Open source projects and ecosystems organize events to bring together the community members. These events provide the space for collaboration, deepening relationships, and making new friends.
The CHAOSS App Ecosystem Working Group describes a set of metrics for event organizers. The metrics are designed to support four goals that open source event organizers may have:
As many open source communities grow larger and older, they may face problems managing members’ engagement. People turn towards metrics to understand large systems and prioritize resources, but there has not been a consensus set of metrics for understanding open source communities.
This is a report produced by X-lab and jointly completed with several scientific institutions. We wish to share the insights and metrics that were digged out through GitHub collaboration data with CHAOSS.
In the D&I Working Group, we worked on the Chat Platform Inclusivity metric and began exploring data collection on different chat platforms. To create an implementation for collecting data from chat platforms, we had a number of considerations.
https://handbook.chaoss.community/community-handbook/badging/overview
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A contributed article on The New Stack details how the CHAOSS D&I Working Group got started and evolved. Georg Link and Sarah Conway take a close look at the working group’s history and capture insights that are only known to those who were part of the evolution. The article outline is:
