CHAOSS#
Homepage: https://chaoss.community/ Contact: Matt Germonprez
CHAOSS is a community of mixed academics and industry professionals working on defining usable metrics for open source community health (CHAOSS stands for Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software). They have several working groups, including an OSPO and a University working group. Their work comes partially out of the Universities of Nebraska and Missouri, through Matt Germonprez and Sean Goggins. The group is funded and hosted by the Linux Foundation as well as Alfred P. Sloan.
Their work informs several companies that use the metrics to improve open source health for industry and university OSPOs, such as Bitergia. Other companies that use CHAOSS metrics can be found here.
Featured on the Sustain Podcast#
Elizabeth Barron, Luis Cañas-Diaz & Dawn Foster on CHAOSS Practitioner Guides (Episode 243)
Sophia Vargas of Google on Funding and Motivation in Open Source (Episode 206)
Maintainer Month with Predrag Gruevski & Kingsley Mkpandiok (Episode 178)
Dawn Foster & Andrew Nesbitt at State of Open Con 2023 (Episode 159)
CHAOSS also has a podcast of their own, available at: https://podcast.chaoss.community/