CHAOSS Weekly Newsletter
CHAOSSweekly is usually published on Fridays. If you’d like to add something to the newsletter, please reach out to the Community Manager, Elizabeth Barron.
CHAOSSweekly (June 24-28, 2024)
Meeting Cancellations Week of July 1-5 July 4 is a US holiday, and as such, we decided at this week's CHAOSS Community meeting to take a break from meetings that…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 17-21, 2024)
Meeting Cancellations Week of July 1-5 July 4 is a US holiday, and as such, we decided at this week's CHAOSS Community meeting to take a break from meetings that…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 10-14, 2024)
Congratulations CHAOSS Africa on 2 Years of Awesomeness! CHAOSS Africa celebrated their 2 year anniversary last week! They've accomplished so much in the past 2 years and we are so…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 3-7, 2024)
DEI Event Badging 4.0 Released with 3 New Metrics DEI Event Badging 4.0 has been released and now includes 3 new metrics for badging applicants to consider: Event Location Inclusivity…
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CHAOSSweekly (May 6-10, 2024)
Augur / 8-Knot Working Group Meeting Change The Augur / 8-Knot meetings are switching to a bi-weekly cadence, starting next week. If you are subscribed to the CHAOSS calendar already,…
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CHAOSSweekly (April 29-May 3, 2024)
April Highlights April was a very busy month for us! Here were the highlights: CHAOSScast Releases: Ep 82: The AI Conundrum: Implications for OSPOs with Matt Germonprez, Brian Proffitt (Red…
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GrimoireLab 1.0
GrimoireLab 1.0 For eight years, we have been working to produce the best platform for software development analytics possible. With the work of more than 150 developers and after over…
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CHAOSSweekly (March 25-29, 2024)
No CHAOSS Meetings the week of April 15 During the week of OSSNA and CHAOSScon, we typically take a break from CHAOSS meetings. For those who are traveling to the…
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CHAOSSweekly (March 4-8, 2024)
Reminder! Daylight Savings Time is This Weekend - Check the CHAOSS Calendar! Daylight savings happens in the United States on March 10, so if you are in a place that…
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CHAOSSweekly (February 25-March 1, 2024)
Reviving the CHAOSS Asia Community Meetings - Join us! Thanks to efforts from Divya Mohan, we are happy to be hosting CHAOSS Asia Community meetings regularly again! Meetings will be…
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CHAOSSweekly (February 19-23, 2024)
CHAOSScon NA 2024 Registration Open As we have done in the past, the CHAOSS project is partnering with the Linux Foundation to co-locate the next CHAOSScon with the next OSSNA…
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CHAOSSweekly (January 22-26, 2024)
Common Working Group Renamed to Metrics Development Working Group In order to better represent the work that this group is currently doing, we've decided to rename the group to the…
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CHAOSS DEI Project Badging
Here at CHAOSS, we are excited to announce the launch of CHAOSS DEI Project Badging. CHAOSS DEI Project Badging is an initiative developed to recognize open source projects that prioritize…
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CHAOSSweekly (January 8-12, 2024)
Welcome Back! We hope you all had a wonderful new year and are ready to do amazing things in 2024! This is a reminder that all our meetings are back…
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CHAOSSweekly (December 4-8, 2023)
You're Invited to our End-of-Year Hangout! If you have a few minutes on Tuesday, December 12 at 11:00 am US Central (our usual Community meeting time), we'd love to hold…
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CHAOSSweekly (November 27-December 1, 2023)
Reminder- Holiday/End of Year Break Every year, CHAOSS makes it a priority to take a break from meetings and metrics work. Burnout is a real thing, and we'd like to…
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CHAOSSweekly (November 13-17, 2023)
Reminder- Holiday/End of Year Break: (Almost) All CHAOSS Meetings Canceled Next Week Every year, CHAOSS makes it a priority to take a break from meetings and metrics work. Burnout is…
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CHAOSSweekly (November 6-10, 2023)
Holiday Meeting Schedule Beginning next week, we will have some changes to our CHAOSS calendar. Make sure you keep up to date by visiting the CHAOSS Calendar page or subscribing…
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CHAOSSweekly (October 30-November 3, 2023)
Daylight Savings Time Nonsense is Upon Us Again Twice a year we go through a period of flux where different countries are changing clocks for Daylight Savings, and some don't…
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Survey: Help the CHAOSS project improve our tools and metrics
We know our metrics and tools can be overwhelming, even for experienced open source professionals. As we ramp up our new CHAOSS Data Science Initiatives, we wanted to start by…
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CHAOSSweekly (July 31-August 4, 2023)
Welcome CHAOSS's New Director of Data Science, Dr. Dawn Foster! We are beyond excited to now officially welcome Dr. Dawn Foster as our new Director of Data Science for CHAOSS!…
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CHAOSSweekly (July 24-28, 2023)
Risk Working Group Meeting Update The Risk Working Group has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Evolution Working Group and move to primarily asynchronous interaction. This means that…
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CHAOSSweekly (July 17-21, 2023)
Thank you, FOSSY! FOSSY was a wonderful conference and the first time we had an official CHAOSS booth presence. We introduced lots of folks to CHAOSS and caught up with…
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CHAOSSweekly (July 10-14, 2023)
CHAOSScon Africa Wrap Up and Recordings Now Available For those who missed the first CHAOSScon Africa, have no fear! You can read an amazing write-up by Maryblessing Okolie on the…
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CHAOSSweekly (July 3-7, 2023)
CHAOSS at FOSSY in Portland, OR Next week, CHAOSS will be at FOSSY in Portland, Oregon with our very first booth! If you'll be at that conference, you should definitely…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 26-30, 2023)
Reminder: Upcoming Meeting Cancellations The next few weeks are busy for some of our CHAOTICS and so there are a few meeting cancellations you should be mindful of: No meetings…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 19-23, 2023)
No Meetings July 4, 2023 In light of the July 4 US Holiday, we have canceled all the meetings for that day. This includes the: Metrics Models Working GroupNewcomer HangoutWeekly…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 12-16, 2023)
CHAOSScon Africa was a Huge Success! We are so happy to have connected with old and new friends at the very first CHAOSScon Africa this week. Huge shoutout to the…
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Welcome Dr. Dawn Foster as the new Director of Data Science for CHAOSS!
We are unbelievably excited to announce that Dr. Dawn Foster will be joining the CHAOSS project full time in August 2023, helping direct community data science efforts. To date, the CHAOSS project…
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CHAOSSweekly (June 5-9, 2023)
Reminder: CHAOSScon Africa happening June 14 This is just a reminder that CHAOSScon Africa is happening June 14 (that's next week!) We have posted the full schedule with speaker bios…
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CHAOSSweekly (May 29-June 2, 2023)
CHAOSScon Africa Schedule and Keynotes Announced! The CHAOSScon Africa Planning Committee is thrilled to announce that Justin Flory from the Fedora community will be the first Keynote speaker, and Anita…
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CHAOSSweekly (May 22-26, 2023)
All In + CHAOSS DEI Project Badging Pilot Launched As many of you know, CHAOSS and the All In project have been working together to implement a DEI Project badging…
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CHAOSSweekly (May 15-19, 2023)
Join us for DEI.md Panel Discussion for GitHub's Maintaner Month As many of you know, CHAOSS has been partnering with GitHub and the All In project on a DEI project…
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CHAOSSweekly (May 8-12, 2023)
Two New Context Working Groups Launching Next Week In addition to our Corporate focused OSPO and our App Ecosystem Working Groups, we will be starting 2 new context working groups…
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CHAOSSweekly (May 1-5, 2023)
(Most) Meetings Canceled the week of May 8-12 for OSSNA and CHAOSScon NA 2023 Because some of our core community members will be at OSSNA and CHAOSScon NA 2023, either…
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CHAOSSweekly (April 24-28, 2023)
Last Chance to Register for CHAOSScon NA 2023 CHAOSScon NA 2023, will be held in the afternoon of May 9, 2023, in conjunction with Open Source Summit North America in…
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CHAOSSweekly (April 17-21, 2023)
Getting Started with Open Source Software - Webinar Series from CHAOSS Africa Ruth Ikegah and the CHAOSS Africa community hosted the first webinar in a series explaining how to get…
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CHAOSSweekly (April 10-14, 2023)
Reminder! Schedule is Published for CHAOSScon NA 2023 The CHAOSScon planning committee has released the schedule for CHAOSScon NA 2023, to be held in the afternoon of May 9, 2023 in…
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CHAOSSweekly (April 3-7, 2023)
Schedule is Published for CHAOSScon NA 2023! The CHAOSScon planning committee has released the schedule for CHAOSScon NA 2023, to be held in the afternoon of May 9, 2023 in conjunction…
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CHAOSS Weekly (March 6-10, 2023)
Reminder! Daylight Savings Time is Here! Now that Daylight Savings Time (DST) is rearing its ugly head again here in the United States, this is a reminder that if you…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 27-March 3, 2023)
New Metrics from DEI Working Group The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group published two new metrics this week: Event Location Inclusivity (Is the event located in a region where…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 20-24, 2023)
CHAOSS Has Badged 100 Events! We have officially badged 100 events as part of our DEI Event Badging initiative! We want to send a huge thank you to all those…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 13-17, 2023)
New Blog Post: How can designers contribute to an open source project on GitHub? Huge shout-out to Kingsley Mkpandiok for contributing a new article to the CHAOSS blog! In his…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 6-10, 2023)
CHAOSSconEU 2023 Wrap Up! Thanks to all our friends who attended CHAOSSconEU 2023 in Brussels last week! Although the day was filled with interactive sessions and discussions, we recorded the…
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CHAOSS Weekly (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…
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CHAOSS Weekly (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…
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CHAOSS Weekly (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…
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CHAOSS Weekly (January 9-13, 2023)
Welcome Back! Happy new year and welcome back to CHAOSS meetings! We missed you! This is a reminder that working group meetings have now officially resumed. If you need to…
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CHAOSS Community 2022 in Review
Every year seems like a big year for CHAOSS, and this year was no exception. Here are some of the milestones we reached in 2022: Our Slack community grew to…
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CHAOSS Weekly (December 12-16, 2022)
Reminder: Holiday Schedule for CHAOSS Meetings and Pausing Slack Notifications This year we are following our tradition of taking a little break from official CHAOSS meetings at the end of…
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CHAOSS Weekly (December 5-9, 2022)
Reminder: Holiday Schedule for CHAOSS Meetings and Pausing Slack Notifications This year we are following our tradition of taking a little break from official CHAOSS meetings at the end of…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 28-December 2, 2022)
Reminder: Holiday Schedule for CHAOSS Meetings This year we are following our tradition of taking a little break from official CHAOSS meetings at the end of the year. Please note…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 14-18, 2022)
Holiday Schedule for CHAOSS Meetings This year we are following our tradition of taking a little break from official CHAOSS meetings at the end of the year. Please note the…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 7-11, 2022)
CHAOSScast #69 Released - Community Insights with Hedan Zeng (Part 2 of 2) Last week we posted the first of two episodes of our amazing guest, Hedan Zeng, the Director…
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CHAOSS Weekly (October 31-November 4, 2022)
Daylight Savings Time Change Alert! We are finishing up the dreaded "week in-between" when Europe recognizes Daylight Savings Time a week before the US. And if we weren't all feeling…
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CHAOSS Weekly (October 24-28, 2022)
New Working Group! Communications Working Group Now Forming In an effort to improve the way CHAOSS shares information about what we're working on, and what others are doing in terms…
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CHAOSS Weekly (October 10-14, 2022)
OSPO Meeting Time Change Last week we told you about the pivot in the Value Working Group to be more focused on the needs of OSPOs. This new direction has…
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CHAOSS Weekly (October 3-7, 2022)
Reminder: Please Share Feedback Through the CHAOSS Community Survey by October 12 Last week we announced that the CHAOSS Community Survey was open! We highly encourage everyone in the CHAOSS…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 26-30, 2022)
Reminder: Please Share Your Experience Through the CHAOSS Community Survey by October 12 We recently announced that the CHAOSS Community Survey was open! We highly encourage everyone in the CHAOSS…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 19-23, 2022)
Reminder: Please Share Feedback Through the CHAOSS Community Survey Last week we announced that the CHAOSS Community Survey was open! We highly encourage everyone in the CHAOSS community to take…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 12-16, 2022)
Reminder: CHAOSS Meetings Resume This Week We took a little break last week from our usually scheduled meetings, but all regular meetings resume this week. A full list can be…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 5-9 , 2022)
Announcing the CHAOSS Community Survey! During the opening remarks at CHAOSScon, the CHAOSS Community Survey was announced! We highly encourage everyone in the CHAOSS community to take this survey and…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 29-September 2 , 2022)
No Meetings Next Week! Because CHAOSScon and OSSEU are happening next week, many of our community members will be busy and traveling, so we usually cancel meetings this week to…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 22-26, 2022)
New CHAOSS Project: Interview Campaign with Underrepresented Groups In the DEI Working Group, we have long acknowledged our own limited lens with which we view DEI metrics in open source.…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 14-18 , 2022)
CHAOSScon Schedule Released We have released the schedule for CHAOSScon, happening on September 12, 2022, in Dublin Ireland in conjunction with Open Source Summit Europe. There will be a mixture…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 8-12 , 2022)
CHAOSS Africa Update Thanks to the efforts of Ruth Ikegah and the other core members of CHAOSS Africa, our community is growing by leaps and bounds. We now have over…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 1-5 , 2022)
CHAOSSweekly is Back! Fear not, loyal readers! Your favorite newsletter has returned. As always, you can submit ideas, questions, and comments to the Community Manager (elizabeth@chaoss.community). Let us know how…
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CHAOSS Weekly (July 18-24, 2022)
Reminder: CHAOSS Meetings are Back! CHAOSS finished its June 20-July 1 2022 break! CHAOSScon Registration is Open The CfP for CHAOSScon has closed, but registration for the event is open!…
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CHAOSS Weekly (June 13-17, 2022)
Reminder: Mid-Year Break from CHAOSS Meetings CHAOSS will be taking a little break from regularly scheduled meetings June 20-July 1 2022, and all regular working group and community meetings will…
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CHAOSS Weekly (June 6-10, 2022)
Announcing CHAOSS Africa! We have had consistent participation from the African community for a while, and we are very excited to now formalize our presence there! Ruth Ikegah will officially…
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 30-June 3, 2022)
CHAOSScast Episode 60 - Lessons Learned in Implementing Community Management Metrics This week, our host Venia Logan chatted with our very special guests Brian Oblinger and Lori Goldman about all…
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 23-27, 2022)
Reminder: CHAOSScon CfP closes TODAY! If you are interested in submitting a session for CHAOSScon on September 12 in Dublin, Ireland, please send that to us on or before May…
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 16-20, 2022)
Say Hello to the CHAOSS Welcome Slack Bot - A She Code Africa Project Thanks to the amazing efforts of Precious Abubakar and Iyimide Adegunloye from the She Code Africa…
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 9-13, 2022)
Volunteer Opportunity: Become a Badger and Help Badge Events for Their DEI Efforts The DEI Event Badging Initiative is looking for more Badgers! If you would like to help review…
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CHAOSS Weekly (May 2-6, 2022)
Reminder: You're Invited! DEI Event Badging Reviewer Appreciation Event June 16 Please join us on June 16, 2022 at 8:00 am US Central/Chicago time (convert to your time) as we…
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 25-29, 2022)
Reminder: Mentorship Program Deadlines for GSoD is May 4 If you are one of our student mentorship program applicants for the Google Season of Docs program, this is a reminder…
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 18-22, 2022)
CHAOSS is Participating in Google Season of Docs! We are very happy to announce that we have been selected to participate in this year's Google Season of Docs mentorship program!…
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 11-15, 2022)
2022-04 Metrics Release is Official The 2022-04 Metrics Release has now been officially shipped. ? Huge thanks to all those from the working groups who worked on these metrics, and special…
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CHAOSS Weekly (April 4-8, 2022)
Welcome, She Code Africa Mentees! Please join me in welcoming Precious Abubakar and Iyimide Adegunloye to CHAOSS! They are our newest mentees under a mentorship program called She Code Africa. This…
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CHAOSS Weekly (March 28-April 1, 2022)
Metrics Release Update Now that the 30-day public comment period is over and the Working Groups have made their final changes, there are a few minor tweaks to be made…
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CHAOSS Weekly (March 21-25, 2022)
Data Use Awareness Recommendations Finalized After many hours of work and much discussion, we are happy to have finalized our Data Use Awareness Recommendations. This document serves as guidance for…
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CHAOSS Weekly (March 14-18, 2022)
Latest Augur Release - Improved Docs, Processing Time, and More! The Augur team is happy to announce the latest improvements to the Augur software! Version 0.25.9 includes some awesome updates:…
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CHAOSS Weekly (March 7-11, 2022)
Reminder: Check CHAOSS Meeting Times in Your Time Zone This is just a reminder that over the weekend, (most of) the US moved their clocks forward one hour for DST.…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 28-March 3, 2022)
Metrics Review Period is Open Now is the time for you to offer last-minute feedback on our metrics candidates prior to their release in April. You don't have to have…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 21-25, 2022)
Community Comment Period for Metrics Starts March 1 It's that time of year again, folks! Today is the last day for working groups to add any new metrics they've developed…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 14-18, 2022)
Metrics Freeze is Almost Here In preparation for our April Metrics Release, we are currently scheduled to freeze the metric release candidates on March 1. This allows for a 30-day…
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CHAOSS Weekly (February 7-11, 2022)
Value Working Group Meeting Time Change Starting next week (on February 24, 2022), the Value Working Group will be meeting an hour earlier. This group will now meet at 9:00…
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CHAOSS Weekly (January 31-February 4, 2022)
We are Chaotics! After much polling, the community decided to name ourselves Chaotics. Hooray! If you want to see the poll you can see the results here: https://voteupapp.com/shared/lCHNiOfnO. Thanks to…
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CHAOSS Weekly (January 24-28, 2022)
Reminder: Office Hours are Back! This is a reminder that our open Office Hours for newcomers will reconvene on Tuesday, February 1 and will happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am…
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CHAOSS Weekly (January 17-21, 2022)
Reminder: Help Give Us a Name Here's a reminder that we're looking for your vote! Many communities give themselves a collective name to help define a collective identity and build…
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CHAOSS Weekly (January 10-14, 2022)
Changes to Office Hours Our open Office Hours for newcomers will reconvene on Tuesday, February 1 and will happen every Tuesday from 9:00 am - 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time.…
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CHAOSS Weekly (December 10, 2021-January 10, 2022)
CHAOSS is back! We have officially returned from our end-of-year break, and we are so happy to be getting back in the swing of things. We also want to welcome…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 29-December 3, 2021)
Reminder: End-of-Year Meeting Schedule We wanted to make sure everyone is aware of the end-of-year meeting schedule for various CHAOSS community groups. CHAOSS Office Hours, Working Groups & Community Meeting:…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 22-26 2021)
CHAOSScast Episode 48: Creating Appreciative Communities and Implicit Mentoring with Anita Sarma and Iftekhar Ahmed In this episode, Georg Link and Sean Goggins chat with Anita Sarma (Oregon State University)…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 15-19, 2021)
End-of-Year Meeting Schedule We wanted to make sure everyone is aware of the end-of-year meeting schedule for various CHAOSS community groups. CHAOSS Office Hours, Working Groups & Community Meeting: No…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 8-12, 2021)
Minor Changes to Monthly Meeting We decided at the last CHAOSS Community Weekly Meeting to change the format of our Monthly Meetings. Previously, these meetings were held on the first…
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CHAOSS Weekly (November 1-5, 2021)
Reminder - Double-Check Meeting Times As the US changed clocks for Daylight Savings Time over the weekend, we have caught up with most of the rest of the world. And…
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CHAOSS Weekly (October 25-29, 2021)
Reminder - Meeting Times May Be Temporarily Different For You It's that time of year again when some clocks change and others don't, and the ones that do change don't…
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CHAOSS Weekly (October 11-15, 2021)
2021-10 Metrics Release Announcement We are very excited to announce the latest release of our open source community health metrics! This release is a special one for us because it…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 27-October 8, 2021)
We Shipped CHAOSScon & Would Love Your Feedback! Huge thank you to everyone who took part in CHAOSScon, either virtually or in person! We wanted to first recognize and thank…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 20-24, 2021)
No Meetings This Week There will be no meetings this week, because of OSSummit and CHAOSScon. We will see you back again next week! CHAOSScon Livestreamed for Free (Yes, Really!)…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 13-17, 2021)
CHAOSScon Schedule Released ? We are very happy to be releasing the CHAOSScon schedule for our conference on September 30, 2021 in Seattle. Please join us either in person or…
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CHAOSS Weekly (September 6-10, 2021)
Join the GrimoireLab Hackathon and Bring Your Ideas to Life! It's no secret that the GrimoireLab toolset can be extremely helpful for researchers and data scientists. As such, as part…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 30-September 3, 2021)
No Meetings Today Due to the US Holiday, there will be no meetings today. All meetings will go back to normal tomorrow. 🙂 See you then! Evolution Working Group Change…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 23-27, 2021)
Metrics Freeze September 1, 2021, When Public Review Opens We've been leading up to this for a while, but the current metrics candidates will be set for public review on…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 16-20, 2021)
GSoC 2021 is Wrapping Up Once again, the CHAOSS project was incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some wonderful students during Google Summer of Code. We are…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 10-14, 2021)
New Working Group: Metrics Models The idea of "metrics models," or various ways to bring related atomic individual metrics together for different purposes, is an idea that has been floated…
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CHAOSS Weekly (August 3-7, 2021)
Only a Few Days Left to Submit to CHAOSScon! The CHAOSScon CfP will be open until August 13, so you have just a few more days to submit a talk!…
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