Matt Germonprez
Co-Host of CHAOSScast
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
Matt Germonprez has hosted 19 Episodes.
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Episode 34: Anniversary Episode with Georg, Dawn, Matt, Sophia, Elizabeth
7 May 2021 | 35 mins 47 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast. Today’s episode is our Anniversary Episode because the podcast launched one year ago! We will discuss how the podcast and the CHAOSS project has evolved. We learn why Georg wanted to start this podcast and the project, and the goals he had along with the success of the podcast in the last year. We find out from the panelists the episode that was most interesting to them, the impact the podcast has had on the community as a whole, where they see the CHAOSS Project evolving and heading from where they’ve come in the last four years. Also, Dawn and Matt talk about how CHAOSS is working on doing translations for Chinese and Spanish. Download this episode to find out much more! 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 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 14: The Theory and Future of Measurement with Chris Mercer
21 August 2020 | 54 mins 49 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, our special guest is Chris Mercer, from MeasurementMarketing.io. Our topic today will be on the theory and future of Measurement. Mercer tells us what MeasurementMarketing is and explain in detail the “Five pillars of measurement.” He will go over a few things that are important for people who are trying to measure their communities and what they should know. Also, how does the future of measurement going to impact CHAOSS will be discussed. Subscribe to this podcast and download this episode now to find out all this 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 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 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.