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 29 Episodes.
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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!
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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.