Luis Cañas-Díaz
Special guest
Luis is a co-founder of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems. During the last 12 years, he has been analyzing OSS projects. Luis holds a degree in computer science from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, where he worked for a decade in a research group specialized in the analysis of OSS communities. Nowadays, he is a consultant at Bitergia and is focused on providing metrics with the data offered by the GrimioreLab platform, one of the software solutions developed in the CHAOSS project.
Luis Cañas-Díaz has been a guest on 4 episodes.
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Episode 105: GrimoireLab at Thunderbird
6 March 2025 | 34 mins 42 secs
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby introduces guests Heather Ellsworth, Wayne Mery, and Luis Cañas-Díaz. Today, the conversation focuses on the collaboration between Thunderbird and Bitergia, detailing their journey in using Grimoire Lab to gather community metrics. Key points include the importance of metrics in understanding community dynamics, the various tools monitored for data collection, and the impact of these metrics on community management. The panelists also share advice for other open source projects considering adopting Grimoire Lab and reflect on future plans. Press download now to hear more!
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Episode 93: Guest Episode - Sustain meets CHAOSScast to talk about Practitioner Guides
19 September 2024 | 40 mins 12 secs
In this episode of CHAOSScast, it’s a crossover with Sustain, host Richard Littauer is joined by three guests, Dawn Foster, Elizabeth Barron, and Luis Cañas Diaz, to discuss the CHAOSS Project's recent development of Practitioner Guides. The show delves into the purpose of these guides, which are designed to help open source projects interpret and utilize metrics to improve community health and sustainability. The guests explain the significance of metrics in open source projects, the challenges of defining and making them accessible, and how the guides can benefit different types of projects, from large corporations to individual developers. Topics covered include the background and format of the guides, specifics on the metrics discussed, and the practical applications and improvements these guides aim to facilitate. Go ahead and download this episode now!
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Episode 85: Introducing CHAOSS Practitioner Guides: #1 Responsiveness
30 May 2024 | 31 mins 51 secs
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby is joined with Dawn Foster and special guest, Luis Cañas-Díaz from Bitergia. Today, they delve into the Practitioner Guide series created by CHAOSS, particularly focusing on the Responsiveness Guide authored by Dawn. The conversation highlights the challenges people face in interpreting data and metrics within their projects and how the guides aim to provide actionable insights for improvement. Additionally, they touch on the potential risks of misinterpreting metrics and stress the importance of context and direct involvement from project teams to effectively address responsiveness issues. The episode also covers future directions for the guide series and ways the community can contribute and provide feedback. Press download to hear more!
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Episode 24: Starting a Metrics Company with Luis Cañas-Díaz
4 December 2020 | 33 mins 19 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, our special guest is Luis Cańas-Díaz, who Co-Founded Bitergia, in 2012. He also designed the logo for this podcast after winning a contest through the CHAOSS mailing list. We will learn all about how Luis started Bitergia, which specializes in providing information and metrics from libre software projects, and he tells us what he’s currently doing there. We find out the favorite metrics of Luis and Andrea and Georg explains why the diversity and inclusion metrics and the value metrics are so important to him. Also, something new on the CHAOSS website under “Initiatives,” where you can request community reports for your own community on some of the metrics. Download this episode now to find out more! Don’t forget to subscribe for free to this podcast and share this podcast with your friends and colleagues.