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CHAOSScon Africa Schedule and Keynotes Announced!

The CHAOSScon Africa Planning Committee is thrilled to announce that Justin Flory from the Fedora community will be the first Keynote speaker, and Anita Ihuman from CHAOSS will be the second Keynote Speaker at the event. In fact, the whole schedule has now been published on the CHAOSS website, and it looks to be an exciting and educational event with lightning talks, workshops, and fun social opportunities. This event will be livestreamed on CHAOSStube on YouTube and more details on that will be announced when available. You can register for the event here.

CHAOSScon NA 2023 Recordings Now Available

In case you missed CHAOSScon NA 2023, you can watch the talk recordings here. We are currently working on a blog post that summarizes the offline discussions, so keep your eyes open for that. Thanks again to all who attended and participated, either online or virtually!

Meeting Summaries

This week’s meeting summaries are here:

• Weekly Community Meeting (summary, recording)
• DEI Working Group (summary, no recording)
• University OSPO++ Working Group (summary, recording)
• CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (summary, recording)
• OSPO / TODO Working Group (summary, recording)

Meet our CHAOTIC of the Week: Kevin Lumbard!

This week we celebrate Kevin Lumbard, a long time CHAOSS contributor who has been with CHAOSS since the very beginning!

A little about Kevin:

I am an Assistant professor of Computer Science at Creighton University. Prior to that, I was a Graduate Assistant Researcher at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Before joining Academia, I worked in E-commerce as a Web Developer and Administrator. My research focus is on the design of open source software and open source community health.
My hobbies include woodworking, hiking, and stand-up-paddle boarding. I love being on or near water (lakes, beaches, etc)!

What Kevin works on at CHAOSS:

I am a charter member and maintainer for the CHAOSS project. My work in CHAOSS is centered on metrics definition and creating standard ways of understanding open source community health. As part of this work, I have been a member and contributor to almost all the CHAOSS working groups and context groups at one point or another.

Kevin’s advice for newcomers to open source:

For CHAOSS specifically, my advice is to find one or two Zoom meetings that interest you and:

• Show up regularly
• Listen to the discussions and learn about the group
• Ask questions
• Be patient, open source collaboration can be a slow process, especially for newcomers
• Volunteer to take meeting action items when you understand what the task entails

Special thanks from Elizabeth and the CHAOSS Community

Kevin has worked on so much in CHAOSS, it’s difficult to list all of his contributions in one place. For years, CHAOSS regularly published released versions of the metrics, and Kevin was primarily responsible for managing that process and working with a few students to implement automation around this. Kevin also worked with students to implement a brand new website design and the introduction of the CHAOSS knowledgebase and the metrics display as you see it now. He currently leads the Common Working Group and is a go-to member of several other working groups as well. Kevin’s open source research has informed several of our metrics, and his academic insight is always valuable. Kevin has been an amazing mentor, contributor, and leader in CHAOSS and we are extremely grateful for alllllll his contributions and the hundreds of hours he has spent here! Thank you for everything you’ve done for CHAOSS, Kevin! 🤩

If you’d like to keep up with or connect to Kevin you can find him on Linked In and GitHub.

Upcoming Meetings

Tuesday, June 6

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

Wednesday, June 7

8:30 am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00 am Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, June 8

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

All In + CHAOSS DEI Project Badging Pilot Launched

As many of you know, CHAOSS and the All In project have been working together to implement a DEI Project badging initiative, as well as the inclusion of a DEI.md file in a project’s repository to signal the project’s attention to 4 CHAOSS DEI Metrics:

• Project Access
• Communication Transparency
• Inclusive Leadership
• Newcomer Experience

This project is now open as a pilot, and we would love to include open source projects who are interested in helping us test and build this initiative out. We are also looking for more folks to join the DEI working group where metrics and future levels will be built. For more information, you can watch the recording of our Panel Discussion from Maintainer Month or visit the All In website.

DEI Event Badging Meeting Combined with DEI Working Group Meeting

We decided this week to combine the DEI Event Badging meeting with the DEI Working Group Meeting for a few reasons:

• DEI Badging meeting is Lightly attended
• Lots of overlap with DEI WG agenda items
• New folks helping with badging would be directed to DEI WG anyway
• One less meeting, hooray!

Similar to what we do when it’s time for CHAOSScon planning, we will take the last 20 minutes of the DEI Working Group and dedicate it to anything related to DEI Project or Event Badging. As a reminder, these meetings happen every week on Wednesdays, at 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time.

Renaming “Office Hours” to “Newcomer Hangout”

We recently renamed our weekly “Office Hours” to “Newcomer Hangout” to better reflect the purpose of the meeting. This is an informal meeting with no agenda, and newcomers are welcome to join to ask questions about CHAOSS and get to know other newcomers in our community. If you’ve been around the community a while and want to also join to help answer questions or connect with our newcomers, that would be awesome as well. These meetings happen every Tuesday at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago time.

CHAOSS Meeting Summaries on Discourse

In order to make it easier to surface conversations that happen during meetings, to improve discoverability and transparency, and also to include others who were not able to make our meetings, we are going to post weekly high-level recaps of our meetings. This week’s meetings included:

• Metrics Models Working Group (Meeting Summary, Recording)
• Weekly Community Meeting (Meeting Summary, Recording)
• App Ecosystem Working Group (Meeting Summary)
• DEI Working Group (Meeting Summary, Recording)
• Common Working Group (Meeting Summary, Recording)

You can subscribe to the #meeting-recap tag or the Meeting Summaries category to be notified of new meeting summaries. Feel free to continue async conversations there or in Slack. We hope these summaries are useful! Let us know how we can improve them.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). All meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Tuesday, May 30

9:00 am Newcomer Hangout (no agenda)

10:00 am CHAOSS Weekly Community Call (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, May 31

8:30 am Community Knowledgebase Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

10:00 am DEI Working Group Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

11:00 am University OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, June 1

9:00 am CHAOSS Africa Community Call (Minutes and Agenda)

11:00 am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

12:00 pm Scientific Software Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Join us for DEI.md Panel Discussion for GitHub’s Maintaner Month

As many of you know, CHAOSS has been partnering with GitHub and the All In project on a DEI project badging initiative. As this project moves forward, we collectively wanted to begin educating open source maintainers on what this DEI.md file is all about and what it means for a project to include one in their repo. We also want to begin to introduce the idea of DEI project badging.

We hope you can join our panel discussion on Monday, May 22 at 12:00 pm US Central/Chicago time! You can learn more and register here: https://maintainermonth.github.com/schedule/allin.

CHAOSS Meeting Summaries Now on Discourse

In order to make it easier to surface conversations that happen during meetings, to improve discoverability and transparency, and also to include others who were not able to make our meetings, we are going to post weekly high-level recaps of our meetings. This week’s meetings included:

• Weekly Community Meeting (Read the summary in Discourse)
• Community Knowledgebase Group (Read the summary in Discourse)
• DEI Working Group (Read the summary in Discourse)
• University OSPO++ Working Group (Read the summary in Discourse)
• CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Read the summary in Discourse)
• OSPO / TODO Working Group (Read the summary in Discourse)
• OSS Scientific Software Working Group (Read the summary in Discourse)

You can subscribe to the #meeting-recap tag in Discourse to be notified of new meeting summaries. Feel free to continue async conversations there or in Slack. We hope these summaries are useful! Let us know how we can improve them.

Our CHAOTIC of the Week is Sophia Vargas!

We’d like to take a minute and highlight our CHAOTIC of the Week, which is the wonderful Sophia Vargas!

A little about Sophia:

Hello from NYC!

My name is Sophia Vargas and I’ve been working with the CHAOSS community since 2020. I’ve been at Google for 5 years, in our OSPO for the last 3, and before that, I was an analyst at Forrester Research covering the data center market. Throughout my career, I’ve studied technology systems – from architecture and design to how we build and operate – with the common pursuit to learn, quantify and share. 

Fast facts and metrics:

• My relaxing activities include jigsaw puzzles with audio book soundtracks. During the pandemic ‘stuck at home era’,  I was averaging 1000 ‘placed pieces’ a week.
• I have 2 cats and in the last year 21% of my presentation slides have featured pictures of them…
• I try to visit a new country every year. This year was Argentina! (I HIGHLY recommend Patagonia for those interested in hiking and hanging out with glaciers)

What Sophia’s working on at CHAOSS:

• For me, CHAOSS has been an incredible space to find other folks working through the same issues I come across in my day job in Google’s OSPO
• In CHAOSS, I’ve spent most of my time in the RISK WG chatting about tangible and theoretical risk to open source ecosystems, and lately I’ve been joining the OSPO WG and have enjoyed learning from peers at other companies and commiserating on common pain points. 

Sophia’s advice to newcomers to open source:

• There are SO many things you can get involved in across open sourcey spaces, so take the time to find something that’s interesting and relevant to you! 
• You don’t need technical skills to be a productive and contributing member of a community. 
• Start by showing up, getting to know the project and community, and opportunities to volunteer will present themselves. 

Special thanks from Elizabeth and the CHAOSS Community:

Sophia has brought so much experience, insight, and enthusiasm to the CHAOSS community, it’s hard to remember life at CHAOSS before she came! Her consistent participation in the Community Meetings, her valuable input on numerous Risk metrics, her work on CHAOSScons (both on the planning committee and as an honored speaker), her work on CHAOSScast as a panelist and guest, her work in the development of CHAOSS’s Data and Privacy statements, and her work as a member of the CHAOSS Board has made the project better in countless ways. Sophia’s impact has rippled through to every corner of the CHAOSS project and has solidified its foundation for years to come. She is a large part of what makes CHAOSS tick, and we are so grateful to have her in our community. Thank you for sharing your time, energy, vast experience, and positivity, Sophia! This project would absolutely not be the same without you ❤️.

If anyone would like to keep up with Sophia, you can find her at @Sophia_IV on Twitter or here on LinkedIn.

Reminder: CHAOSScon Africa Registration Open!

We are absolutely thrilled to be hosting our first CHAOSScon Africa! This one-day event is happening in Lagos, Nigeria on June 14, 2023 from 11:00am – 3:00 pm WAT. Tickets cost N2000 and you can learn more about the event and register here: https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2023-africa/

If you would like to join the CHAOSScon Africa Planning Committee, you can reach out to the team in the #chaoss-africa Slack channel.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). All meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Tuesday, May 23

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

Wednesday, May 24

8:30 am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00 am Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, May 25

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

Two New Context Working Groups Launching Next Week

In addition to our Corporate focused OSPO and our App Ecosystem Working Groups, we will be starting 2 new context working groups next week. Say hello to our new groups:

• University OSPO
• OSS Scientific Software

Meetings for these groups will start this coming week, and the details for joining can be found below. Welcome to our new CHAOTICs!

CHAOSScon NA 2023 – It’s a Wrap!

We wanted to extend a warm thank you to all the attendees (in-person and virtual) of CHAOSScon NA 2023 this year! This was one of our best CHAOSScons yet, and we were thrilled to host you all. We had around 30 folks attend in person and several hundred online, and we saw new friends and old. For those who were unable to attend, or for those who just want to relive the magic, the Linux Foundation recorded the sessions for us and will be posting them on their OSSNA platform. We will also be sharing a summary of some of the takeaways from the conference, so stay tuned for that. Thanks again for making the event awesome, everyone!

CHAOSScon Africa Registration and CfP Open!

We are absolutely thrilled to be hosting our first CHAOSScon Africa! This one-day event is happening in Lagos, Nigeria on June 14, 2023 from 11:00am – 3:00 pm WAT. Tickets cost N2000 and you can learn more about the event and register here: https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2023-africa/

The CHAOSSAfrica Community is also looking for speakers for this event! The CfP is open to CHAOSS Africa community members and it closes on May 12 (that’s today!). You can submit your talk proposal here.

Our CHAOTIC of the Week is Kingsley Mkpandiok

This week we are highlighting Kingsley Mkpandiok, who has done amazing work for CHAOSS!

A little about Kingsley:

Kingsley is a freelance User Experience and Brand Identity Designer who is deeply committed to the advancement of open-source design. With extensive experience in both B2B and B2C product design, he has a remarkable ability to understand user needs and behaviors. In addition to his freelance work, Kingsley serves as the design maintainer at CHAOSS Africa, where he has made significant contributions to improving the rate of designer contributions to the project. He is also a dynamic contributor to the Open Source Community Africa Festival.

Kingsley is driven by his passion for inclusivity and is devoted to making the open-source design space more accessible, diverse, and collaborative for any designer who wishes to contribute.

What Kingsley’s currently working on at CHAOSS:

I’m thrilled to share that I joined CHAOSS about 9 months ago, and it was my first dive into open source. I quickly fell in love with the community!

Today, I have the pleasure of being the design maintainer at CHAOSS Africa and an active contributor to CHAOSS Global. My work includes creating and maintaining design guidelines to ensure the project’s visual identity, reviewing and approving contributions to ensure they align with our design guidelines and project vision, managing design-related issues and bugs, collaborating with developers to ensure consistency across platforms and devices, keeping our design assets organized and up-to-date for all contributors, evangelizing our projects and design philosophy through events, blogging and networking, etc, and most importantly, ensuring the design working group is accessible, diverse, and collaborative for all designers who wish to contribute. (Also worthy of note that under my leadership the CHAOSS Africa design working group became the most active working group 😀).

I’m truly passionate about the work we’re doing here and excited to continue growing with this amazing community.

Kingsley’s advice to newcomers to open source:

1. Start small: Start with small tasks or issues that can help you build confidence and get familiar with the project’s codebase, design guidelines, or any other tasks related to your area of contribution.
2. Ask questions: Don’t be shy! The open source community is full of helpful people who are eager to assist and guide you along your journey.
3. Read documentation: Take the time to read the project’s documentation. This will help you understand the project’s objectives, structure, design, and coding conventions.
4. Communicate effectively: Clearly communicate your intentions and progress with the project maintainer or fellow contributors to avoid confusion or duplicating someone else’s work.
5. Be patient: I wasn’t able to make any contributions until after my first 2 months of joining the community. Learning open source can take time, so don’t worry if you don’t grasp everything right away.
6. Open-mindedness: Don’t underestimate the opportunities for adding value to the community, even when you don’t see any specific task assigned. In my 9 months of experience, I’ve found that there are always ways to improve the project if you keep an open mind. So, stay curious and explore the possibilities!

Special thanks from Elizabeth and the CHAOSS Community:

It is no exaggeration to say that Kingsley has been responsible for skyrocketing the design team at CHAOSS into the stratosphere! Before Kingsley came along, there was no coordinated design effort, no coherent design team, no design strategy, and we were in need of many design assets to use in our website and social campaigns. Kingsley jumped in and is now leading our design team on several important projects. Besides running the design team, Kingsley is also a regular at several other CHAOSS meetings and has contributed to the CHAOSS blog, and it’s wonderful to have him around. We are so incredibly grateful for all his contributions and the time and energy he’s spent over the last 9 months getting to know the community and helping others find their way. Thank you from all of us, Kingsley! ❤️

If anyone wants to keep up or connect with Kingsley, you can find him on Twitter (@iamkingsleey), Linked In (iamkingsleey), or on his website (kingsley.vzy.io).

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). All meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Monday, May 15

7:00 am Getting Started with Augur (no agenda)

Tuesday, May 16

9:00 am Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00 am CHAOSS Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, May 17

8:30 am Community Knowledgebase Audit Team (ad hoc, temporary meetings)
10:00 am Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00 am 🥳 University OSPO Working Group 🥳 (Agenda coming soon)

Thursday, May 18

9:00 am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00 am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)
12:00 pm 🥳 OSS Scientific Software Working Group 🥳 (Agenda coming soon)

(Most) Meetings Canceled the week of May 8-12 for OSSNA and CHAOSScon NA 2023

Because some of our core community members will be at OSSNA and CHAOSScon NA 2023, either in person or virtually, we decided to cancel most meetings next week (May 8-12). The only exceptions are these 2 meetings:

• CHAOSS Asia Pacific Community Meeting (Monday, May 8)
• Metrics Models Working Group (Tuesday, May 9)

CHAOSS community members are encouraged to participate in CHAOSScon NA virtually instead, by registering and lingering in our #chaosscon Slack channel. And of course, for a completely updated CHAOSS meeting schedule, you’re encouraged to subscribe to our official CHAOSS Calendar. See you again soon!

CHAOSScon Africa Registration and CfP Open!

We are absolutely thrilled to be hosting our first CHAOSScon Africa! This one-day event is happening in conjunction with OSCA on June 14, 2023 from 11:00am – 3:00 pm WAT. Tickets cost N2000 and you can learn more about the event and register here:

The CHAOSSAfrica Community is also looking for speakers for this event! The CfP closes on May 12 and you can submit your talk proposal here.

Say Hello to the CHAOTIC of the Week – Anita Ihuman

We are starting a new feature in our newsletter called the “CHAOTIC of the Week” where we highlight one of our amazing community members. For our first CHAOTIC, we learn more about Anita Human and the wonderful work she’s been contributing to CHAOSS.

A little about Anita:

I am Anita Ihuman, a developer advocate and technical writer. I have developed great experience managing communities and advocating and educating on topics relating to DevOps, cloud computing, containerized workloads, and microservices. I am passionately involved in open source, documentation, community, and DEI-focused programs. I spend a lot of my time educating the developer market about new tools, technologies, and best practices through public speaking and content writing. I love cats and animations.

What Anita’s currently working on at CHAOSS:

I am currently working on DEI research titled “Interview Campaign with Underrepresented Groups in Open Source,” courtesy of the CHAOSS DEI working group. This research is aimed at understanding open-source DEI activities in real time and how they relate to the metrics we presently measure at CHAOSS. You can find out more about this project here.
I also contribute as a reviewer for the DEI Badging project and partake in activities under the CHAOSS Africa project.

Anita’s advice to newcomers to open source:

If this is your first time and you feel overwhelmed like I did, don’t sweat it. Just find a niche within the community that you are most comfortable with and start there. If you are not sure where? Ask questions. Not sure how? Join us during our office hours. See you around!

Special thanks from Elizabeth and the CHAOSS Community:

Anita has been in CHAOSS for a few years now, and she’s brought so much to our community! We’ve really appreciated all her hard work with the DEI survey, the Badging, and also to the contribution of metrics! Anita attends several CHAOSS meetings regularly, and it’s always a pleasure to hear her insight and input on the calls. Thanks for making our community better, Anita! ❤️

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). Unless noted otherwise, all meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Monday, May 8

3:00 pm (China Standard Time) CHAOSS Asia Pacific Community Call (this meeting does not follow US Daylight Savings Schedule)

Tuesday, May 9

7:30 am Metrics Models Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Getting Started with Open Source Software – Webinar Series from CHAOSS Africa

Ruth Ikegah and the CHAOSS Africa community hosted the first webinar in a series explaining how to get involved in contributing to open source software. With over 100 participants, this webinar turned out to be very helpful for our newcomers to open source! This is only the first in the series, so make sure to join our #chaoss-africa Slack channel for news of the next one. If you’d like to watch the recording, you can find it on our YouTube channel.

Reminder! 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, and don’t forget to register!

Meetings Canceled May 9 for CHAOSScon NA 2023

Because some of our core community members will be at CHAOSScon NA 2023, either in person or virtually, we are canceling the day of meetings for May 9, 2023. CHAOSS community members are encouraged to participate in CHAOSScon NA virtually instead, by registering and lingering in our #chaosscon Slack channel that day.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). All meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Tuesday, April 25

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

Wednesday, April 26

8:30 am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
10:00 am Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, April 27

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

Reminder! 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, and don’t forget to register!

Change to Communications Working Group Meeting Cadence

The Communications Working Group will now be meeting every other Thursday at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago time for 50 minutes. There will no longer be meetings on Mondays. If you would like to join us you can subscribe to the CHAOSS calendar for login details or you can join us anytime asynchronously in the #wg-communications Slack channel

New Augur Release!

The Augur team is happy to announce that there is a new release available. From Sean Goggins:

This release makes a hosted version of Augur fully enabled. The next release will add to these capabilities by implementing a “fairness algorithm” so that data collection for new accounts is balanced and somebody asking for 1,000 repositories does not delay collection for somebody requesting 10. Further, the next release will consider the size of the new repositories requested when balancing individual user collection priorities. Integration with https://github.com/oss-aspen/8Knot is also improved, enabling collections of related repositories to be shared by all of the users of an 8Knot instance. 

If you’d like to download the latest release you can find it here.

New Blog Post – Starter Project Health Metrics Model

Getting started with tracking and measuring open source community health can be tricky! CHAOSS released a metrics model that can help. If this describes the predicament you’re currently in, we recommend checking out our blog post and Starter Project Health Metrics Model for guidance.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). All meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Tuesday, April 18

9:00 am Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)
11:00 am CHAOSS Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, April 19

10:00 am Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, April 20

9:00 am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)
11:00 am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)