spreadsheet. Risk’s focus areas are Security, Business Risk, Code Quality, Licensing, Transparency, and Dependency Risk Assessment. If any of these areas sound interesting to you, here are the details on connecting with the Risk Working Group:

• This group meets every other Thursday at 1:00 US Central/Chicago time at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. The next meeting is March 10.
• Previous meetings can be watched on CHAOSStube.
• You can also join the Risk WG Slack channel and connect asynchronously.

The maintainer of this Working Group is Sean Goggins, so you should introduce yourself and say hello if you have any specific questions about the Risk Working Group.

Reminder: Office Hours are Back

This is a reminder that our open Office Hours for newcomers (or anyone, really) happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am – 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. Feel free to join as you wish at any time during that hour at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. No registration is needed and you can ask anything you want about the CHAOSS project!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss (except the DEI Badging Weekly Meetings). All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone. (Convert into your local time here).

Monday, March 7
12:00 pm App Ecosystem Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Tuesday, March 8
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

10:00am – Evolution Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

11:00am – Weekly Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, March 9
8:00 am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

8:30am – DEI Badging Weekly (Agenda & Minutes)

10:00am – Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Thursday, March 10
10:00am – Value Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

1:00pm – Risk Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Community Comment Period for Metrics Starts March 1

It’s that time of year again, folks! Today is the last day for working groups to add any new metrics they’ve developed to the 2022-04 release. From March 1-31 there is an open comment period on all the metrics candidates. Anyone inside or outside of the CHAOSS community can make comments, suggestions, or provide any other ideas around our new metrics. The candidates for release this time around are:

• Project Demographics (DEI Working Group)
• Event Accessibility (DEI Working Group)
• Defect Resolution Time (Risk Working Group)
• CII Best Practices (Change of Name) (Risk Working Group)
• Contributor Recommendability (Value Working Group)
• Change Request Reviews (Evolution Working Group)
• Change Request Commits (Evolution Working Group)
• Occasional Contributors (Common Working Group)

Thanks to everyone who worked on these!

Save the Date for CHAOSSCon EU!

Although we haven’t started planning any details yet, we are planning to host a CHAOSScon EU in conjunction with OSSummit EU/OSPOCon, happening September 13-16 in Dublin, Ireland. The CfPs for OSSummit EU and OSPOCon are open right now, and you can submit your talk until May 30, 2022. If you’d like to submit something and you’d like someone to look at your abstract before submitting, let us know in Slack! We have a community of people ready to help you.

CHAOSScast Episode 53: Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press

This week, our wonderful guest Avi Press joined Georg Link, Kate Stewart, and Sophia Vargas to talk about Scarf and collecting open source data. They also discussed defining the term “user,” the insights that can be gleaned from analyzing the data collected, and the ins and outs of Scarf the project. This was a great episode! You can listen and subscribe here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/53.

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Metrics Freeze is Almost Here

In preparation for our April Metrics Release, we are currently scheduled to freeze the metric release candidates on March 1. This allows for a 30-day public comment period, where anyone can jump into the conversation and comment on new metrics we’ve developed. If you’re taking part in a working group, the agendas should carve out some time to finish up any metrics that are in progress. We’ll also talk a little about this process in the Community Meeting tomorrow at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. You can also ask questions about this in our Slack channel. Join us!

Some Open CfPs for You!

Every now and again we pass along some information around open Calls for Proposals/Presentations/Papers for tech conferences of interest. Of course, we’d love to have you submit something related to CHAOSS but it’s completely fine if you don’t! 😆 We encourage you to submit something anyway. If you’re a new speaker and you’d like some feedback on your talk proposal, we have many seasoned speakers who would love to help. Simply post something in the #general channel of our Slack.

• OSS Summit North America Call for Presentations: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/cfp/  Deadline March 14, Conference is June 21-24, 2022 in Austin, TX and Virtual 
• Upstream Call for Papers: https://www.papercall.io/upstream?utm_medium=email&utm_content=204168406&utm_source=hs_email Deadline April 15, Conference is June 7, Virtual only
• OSS Summit Europe call for presentations is open: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/program/cfp/ Deadline May 30, Conference is September 13 – 16, 2022: Dublin, Ireland and virtual

If you see any other CfPs of interest, let us know and we’ll mention them here in the newsletter. Good luck on your proposals!

Reminder: GSOC Ideas are Open!

CHAOSS is thrilled to be applying for GSOC once again. This experience has been extremely valuable and rewarding for mentees and mentors alike, and for the overall CHAOSS project. Ideas are currently being collected here: https://github.com/chaoss/community/blob/main/GSoC-Ideas.md. You can add your idea by forking this repo and submitting a PR. They have not yet announced accepted participating organizations, but stay tuned. The general GSOC timeline can be found here. 

Reminder: Office Hours are Back

This is a reminder that our open Office Hours for newcomers (or anyone, really) happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am – 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. Feel free to join as you wish at any time during that hour at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. No registration is needed and you can ask anything you want about the CHAOSS project!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss (except the DEI Badging Weekly Meetings). All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone. (Convert into your local time here).

Monday, February 21
12:00 pm App Ecosystem Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Tuesday, February 22
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

10:00am – Evolution Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

11:00am – Weekly Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, February 23
8:00 am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

8:30am – DEI Badging Weekly (Agenda & Minutes)

10:00am – Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Thursday, February 24
10:00am – Value Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

1:00pm – Risk Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Value Working Group Meeting Time Change

Starting next week (on February 24, 2022), the Value Working Group will be meeting an hour earlier. This group will now meet at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago time. As usual, you can join this meeting at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss.  Hope to see you there!

CHAOSScast Episode 52: Understanding the Community Through Metrics with Carina C. Zona (Part 2 of 2)

In a continuation of last episode’s Part 1, this week we continue to chat with Carina C. Zona, the founder of CallbackWomen and the Head of Developer Relations for Toolchain. Panelists Venia Logan and Armstrong Foundjem joined Carina and host Georg Link to discuss what metrics might be relevant to DevRel team members, and what tools can be used to collect those data points. They also discuss the use of tagging and general advice to other DevRel teams. You can listen to this Part 2 here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/52 (or on any of your favorite podcast platforms.)

GSOC Ideas are Open!

CHAOSS is thrilled to be applying for GSOC once again. This experience has been extremely valuable and rewarding for mentees and mentors alike, and for the overall CHAOSS project. Ideas are currently being collected here: https://github.com/chaoss/community/blob/main/GSoC-Ideas.md. You can add your idea by forking this repo and submitting a PR. They have not yet announced accepted participating organizations, but stay tuned. The general GSOC timeline can be found here. 

Send Us Your Photos!

Because the community has grown so much over the last 5 years, we thought it would be fun to put together a photo mural of all our community members, past and present. If you’ve attended a meeting, joined our Slack, been a guest on our podcast, helped develop a metric, opened an issue, or simply read one of these gorgeous newsletters, then you are part of our community! You can see the specifics of what we’re looking for and where you can upload your photos here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/chaoss/2022-January/002607.html. Please join the fun!

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

We are Chaotics! 

After much polling, the community decided to name ourselves Chaotics. Hooray! If you want to see the poll you can see the results here: https://voteupapp.com/shared/lCHNiOfnO. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Reminder: Changes to Asia-Pacific Community & Risk Working Groups

In case you missed it, here are two changes to be aware of:

• NO Asia-Pacific Community Meeting this week (Happy New Year!)
• Risk Working is meeting this Thursday, February 10 at 1:00 pm US Central/Chicago time (The bi-weekly meeting weeks shifted.)

As always, we meet at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss and you can always find an updated calendar of meetings on our Participate page.

Reminder: Office Hours are Back

This is a reminder that our open Office Hours for newcomers (or anyone, really) happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am – 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. Feel free to join as you wish at any time during that hour at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. No registration is needed and you can ask anything you want about the CHAOSS project!

Reminder: Send Us Your Photos before Feb 15

Because the community has grown so much over the last 5 years, we thought it would be fun to put together a photo mural of all our community members, past and present. If you’ve attended a meeting, joined our Slack, been a guest on our podcast, helped develop a metric, opened an issue, or simply read one of these gorgeous newsletters, then you are part of our community! You can see the specifics of what we’re looking for and where you can upload your photos here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/chaoss/2022-January/002607.html. Please join the fun!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss (except the DEI Badging Weekly Meetings). All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, February 8
10:00am – Evolution Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

11:00am – Weekly Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, February 9
8:30am – DEI Badging Weekly (Agenda & Minutes)

10:00am – Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Thursday, February 10
9:00am – Value Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

1:00pm – Risk Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Reminder: Office Hours are Back!

This is a reminder that our open Office Hours for newcomers will reconvene on Tuesday, February 1 and will happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am – 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. Feel free to join as you wish at any time during that hour at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. No registration is needed and you can ask anything you want about the CHAOSS project!

CHAOSScast Episode 51: Understanding the Community Through Metrics with Carina C. Zona (Part 1)

This week we were absolutely thrilled to be hosting Carina C. Zona, the founder of CallbackWomen and the Head of Developer Relations for Toolchain. Panelists Venia Logan and Armstrong Foundjem joined Carina and host Georg Link to discuss quantitative and qualitative measurement of an open source community, deciding what aspects of a community’s culture to foster and those to let go, and how the experience matters more than what the metrics might say on the surface. This episode was so good we had to break it into two parts! Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion coming in a few weeks. Part 1 can be listened to here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/51.

Your Last Chance to Vote on a Name

We are closing the poll today, and will announce the new name for our community members tomorrow at the Community Meeting. It’s your last chance to vote!

Please help us decide by voting in this sliding poll here: https://voteupapp.com/shared/lCHNiOfnO

Send Us Your Photos!

Because the community has grown so much over the last 5 years, we thought it would be fun to put together a photo mural of all our community members, past and present. If you’ve attended a meeting, joined our Slack, been a guest on our podcast, helped develop a metric, opened an issue, or simply read one of these gorgeous newsletters, then you are part of our community! You can see the specifics of what we’re looking for and where you can upload your photos here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/chaoss/2022-January/002607.html. Please join the fun!

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Reminder: Help Give Us a Name

Here’s a reminder that we’re looking for your vote! Many communities give themselves a collective name to help define a collective identity and build unity among the community members. The CHAOSS community decided to do just that at the last community meeting. We opened a poll to help us figure out what our name should be, and we’d love love love your input!

Please help us decide by voting in this sliding poll here: https://voteupapp.com/shared/lCHNiOfnO

We will keep this poll open until January 31, so if you haven’t voted yet and you want to, you still have time.

Recent Changes to Metrics Template and Checklist

In case you missed it or haven’t been able to attend our working group meetings recently, we thought we’d give you an update on the state of our metrics development process. With the release of MARS (Metrics Automated Release System) in October 2021 came some changes to the way we roll out new metrics. While there were process changes, there were also a few tools that were added to keep our metrics consistent across working groups and ensure all metrics fit a high quality standard: the addition of a metrics template and a metrics quality checklist for releases.

In the last few months, we have made some improvements to both of these things:

• We added a statement on Data Privacy to our metrics template to promote the ethical implementation of our metrics, especially when dealing with private information.
• We now perform an inclusive naming check and ask the working group to think about the impact on DEI when developing the metric.
• We added a line for synonyms that might be known to the user of the metrics, to help clarify the terminology used by CHAOSS.

We are also now regularly revisiting previously released metrics to make sure these new enhancements are included and to improve the quality of the metric when needed, and we are developing a checklist and process for that.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss (except the DEI Badging Weekly Meetings). All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone. (Convert into your local time here).

Monday, January 24
12:00pm App Ecosystem Working Group (Agenda and Minutes)

Tuesday, January 25
10:00am – Evolution Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

10:00am – DEI Badging Outreach (Agenda & Minutes)

11:00am – Weekly Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, January 26
8:00am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

8:30am – DEI Badging Weekly (Agenda & Minutes)

10:00am – Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Thursday, January 27
9:00am – Value Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Changes to Office Hours

Our open Office Hours for newcomers will reconvene on Tuesday, February 1 and will happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am – 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. Feel free to join as you wish at any time during that hour at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. No registration is needed and you can ask anything you want about the CHAOSS project!

CHAOSScast Episode 50: Recognizing all Kinds of Labor in Open Source Ecosystems with Amanda, Katie, and John

This week, we join Amanda Casari (Google), Katie McLaughlin (Google), and John Meluso (University of Vermont) to discuss Project OCEAN (Open-Source Complex Ecosystems And Networks) and the challenges and strategies around making sure all open source contributions to a project are acknowledged and counted. They also discuss our Types of Contributions Metric, and the complexities of the open source ecosystem. Along with Amanda, Katie, and John, join Georg Link, Matt Germonprez, and Sophia Vargas in one of our most interesting episodes yet. You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/50. (Also it’s our 50th episode so a big shout-out to our CHAOSScast team! Hooray! 🎉)

CHAOSScon 2021 Videos Now on CHAOSStube

The CHAOSScon NA 2021 talks are now available on our Youtube channel (CHAOSStube). You can see the full list here and the videos included are:

• Welcome and the State of CHAOSS (Georg Link)
• KEYNOTE: All of the People, All of the Time (Emma Irwin)
• Why We Leave and Join Open Source Communities (Elizabeth Barron & Kevin Lumbard)
• Characterizing and Detecting Incivility in Open Source Code Review (Isabella Ferreira)
• Mystic – An Initial Effort in Academic Metrics, Impact, and Community (Emi Simpson and Stephen Jacobs)
• Lightning Talks
• A Complex Web of Open Source Dependencies Risk (Sean Goggins)
• CHAOSS DEI Badging: From Here to There (Anita Ihuman)
• Building Metrics Models Based on State of the Art Best Practices (Xiaoya Xia and King Gao)

Thanks to the audio team who spent many hours recording, editing and uploading these videos, and thanks to the speakers for sharing their insights with us!

Help Give Us a Name

Many communities give themselves a collective name to help define a collective identity and build unity among the community members. The CHAOSS community decided to do just that at the last community meeting. We opened a poll to help us figure out what our name should be, and we’d love love love your input!

Please help us decide by voting in this sliding poll here: https://voteupapp.com/shared/lCHNiOfnO

Welcome Newcomers!

We’ve seen a lot of new faces and names recently, so we just want to welcome you to the CHAOSS Community. We have a handy form that lets us get to know you a little more, so we can help point you in the right direction when getting started in CHAOSS. If you’re new to the community and you haven’t yet filled this form out, we’d love it if you could do that here.

We also highly recommend you attend one of our CHAOSS Community Weekly Meetings, happening every Tuesday at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. If you can’t make that, you can see previous recordings of our meetings on CHAOSStube. You can also join our open Office Hours starting in February, happening every Tuesday at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago time.

Reach out to us on Slack or via email if you have any questions!

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

• Governance
• Metrics
• GrimoireLab
• Augur
• Cregit

Working Groups

• App Ecosystem WG
• Common Metrics WG
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
• Evolution WG
• Risk WG
• Value WG

CHAOSS Resources

• CHAOSS on the Web: chaoss.community
• CHAOSS on GitHub: github.com/chaoss
• CHAOSS on Community Bridge: tinyurl.com/y6bao886
• CHAOSS Podcast: tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast
• CHAOSS on YouTube: youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube
• CHAOSS on Twitter: twitter.com/chaossproj
• CHAOSS on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/chaoss/
• CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace