Active CHAOSS Working Groups

CHAOSS has three types of active working groups.

1. Metrics Working Groups

Metrics working groups are responsible for developing and maintaining metrics definitions and metrics models.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: This working group aims to bring together experiences measuring diversity, equity and inclusion in open source projects. This group is also responsible for managing the Badging Program. Co-Chairs: Adeyinka Oresanya and Maryblessing Okolie.

2. Context Working Groups

Context WGs are groups of people who share similar contexts related to open source project health. Context WGs are responsible for helping put CHAOSS metrics, metrics models, and software into practice in meaningful ways across varied contexts.

• OSPO: The OSPO Metrics working group aims to advance how organizations understand the value that open source projects can provide as well as the value of these programs / initiatives. This is a joint effort between the CHAOSS project and the TODO Group. Co-Chairs: Gary White and Dawn Foster.

• University / Academic: The University working group is a joint effort between the CHAOSS project and the OSPO++ community that aims to create a set of recommendations for metrics related to university open source software, particularly as they relate to what might be seen as “success” for university leadership, faculty, students, and staff, keeping in mind that these actors may evaluate success differently. Co-Chairs: Matt Germonprez and Stephanie Lieggi.

• Science / Research: The Science working group aims create a set of recommendations for metrics and models related to scientific open source communities. Chair: Sean Goggins.

• Data Science: We collaborate with data scientists and researchers to shape how we understand open source community health and make it easier for people to use CHAOSS tools, metrics, and metrics models to draw meaningful insights that they can use to improve open source project health using data science-based approaches. Co-Chairs: Dawn Foster, Cali Dolfi, and Sal Kimmich.

• UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The UN SDG working group focuses on using CHAOSS metrics to help understand the role of open source projects and their progress toward achieving the UN SDGs. Co-Chairs: Ruth Ikegah and David Lippert.

• Funding Impact Measurement: The funding WG aims to develop frameworks, metrics, and methodologies for measuring and understanding the impacts of funding on open source software development. Co-Chairs: Dawn Foster, Paul Sharratt, and Cailean Osborne.

• Package Metadata: The Package Metadata Working Group explores how different package managers capture, expose, and structure metadata. Chair: Damián Vicino.

• Accessibility and Disability Inclusion. This group aims to bring more People With Disabilities into open source, and they support other working groups with guidance on accessibility inclusion. Chair: Victoria Ottah.

3. Operations Working Groups

The Operations Working Groups are supporting the metrics discussions and are responsible for various activities and operations for the CHAOSS project. In the past, many of these efforts were called Initiatives.

• Communications: The Communications (or Comms) working group focuses on creating outward facing communication and promoting CHAOSS engagement (new contributors, sponsors, metrics users, and CHAOSS software users) to amplify the work being done throughout the CHAOSS community by its contributors. Chair: Alice Sowerby.

• Community Managers. The Community Managers Working Group has 3 goals: pushing the CHAOSS community forward as community managers, holding space to support each other in the community management tasks/blockers/ideas in our other communities, and sharing strategies from other open source communities. Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Barron and Maryblessing Okolie

• CHAOSScon: The CHAOSScon working group focuses on planning and executing CHAOSS conferences.

• CHAOSScast: The CHAOSScast working group focuses on managing the CHAOSS podcast. Co-Chairs: Harmony Elendu, Alice Sowerby, and Georg Link.

• Design. This is a CHAOSS Africa group that supports the design needs for CHAOSS and CHAOSS projects. Chair: Kingsley Mkpandiok.

• Education The Education Project is designed to act as an easily accessible collection of resources for newcomers to the CHAOSS project. Co-Chairs: Peculiar Umeh and Dawn Foster

• Project Managers. The Project Managers help other working groups and initiatives with project management assistance when needed. Co-Chairs: Peculiar Umeh and Busayo Ojo.

• Software Devs This is a CHAOSS Africa based group working to help new software developers find issues to work on at CHAOSS. Chair: Adeyinka Oresanya.

• Technical Writers This is a CHAOSS Africa based group that focuses on improving the documentation at CHAOSS. Chair: Harmony Elendu.

• Website: The Website working group focus on maintenance of CHAOSS Website. Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Barron and Kevin Lumbard.

Inactive Working Groups

Metrics Groups

• Metrics Development: This working group (formerly known as Common Metrics) focuses on defining the metrics that are used by multiple working groups or are important for community health, but that do not cleanly fit into one of the other existing metrics working groups.

• Metrics-Models: This working group develops models that include the integration of multiple CHAOSS metrics in a way that people would consume them in practice.

• Evolution: This working group was focused on refining the metrics that inform evolution and to work with open source software implementations. Future evolution metrics will be defined in the Common WG.

• Value: This working group was focused on developing metrics that describe value of open source engagement for individuals and organizations. Discussions about value are currently happening in the OSPO WG.

• Risk: This working group was focused on compliance and risk metrics in Open Source Software. Future evolution metrics will be defined in the Common WG.

Context Working Groups

• Application Ecosystem: This working group applies CHAOSS metrics in the context of an open-source app ecosystem. The mission of this working group is to build a base set of metrics that is focused on the needs of open source communities that are part of the FOSS app ecosystem.