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====== Formation Meeting Minutes 2017-04-18 ======

===== Governance Document =====

  * Update:
  * One goal of the governance document is to encourage participation from the entire open source ecosystem and especially other foundations and communities not hosted by the Linux Foundation.
  * The OSS Health Metrics group will be one part of a larger group that includes analytics software seeded by [[https://grimoirelab.github.io/|Grimoire Lab]]
  * The Governance document combines these efforts while giving each part-autonomy.
  * For the OSS Health Metrics group, an important aspect is to be technology agnostic and create metrics that can be implemented by anyone, including but not limited to Grimoire Lab.
  * The metrics specification, documentation, queries, and sample code would be licensed under MIT license.
  * Name of group is still not decided.

===== Metrics Conversation =====

  * One concern for creating metrics is that they will be used inappropriately.
    * Metrics cannot apply to all communities because they are all unique.
    * Possible inappropriate use: thresholds for metrics to determine maturity from an incubation process
    * Metrics should not be used for comparing communities.
    * Metrics can provide a sense of changes within the community.
    * For example, is a community gaining momentum or is it growing?
    * We might not create metrics that are human centered
    * Using metrics to compare contributors and maintainers might not be in our value framework
  * No one knows what the right metrics are for any given purpose
    * We might determine portfolios of metrics used in combination to measure something we all care about
    * For example:
      * Momentum
      * Growth
    * The metrics can be combined to inform our understanding of the above, but for each community, we might choose a different combination of metrics.

===== Next steps =====

  * We finalize the Governance document but don't wait for it.
  * We continue the conversation on the mailing list.
  * We open up the bi-weekly calls and post the information on the wiki page.
  * We propose a BoF session at the Open Source Summit North America 2017 in Los Angeles, CA - [[https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/oss-health-metrics/2017-April/000020.html|watch mailing list for draft]].

===== On Call =====

(alphabetical by first name)

  * Georg Link
  * Kate Stewart
  * Kevin Lumbard
  * Matt Germonprez
  * Miju Han
  * Ray Paik
  * Sean Goggins