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Jun 13 2023
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Welcome Dr. Dawn Foster as the new Director of Data Science for CHAOSS!

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We are unbelievably excited to announce that Dr. Dawn Foster will be joining the CHAOSS project full time in August 2023, helping direct community data science efforts. To date, the CHAOSS project has been focused on developing software, metrics, and programs aimed at helping people and organizations better understand the health of open source communities they care about. While we are proud of our impact to date, with Dawn’s energy, we will be able to strategically focus on data-driven questions that are important for corporate OSPOs, university OSPOs, and scientific software communities among others.

Dr. Dawn Foster

Dawn joins us from VMware where she is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO. She is a Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS, co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG, and OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, governance, metrics, and more.

Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and a BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at over 100 industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, KubeCon, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more. In her spare time, she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

Developing a CHAOSS data science effort is intended to help organizations ask complex questions, identify data to address these questions, and effectively use the results to inform decision-making processes. We hope that you can join us in welcoming and supporting Dawn as she takes on these challenges to support all with an interest.

Apr 28 2023
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CHAOSSweekly (April 24-28, 2023)

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Last Chance to Register for CHAOSScon NA 2023

CHAOSScon NA 2023, will be held in the afternoon of May 9, 2023, in conjunction with Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver BC, Canada. You can view the schedule here. In-person registration is $20 USD and registration for OSSNA is a pre-requisite. Live streaming will be available for free, but registration for OSSNA virtual is required. You can register for both events on the OSSNA registration page. Sponsorship is also available, so if you’re interested in sponsoring, feel free to reach out. Hope you can join us, either in-person or virtually, and don’t forget to register!

CHAOSScon Africa 2023 – Save the Date!

The CHAOSS Africa community is planning the very first CHAOSScon Africa for June 14! This will be in Lagos, Nigeria, and will be co-located with the Open Source Community Africa Festival. Specific details for the event are still being coordinated, so stay tuned for more information!

Recent Metrics Released

In the past few months, we released a few metrics that we wanted to share with you, in case you missed them!
  • Change Request Closure Ratio – Is the project keeping up with change requests?
  • Release Frequency – How often does a project publish a release of their software / artifact?
  • Event Location Inclusivity – Is the event located in a region where governments, cultural contexts, or society may cause harm to the physical safety and/or psychological safety of event attendees?
  • Public Health and Safety – To what extent does your event address public health through policies around masks, vaccines, COVID testing, and in infrastructure such as ventilation and air purification in indoor venues?
  • Newcomer Experience – How well does an open source community attend to welcoming newcomers?
We have a variety of other metrics we are preparing to release, including:
  • Project Access – To what extent does your project provide access and help those with various access needs?
  • Communication Transparency – How transparent is project communication?
  • Event Location Equity – Where are open source project events located and are they located in regions that are accessible to all community members?
If you have an interest in helping build these metrics or discussing these topics, we’d love for you to join us at the applicable working group meetings, which are open to everyone. Check our Community Calendar for a full list of when these meetings are taking place.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS Community Zoom link (https://zoom.us/my/chaoss). All meetings listed here are in US Central / Chicago Time Zone, currently on Daylight Savings Time (UTC -5). You can convert to your local time here. You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar or watch for meeting reminders that are posted daily in the #general channel in Slack.

Monday, May 1

7:00 am Getting Started with Augur (no agenda)

Tuesday, May 2

9:00 am Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda) 11:00 am CHAOSS Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, May 3

8:30 am Community Knowledgebase Audit Team (ad hoc, temporary meetings) 10:00 am Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, May 4 🤩

9:00 am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda) 11:00 am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)