Sean Goggins
Co-Host of CHAOSScast
Sean Goggins is an open source software researcher and a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s working group on community health analytics for open source software CHAOSS, co-lead of the CHAOSS metrics software working group and leader of the open source metrics tool AUGUR which can be forked and cloned and experimented wtih on GitHub. After a decade as a software engineer, Sean decided his calling was in research. His open source research is framed around a broader agenda of social computing research, which he pursues as an associate professor of computer science at the University of Missouri.
Sean is also the founder of the Data Science and Analytics Masters program at Missouri, which he’s now passed on to people who want administrative empire. Sean’s publications focus on understanding how social technologies influence organizational, small group and community dynamics, typically including analysis of electronic trace data from systems combined with the perspectives of people whose behavior is traced. He lives in Columbia, MO with his wife Kate, two daughters and a dog named Huckleberry.
Sean Goggins is co-founder of CHAOSS, member of the CHAOSS Governing Board, lead-maintainer of the CHAOSS Augur project, and regular panelist on the CHAOSScast.
Sean Goggins has hosted 27 Episodes.
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Episode 54: CHAOSS DEI Reflection Project
11 March 2022 | 30 mins 57 secs
Today, we are talking about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Reflection, which is a project that was internal to the CHAOSS project. Our DEI team that has been working on this is joining us to discuss the motivation for this journey, what they’ve learned, implemented, the metrics strategy, and the future of where they can take this work.
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Episode 49: CHAOSS Community Year 2021 in Review
3 December 2021 | 51 mins 34 secs
We are super excited for today’s episode because we are doing a “Year 2021 in Review” with our panel of representatives from the CHAOSS community from all around the world. Joining us today are Georg, Sean, Matt, Willem, Dawn, Nicole, Elizabeth, and Xiaoya. Our panelists tell us their favorite episodes from this year, we hear about new advances in software for CHAOSS Project, things that happened around metrics in CHAOSS, and DEI Badging for Events that was built out this year. Also, we learn more about conversations that happened from this year with metrics models, dependencies, and ethics guidelines. And finally, the panelists share with us where they want to see the CHAOSS Project going in 2022.
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Episode 48: Creating Appreciative Communities and Implicit Mentoring with Anita Sarma and Iftekhar Ahmed
19 November 2021 | 48 mins 48 secs
Today, we are very excited to have two guests joining us, Anita Sarma and Iftekhar Ahmed. Anita is a Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University and Iftekhar is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. They are here to talk about creating appreciative communities and implicit mentoring. We learn more about what socio-technical means, metrics to look at or use to understand if we’re on the right track, and some important things they learned from their research. Also, Anita and Iftekhar share their thoughts on how they see implicit mentoring and creating appreciative communities fitting together.
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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 41: Forecasting Sustainability with Vladimir Filkov and Likang Yin
13 August 2021 | 49 mins 22 secs
Today, we are super excited to have as our guests, Vladimir Filkov and Likang Yin. Vladimir is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, as well as a Data Scientist and a Software Engineer. Likang is a third year PhD student at UC-Davis working with Professor Vladimir Filkov. They are joining us to talk about their research into forecasting sustainability of open source communities. Also, we learn about the challenges they faced, how they overcame them, how they are expanding their research to engage the community more, and what their goal is.
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Episode 39: Leaderboards and Metrics at Drupal.org with Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen
16 July 2021 | 59 mins 8 secs
Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring and improving 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.
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Episode 38: Co.Lab and Increasing Diversity in STEM with Ruth Suehle
2 July 2021 | 39 mins 11 secs
Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring and improving 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, our special guest is Ruth Suehle, Director of Community Outreach in Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office. Ruth is here to tell us all about Co.Lab, which is Red Hat and open source in action, started in 2017 as an outreach effort to middle school girls to increase their interest in STEM and to teach them the fundamental concepts of open source. She talks about some really cool projects they did, how it’s grown over the past four years, and the gaming and tech space gaming curriculum. Also, find out how you can get involved with Co.Lab as a volunteer. 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 32: SmartSHARK: Reproducible Project and Code Analysis with Steffen and Alexander
9 April 2021 | 36 mins 16 secs
Hello and welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast. Today, we are very excited to have two guests, Steffen Herbold and Alexander Trautsch, who are behind the SmartSHARK project, which is a software ecosystem for mining software repositories. Steffen is currently an interim Professor at the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany and holds a PhD in Computer science. Alexander is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Computer Science of the University of Göttingen, Germany. We will find out all about their SmartSHARK project and what they’ve learned from the data. We learn from Alexander, insights on some of his research findings, and he explains what static analysis means. And, if you’re interested in exploring the data, find out where you can get started. Also, Steffen tells us if he had one wish for the CHAOSS project what it would be. 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. Also, if you have new ideas for future episode topics or would even like to come on as a guest, please email us.
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Episode 25: GSOC: GitLab Data with Abhinav
18 December 2020 | 22 mins 29 secs
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! On today’s episode, we are highlighting some Google Summer of Code 2020 work. We have brought in Abhinav Bajpai, who worked on Sean’s team on the Augur project. Abhinav tells us what he did at the Google Summer of Code 2020 and his total experience, from applying to the program, discovering CHAOSS, and deciding on his project. We learn about his work with GitLab Data, the new feature he developed, and the work he did with Augur. Also, we find out the most challenging part, how he overcame it, and how his experience was working with the mentors in the community. Since Google Summer of Code is over, Abhinav shares with us his plans for the future and where his journey is taking him. 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 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 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!