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  • CHAOSS Community Handbook - Table of Contents
  • Handbook Usage
  • ABOUT
    • CHAOSS History
    • Values
    • Roadmap
    • Roles and Responsibilities
    • Community Guidelines
    • Path to Leadership
    • Terminology
      • CHAOSS Specific Terms
      • CHAOSS Committees
      • CHAOSS Community Working Group Terminology
      • CHAOSS Community Mentorship Terminology
    • Terminology Usage
    • General FAQ
  • COMMUNITY
    • Working Groups
      • WG Repository Structure
    • Metrics
      • Releases
      • Translation
      • Metrics FAQ
    • Community Report
    • CHAOSScon
    • CHAOSScast
    • CHAOSS Meetings
  • CONTRIBUTING
    • Development
      • Contributing Workflow
    • Documentation
      • Style Guide
    • Design
      • Design Workflow
      • Design Contribution
      • CHAOSS Visual Identity
    • Outreach
  • MENTORSHIPS
    • Google Summer of Code
    • Google Season of Docs
    • GSoC/GSoD Roles & Responsibilities
    • Outreachy
  • D&I BADGING
    • Overview of the D&I Badging
    • How to contribute
    • Apply for a badge
      • Apply for an In-Person Event
      • Apply for a Virtual Event
    • Reviewing for CHAOSS
      • Apply to Review
      • The Review Process
      • Conflict of Interest Policy
    • Badging Roles
      • Applicant
      • Reviewer
      • Moderator
      • Maintainer
    • The badging-bot
    • D&I Badging Code of Conduct
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  • What is CHAOSS?
  • What does CHAOSS stand for?
  • What is the metric?
  • Why does Community Health matter?
  • What does Community Health mean?
  • How do I get involved?
  • How do I use your software?
  • Is my open source community healthy?
  • Who is behind the CHAOSS project?
  • Do you have internships?
  • How can I assess the health of my community?
  • Where can I find the relevant metric I am looking for?
  • What is D&I badging?
  • Does CHAOSS provide any tools to measure the open source project or community health?
  • Who are the maintainers of the CHAOSS?
  • Whom should I contact if I have any questions?
  • Does CHAOSS record their meeting?
  • Where can I find CHAOSS community discussion?

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What is CHAOSS?

CHAOSS is a Linux Foundation project focused on creating analytics and metrics to help define community health.

What does CHAOSS stand for?

CHAOSS stands for Community Health Analytics Open Source Software.

What is the metric?

A metric is a documented way to measure open source community health. CHAOSS community has its for proposing any new metric. It is quite possible to bring together different metrics in a system of measurement that is meaningful for a particular context.

Why does Community Health matter?

In order to understand why Community Health matters then please refer to the

What does Community Health mean?

Community health is a specialty that focuses on the well-being of the people in a specific community. This important subsection of community health includes initiatives to help community members maintain and improve their health, helping them to know where they should place their efforts and know that they are making an impact.

How do I get involved?

We have various ways to get involved in the Community. You can check our page. If you want to contribute directly, we have specified the different ways by which you can engage with the community in , , , and .

How do I use your software?

Is my open source community healthy?

Who is behind the CHAOSS project?

Do you have internships?

We don't have specific internships instead we participate in various open source mentorship programs like GSoC, Outreachy, etc.

How can I assess the health of my community?

Where can I find the relevant metric I am looking for?

What is D&I badging?

The Diversity and Inclusion Badging program use a peer-review system to encourage projects and events to obtain badges. It aims to increase understanding of the open-source project and event practices that encourage greater diversity and wider inclusion of people from different backgrounds.

Does CHAOSS provide any tools to measure the open source project or community health?

Who are the maintainers of the CHAOSS?

Whom should I contact if I have any questions?

Does CHAOSS record their meeting?

Where can I find CHAOSS community discussion?

All the discussions can be found within the CHAOSS mailing list or CHAOSS GitHub

In order to use CHAOSS software, you can follow the guidelines

We have the initiative of generating the CHAOSS Community Report for your project. So, if you want to measure, whether your community is healthy or not, you can follow the

CHAOSS project is a volunteer-driven project where there are folks from different organizations and communities effectively working to build creative solutions under CHAOSS. In order to know more refer

You can assess the health of your community by submitting the details under ""

All the metrics can be found under the "" on the CHAOSS website

The program is affiliated with the CHAOSS project and a proud initiative of CHAOSS. Most of the work of the Badging Program is closely associated with the CHAOSS D&I working group.

Yes, the CHAOSS has three projects with assigned toolset named , , and

Every repository under the has the "Repo Maintainers" section which contains all the names of the maintainers for the respective repositories.

We encourage transparency, openness, and healthiness so all the questions should be directed to the public community mailing list at

Yes, CHAOSS records all the meetings and for that, we follow . Also, all the recorded meetings can be found on

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own predefined template
"Why Create CHAOSS?" section on the About page
Participation
design
development
documentation
outreach
here
instructions to generate your community reports
"Who are we?" section on the About page
Submit Your Community Health Report Request
Metric Definition
You can read more about it here
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CHAOSS GitHub
chaoss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
general guidelines for recording the meetings
CHAOSS Youtube Channel