Samantha Venia Logan
Co-Host of CHAOSScast
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.
Samantha Venia Logan has hosted 27 Episodes.
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Episode 45: Fireside Chat: Metrics Strategy with Daniel, Sean, and Venia
8 October 2021 | 50 mins 43 secs
On today’s episode, we are discussing about the pitfalls since there are a lot of things that can go wrong when implementing your metrics from getting over the feeling of being lost in the data. Also, we’ll be talking about a variety of different communities from very small all the way to larger ones. Daniel and Sean share some frameworks they have found work really well for building and deciding metrics, and how metrics are assessed to make sure whether or not they are still relevant.
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Episode 37: The Orbit Model with Patrick Woods
18 June 2021 | 44 mins 9 secs
Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, 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. Today, we have as our guest, Patrick Woods, Co-Founder and CEO at Orbit, the platform that helps companies measure, understand, and grow their communities wherever they meet. He’s also the Co-Creator of the Orbit Model and the host of the Developer Love podcast. We will learn all about Patrick’s background, the history and future of Orbit, the central components of The Orbit Model, and its approach to getting insights to communities. Also, Patrick tells us a little bit more about the Developer Love podcast. Download this episode now to find out much 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 30: Databases, Privacy, and Licenses with Matt Yonkovit
12 March 2021 | 48 mins 14 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast. Today, we have an awesome guest with us, Matt Yonkovit, who is serving as Percona’s Head of Open Source Strategy (the HOSS), which does open source database software tooling. He also does a podcast called, “The HOSS Talks FOSS.” Matt tells us what Percona is and what he does there. We also learn what Percona wants to look at, then the stuff they can look at, and the value of privacy. He talks about the laws that have been enacted recently, being schema-less doesn’t really work, dealing with performance issues, implementing encryption schemes, and a talk he did at FOSDEM ’21 on “The Death of Openness and Freedom.” Download this episode to find out much 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 26: SustainOSS and CHAOSS
15 January 2021 | 43 mins 33 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, our episode is a shared podcast between CHOASScast and Sustain. Along with Georg, Venia, and Brian, we have Richard Littauer and Pia Mancini from Sustain. We had the idea to do this special episode because there’s a lot of work happening on sustaining software and understanding the health of our community, and CHAOSS focuses on what open source development is, how it works, what communities are, and how you can find metrics to figure out how something is. So, we will learn about the metrics, the Diversity & Inclusion Badging Program, and the three areas that CHAOSS has to get involved in. Also, we learn about Sustain, how it started, what they do, and what Georg says works well for the Sustain community that brought him in. Also, find out where you can get involved in both the CHAOSS community and Sustain community. 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 23: GSOC & Outreachy: D&I Efforts - Aastha and Tola
20 November 2020 | 50 mins 45 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we are continuing with our Google Summer of Code series and we have two participants as our guests, Aastha Bist and Tola Ore-Aruwaji, as well as their mentors, Matt Snell and Saleh Abdel Motaal. We learn all about Aastha and Tola’s projects that they worked on and what interested them in their specific projects. They will explain to us about the initial idea of their projects, how they affect the CHAOSS metrics, what they enjoyed most about working on their projects, the highlights, where their projects stand, and what their next steps are with the projects and their professional lives. Also, if you want to learn more about the CHAOSS Diversity and Inclusion Badging Program you can find out more about it here. 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 21: GSOC Pt. 2: Extending GrimoireLab projects with Ria and Venu
23 October 2020 | 35 mins 42 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! This episode is part two of Google Summer Summer of Code, which CHAOSS has been participating in for quite some time. Today, we have two guests, Ria Gupta and Venu Tekula, who participated in the Google Summer of Code 2020 with the CHAOSS project. They will tell us all about their projects they were involved in with GrimoireLab, how they started their project, their experiences, difficult parts they encountered, end results of their project, where they are in their projects now, and what’s next for them since Google Summer of Code has ended. 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 20: CHAOSS + FINOS: Lessons Learned with Rob Underwood
9 October 2020 | 55 mins 17 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, Venia is hosting, and her special guest is Rob Underwood, Chief Development Officer for FINOS Open Source Foundation. On this episode, we will be exploring a tool, a rubric of sorts, that has caught the eye of a lot of people at CHAOSS. We will learn all about FINOS and what Rob does there. Rob explains the philosophy behind selecting the metrics they did, and he tells us some big metrics he’s excited about. Also, Rob gives advice on what the first step is toward community leaders implementing and adopting this tool in their own community. Download this episode now, subscribe for free to this podcast, and share 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 12: How Social Marketing Interfaces with Community with Michelle Dalton
7 August 2020 | 45 mins 20 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we have a special guest, Michelle Dalton, who is the Community Manager for DigitalMarketer communities and uses Facebook groups. We are going to be discussing DigitalMarketer engaged community. We will learn Michelle’s interesting journey that led her into community management. Also, she will give us some insights on what she thinks she can bring to inform the Open Source Community and the onboarding experience and how important it is. Michelle also mentions their core values, which one of them is, “Always pursue growth and learning.” Download this episode to find out more!
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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 9: In Defense of Vanity Metrics
17 July 2020 | 39 mins 11 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! In this episode, Matt and Venia have an informal conversational exploration of topics on their mind. Venia has Vanity Metrics on her mind. So today, we will explain what a Vanity Metric is, the importance of community strategy and why we are using metrics, and why you should consider your community social scientifically in meeting limitations. Matt and Venia have a few stories to share as well! Download this episode now!
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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!