Meeting Break August 5-16
During this week’s Community Meeting, we decided to take a break from meetings from August 5-16, so CHAOSS meetings have been removed from the calendar. We would appreciate your help in communicating this to the working groups you’re a part of, so that everyone knows. Thank you so much and we hope you all enjoy the break!
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!
Attending FOSSY next week? Check out These Talks by CHAOTICs
While CHAOSS won’t have an official presence at this conference, many of our CHAOTICs will be at FOSSY next week in Portland, Oregon, sharing their knowledge and connecting with the community. If you’ll be there, be sure to attend these talks! (For more information about FOSSY, visit the FOSSY website.)
- From Data to Action: Using Metrics to Improve FOSS Communities (Dawn)
- A review of valuation models and their application to open source models (Sophia Vargas
- How to Chart your own Career Path in Open Source – A Panel Discussion (Ray Paik, Allison Randal, Dawn Foster, Ildiko Vancsa)
- Discussion: Scalability Through Open Source Hygiene (Ria Farrell Schalnat)
- The University of California OSPO Network: Building a Multi-Campus Efforts to Promote Open Source (Stephanie Lieggi)
- Your FOSS Productive Life! – The Vibrant Ecosystem around Applications (Sriram Ramkrishna)
- My Neighbour in Open Source (Harmony Elendu)
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.
Request for Information on Open Source Communities in Asia
The CHAOSS Asia Pacific Community is compiling a database of other open source communities in Asia. If you have any information to add to the database, please place it in this issue on GitHub. Thank you so much for your help!
CHAOSScast Episode 89: CHAOSS Practitioner Guides: Organizational Participation
In this episode, hosts Alice Sowerby and Harmony Elendu join panelists Dawn Foster and Elizabeth Barron to discuss the importance of tracking and measuring organizational participation in open source projects. This is the final installment of the series on our Practitioner Guides and you won’t want to miss this! You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/89.
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.
