• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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 - watch mailing list for draft.

(alphabetical by first name)

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