The New Stack Podcast

How CHAOSS Measures Diversity; Windows Gets a Proper Terminal

Episode Summary

This week on The New Stack Context podcast, we speak with Nicole Huesman, open source community and developer advocate and Georg Link, an open source community strategist and PhD student, about their work on the Linux Foundation's CHAOSS project. Yes, that’s CHAOSS with two s’s and it stands for Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software. It is an effort to project focused on creating analytics and metrics to help define community health. The pair contributed an article on The New Stack last week about how the group went about creating a set of standard metrics for diversity and inclusion in open source projects. And here, they share what they learned and set out the next steps the group plans to take to help open source communities begin to measure and document their progress around diversity and inclusion. Then in the second half of the show, we’ll review the top podcast and stories for the week as well as discuss two conferences that were held this week, Red Hat Summit 2019 and Microsoft Build 2019.

Episode Notes

This week on The New Stack Context podcast, we speak with Nicole Huesman, open source community and developer advocate and Georg Link, an open source community strategist and PhD student, about their work on the Linux Foundation's CHAOSS project.

Yes, that’s CHAOSS with two s’s and it stands for Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software. It is an effort to project focused on creating analytics and metrics to help define community health. The pair contributed an article on The New Stack last week about how the group went about creating a set of standard metrics for diversity and inclusion in open source projects. And here, they share what they learned and set out the next steps the group plans to take to help open source communities begin to measure and document their progress around diversity and inclusion.

Then in the second half of the show, we’ll review the top podcast and stories for the week as well as discuss two conferences that were held this week, Red Hat Summit 2019 and Microsoft Build 2019.