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CHAOSScastEpisode 107: Guest Episode - Sustain meets Sean Goggins to talk about CHAOSS and AugerThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast- Episode 107
In this episode of CHAOSScast, we have a special crossover episode with Sustain, hosted Richard Littauer. Richard chats with CHAOSS contributor Sean Goggins, a tenured full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri. Sean discusses his extensive involvement in the open source community, particularly through his work with the CHAOSS Project, a Linux Foundation initiative focused on understanding and improving open-source project sustainability. Their conversation covers Sean's academic background, his role in CHAOSS, the importance of distributed...
2025-04-0342 min
SustainEpisode 265: Sean Goggins on Sustainability through CHAOSSGuest
Sean Goggins
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer chats with guest Sean Goggins, a tenured full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri. Sean discusses his extensive involvement in the open source community, particularly through his work with the CHAOSS Project, a Linux Foundation initiative focused on understanding and improving open-source project sustainability. Their conversation covers Sean's academic background, his role in CHAOSS, the importance of distributed leadership, and how metrics can impact the sustainability of open source projects...
2025-03-2841 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 91: Red Hat OSPO: Contextual Community Analytics and the AI Hype CycleThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 91
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Matt Germonprez is joined by Red Hat's Senior Data Scientist Cali Dolfi and Community Architect Josh Berkus to discuss their experiences in measuring and maintaining open source community health. They delve into their day-to-day roles, challenges, and key projects like Project Aspen, the importance of contextual metrics, and the impact of generative AI on their work. Also, they emphasize the importance of goal-oriented metrics and establishing repeatable processes in OSPOs. Press download to he...
2024-08-2237 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 84: Community Viability - how Verizon thinks about OSS riskThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 84
In this episode of CHAOSScast, Dawn Foster, Matt Germonprez, Alice Sowerby, and guest Gary White, Principal Engineer at Verizon’s OSPO office, delve into the world of viability metrics models developed for assessing the risks associated with using open source software components. Gary explains the creation process of these models, their application within Verizon for software evaluation, and the significance of engaging with the open source community to enhance project viability. The conversations also explore the challenges and considerations in d...
2024-05-1634 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 82: The AI Conundrum: Implications for OSPOsThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 82
In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Dawn Foster brings together Matt Germonprez, Brian Proffitt, and Ashley Wolf to discuss the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs), including policy considerations, the potential for AI-driven contributions to create workload for maintainers, and the quality of contributions. They also touch on the use of AI internally within companies versus contributing back to the open source community, the importance of distinguishing between human and AI contributions, and the po...
2024-04-2539 min
GreenPillSeason 3 - Ep. 8 - CHAOSS w/ Matt Germonprez and Sean Goggins✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://pod.link/1609313639 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.network/ 🟢 NEW! Greenpill NFTs 🟢 https://pods.media/greenpill Apple Show Link https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd 🟢🟢🟢Show your support on twitter 🟢🟢🟢 https://twitter.com/germ https://twitter.com/chaossproj https://chaoss.community/ https://twitter.com/sociallycompute http://www.seangoggins.net/ ----- TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Owocki Opening Reaction 02:23 Carl Opening Reac...
2024-01-3048 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 78: University Open Source EngagementThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 78
In this episode, host Matt Germonprez is joined by panelists Sayeed Choudhury from Carnegie Mellon University, Clare Dillon from the University of Galway and Lero, Allison Kittinger from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Data Science Institute, and Zach Chandler from Stanford University. They discuss the intricate relationship between open source software and university missions, the role of libraries in supporting OSS, and the collaborative culture fostering community and innovation. The overlapping terrains of open science, open scholarship, and open source in...
2024-01-3040 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 76: CHAOSS Goals for 2024 and BeyondThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 75
In this episode, host Georg is joined by CHAOSS members, Sean, Nicole, Matt, Elizabeth, and Dawn. Today, they delve into the CHAOSS Project’s goals for 2024 and beyond, highlighting efforts to establish CHAOSS metrics and models as formal international standards. The conversation covers their potential ISO standardization, strategies to grow the user community, the importance of increasing collaboration within the CHAOSS contributor community, and enhancing software contributions, acknowledging the need to value non-code contributions. They also touch on the impo...
2024-01-0142 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 72: Open Source Software Viability and Project SelectionThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 72
In this episode, our host, Matt Germonprez, is joined by Dawn Foster from the CHAOSS Community, Sophia Vargas from Google, and Gary White from Verizon. Today, they dive into the crucial topic of assessing the viability of open source projects for adoption within organizations. The discussion covers the intricacies of evaluating project viability, the challenges of project failure, and the necessity of continuous assessments. The panelists provide valuable insights on mitigating risks, leveraging metrics, and the importance of active en...
2023-10-1932 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 71: What's New in CHAOSS: Podcast Reboot EpisodeThank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 71
In this episode, the CHAOSScast team is back! Georg Link, Dawn Foster, Sean Goggins, Matt Germonprez, and Elizabeth Barron discuss the relaunch of the podcast after taking a short break. They delve into the fascinating world of open source community health, focusing on metrics, metric models, and the CHAOSS Project’s role in measuring the health of open source communities. They share insights on how they’re working to make metrics more accessible and how they interpret these metrics within...
2023-10-0547 min
Data in the HallwayOpen source community metricsIn this episode, we discuss with our guest Matt Germonprez (Professor at University of Nebraska-Omaha) the history of academic research on open source and open source community health. We then discuss the CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software) project including how the project got started and how it has evolved to address the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) efforts in communities. CHAOSS Community: https://chaoss.community/ OSS Insight: https://ossinsight.io/ If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com. ————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————
2023-07-0738 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 54: CHAOSS DEI Reflection ProjectHello 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. On today’s episode, we are talking about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Reflection, which is a project that we had at CHAOSS Community to look at our own practices and how we can make our community more welcoming and inclusive, and we were fortunate to receive a grant from the Ford Foundation to complete this wo...
2022-03-1130 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 50: Recognizing all Kinds of Labor in Open Source Ecosystems with Amanda, Katie, and JohnHello 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 three amazing guests with us, Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin, and John Meluso. Amanda is a Developer Relations Engineer and researcher at Google at the Open Source Programs Office, Katie is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google, and John is the OCEAN Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vermont. They are with...
2022-01-1445 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 49: CHAOSS Community Year 2021 in ReviewHello 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. We are super excited for today’s episode because we are doing a “Year 2021 in Review” with our panel of representatives from the CHAOSS community from all around the world. Joining us today are Georg, Sean, Matt, Willem, Dawn, Nicole, Elizabeth, and Xiaoya. Our panelists tell us their favorite episodes from this year, we hear a...
2021-12-0351 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 44: GSOC: M.A.R.S. Project - Metrics Automated Release System with Yash and RitikHello 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, 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...
2021-09-2435 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 36: CHAOSS DEI Badging Initiative with Rachel Braun and Celia StampsPanelists
Georg Link | Matt Snell | Ruth Ikegah | Matt Germonprez
Guest
Rachel Braun
Celia Stamps
Sponsor
SustainOSS
Show Notes
[00:02:50] Rachel and Celia tell us what they do at the Linux Foundation.
[00:04:15] We learn what the goal was of starting the DEI Badging Initiative from the CHAOSS perspective.
[00:07:21] Rachel and Celia tell us why it’s important for events to take part in the badging initiative.
[00:10:46] Find out about the process of getting a badge.
[00:13:38] Ruth and Rachel ex...
2021-06-0434 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 34: Anniversary Episode with Georg, Dawn, Matt, Sophia, ElizabethPanelists
Georg Link | Dawn Foster | Matt Germonprez | Sophia Vargas | Elizabeth Barron
Sponsor
SustainOSS
Show Notes
[00:04:29] Georg dives right in to tell us why he wanted to start this podcast and the project, also, we learn the early goals he had with the podcast and the success the podcast has had in the last year. He mentions different episodes to check out.
[00:08:00] Dawn tells us what she’s appreciated about the CHAOSS podcast over the year.
[00:09:42] Dawn, Sophia, and Matt share the episode that was most in...
2021-05-0735 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 29: Supporting Teams to Make Data-Driven Decisions with Stefka Dimitrova and Ivana AtanasovaPanelists
Kate Stewart | Matt Germonprez | Georg Link
Guests
Stefka Dimitrova
Ivana Atanasova
Sponsor
SustainOSS
Show Notes
[00:02:17] Stefka and Ivana tell us about themselves and what they do at VMware.
[00:04:01] We learn more about what Stefka and Ivana talked about at the presentation at the OSS Europe 2020 with the metrics, why they did the analytics on open source communities, and what goals they had in mind.
[00:06:39] Stefka talks more about identifying reasons why a project fails, what she’s observed, and wh...
2021-02-2644 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 22: University OSPO Metrics with Stephen JacobsPanelists
Georg Link | Brian Proffitt | Matt Germonprez
Guest
Stephen Jacobs
Show Notes
[00:03:18] Stephen tells us his background and how he got his start.
[00:08:00] From his early experiences with One Laptop per Child, Stephen tells us some things that are still relevant today with the work he’s doing around open source and the connection between where he started and where he’s at today.
[00:10:23] Brian asks Stephen if he has some immediate goals for the open source academic program that he’s continuing at RIT.
...
2020-11-0641 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 14: The Theory and Future of Measurement with Chris MercerPanelists
Venia | Don | Matt Germonprez
Guest
Chris Mercer
Show Notes
[00:02:25] Mercer tells us what exactly MeasurementMarketing is.
[00:04:47] Matt asks Mercer how he filters through all of the digital data that’s available to us to make sure that this is somehow meaningful as a great tool.
[00:08:09] Don brings up Facebook’s instructions on digital marketing 101 and wants to know if that’s a thing that can be done. He also wants to know from a competitive point of view if Mercer is concerned about data going over to oth...
2020-08-2154 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 5: Defining “Open Source Community Health”Panelists
Dawn Foster | Matt Germonprez | Sean Goggins | Georg Link | Don Marti
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
[00:02:43] Georg explains Open Source, Open Source Community, and Open Source Community Health.
[00:04:25] The rest of the panelists give their opinions on Open Source Community Health.
[00:08:04] Dawn talks about OpenSSL, which is an Open Source project that is in use by almost every single big company in the world but maintained by only a couple of people who could barely afford to do it.
[00:08:45] Don wonders if Open Source...
2020-06-1943 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 3: AugurPanelists
Matt Broberg | Dawn Foster | Matt Germonprez | Georg Link
Guest
Sean Goggins
Gabe Heim
Carter Landis
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
[00:02:23] Sean and Gabe explain what Augur is and how Augur is an integral part of the CHAOSS project.
[00:04:37] Carter explains some of the things he’s helped the team accomplish recently with getting Augur to be really easy to install, run, and configure.
[00:06:29] Gabe talks about how people are using Jupyter Notebooks with Augur.
[00:07:44] Georg is curious to learn a little more about why th...
2020-06-0538 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 1: "Hello, World!"Panelists
Georg Link | Matt Broberg | Dawn Foster | Matt Germonprez
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
Welcome to the very first CHAOSS Podcast! In this podcast, we will share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. There will be elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software or CHAOSS Project. It’s new, and new is always good. And hey, it’s got that new podcast smell ☺. Since this is the first episode, we’ll be finding out more about our panelists. Kick bac...
2020-05-0133 min