CHAOSScast

The CHAOSS Community podcast elevates conversations about metrics, analytics, and software for measuring open source community health.

About the show

This CHAOSS Community podcast features members who spent considerable time and effort to understand open source community health and how we can measure it through metrics, analytics, and software. We invite guests to this podcast to talk about how they use open source community health metrics and software in their own open source communities, companies, or foundations. This podcast fills the gap with open source community metric definitions and software on one side and their use on the other side.

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Episodes

  • 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.

  • Episode 44: GSOC: M.A.R.S. Project - Metrics Automated Release System with Yash and Ritik

    24 September 2021  |  35 mins 26 secs

    Today, we have with us Yash and Ritik, who are two students that worked with us this summer with the Google Summer of Code 2021, on automating the CHAOSS Metric Release. We are going to discuss the CHAOSS M.A.R.S. Project and learn all about what it is and what problem it solves. They also go in depth about the process of releasing the metrics, as well as how they went about doing the Translations of CHAOSS metrics. Yash and Ritik also share what their favorite part of the experience was participating in Google Summer of Code in the CHAOSS Project.

  • Episode 43: Growing the CHAOSS Community Globally - CHAOSS 社区的全球化故事 - with Xiaoya, Willem, King, and Clement

    10 September 2021  |  34 mins 54 secs

    Today, we are super excited to have four guests who are here to highlight work that is happening in the CHAOSS Project in the Asia Pacific Region. We have Xiaoya Xia, Willem Jiang, King Gao, and Clement Li joining us. Today, we learn each of them do with the CHAOSS Project in the Asia Pacific Region. Also, we find out how it got started and what’s bringing people in. They go in depth explaining the value that CHAOSS metrics provides and share stories about different metrics they found valuable in how they understand project health and how they’re using metrics.

  • Episode 42: Hidden Infrastructure: The Foundations of Open Source with Josh Simmons

    27 August 2021  |  45 mins 30 secs

    We are super excited to have as our guest, Josh Simmons, who is President of the Open Source Initiative and Ecosystem Strategy Lead at Tidelift. Today, we will be talking with Josh all about Open Source Foundations and the topic of “Hidden Infrastructure” which is very relevant to community health.

  • 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.

  • Episode 40: A Call for Qualitative Developer-First Metrics with Terrence Chen

    30 July 2021  |  42 mins 15 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Episode 36: CHAOSS DEI Badging Initiative with Rachel Braun and Celia Stamps

    4 June 2021  |  34 mins 27 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 two guests from the Linux Foundation, Rachel Braun and Celia Stamps, who are here to talk about the Diversity & Inclusion Badging Initiative at the CHAOSS Project. They are applicants to the project who earned the gold badge for various events that they’re hosting. We will learn how this badging process works as Rachel and Celia share what they’ve done, what they’ve learned, and what they’re looking to do. 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.