Dawn Foster
Co-Host of CHAOSScast
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.
Dawn Foster has hosted 30 Episodes.
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Episode 28: Human-Centric Operations and Metrics with Sophia Vargas
12 February 2021 | 41 mins 41 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Our special guest today is Sophia Vargas, Program Manager with Google’s Open Source Programs Office. We will learn what Sophia does at Google and what she does within the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO). Also, find out how Google looks at the life cycle of open source projects and what they do for their project leads and maintainers to help them take the right steps for their projects. Sophia shares with us how CHAOSS has helped in her work with Google and what her hopes are with CHAOSS in the future. Also, she tells us something she would like to start working on with having the ability to look at data completely anonymously. 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.
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Episode 13: Internews OSS Lightweight Needs Assessment Toolkit with Gina Helfrich
14 August 2020 | 48 mins 58 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, our special guest is Gina Helfrich. Dr. Helfrich is Program Officer for Global Technology at Internews, where she manages global programs covering two streams of work. She will talk about the BASICS project, which is where they look at how to strengthen open source security tools that journalists and human rights organizations rely on. You can also find out about The Guardian Project and how it has developed a methodology called Clean Insights. We will learn about the OSS Lightweight Needs Assessment toolkit she created and why CHAOSS was a source of inspiration for the toolkit. Subscribe for free to this podcast and download this episode now!
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Episode 5: Defining “Open Source Community Health”
19 June 2020 | 43 mins 59 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! In this episode, we are going to talk about what Open Source Community Health is. We will let you know what the foundations and basics of what CHAOSS is all about and what this podcast is all about. Also, we will discuss the different working groups of CHAOSS. Download this episode now to find out more!
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Episode 3: Augur
5 June 2020 | 38 mins 29 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSSCast! Today, we have three guests that are maintainers from the CHAOSS Augur Project. They are Sean Goggins, Gabe Heim, and Carter Landis. Sean is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri, CHAOSS Co-Founder and Board Member. Gabe is a senior at the University of Missouri, studying Computer Science and Carter is a senior at the University of Missouri, studying Computer Science. They are here to tell you all about Augur and how they play a huge part of the CHAOSS project. Also, Dawn tells us how Augur is used in VMWare’s Open Source Program Office. Also, they discuss all of their successes with Augur so far, and if you are interested in exploring Augur, find out where you could start. Download this episode now.
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Episode 2: Social Currency Metric System (SCMS)
29 May 2020 | 49 mins 55 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSSCast! Today, we have special guests, Venia Logan and Dylan Marcy of SociallyConstructed.Online. They are here to do some introspection on the process CHAOSS follows for defining metrics and to demonstrate this using the Social Currency Metric System (SCMS).
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Episode 1: "Hello, World!"
1 May 2020 | 33 mins 50 secs
Welcome to the very first CHAOSS Podcast! In this podcast, we will share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. There will be elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software or CHAOSS Project. It’s new, and new is always good. And hey, it’s got that new podcast smell ☺. Since this is the first episode, we’ll be finding out more about our panelists. Kick back, relax, and take a listen.