
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
- 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