I’m excited to be leading the Roundtable Discussion at OpenChain x OSPOlogy Prague on October 6 on the topic of taking a Strategic Approach to Improving your OSPO using CHAOSS.

Metrics can provide deep insights into our open source initiatives, but they can also be overwhelming and require interpretation. Interpreting metrics and understanding what they mean is only useful if you drive appropriate actions to make decisions and improvements based on those metrics. In this roundtable, we’ll use a strategy first approach to discuss how to use metrics, tools, and practitioner guides from CHAOSS to improve the work within your OSPO whether you want to improve OSS projects themselves, assess their viability / risk for your organization, or demonstrate the value and impact of your OSPO.

Since this will be facilitated as a roundtable discussion, here are some links that participants (and anyone else) may find helpful.

Approach:

• Strategy Before Metrics
• CHAOSS Practitioner Guide Introduction
• OSPOlogy YouTube Panel: Ways to define a metrics strategy in your OSPO

CHAOSS Practitioner Guides:

• Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Contributor Sustainability
• Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Responsiveness
• Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Organizational Participation
• Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Security
• Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Sunsetting an Open Source Project
• Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Building Diverse Leadership
• Practitioner Guide: Demonstrating Organizational Value
• Practitioner Guide: Assessing Viability
• Practitioner Guide: Research Software Impact
• Practitioner Guide: Funding Impact Measurement

Metrics:

• https://www.chaoss.community/kbtopic/all-metrics/
• https://www.chaoss.community/kbtopic/all-metrics-models/

Tools:

• CHAOSS Software
• CollectOSS / 8Knot Example
• GrimoireLab Examples: The Document Foundation and Eclipse

As with everything I write, this was written by a human without the use of LLMs or other AI assistance.