New on the CHAOSS Blog: Defining and Measuring the Value of Working in the Open: Key Takeaways from the workshop at “What’s Next for Open Source?”
Last month, CHAOTICs Georg Link, Venu Vardhan Reddy Tekula, and Stephanie Lieggi had the opportunity to present a workshop on the challenges of OSPOs and working in the open. In this latest blog post, Venu and Georg summarize the key findings and high points from the workshop. You can read all about this on the CHAOSS Blog.
CHAOSScast Episode 91: Red Hat OSPO: Contextual Community Analytics and the AI Hype Cycle
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Matt Germonprez is joined by Red Hat’s Senior Data Scientist Cali Dolfi and Community Architect Josh Berkus to discuss their experiences in measuring and maintaining open source community health. They delve into their day-to-day roles, challenges, and key projects like Project Aspen, the importance of contextual metrics, and the impact of generative AI on their work. Also, they emphasize the importance of goal-oriented metrics and establishing repeatable processes in OSPOs. You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/91.
CHAOSS GitHub Sponsors Profile is Live!
After much work by the CHAOSS Finance Team, CHAOSS is now a part of the GitHub Sponsors community. If you would like to help us spread the word, or if you would like to become a GitHub sponsor you can do that on our GitHub Sponsor Profile Page. Thank you to all who helped get this set up, but especially to Georg Link who spearheaded this effort.
Reminder: Request for Feedback on CoC Response and Reporting Documents
The CHAOSS Code of Conduct Team drafted documents related to incident response and reporting, and they are requesting feedback from the community:
Please provide your comments directly in the documents above. Your input is highly appreciated!
Reminder: Let the Comms Team Help You Spread Your News!
Are you giving a talk at an upcoming conference? Have you appeared on a recent podcast or been a guest contributor to a blog? Is your working group looking for volunteers for a project? If you have something CHAOSS related and you’d like to share it with the CHAOSS community (both internally and externally) then let the Communications Working Group know! We will be happy to share things on the official CHAOSS channels. Simply login to Slack and then go to the Comms Team Submission Form (or type the command /comms team submission form) to let us know what you’re working on.
Reminder: Looking for Podcast Questions and Ideas for CHAOSScast
Alice Sowerby and the CHAOSScast team would love to hear your questions, comments, and ideas for new episodes of CHAOSScast! Feel free to send an email to podcast@chaoss.community with your thoughts.
Reminder: CHAOTIC of the Week Nomination Form
Have you noticed a fellow CHAOTIC doing something amazing for CHAOSS? Has there been someone who is going above and beyond? If you’d like to nominate them for CHAOTIC of the Week, now you can! With our CHAOTIC of the Week feature, we like to celebrate their contributions to CHAOSS and enable our whole community to get to know them a little better. It’s a great way to show appreciation for our fellow CHAOTICs so don’t hesitate to nominate someone here.