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title: Building and Supporting Open Source Communities Through Metrics
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2021/program/proposals/848
beginning: '2021-11-05T15:30:00.000-07:00'
end: '2021-11-05T16:00:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2021-Georg_Link-Building_and_Supporting_Open_Source_Communities_Through_Metrics
  slides_url: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cFfakEzeDEZnF_hk3ev32zTFdjUocWvns-ugi_z-oMo/mobilepresent
presenters:
- name: Georg Link
  affiliation: Bitergia
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/1163
  gravatar_id: b99976021558a1c2b5d4bdd9d7cb705a
  biography: Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to help open
    source projects, communities, and companies become more professional in their
    use of metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project
    to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg has 15
    years of experience as an active contributor to several open source projects and
    has presented on open source topics at 20+ conferences. As the Director of Sales
    at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities obtain professional metrics
    and analytics to solve their business needs effectively and efficiently. In his
    spare time, Georg enjoys reading fiction and hot air ballooning.
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Each community is different and therefore requires different metrics for data-driven decisions about building and supporting it. The CHAOSS Project was started to help understand open source communities through metrics. We have had many conversations and realized that everyone cares about a different aspect of the community. This talk will share what we have learned in the CHAOSS Project about having metrics for open source communities. Once the right metrics have been decided on, challenges need to be overcome, both technical and organizational challenges. Finally, this talk will share real-world examples of how open source community metrics have been used to help build and support open source communities.
