Organizational Influence
Question: How much influence does an organization have on an open source community?
Overview
Organizational Influence measures the influence that an organization has on an open source community. An organization may influence the direction and development trajectory of a project, signaling some level of control within a community. This metric can also help open source maintainers track and measure organizational influence to add legitimacy to their projects and monitor the level of control by individual organizations. An organization's influence may also serve as a signal of how easy or difficult it may be for new contributors to contribute to an open-source project. It can also help an open-source advocate in an organization justify continued funding and support for engagement.
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Examples to consider when measuring organizational influence include:
- How many organizational members are contributing to a project - contributors. It can be understood as a ratio of (number of contributors from each organization with more than one contributor)/(number of contributors)
- Level and types of contributions by organizational members
- Organizations that are contributing change requests at a high rate in proportion to the community’s level of activity. For example, one standard deviation or less of other contributing organizations. Related to organizational diversity
- Organizational members on the technical steering committee
- Organizational members on governing board
- Organizational members in project maintainer roles
- Organizations sponsoring an open source project as a proportion of the total
References
Contributors
- Sean Goggins
- Matt Germonprez
- Vinod Ahuja
- Kevin Lumbard
- Lawrence Hecht
- Matt Snell
- Dhruv Sachdev
- Elizabeth Barron
- Matt Broberg
- Stephen Jacobs
- Peculiar C. Umeh
Additional Information
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