CHAOSSweekly Newsletters

CHAOSSweekly (January 16-20, 2023)

Change to Communications Working Group Meetings

The Communications Working Group is changing a few things with regard to their meetings:

  • Meeting is changing from a weekly cadence to twice a week, 30 minutes each
  • Meetings will happen on Mondays and Thursdays
  • Time of the meeting moves to 9:30 am US Central/Chicago
  • Zoom Link moves back to the CHAOSS link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss

Remember you can always see a fully updated CHAOSS calendar on our website: https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/

Did You Know About the Software Workshops at CHAOSSconEU?

Did you know that CHAOSSconEU 2023 features afternoon tracks and workshops dedicated to GrimoireLab and Augur? Learn from project leaders who will cover everything from installation tips to advanced implementation of metrics. As a reminder, CHAOSScon is Feb 3, 2023 right before FOSDEM. Registration is open and you can learn more about this conference on the CHAOSScon EU 2023 website.

Hope you can join us!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on February 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Recent Topics in our Weekly Community Meeting

If it’s been a while since you attended a weekly CHAOSS Community Meeting, we’ve had lots to talk about! Some recent topics that have come up include:

  • Launching Discourse in the next few weeks
  • Creating a CHAOSS Ambassadors Group to support and recognize CHAOSS advocates
  • Creating a CHAOSS Onboarding team to help newcomers to the project
  • Potentially launching new groups for Community Managers and Event Organizers to understand their metrics needs
  • 2023 Goals of our super popular OSPO WG
  • Adding links to stable URLs to all our metrics
  • CHAOSScon details and planning

We know this timing doesn’t work for everyone but you are highly encouraged to connect with us here if you can or to watch the recordings and connect on Slack. These weekly meetings happen every Tuesday at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time at https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. (You can convert to your time zone here.) Hope to see you there!

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, January 23, 2023

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, January 24

9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)

10:00am Evolution WG (Minutes and agenda)

11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, January 25

10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, January 26

8:00am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

11:00am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

1:00pm Risk Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)


CHAOSSweekly (January 23-27, 2023)

Important Meeting Changes

A new year often brings the opportunity for working groups to reassess their meeting days and times, to make sure they are still convenient for those who enjoy participating in them. The following changes are happening on the CHAOSS calendar:

  • Starting February 9, Evolution Working Group will move to every other Thursday at 12:00 pm US Central/Chicago
  • Risk Working Group is shifting by a week to offset the OSPO Working Group schedule. They will still happen every other Thursday at 1:00 pm. The next meeting is on February 16.
  • February 2 all CHAOSS meetings have been canceled for CHAOSScon. This includes Communications, Common, and Web Content Meetings.

As always you can see the most updated CHAOSS calendar on our website.

Reasons to Join us for CHAOSScon EU 2023

We are super excited to invite you to CHAOSScon EU 2023, happening in conjunction with FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium. CHAOSScon day will happen on February 3 from 8:00 to 17:00 Central European Standard Time. Did you know:

  • Morning sessions will consist of interactive chats and panel discussions
  • The afternoon will be dedicated to GrimoireLab and Augur
  • During lunch there is an optional OSPO++ session titled Measuring OSS in Universities
  • The event is not able to be livestreamed, so you’ll have to join in person!
  • Registration is open and is $10USD to attend

You can learn more about this conference on the CHAOSScon EU 2023 website.

Hope you can join us!

New CHAOSScast: Revisiting Metrics Journey with Chris “Mercer” Mercer

We were thrilled to welcome Chris “Mercer” Mercer back to CHAOSScast for another episode! Our panelists Venia Logan and Lori Goldman chat with Mercer about measurement marketing, the ACE model, Google Analytics, and how these can be applied to an open source project. Of particular interest is the discussion on a potential new team at companies and projects specifically around measurement. You won’t want to miss this episode! You can listen here: https://podcast.chaoss.community/70.

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on February 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

The Last Newsletter Via the Mailing List

Typically when we publish our newsletter, we publish on the website (which triggers a Twitter post and a post in Slack), and then we send it to the CHAOSS mailing list. This will be the last edition to go to the mailing list, and we will be switching to Discourse next week! We plan to launch Discourse on Feb 1 so stay tuned to hear more about that transition.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, January 30

7:00am Getting Started with Augur (no agenda)

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, January 31

9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)

11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)

1:00pm App Ecosystem WG (Minutes and agenda)

6:00pm Metrics Model WG (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, February 1

8:30am DEI Badging Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

11:00am Welcome to CHAOSS Onboarding for Newcomers (no agenda)

Thursday, February 2

No Meetings for CHAOSScon.


CHAOSSweekly (January 30-February 3, 2023)

Welcome to Discourse!

We are super excited to have launched CHAOSS Discourse this week! Discourse is an open source forum-type platform where we can have longer term asynchronous discussions. Discourse is meant to replace our listserv mailing lists, not Slack. Slack will continue to be a main channel of communication for our Chaotics. (Our mailing lists are no longer active.)

A few points of note:

  • To join the CHAOSS Discourse, go to https://chaoss.discourse.group/ and click on “Sign Up.”
  • We recommend going to the START HERE post when you join. This has links to the categories, our FAQ, Code of Conduct, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and a link to a handy Getting Started Guide for those who are new to Discourse.
  • To use Discourse as a mailing list and interact only through email, you can adjust your email preferences by going here: https://chaoss.discourse.group/u/yourusername/preferences/account
  • If you want to join a conversation, but aren’t sure where to start, feel free to introduce yourself in the Introductions thread and get that first post out of the way!

Discourse is a grand experiment for us so we will see how it goes! If you have feedback on your experience and have suggestions for making it better, feel free to post something in the Site Feedback Category.

New Mastodon Account for CHAOSS

We’ve ventured into the Fediverse and opened an account on Fosstodon. If you are also using Mastodon and would like to connect with us, you can do so here: https://fosstodon.org/@chaoss. See you there!

Next Onboarding Session for New Chaotics

The CHAOSS community continues to grow! To make the onboarding process a little easier, Elizabeth Barron (CHAOSS Community Manager) and Ruth Ikegah (CHAOSS Africa Community Lead) will be hosting the next Onboarding Session on March 1, 2023 at 11:00 am US Central/Chicago time. We know this time is not convenient for everyone, but this is just a start and we will add and iterate as we go.

This meeting will cover:

  • General overview of CHAOSS
  • How you can begin contributing
  • How to get started with using the metrics
  • Q&A

We hope you can join to meet other newcomers and learn about CHAOSS! You can convert to your time zone here.

Upcoming Meetings

All calls use our CHAOSS community Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/chaoss. All meetings are listed in the US Central Time (Chicago) timezone, currently on Daylight Savings Time. (Convert into your local time here). You can also subscribe to the CHAOSS Calendar, or join the #general channel on Slack for meeting reminders.

Monday, February 6, 2023

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda) (30 minute meeting)

Tuesday, February 7

9:00am CHAOSS Office Hours for Newcomers (no agenda)

11:00am CHAOSS Weekly Sync (Minutes and Agenda)

Wednesday, February 8

10:00am Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

Thursday, February 9

8:00am CHAOSS Africa Community Meeting (Minutes and Agenda)

9:30am Communications Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

10:00am Evolution Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

11:00am OSPO Working Group (Minutes and Agenda)

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