CHAOSS Meeting Change: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group
The DEI Working Group has decided to switch to a bi-weekly cadence, to align with the format of the meetings of the other working groups within CHAOSS. The next meeting will be on September 25, 2024 at 10:00 am US Central. To keep up-to-date with future meeting changes, you can subscribe to the DEI Working Group calendar.
New Practitioner Guide Available: Security
The latest CHAOSS Practitioner Guide on Security provides a high-level overlook of how you might start to retrieve and interpret basic security data for your open source project. It speaks to these three metrics as a starting point:
Like the other Practitioner Guides, it is recommended that you read the Practitioner Guide Introduction first, for more context on how the guides are written and important information about collecting and interpreting data.
If you have feedback or suggestions for other guides, please refer to our Data Science repository on GitHub.
Call for Event Badgers – New Event Badger Orientation Sessions
If you are interested in becoming (or learning about) a DEI Event Badger, good news! We have scheduled two upcoming orientation/informational sessions. There is no obligation to becoming a Badger by participating in these events, but you will be given the option to join the Badger team at the end of the event. You can attend either of these sessions:
- September 25 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago
- October 2 at 9:00 am US Central/Chicago
No prior CHAOSS experience is needed, and this is an easy and impactful way to begin contributing to CHAOSS.
New CHAOSS Slack Channel Available: Open Source Job Postings
For those who are hiring or seeking a job in open source, we now have a Slack channel dedicated for these kinds of posts. Feel free to join (and post!) in the #open-source-jobs channel.
CHAOSScast Episode 92: ISO Standards for Open Source Community Health Metrics
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby is joined by Sean Goggins, Georg Link, and guest Divya Mohan, to discuss the importance and process of establishing ISO standards for open source community health metrics. The panel talks about the basics of ISO standardization and how this can be of use for all those trying to define and track these types of metrics, which is of particular interest to the CHAOSS community! This is an incredibly educational discussion and you can listen in here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/92.
Open Source Summit EU CHAOTICs Talks
If you’ll be at Open Source Summit EU next week and you’d like to connect with some of our CHAOTICs, you can do so! We have a calendar of upcoming talks or you can see the full list of talks in our LinkedIn post.
Community Reminders:
Add your Community Contributions via an Issue on GitHub
We now have an easier way to add your community contribution to our community-contributions.md document. Simply open an issue using the CHAOSS Contribution Issue Template, and when you submit your issue, your contribution will be added.
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.
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.
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.