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 27: GSOD with Xiaoya & Jaskirat

    29 January 2021  |  37 mins 25 secs

    Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! On today’s episode, we are highlighting the work that was done by technical writers through the Google Season of Docs 2020 Program. We had two technical writers working with the CHAOSS project, so we split this episode in two parts so we can speak in depth with each one of them. In the first part we will speak with Xiaoya and in the second part we will speak to Jaskirat. Xiaoya worked on documentation for our Diversity & Inclusion Badging initiative, and Jaskirat worked on completely building out our CHAOSS Community Handbook. We learn all about their projects, the application process, their experiences, and what their future plans are. 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 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.

  • 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.

  • Episode 24: Starting a Metrics Company with Luis Cañas-Díaz

    4 December 2020  |  33 mins 19 secs

    Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, our special guest is Luis Cańas-Díaz, who Co-Founded Bitergia, in 2012. He also designed the logo for this podcast after winning a contest through the CHAOSS mailing list. We will learn all about how Luis started Bitergia, which specializes in providing information and metrics from libre software projects, and he tells us what he’s currently doing there. We find out the favorite metrics of Luis and Andrea and Georg explains why the diversity and inclusion metrics and the value metrics are so important to him. Also, something new on the CHAOSS website under “Initiatives,” where you can request community reports for your own community on some of the metrics. 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.

  • 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 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 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.

  • 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 18: DevRel Metrics with Mary Thengvall

    18 September 2020  |  40 mins 8 secs

    Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Our special guest today is Mary Thengvall, Director of Developer Relations at an open source process automation company called Camunda. She’s also the author of the first book on Developer Relations called, The Business Value of Developer Relations. We will learn what a DevRel is and why it’s such a unique position. Also, the hot topic of unintended consequences of measurement is discussed and the Orbit Model for building high gravity communities. Download this episode now and don’t forget to subscribe for free to this podcast and share it with your friends!

  • 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!

  • Episode 16: Role Diversity with Silona Bonewald

    4 September 2020  |  42 mins 27 secs

    Welcome to this episode of CHAOSScast! Today, we have special guest, Silona Bonewald, Executive Director for IEEE SA Open, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. We are discussing Role Diversity and how it’s measured. Silona discusses patterns, how metrics were collected, and how open planning worked for them. We also talk about InnerSource Commons and the work Silona is doing with it. Download this episode now to find out more!