Within the CHAOSS project, we know that people often struggle to make productive use of the tsunami of data about open source projects. One of my focus areas over the past 2 years within the CHAOSS project has been to develop a series of Practitioner Guides designed to help develop insights that can be used to improve the project health of an open source project. So far, we have 5 guides: Introduction, Contributor Sustainability, Responsiveness, Organizational Participation, and Security with more guides coming soon.

I’ve written about these guides in an OpenSource.net blog post and recorded a CHAOSScast podcast about each guide. I’ve also done quite a few talks related to the topics in these guides, which can be found on my Speaking page. The most recent one was a joint talk with Peculiar C. Umeh at FOSS Backstage with a video that is available to watch.

I won’t go into more detail here, since I’ve already linked to other blog posts, podcasts, and talks on the topic, but I encourage you to have a look at the Practitioner Guides to find ways to make your open source projects healthier and more sustainable!