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May 30
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 23-27, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (May 23-27, 2022)

Reminder: CHAOSScon CfP closes TODAY!

If you are interested in submitting a session for CHAOSScon on September 12 in Dublin, Ireland, please send that to us on or before May 30, 2022. We are looking for a variety of topics, including:

  • metrics strategy
  • deep dive into the use of metrics
  • failure of metrics in practice
  • lessons learned, use cases, and case studies
  • proposals for new metrics
  • new visualizations

We are also looking for a few different formats and presentation styles such as tutorials, walkthroughs, lightning talks, and regular sessions. We are accepting submissions for virtual and in-person talks, and you can submit your abstract through Google Forms.

Tell Us About Your Experience with the CHAOSS Website

In preparation for our website redesign happening this summer, we are doing a lightweight, high-level study of our community member’s experience with the CHAOSS site. We would love your input through this quick 3 minute survey. Thank you! 🙏

Join Our Maintainer Burnout Session on June 17

As part of GitHub’s Maintainer Month (June), CHAOSS is hosting a one-hour interactive workshop on Maintainer Burnout. This will be on June 17, 2022 at 12pm US Central/Chicago time.

Burnout is a relatable issue, almost everyone has been there– and it’s something we see quite often in open source. CHAOSS is hosting an interactive working group session to understand how maintainers manage burnout and talk about how to facilitate conversations about burnout and mental health in their open source communities. We will also discuss the Project Burnout metric from our DEI working group.

You can register for this free event, or if you would like to help with the event, please reach out to Ruth Ikegah on slack.

Reminder: You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, May 31
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

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

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

Wednesday, June 1

8:00am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda and Minutes)

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

Thursday, June 2
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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

May 23
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 16-20, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (May 16-20, 2022)

Say Hello to the CHAOSS Welcome Slack Bot – A She Code Africa Project

Thanks to the amazing efforts of Precious Abubakar and Iyimide Adegunloye from the She Code Africa mentorship program, we have a new friend in the #newcomers Slack channel! This new friend is a welcome bot that will respond privately to anyone who types the word “newbie” in the channel. From there they can get answers to some of our common questions about getting started in the CHAOSS community. (Go ahead and try it out!)

What’s also great about this bot is that we can take this foundation and add information to it as the CHAOSS community grows and evolves. We are incredibly grateful to Precious and Mide and the wonderful work they’ve done to improve the onboarding experience for newcomers to the community. Congratulations on completing a very successful mentorship program! (And a big thank you to their mentors Ruth Ikegah, Matt Cantu Snell, and Elizabeth Barron).

Congratulations GSoC, GSoD and Outreachy Students!

Please help us welcome the mentees of the Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, and Outreachy 2022 sessions who will be working with CHAOSS for the next few months! We received many excellent applications and because we received a limited number of slots from Google and Outreachy, we had to make some very difficult decisions. We greatly appreciate all who took the time to submit a proposal and we would love it if you decided to stay connected to CHAOSS as part of our community! ❤️

We welcome the following students:

We look forward to working with you all and seeing what we can accomplish together. Congratulations!

CHAOSScast Episode 59 -The Craft of Coding and Code Metrics for Open Source in M&As with Matt Van Itallie

The latest CHAOSScast episode has been released and is ready for your eyes and ears!
Hosts Sean Goggins and Georg Link take time to chat with our very special guest, Matt Van Itallie, who is the founder and CEO of Sema Software. In this episode, they cover topics such as:
  • Measuring code quality with metrics and tools
  • Creating a developer’s portfolio through automation
  • How metrics can help us understand open source
  • Viewing code as craft
  • Identifying and implementing metrics related to valuation and risk
This episode is packed with great insight and conversation and you won’t want to miss it!  Download from your favorite podcast app, or listen directly on the CHAOSS website.

CHAOSScon EU 2022 CfP Closes Next Week! 

Here’s your reminder that you have one more week to submit something to CHAOSScon EU 2022. We are accepting proposals for a variety of delivery formats.

All submissions should relate to the CHAOSS project’s mission of developing metrics, methodologies, and software for expressing open source project health and sustainability. By measuring open source project health and sustainability, CHAOSS seeks to improve the transparency and actionability of open source project health and sustainability so that relevant stakeholders can make more informed decisions about open source project engagement.

Software related metrics topics:

  • tutorials
  • walk throughs
  • demos
  • how-to’s
  • new features

Metrics related topics:

  • metrics strategy
  • deep dive into the use of metrics
  • failure of metrics in practice
  • lessons learned, use cases, and case studies
  • proposals for new metrics
  • new visualizations

For more information (or to register) visit the CHAOSScon EU page on the CHAOSS website.

Volunteer Opportunity: Help With Our Maintainer Burnout Session 

As part of GitHub’s Maintainer Month (June), CHAOSS is hosting a one-hour interactive workshop on Maintainer Burnout. This is in the early stages of planning, but you can find more information in the initial planning document. We are currently working toward confirming a date and time, and the agenda. If you would like to help with this event, please reach out to Ruth Ikegah on CHAOSS slack.

Reminder: You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

 

Tuesday,  May 24

9:00am – Office Hours (Open, No Agenda)

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

1:00pm – App Ecosystem Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

6:00pm – Metrics Model Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, May 25

8:30am DEI Badging Bi-Weekly Meeting (Agenda and Minutes )

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

Thursday, May 26

9:00am Web Content Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

10:00am Common Metrics 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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

May 17
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 9-13, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (May 9-13, 2022)

Volunteer Opportunity: Become a Badger and Help Badge Events for Their DEI Efforts

The DEI Event Badging Initiative is looking for more Badgers! If you would like to help review applications and assign badges, please join us for more information on May 18 at 12:00 pm US Central/Chicago time on our Zoom channel: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss.

Volunteer Opportunity: Help With Our Maintainer Burnout Session 

As part of GitHub’s Maintainer Month (June), CHAOSS is hosting a one-hour interactive workshop on Maintainer Burnout. This is in the early stages of planning, but you can find more information in the initial planning document. We are currently working toward confirming a date and time, and the agenda. If you would like to help with this event, please reach out to Ruth Ikegah on CHAOSS slack.

Mentorships Being Finalized 

We are currently finalizing the selected applicants for three mentorship programs: Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, and Google Season of Docs. Once the applicants have been chosen and all applicants have been notified, we will be announcing our selections. We are extremely grateful to all who applied, and we hope you will stay with the CHAOSS community in some capacity. We would highly value any contributions you would like to make!

Reminder: You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Reminder: CHAOSScon CfP closes May 30

If you are interested in submitting a session for CHAOSScon on September 12 in Dublin, Ireland, please send that to us on or before May 30, 2022. We are looking for a variety of topics, including:

  • metrics strategy
  • deep dive into the use of metrics
  • failure of metrics in practice
  • lessons learned, use cases, and case studies
  • proposals for new metrics
  • new visualizations

We are also looking for a few different formats and presentation styles such as tutorials, walkthroughs, lightning talks, and regular sessions. We are accepting submissions for virtual and in-person talks, and you can submit your abstract through Google Forms.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, May 17
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

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

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

Wednesday, May 18

8:00am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda and Minutes)

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

12:00pm – DEI Event Badger Info Session

Thursday, May 19
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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

May 10
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 2-6, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (May 10-17, 2022)

Reminder: You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Reminder: Open Source Summit Europe Deadline: Monday, May 30, 2022 at 11:59 PM PDT

Please let us know if you submit a CHAOSS-related topic!

News!: CHAOSS Software Workshops, Tutorials and Hackathons at Open Source Summit Europe: DETAILS FORTHCOMING!

Volunteer Opportunity: Help With Our Maintainer Burnout Session 

As part of GitHub’s Maintainer Month (June), CHAOSS is hosting a one-hour interactive workshop on Maintainer Burnout. This is in the early stages of planning, but you can find more information in the initial planning document. We are currently working toward confirming a date and time, and the agenda. If you would like to help with this event, please reach out to Ruth Ikegah on the CHAOSS slack.

CHAOSS Meeting Changes

There are 2 meeting updates to be aware of:

  • REMINDER: The App Ecosystem Meeting is switching day and time to every other Tuesday at 1:00 pm US Central/Chicago time, starting May 10.

As always, these changes are reflected on the main CHAOSS calendar which you can subscribe to on the CHAOSS Participate page.

CHAOSS Web Content Meeting Revival

We are reviving the Web Content meetings, hooray! The purpose of these meetings in the short term is to discuss the redesign of the CHAOSS website. If you would like to be part of this project, you can join these meetings — they are open to everyone.

These meetings will happen every other Thursday at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago time, starting on May 12.

Reminder: You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, May 10

1:00pm – App Ecosystem Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

6:00pm – Metrics Models Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, May 11 

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

9:00am – CHAOSS Web Content Meeting

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

Thursday, May 12

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

Tuesday, May 17 

9:00am – Office Hours for Newcomers

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

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

DEI WG

Evolution WG

Risk WG

Value WG

 

CHAOSS Resources

CHAOSS on the Web: https://chaoss.community

CHAOSS on GitHub: https://github.com/chaoss

CHAOSS on Community Bridge: https://tinyurl.com/y6bao886

CHAOSS Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CHAOSScast

CHAOSS on YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/CHAOSStube

CHAOSS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaossproj

CHAOSS on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/chaoss/

CHAOSS on Slack: chaoss-workspace

Meetings (Open to All)

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

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

Repositories

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

May 03
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 25-29, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (April 25-26, 2022)

Reminder: Mentorship Program Deadlines for GSoD is May 4

If you are one of our student mentorship program applicants for the Google Season of Docs program, this is a reminder about some important information:

Best of luck to all our mentee applicants. We are glad you’re in the CHAOSS community!

Volunteer Opportunity: Help With Our Maintainer Burnout Session 

As part of GitHub’s Maintainer Month (June), CHAOSS is hosting a one-hour interactive workshop on Maintainer Burnout. This is in the early stages of planning, but you can find more information in the initial planning document. We are currently working toward confirming a date and time, and the agenda. If you would like to help with this event, please reach out to Ruth Ikegah on the CHAOSS slack.

CHAOSS Meeting Changes

There are 2 meeting updates to be aware of:

  • No Asia Pacific Community Meeting this week because of the May Day holiday in China. The next meeting is May 18 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time.
  • The App Ecosystem Meeting is switching day and time to every other Tuesday at 1:00 pm US Central/Chicago time, starting May 10.

As always, these changes are reflected on the main CHAOSS calendar which you can subscribe to on the CHAOSS Participate page.

CHAOSS Web Content Meeting Revival

We are reviving the Web Content meetings, hooray! The purpose of these meetings in the short term is to discuss the redesign of the CHAOSS website. If you would like to be part of this project, you can join these meetings — they are open to everyone.

These meetings will happen every other Thursday at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago time, starting on May 12.

Reminder: You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, May 3
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

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

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

Wednesday, May 4
10:00am – Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Working Group Meeting (Agenda and Minutes)

Thursday, May 5
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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

Apr 25
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 18-22, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (April 18-22, 2022)

CHAOSS is Participating in Google Season of Docs!

We are very happy to announce that we have been selected to participate in this year’s Google Season of Docs mentorship program! If you are a technical writer and are interested in participating, we recommend you read the following:

Best of luck to all applicants!

New CHAOSScast Released: Episode 57 – The Ins and Outs of Large Scale Research with Hilary Carter

This week we were so honored to be joined by Hilary Carter, the VP Research for the Linux Foundation! Hilary chats with host Georg Link, and panelists Kate Stewart and Sophia Vargas about the way that the LF approaches the large scale research projects that many others rely on in their work. They talk about the planning process, creating surveys and collecting trace data, and how we can all collaborate and share insights with each other. This is an episode you won’t want to miss, and you can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/57.

New Issue Templates in the Working Groups’ Repos

Shout out to Matt Germonprez who set up all the working group repositories with three issue templates:

These templates include guidance for form and structure and when applicable, checklists for metrics quality assurances. Standardizing them across working groups is a great step toward making it easier for contributors to open issues, ensuring we are collecting all the necessary information, and completing all the steps for releasing our metrics.

Reminder: CHAOSScon EU 2022 CfP is Open

CHAOSScon EU 2022 will be happening on September 12, in Dublin Ireland, in conjunction with Open Source Summit Europe, and we are very pleased to announce that our CfP is open! We are interested in a variety of topics and presentation styles, so check out the CfP details on the CHAOSS website. The deadline to apply is May 30, so you have some time to draft that talk. We want to hear from you! (Sponsorship opportunities are also available if you’d like more information about those too).

Reminder: DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

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,  April 26

9:00am – Office Hours

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

6:00pm – Metrics Model Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, April 27

8:30am DEI Badging Bi-Weekly Meeting (Agenda and Zoom Link)

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

Thursday, April 28

10:00am Common Metrics 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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

Apr 18
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 11-15, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (April 11-15, 2022)

2022-04 Metrics Release is Official

The 2022-04 Metrics Release has now been officially shipped. 🎉 Huge thanks to all those from the working groups who worked on these metrics, and special extra thanks to Matt Germonprez and Yehui Wang for help with quality control, Vinod Ahuja for helping the working groups finalize changes, and Kevin Lumbard who is our release manager and keeps this whole machine rolling along. There are hours and hours of work behind the scenes for every metrics release and we are super grateful to the whole team for making sure things go according to plan.
This release includes 7 new metrics, 2 name changes, and 2 metrics who are now considered to be metrics models.
The 2022-04 Metrics Release, including details on new and changed metrics, can be seen on the CHAOSS website or in PDF form:

CHAOSScon EU 2022 CfP is Open! 

CHAOSScon EU 2022 will be happening on September 12, in Dublin Ireland, in conjunction with Open Source Summit Europe, and we are very pleased to announce that our CfP is open! We are interested in a variety of topics and presentation styles, so check out the CfP details on the CHAOSS website. The deadline to apply is May 30, so you have some time to draft that talk. We want to hear from you! (Sponsorship opportunities are also available, if you’d like more information about those too).

You’re Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16

Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we celebrate our amazing team of reviewers and the success of the DEI Badging Initiative! This will be a fun, informal virtual event, and of course, there is no cost to participate. You can register for the event here.

Over 50 Badges Have Been Assigned

The DEI Event Badging Initiative has assigned over 50 badges to open source events! The Initiative was officially launched in September 2020 and is so proud to have partnered with these event organizers to help center DEI in their events. Huge thanks go out to our whole team of reviewers, who volunteer their time to review and provide feedback on all applications. Special thanks to Matt Cantu Snell, who has grown and shepherded this program from its infancy and continues to be an integral part of the automated processes and badging bot. Amazing work everyone! Keep on badgin’!

Reminder: Mentorship Program Deadlines for Outreachy and GSoC Approaching

If you are one of our student mentorship program applicants for Outreachy and Google Summer of Code, this is a reminder for you that the deadlines to register your interest and apply are fast approaching!

Best of luck to all our mentee applicants. We are glad you’re in the CHAOSS community!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, April 19
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

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

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

Wednesday, April 20
8:00 am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

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

Thursday, April 21
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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

Apr 11
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 4-8, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (April 4-8, 2022)

Welcome, She Code Africa Mentees!

Please join me in welcoming Precious Abubakar and Iyimide Adegunloye to CHAOSS! They are our newest mentees under a mentorship program called She Code Africa. This is the first year we have been a part of this program.

Some introductions from them:


From Precious: I’m Precious from Nigeria (or “PDA” – my initials, either is fine). I’m a software developer (my top skills are HTML, CSS, JavaScript/ReactJs), and I’m also a writer (I blog about my transition from healthcare to tech, but I’m working on doing more technical writing).

 

From Idiyime: I am a Front-End developer who specializes in creating exceptional and dynamic user experiences, responsive web pages and web applications.  I work with JavaScript and React JS, Bootstrap, HTML and CSS. 


Precious and Iyimide will be working on a Slack bot to help newcomers find their way in the CHAOSS ecosystem, and improve our onboarding process. We are super excited to have them here! 

New CHAOSScast Released: Episode 56 – Using GrimoireLab to Understand the Health of Your Open Source Project

On this week’s episode of CHAOSScast, we are joined by CHAOSS community member Chenqi Shan from Huawei. Chenqi chatted with Daniel Izquierdo, Sean Goggins, and Venia Logan to discuss her work with building metrics models for the open source community openEuler. They talk about which metrics might be more useful for open source projects at varying stages of the project’s lifecycle, using OpenSearch, and the different components of GrimoireLab. We are thrilled to have Chenqi in the CHAOSS community and you can listen to this episode here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/56.

Reminder for our Outreachy Applicants

CHAOSS is very excited to be participating in Outreachy again this year, and we’d like to extend a warm welcome to all those who have recently joined the community! Here’s a reminder that we have a few resources available to you:

  • the #outreachy Slack channel for specific questions on Outreachy projects and for connecting with other Outreachy applicants
  • the CHAOSS Community Handbook
  • the weekly Community Meeting and Open Office Hours (details on joining those calls are below)

When you’d like to register your interest officially, you can add your name to this document via a PR. The deadline to apply for an Outreachy internship is April 22, 2022. Welcome, welcome new friends!

Reminder for our Google Summer of Code Applicants

For our GSOC applicants, we are also extremely excited to be participating in the GSOC cohort once again! Here are some resources for you, as you learn about CHAOSS and join the community.

  • the #gsoc-2022 Slack channel for specific questions on GSOC projects and for connecting with other GSOC applicants
  • the CHAOSS Community Handbook
  • the weekly Community Meeting and Open Office Hours (details on joining those calls are below)

When you’d like to register your interest officially, you can add your name to this document via a PR. The deadline to apply for the GSOC program is April 19, 2022. Best of luck and welcome to CHAOSS!

CHAOSS App Ecosystem Meetings on Hiatus

The CHAOSS App Ecosystem group is taking a break, so all upcoming meetings are canceled. This group will be reorganizing and relaunching at some point in the future. Thanks to all who have been participating in these meetings!

Metrics Are Being Finalized

We have an upcoming release for our new metrics (2022-04) so we are in the final stages of adding them to the release. During this process, there will be no PRs merged in for new metrics or revisions to the current set of metrics. Working Groups are asked to make sure all metrics are in the state they should be, and that they are all added to the translations repository. Thanks for your help!

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,  April 12

9:00am – Office Hours

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

6:00pm – Metrics Model Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, April 13

8:30am DEI Badging Bi-Weekly Meeting (Agenda and Zoom Link)

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

Thursday, April 14

10:00am Common Metrics 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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

Apr 04
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CHAOSS Weekly (March 28-April 1, 2022)

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Weekly Newsletter (March 28-April 1, 2022)

Metrics Release Update

Now that the 30-day public comment period is over and the Working Groups have made their final changes, there are a few minor tweaks to be made to all the metrics before the 2022-04 release. The release will happen in 1-2 weeks, so stay tuned! Thanks to all who provided final feedback and review. You all get many gold stars! ⭐️

CHAOSS Migrating From Mailing Lists Toward Forums

After much discussion, we have decided to move away from the traditional mailing list mode of communication and move toward a forum, to better facilitate open discussion and make it easier for newcomers to join conversations in progress. There is a committee of 10 who are working on this issue, with representation from a variety of the different parts of CHAOSS. We have an open ad-hoc Slack channel set up (#forum-migration-planning) so if you have experience migrating from mailing lists to Discourse, and you have feedback or advice we would love you to join us. We are just starting this journey! (And just for clarification, we will continue to use Slack for more immediate conversations and chat.)

Working Group Spotlight: DEI Working Group

This week in the Community Call, we heard updates from the DEI Working Group. This group looks at metrics that have relevance to diversity, equity, and inclusion within open source. A sub-group is focused on our DEI Event Badging Initiative.

This group included 2 new metrics candidates in the latest release:

  1. Project Demographics: https://github.com/chaoss/wg-dei/issues/402
  2. Event Accessibility: https://github.com/chaoss/wg-dei/issues/401 (will also be added to the DEI Event Badging Initiative)

This group also has been experimenting with the GitHub Project Board as a way to organize and categorize incoming issues and to-dos. As well, there is work going on in this group around creating a more comprehensive approach to the various mentorship programs we participate in.

DEI Working Group meets every Wednesday at 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time and the next meeting is Wednesday, April 6. Hope to see you there!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here).

Tuesday, April 5
9:00 am – Open Office Hours (no agenda)

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

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

Wednesday, April 6
8:00 am – Asia Pacific Community Call (Agenda & Minutes)

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

Thursday, April 7
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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources

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Data Use Awareness Recommendations Finalized

After many hours of work and much discussion, we are happy to have finalized our Data Use Awareness Recommendations. This document serves as guidance for those who are implementing our metrics and aims to educate them on the privacy and ethical considerations they should be mindful of when using data about their community members. The plan is to link to this document in every metric so that it is readily available. Big shoutout to Sophia Vargas, Lucas Gonze and Matt Germonprez who were the main drivers for getting this document finalized!

New CHAOSScast Released: Episode 55 – “Risky” Business with Dhruv Sachdev

Huge thank you to Dhruv Sachdev, a former GSOC student and CHAOSS Contributor who was kind enough to appear on our podcast for Episode 55. Dhruv was joined by host Sean Goggins and panelist Sophia Vargas to talk about his work with CHAOSS as a GSOC 21 student, his path to open source, and the evolution of the project he worked on. We appreciate you, Dhruv! The podcast can be found here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/55 or on your favorite podcast platform.

Welcome, Outreachy Applicants!

CHAOSS is very excited to be participating in Outreachy again this year, and we’d like to extend a warm welcome to all those who have recently joined the community! Here’s a reminder that we have a few resources available to you:

  • the #outreachy Slack channel for specific questions on Outreachy projects and for connecting with other Outreachy applicants
  • the CHAOSS Community Handbook
  • the weekly Community Meeting and Open Office Hours (details on joining those calls are below)

When you’d like to register your interest officially, you can add your name to this document via a PR. Welcome, welcome new friends!

Working Group Spotlight: Metrics Models Working Group

Last week in the Community Call, we heard updates from the Metrics Models Working Group. This group looks at bringing together groups of metrics from different working groups to build more context around questions to be answered.

This group has been working on creating a new Metrics Models template that can be used to create new models. They have also been working on ways to integrate the models with the CHAOSS website, visualizing and simplifying them for consumption, and integrating with CHAOSS software like GrimoireLab and Augur. They also provided us with an example metric: Responsiveness Metrics Model.

The Metrics Models working group meets every other Tuesday/Wednesday at 6:00 pm US Central(Chicago) time/7:00 am Beijing time. Hope to see you there!

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.

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

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,  March 29

9:00am – Office Hours

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

6:00pm – Metrics Model Working Group (Agenda & Minutes)

Wednesday, March 30

8:30am DEI Badging Bi-Weekly Meeting (Agenda and Zoom Link)

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

Thursday, March 31

10:00am Common Metrics 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

Working Groups

CHAOSS Resources