Kate Stewart
Co-Host of CHAOSScast
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.
Kate Stewart has hosted five Episodes.
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Episode 57: The Ins and Outs of Large Scale Research
22 April 2022 | 35 mins 11 secs
Today, we are excited to have as our guest, Hilary Carter, who is the Vice President of Research at the Linux Foundation where she leads the creation of decision-useful insights into the open source technologies and standards underpinning much of the digital infrastructure on which the global economy depends.
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Episode 53: Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press
25 February 2022 | 34 mins 51 secs
Today, we are super excited to have as our guest, Avi Press, Founder and CEO of Scarf. Avi tells us all about Scarf, Scarf Gateway, the tools that compliment it, and details how Scarf is helping open source software developers use data effectively. Also, Avi shares something he was surprised about early on with usage of open source projects.
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Episode 35: Metrics for Downstream Users of Open Source with Justin Rackliffe
21 May 2021 | 39 mins 58 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode CHAOSScast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. Elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software, or short CHAOSS project to wherever you like to listen. On today’s episode, our special guest is Justin Rackliffe, who is the Director of Open Source Governance at Fidelity Investments. Our discussion will focus on downstream users and the metrics that downstream users of open source are looking at. Also, we learn more about SBOM and SPDX, and what Justin wishes from the CHAOSS Project to support him as a downstream user of open source software. Download this episode to find out much more! To stay up to date on future episodes, don’t forget to subscribe for free to this podcast or on your favorite podcast App and share this podcast with your friends and colleagues.
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Episode 29: Supporting Teams to Make Data-Driven Decisions with Stefka Dimitrova and Ivana Atanasova
26 February 2021 | 44 mins 27 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we have two guests who work at VMware’s Open Source Program Office, Stefka Dimitrova and Ivana Atanasova. Stefka is the Senior Open Source Program Manager and Ivana is an Open Source Engineer. They did a presentation at the Open Source Summit Europe 2020 about some analytics they did on open source communities and metrics, so we invited them to join us to talk about it. We also learn how they used the CHAOSS project’s Augur tool to help them with their project and how the journey has been for them. 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 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!