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The CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics OSS) Metrics Committee defines implementation-agnostic metrics for assessing open source communities' health and sustainability. The CHAOSS Metrics Committee goals are to establish implementation-agnostic metrics for measuring community activity, contributions, and health; and optionally produce standardized metric exchange formats, detailed use cases, models, or recommendations to analyze specific issues in the industry/OSS world.
All contributions to implementation-agnostic metrics and standards, including associated scripts, SQL statements, and documentation, will be received and made available under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
Join us at the Open Source Summit Europe in Praque:
Tuesday, October 24 • 9:00am - 1:00pm
More details to follow
As a community, we will initially focus on four OSS project metrics. The initial four metrics are complex, value-oriented metrics that explain a current state of CHAOSS member needs. The four metrics, and any metric thereafter, must not constructed in ways that incentivize problem behaviors within a community. The complex metrics are constructed from one or more activity metrics. Refer to our list of activity metrics for descriptions of activity metrics.
If, as a community, we should be initially focusing on a different set of metrics, post your comments to the mail list. This list is flexible and expected to grow over time. We can definitely change our focus as the community sees fit.
Diversity and Inclusion are known to challenge unchecked assumptions and lead to more open and fair collaboration practices.
Our work-in-progress is located in Diversity.md on GitHub.
An OSS community goes has states: growth, maturity, and decline. The state that a community is in may prove important when evaluating both across and within community concerns.
Our work-in-progress is located in Growth-Maturity-Decline.md on GitHub.
This informs how much risk an OSS community might pose. The evaluation of risk depends on situation and purpose.
Our work-in-progress is located in Risk.md on GitHub.
Many OSS communities rely on and are used in other open source software, creating interdependence throughout an OSS ecosystem.
Our work-in-progress is located in Dependency.md on GitHub.
The CHAOSS Project and the Metrics Committee is newly formed and was announced at the Open Source Summit North America on September 11th, 2017. The conversation about defining metrics is just beginning and we will continuously update the wiki based on the discussions we have.
The conversation about metrics is occurring on our mail list and weekly hangout. Updates and overview of what is happening within the CHAOSS Metrics Committee are shared during the monthly phone calls.
All contributions to implementation-agnostic metrics and standards, including associated scripts, SQL statements, and documentation, will be received and made available under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
The CHAOSS Metrics Committee is an open source project and welcomes all new contributors.
This Wiki is the central place for the CHAOSS Metrics Committee. We maintain the current status of the project on the wiki.
The mail list is the place for discussion and open for anyone to join.
The CHAOSS community has an IRC channel on freenode: #chaoss-community
There is nothing formal with this hangout. We come and go as our schedules permit. The hangout provides a permanent and regular space for metrics discussion. Topics include new metrics, how to interpret metrics, how metrics can be related to value, or whatever else you'd like to chat about.
We meet weekly on Tuesdays at 2pm Central US Time.
Feel free to stop by anytime!
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/67zc3kvkovelxctlilphwodlp4e
The monthly call is for updates to the CHAOSS Metrics Committee and broader community on the development of metrics, reports from the weekly hangout sessions, announcements of upcoming events, and updates from the CHAOSS Code Committee.
Next call: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
Monthly, every first Tuesday from 13:00 to 13:50 (US Central Time)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://unomaha.zoom.us/j/609939109
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or International numbers
Meeting ID: 609 939 109
We will develop metrics in our GitHub repository.
To contribute to the metrics, fork the repository and create a pull request with changes. However, the discussions are currently occuring in the mail list, weekly hangout, and monthly phone call.