Georg Link
Co-Host of CHAOSScast
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.
Georg Link has hosted 62 Episodes.
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Episode 22: University OSPO Metrics with Stephen Jacobs
6 November 2020 | 41 mins 45 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Our special guest today is Stephen Jacobs, Director of Open at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Professor at School of Interactive Games and Media in Golisano College of Computing at RIT. Today, we are branching out the conversations into different areas of metrics. Stephen shares his background, how he got his start, and the work he is currently doing with the Open Source Academic Program at RIT. We will discuss challenges in metrics and the impact it has in open and software. Also, Stephen tells us about a community of professors called, Teaching Open Source, and what their goal is. Download this episode now to find out more! Don’t forget to share this podcast with your friends and colleagues.
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Episode 19: GSOC: Anomaly Detection with Pratik, Akshara, Sarit, and Tianyi
25 September 2020 | 49 mins 23 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today’s episode is about Google Summer of Code. We have four amazing guests, Pratik, Akshara, Sarit, and Tianyi, who have been mentees through this project during the Summer 2020 with the CHAOSS project. What you will learn on this episode is the many different types of machine learning there are, and how many different ways it can be useful in the open source community to apply the methods that the students did apply to practical open source problems. We will find out what each student’s project was and the outcome they were able to generate. Download this episode now and don’t forget to subscribe for free to this podcast and share it with your friends!
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Episode 17: Growing as a Community Manager through Metrics with Antonio Nardella
11 September 2020 | 47 mins 23 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! On today’s episode we have special guest from Italy, Antonio Nardella, who is the Community Manager at IOTA, an open source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency for the Internet of things (IoT). We learn all about IOTA and what Antonio’s role is there. There are discussions about GrimoireLab providing metrics, what Antonio’s approach is identifying who’s in his community, what metrics he’s using, and what a healthy community means to him. Download this episode to find out more!
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Episode 16: Role Diversity with Silona Bonewald
4 September 2020 | 42 mins 27 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we have special guest, Silona Bonewald, Executive Director for IEEE SA Open, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. We are discussing Role Diversity and how it’s measured. Silona discusses patterns, how metrics were collected, and how open planning worked for them. We also talk about InnerSource Commons and the work Silona is doing with it. Download this episode now to find out more!
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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 11: Diversity & Inclusion with Emma Irwin
31 July 2020 | 46 mins 1 sec
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we have an interesting episode about diversity and inclusion as one of the themes. We have special guest, Emma Irwin, Senior Program Manager at Mozilla, focused on building and sustaining healthy communities. We will learn more about the CHAOSS Diversity Inclusion Badging Project. Also, we find out what the number one problem is that people make when they approach community health metrics. And, as we think about diversity and inclusion, and all the movements going on right now, Emma tells us what we can do to help. Download this episode to find out more!
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Episode 10: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Open Source with Frank Nagle & David A. Wheeler
24 July 2020 | 48 mins 40 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we have two special guests with us, Frank Nagle, Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School and David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation. We will discuss the use of metrics in looking at software identified by the Software Configuration Management systems. We will talk about CII Best Practices Badge Program and License Risk. And, there is a survey that you can participate in called the Core Infrastructure Initiative FOSS Contributor Survey (CII-FOSS Survey). Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more!
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Episode 8: Mautic Community with Ruth Cheesley
10 July 2020 | 45 mins 9 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! In this episode, we have special guest, Ruth Cheesley, Project Lead for Mautic Community and based in UK. Today, we will learn all about Mautic Community Health. We will find out what Ruth is doing with the metrics platform, her recently launched community healthcare dashboard, and participating in a Google Season of Docs. Also, we will learn about a program that enables contributors to take responsibility for specific areas of the Mautic project and become experts. Download this episode to find out more!
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Episode 6: CNCF, DevStats, and TODO Group with Chris Aniszczyk
26 June 2020 | 51 mins 31 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! In today’s episode, we have special guest, Chris Aniszczyk, Chief Technology Officer at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and co-founder of the TODO Group. Chris is here to talk about community health and this fastest growing Open Source foundation ever. We will learn how CNCF began their journey with metrics, the diversity and inclusion within CNCF, DevStats, and he tells us about what he does at TODO Group. And, if you are interested in starting an open source program office journey, download this episode to find out how and much more!
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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 4: GrimoireLab
12 June 2020 | 56 mins 2 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! What a great episode this is today! We have three guests joining us. Ray Paik, Community Manager at GitLab and Co-Founder and Board of CHAOSS. Also, Manrique Lopez, CEO at Bitergia, Co-Founder of CHAOSS, and Product Owner of GrimoireLab. And last, but not least, Valerio Cosentino, Senior Software Developer at Bitergia, Maintainer of GrimoireLab Projects, and Maintainer of Google Summer of Code. Today, we will be learning more about GrimoireLab and how it fits into the CHAOSS Project. Also, we will be discussing all the ways to gather metrics and the use of different tools involved in GrimoireLab. There is lots of great info, so download this episode now!
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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.