Today at Open Source Bridge, I’ll be leading a session about Open Source Community Metrics: Tips and Techniques for Measuring Participation at 3:45pm in B302.
Do you know what people are really doing in your open source project? The best thing about open source projects is that you have all of your community data in the public at your fingertips. You just need to know how to gather the data about your open source community so that you can hack it all together to get something interesting that you can really use. Having good community data and metrics for your open source project is a great way to understand what works and what needs improvement over time, and metrics can also be a nice way to highlight contributions from key project members. This session will focus on tips and techniques for collecting and analyzing metrics from tools commonly used by open source projects using examples from what I’ve learned doing MeeGo metrics.
A few topics:
- General guidance for coming up with a set of metrics that makes sense for your project.
- Tips and techniques for collecting metrics from tools commonly used by open source projects: Bugzilla, MediaWiki, Mailman, IRC and more.
- General approaches and technical details about using various data collection tools, like mlstats.
- Techniques for sharing this data with your community and highlighting contributions from key community members.
For anyone who loves playing with data as much as I do, metrics can be a fun way to see what your community members are really doing in your open source project. It’s like people watching, but with data.
We are less than a week away from a great topic for the next Portland MeeGo Meetup on June 20th at 6:30pm! Gail Frederick, mobile developer and MeeGo product planner at Intel will be talking about the evolution of the overall mobile ecosystem with some insights into how MeeGo fits into this broader ecosystem. RSVP on Plancast.
Topic: The Evolving Mobile Ecosystem and MeeGo
Description: The mobile ecosystem is evolving rapidly with many different operating systems, devices and applications offering choices for consumers and device manufacturers. In this presentation, Gail will offer her insights about how the mobile ecosystem is evolving and where it is going along with some insights into how MeeGo might fit into the broader mobile ecosystem over time.
Bio: Gail Rahn Frederick works at Intel as a product planner for MeeGo. In her own time, she is an author, occasional developer and evangelist for standards-based Mobile Web and mobile application development. Her mobile applications and mobile web sites have been deployed to 10+ mobile operators in North America and Europe.
Rough Agenda:
- 6:30 – 7:00: Hang out and talk to other people interested in MeeGo.
- 7:00 – 8:00: The Evolving Mobile Ecosystem and MeeGo presented by Gail Frederick
Logistics:
- Date: June 20.
- Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
- Location: Kells Irish Pub at 112 SW 2nd Ave.
It would be great if you could RSVP on Plancast to let us know how many seats and snacks we should have available.
After an additional round of proofreading and a few more tweaks to the cover to get everything just right, my What Dawn Eats: Vegan Food That Isn’t Weird cookbook is finally available for purchase! The book is 140 pages and contains more than 90 recipes along with multiple variations with different ways to make most dishes, and it includes many of the recipes already found on the What Dawn Eats blog.
It is currently available as a paperback for $12.99 or an electronic PDF download $9.99 and will be available on Amazon.com in late June. As a special reward for those of you who have been following along with my progress, if you order before June 25, you can get a $2.00 discount on either the paperback or PDF format cookbook. Learn more about purchasing the cookbook by visiting the What Dawn Eats blog post.
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