CHAOSScon Europe 2022
Dublin Ireland
About CHAOSScon
Learn about open source project health metrics and tools used by open source projects, communities, and engineering teams to track and analyze their community work. This conference will provide a venue for discussing open source project health, CHAOSS updates, use cases, and hands-on workshops for developers, community managers, project managers, and anyone interested in measuring open source project health. We will also share insights from the CHAOSS working groups on Diversity and Inclusion, Evolution, Risk, Value, and Common Metrics.
Where
Convention Centre Dublin
Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, North Wall
Dublin 1, D01 T1W6, Ireland
Phone: + 353 1 856 0000
Room: Liffey Hall 1
When
September 12th, 2022
Time: 9am to 12:30pm IST
Live Streaming
Live streaming of CHAOSScon will be available on our YouTube Channel. No registration needed for the live stream.
Registration
Registration for the in-person CHAOSScon event is part of the Open Source Summit Europe!
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Event Details
Code of Conduct at Event
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Diversity Access Tickets and Family Friendliness
This event is co-located with the Open Source Summit EU, and the Linux Foundation offers Diversity Access and Need-Based Scholarship Tickets. CHAOSS and The LF also provide support in terms of travel funding for those who are in need. Additionally, CHAOSScon will be livestreamed for free to virtual participants.
With regard to family friendliness, The Linux Foundatiion provides:
- on-site childcare at the venue
- on-site nursing room at the venue
- family friendly social events, including a boat tour, 5K Fun Run, and a tea bus tour
The CHAOSScon team also plans to host an informal family friendly outing after CHAOSScon, but the details are to be determined. We recommend you join the #CHAOSScon slack channel for up-to-date information.
Schedule
September 12th, 2022 9:00 am to 12:30 pm Irish Standard Time
Time | Sessions | Slides |
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9:00 - 9:10 | Welcome Remarks | |
9:15 - 9:35 | Collaboration as a Key Health Indicator for OSS Communities Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar |
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9:40 - 9:55 | Sustainability: Tips on Building a Healthy Open Source Community Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode |
Watch on CHAOSStube |
10:00 - 10:20 | Building Bridges With Badges: How Metrics Help You Find the Right Crowd Katie Schueths |
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10:25 - 10:45 | Sifting Through the Noise: Behavior Change or Broken Machine? Sophia Vargas |
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10:45 - 11:05 | Break with Group Photo | |
11:05 - 11:15 | Open Source Newbie Experience on the CHAOSS Project Iyimide Adegunloye |
Watch on CHAOSStube |
11:20 - 11:40 | Present and Future of GrimoireLab Santiago Dueñas |
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11:45 - 11:55 | All the Bugs Belong to Me? Collaboration Networks and Project Health Kaylea Champion |
Watch on CHAOSStube |
11:55 - 12:10 | Lightning Talks Signup available the day of the conference |
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11:55 - 12:00 | [Lightning Talk] Creating a grocery store of metrics and models Georg Link |
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12:00 - 12:05 | [Lightning Talk] TBA TBA |
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12:05 - 12:10 | [Lightning Talk] (Time permitting) TBA TBA |
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12:10 - 12:20 | Closing Remarks | |
TBD | [In-Person] CHAOSS Networking Event Subscribe to the #CHAOSScon Slack Channel for news about CHAOSS meetups in Dublin |
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Speakers and Session Descriptions
Iyimide Adegunloye
Frontend Developer - CHAOSS Project
@cuteiyimi
Iyimide is a Frontend developer who currently volunteers with Mumswhocode. She is passionate about introducing people to tech and seeing them grow.
Session: Open Source newbie experience on the CHAOSS Project
I would like to share my open source experience with CHAOSS project during the Contributhon 2022. An initiative by SheCodeAfrica to introduce more women to open source contribution. The program introduced me to open source contribution and I was able to settle in and collaborate with others to build a bot for the CHAOSS Project. The bot welcomes and directs new users to the CHAOSS Community on slack; before the bot project, individuals had to welcome and give directions to new members. The program was a life changing experience that has impacted positively on my skills. There are lots of people out there who really don’t know how to go about contributing to open source and programs that can introduce them to open source contributions are really important for the open source ecosystem. This presentation will provide a holistic view of: - Contributing to open source as a newbie. - Highlight experience and knowledge gained.
Kaylea Champion
PhD Candidate - University of Washington
@kayleachampion
Kaylea Champion is a PhD Candidate in Communication at University of Washington. She studies how people cooperate to build public goods like GNU/Linux and Wikipedia, including what gets built and maintained -- and what doesn't. Prior to graduate school, she worked in IT as a consultant, system administrator and project manager. She holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. A Linux user since 1994, she enjoys tromping through the woods, smashing goblins, and cooking for a crowd.
Session: All the Bugs Belong to Me? Collaboration Networks and Project Health
What can our collaboration networks tell us about the health of our projects? From the spread of innovation to the spread of disease, the field of social network analysis has examined a dizzying array of interactions and framed them as a network. As we work together to solve problems in software, our collaboration effort can also be described as forming a network as well. In this talk, Kaylea applies network analysis ideas to the world of open source. This unlocks powerful tools for analyzing collaboration at scale. She'll be reporting results of her research to understand the relationship between collaboration network structure and whether a project is thriving or barely surviving.
Santiago Dueñas
CTO - Bitergia
@sduenasd
Santiago Dueñas is an open source advocate and CTO at Bitergia. He is part of CHAOSS community and currently leads the development of GrimoireLab platform. Before joining Bitergia, Santiago was part of LibreSoft, a research team at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where he studied different facets of libre software such as development processes, coordination and involvement in open source projects and their communities.
Session: Present and Future of GrimoireLab
GrimoireLab is a set of tools to retrieve, organize, analyze, and visualize data coming from software development repositories. Many things have changed since the last time GrimoireLab was at CHAOSSCon: new functionalities, a pair of successful Google Summer of Code projects, OpenSearch support… In this talk, we will introduce the new features and components of the platform and the brand new roadmap for the near future.
Armstrong Foundjem
Researcher - Queen's University
@foundjem
A Mixed-method researcher (Ph.D.) with interests in the intersection of software ecosystem sustainability and Human-centered design/A.I., release engineering (DevOps --AI/ML), software engineering for ML Applications, mining massive software repositories and datasets to find patterns and make predictions, software evolution and maintenance, empirical software engineering, edge/cloud computing, and human-computer interaction. Skills in robotics and Big data analytics. Affiliated to MCIS laboratory and advised by Prof. Bram Adams.
Session: Growing a sustainable software ecosystem, a socio-technical perspective
This talk focuses on the socio-technical collaboration among multiple contributors, which is natural in distributed open-source software development processes. In particular, this phenomenon is known as micro-collaboration practices, in which numerous authors contribute to the same commitment. To support micro-collaboration practice, GitLab and GitHub started supporting social coding mechanisms such as the Co-Authored-By: trailers in commit messages, which, in turn, enable the study of such micro-collaboration empirically. This talk provides an epitome case study of collaboration practices in popular open-source ecosystems such as the OpenStack ecosystem to understand micro-collaboration mechanisms, their benefits, and constraints. Thus, this talk analyzed over 1,804 OpenStack project repositories over nine-year and claimed that micro-collaboration code practice facilitates contributors to grow a sustainable ecosystem.
Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar
CEO- Bitergia
@dizquierdo
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open and inner source ecosystems. Currently holding the position of Chief Executive Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Izquierdo Cortázar earned a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is in an active contributor and board member of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software). He is an active member of the InnerSource Commons and Member of the Board of Directors as well.
Session: Collaboration as a Key Health Indicator for OSS Communities
Open source communities are people. Participants, contributors, and users are some of the roles that we already know and we have acknowledged some of them in the existing CHAOSS work. The very existence of public profiles developing software with whom you can interact, make decisions together, and discuss next steps is important up to the point that the alternative is to have close governance communities with low interaction and lack of initiative. Some OSS foundations and OSS projects (not all of them I can say) are indeed stating the importance of these other artifacts as key to a good open governance policy (as for instance the Four Opens by the Open Infrastructure Foundation) and having those discussions in a transparent, public and open way is part of their culture. How can this be translated into CHAOSS terminology? Collaboration. And how can we measure collaboration? This is the question. This talk aims at providing an initial set of existing use cases where collaboration is used as a metric of a healthy community, an initial list of metrics related to the collaboration concept that we can standardize within CHAOSS, and some existing CHAOSS-related [GrimoireLab] collaboration visualizations. As specific CHAOSS output for this discussion, I’d like to see this part of future work of some of the existing working groups and hopefully, add them as part of the next metric discussions.
Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode
Community Manager - Tunga, Layer5 and SheCodeAfrica
@oluwabamikemi
Atinuke Kayode is a Python developer, a Community Manager, a Technical Writer, and an Open-source lover.
She is a Community Manager at Tunga and Layer5, and also a Frontend Lead at She Code Africa. She learned through the community so she is community-driven and loves to help grow tech communities across the world.
She’s passionate about seeing young lads set their careers in tech, especially women and she desires to see more young women take up careers in technology. She was part of the writers of a book titled The Techie Chic, a compilation of inspiring female tech journeys. She shares her knowledge and thoughts on her blog.
Besides working on projects and writing, she loves to hang out with friends, socialize and read other developers' articles and also hosting Twitter Spaces.
Session: Sustainability: Tips on Building a Healthy Open Source Community
The success of an Open Source community depends on how healthy the Community is. Hence, It is important when building the right community should be the topmost priority of any open-source organization. It helps achieve a healthy community where the members have equal inclusion. We often think of a successful open source project as one that just tackles a challenge for the public. This perception has driven several open source project owners to start innovative open source projects without any plans on how to manage the community behind this project. In the end, increasing the number of dormant open source projects already existing. A successful open source project is one that is built on the collaborative effort of a healthy community. A properly coordinated community can plan and build projects and unanimously work together to ensure sustainable project performance. The responsibility of achieving a successful open source community does not rest on the community managers or the program managers alone but also on the whole community. During this session, I will be sharing; 1. How you can accept and implement feedback from members 2. How to give feedback to the community. 3. Improve the onboarding process for your new Contributors 4. The importance of community first approach in Open Source Community and a lot more.
Georg Link
Director of Sales - Bitergia
@GeorgLink
Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several open source projects and has presented on open source topics on many occasions. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting metrics and making open source more sustainable. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading fiction and hot-air ballooning.
Session: Creating a grocery store of metrics and models
This lightning talk is about how CHAOSS presents metrics and models using the metaphor of a grocery store. A grocery store manager decides on a layout of aisles, including where and how to present food in a way that people find the ingredients for their cooking. In CHAOSS’s case, we need to present metrics in a way that people find the right metrics and models for understanding their community. Similar to how foods have nutrition labels, CHAOSS wrote metric definitions and that helps decide which metric to use. Initiatives and use cases for metrics are comparable to recipes and meal planning. Using this metaphor, this lightning talk aims to help us rethink how we are presenting, sharing, and making metrics available.
Katie Schueths
Sr. Technical Project Manager - Indeed
@katie_schueths
Katie is a Senior Technical Project Manager at Indeed’s Open Source Program office. She is currently working on establishing an InnerSource program which will help Indeed engineers apply open source best practices to proprietary code. Prior to joining Indeed, she was the Program Manager at Leadingbit Solutions. There, she helped build an open source community through the IEEE SA OPEN platform.
She is a contributor to the CHAOSS DEI Badging project and has a passion for building incentive programs that positively impact the open source community.
Session: Building Bridges With Badges: How Metrics Help You Find the Right Crowd
People like to see a shiny sticker! Does a "Best of" badge on an event ad make you more interested in attending? Badges are important for attracting talent resources. For events and projects, they signal values that help potential volunteers determine their interest. Time is valuable; people only participate in the projects they believe in. Badges help safeguard this talent. There is no "one true way," but there are best practices for using badges! Badges help showcase that leaders actively monitor metrics related to practices that impact potential contributors and attendees. Both events and projects can show their health and dedication to excellence by obtaining recognition from a respected organization.. How do you know which badges to apply for, or what each badge means to potential volunteers/contributors? The CHAOSS Badging Project offers the DEI Event Badge, which represents an event's dedication to healthy diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. CHAOSS will be launching a project badging initiative that will also give open source projects a similar opportunity to display their dedication to DEI best practices. Join us as we look at how badges like this, and the metrics they capture, can attract the volunteers and contributors necessary to make your project or event more successful.
Sophia Vargas
Research Analyst - Google - OSPO
@Sophia_IV
Sophia Vargas is a Program Manager in the research and operations team within Google’s Open Source Programs Office. In this role she leads research efforts that span project health, contributor experience, and open source economics. She is also on the Governing Board and an active contributor to the CHAOSS community. Prior to Google, Sophia was an analyst at Forrester Research, covering data center infrastructure and cloud strategy.
Session: Sifting through the noise: behavior change or broken machine?
Data collected around open source projects is notoriously messy, and sometimes it just doesn’t smell right. So - how can you tell if you are looking at noise or erratic human behavior? When talking to every contributor is not an option, analysts must take systematic approaches to verify and interpret results. This talk will discuss examples of confusing or nonsensical values collected in the pursuit of project health, and the steps taken to investigate the accuracy of the results.Sponsors
This is a community-organized event, and we rely on sponsors to cover costs for coffee and other refreshments. If you are interested in sponsoring, please have a look at our sponsor prospectus. Thank you to our past sponsors!
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CHAOSScon EU 2022 Organizing Committee
- Daniel Izquierdo
- Dawn Foster
- Georg Link
- Kevin Lumbard
- Matt Germonprez
- Ray Paik
- Sean Goggins
- Sophia Vargas
- Elizabeth Barron
- Matt Cantu
- Vinod Ahuja
- Katie Schueths
Upcoming Events
Past Events
- CHAOSScon 2022 Europe, September 12, 2022, Dublin, Ireland, co-located with Open Source Summit Europe 2022
- CHAOSScon 2021 North America, September 30, 2021, Seattle, USA, co-located with Open Source Summit 2022
- CHAOSScon 2020 Europe, January 31, 2020, Brussels, Belgium, co-located with FOSDEM 2020.
- CHAOSScon 2019 North America, August 20th, 2019, San Diego, California, co-located with Open Source Summit 2019.
- CHAOSScon 2019 Europe, February 1, 2019, Brussels, Belgium, co-located with FOSDEM 2019.
- CHAOSScon 2018 North America, August 28, 2018, Vancouver, Canada, co-located with Open Source Summit North America 2018.
- CHAOSScon 2018 Europe, February 2, 2018, Brussels, Belgium, co-located with FOSDEM 2018.
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