CHAOSScast
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Alice Sowerby
Alice Sowerby has hosted 22 episodes.
Alice is a friendly and thoughtful person whose career is centered around operational leadership in tech.
She's currently on a sabbatical but previous jobs include Program Director for Developer Relations at Equinix, COO at an MLOps startup, and a range of roles in product, engineering, and marketing teams in B2B tech.
What she loves most about work is raising people up through collaborating, coaching, mentoring, and servant leadership. Her strategic and problem-solving skills mean she is valued as a key member of many groups. She is active in the TODO group in the OSPO Book project, in the AI working group in OpenChain and in comms with the CHAOSS project.
Alice is based in the UK, in a small village near Bath. She enjoys travel, dancing, gardening and astronomy.
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Georg Link
Georg Link has hosted 73 episodes.
Georg’s mission is to help open source become more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting CHAOSS metrics and technology. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading and hot-air ballooning.
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Harmony Elendu
Harmony Elendu has hosted 22 episodes.
Harmony Elendu is a Multidisciplinary Product and Project manager with over three years of active experience and over 7 years in the technical industry functioning in design, documentations and Products.
With a degree in administration and a knack in program management, writing, research and speaking he has built different products in Blockchain, Fintech, Edtech and more, Contributed in open source and community oriented initiatives like GNOME Africa, CHAOSS. He excels both as a leader and a team player in diverse environments and specifications.
Contributing and improving different areas of the globe especially with and through technology brings great fulfillment to him while acting as his own quota in making the world a better place.
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Leon Nunes
Leon Nunes has hosted 2 episodes.
I’m a Tech enthusiast, I love tinkering with everything tech, these days I’m digital nomading in South East Asia, while also working as a Senior Customer Success engineer at a startup
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Dawn Foster
Dawn Foster has hosted 34 episodes.
Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a BS in computer science, an MBA, and a PhD. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.
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Elizabeth Barron
Elizabeth Barron has hosted 16 episodes.
Elizabeth has 20+ years of experience in the open source software industry, and has positively impacted thousands of people through her work in community management, event management, public speaking, project management, and technical and non-technical writing. She cares about creating a culture of diversity, inclusion and empathy, improving the experience of newcomers to tech (especially those from underrepresented backgrounds), leveraging open source for social good, and helping others foster healthy open source communities. She is currently the Community Manager for CHAOSS.
Additionally, she is a nature lover and award-winning photographer specializing in botanical and nature photography. Her work is available online and at selected art shows and festivals. Elizabeth lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Matt Germonprez
Matt Germonprez has hosted 21 episodes.
Matt Germonprez is the Mutual of Omaha Professor of Information Systems in the College of Information Science & Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He uses qualitative field-studies to research corporate engagement with open communities and the dynamics of design in these engagements. His lines of research have been funded by numerous organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Mozilla. Matt is the co-founder of the Linux Foundation Community Health Analytics OSS Project (CHAOSS). He has had work accepted at ISR, MISQ, JAIS, JIT, ISJ, I&O, CSCW, OpenSym, Group, HICSS, IEEE Computer, and ACM Interactions. Matt is an active open source community member, having presented design and development work at LinuxCon, the Open Source Summit North America, the Linux Foundation Open Compliance Summit, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, and the Open Source Leadership Summit.
Matt Germonprez is a CHAOSS co-founder, co-lead of the CHAOSS Governing Board, and regular CHAOSScast panelist among other things
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Ruth Ikegah
Ruth Ikegah has hosted 7 episodes.
Ruth Ikegah is a Backend Developer, GitHub Star, and Technical Writer from Nigeria. She is sparked about open source communities which make contributing to CHAOSS interesting to her. She is currently a reviewer at the CHAOSS Badging Initiative, responsible for reviewing applications for a Diversity and Inclusion Badge.
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Matt Broberg
Matt Broberg has hosted 7 episodes.
Matt Broberg is maintainer of the CHAOSS Value WG and co-host of CHAOSScast.
His day job is Technical Editor and Community Advocate for Opensource.com. He is a writer, international speaker, and open source contributor. He’s also a fan of tattoos and cats, though he remains unsure of Schrödinger’s.
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Samantha Venia Logan
Samantha Venia Logan has hosted 27 episodes.
Samantha Venia Logan is an expert in Online Community Management and full-stack marketing. She started her own YouTube channel in 2010, and RESCQU.NET in 2013. She worked for Constant Contact, and returned to college for a specialization in online community management. Then she attained all 12 certifications from DigitalMarketer. She spent the past 8 years learning the diverse skills necessary to develop strong stable online communities that make her clients' services and products integral to their function.
Samantha Venia Logan is one of the creators of the CHAOSS Social Currency Metric System (SCMS) metric and a regular panelist on CHAOSScast.
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Sean Goggins
Sean Goggins has hosted 31 episodes.
Sean Goggins is an open source software researcher and a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s working group on community health analytics for open source software CHAOSS, co-lead of the CHAOSS metrics software working group and leader of the open source metrics tool AUGUR which can be forked and cloned and experimented wtih on GitHub. After a decade as a software engineer, Sean decided his calling was in research. His open source research is framed around a broader agenda of social computing research, which he pursues as an associate professor of computer science at the University of Missouri.
Sean is also the founder of the Data Science and Analytics Masters program at Missouri, which he’s now passed on to people who want administrative empire. Sean’s publications focus on understanding how social technologies influence organizational, small group and community dynamics, typically including analysis of electronic trace data from systems combined with the perspectives of people whose behavior is traced. He lives in Columbia, MO with his wife Kate, two daughters and a dog named Huckleberry.
Sean Goggins is co-founder of CHAOSS, member of the CHAOSS Governing Board, lead-maintainer of the CHAOSS Augur project, and regular panelist on the CHAOSScast.
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Don Marti
Don Marti has hosted 6 episodes.
Don Marti cofounded the CHAOSS project and serves on the Governing Board. Don is currently working with Consumer Reports on a project related to the new California Consumer Privacy Act, and was previously a strategist at Mozilla and editor of Linux Journal.
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Brian Proffitt
Brian Proffitt has hosted 8 episodes.
Brian is a Manager within the Red Hat Open Source Program Office, active in community content, onboarding, and open source consulting. Brian also serves on the governing board for Project CHAOSS, a metrics-oriented approach to ascertaining community health. Follow him on Twitter @TheTechScribe.
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Nicole Huesman
Nicole Huesman has hosted 11 episodes.
For over 20 years, Nicole has applied her aptitude in storytelling to the technology industry, communicating the broader impact of the work of her engineering colleagues. She dove into the world of open source at Intel over eight years ago, quickly becoming a strong advocate across Linux, virtualization, cloud, containers, orchestration, mobile and web technologies, and more. She currently hosts a podcast series titled Code Together, which explores cross-architecture development with those at the forefront. She is passionate about cultivating inclusive communities that welcome diverse perspectives and invite intelligent, thoughtful debate to benefit us all. As an active contributor to the CHAOSS Project’s Diversity & Inclusion Workgroup, she is helping establish a consistent, cross-community definition and metrics for diversity. She is a frequent moderator, speaker, and writer in the areas of diversity and mentorship, and holds an MBA degree from Marylhurst University, with an emphasis in Marketing, and a BA from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. You can reach her at @uoduckswtd.
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Foundjem Armstrong
Foundjem Armstrong has hosted 8 episodes.
Armstrong is currently affiliated to MCIS Lab @queensu working on software engineering topics such as software ecosystem releases, DevMLOps, Data science models, and swarms intelligence. In particular, Armstrong's research uses mixed research methodology, including grounded theory, to investigate release mechanisms for large scale software ecosystems. Moreover, his skills in Edge computing is an asset to distribute models and swarms massively.
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Daniel Izquierdo
Daniel Izquierdo has hosted 12 episodes.
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open and inner source ecosystems. Currently holding the position of Chief Data Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing.
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Kate Stewart
Kate Stewart has hosted 5 episodes.
Kate Stewart is a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, responsible for embedded and compliance programs. With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China.
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Andrea Gallo
Andrea Gallo has hosted 3 episodes.
Andrea Gallo is VP of the Segment Groups at Linaro and is responsible for the activities on ARM servers, networking, mobile, digital home and IoT.
Andrea was former Fellow at ST-Ericsson and representative in the Linaro Technical Steering Committee since its creation in 2010. Previously with STMicroelectronics, he established the Linux software team in Bangalore working on the Nomadik application processor in 2004. Back in 1999 he was the technical leader for the ADSL and PSTN softmodem designs.
As a summer job trainee, Andrea worked at ARM in Cambridge in July 1987 and 1988 and for several years as a freelance teenager he wrote public domain software and articles for English and Italian magazines in ARM and Z80 Assembly, C/C++ and BASIC.
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Sophia Vargas
Sophia Vargas has hosted 13 episodes.
Sophia Vargas is a Program Manager in Google’s Open Source Programs Office, supporting multiple research efforts that span internal systems analysis, project health, contributor experience, and open source economics. Prior to Google, Sophia was an analyst at Forrester, covering data center, infrastructure and cloud strategy. Sophia holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College
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Matt Snell
Matt Snell has hosted 2 episodes.
Matt Snell is dedicated to improving the diversity and inclusion practices of the open source community. As a student and a mentor, Matt aims to use his newly acquired knowledge and skills to provide guidance to others. As a founder of the CHAOSS D&I Badging Project, Matt works to foster the adoption of best practices for diversity and inclusion.