Path to Leadership
Path to CHAOSS Leadership
What does leadership mean to the CHAOSS community?
A leader🏅is someone who has specific decision-making power over some part of a group and thus additional accountability and can help with prioritizing and planning activities in the project.
I think that a leader in the CHAOSS community is someone who helps advance the project by contributing directly and coordinating work with others. Leaders should regularly attend the weekly community meetings to report on the work of their respective working group.
-- Georg J.P. Link, Director of Sales at Bitergia; Cofounder of CHAOSS
Leadership sets the tone for the culture, values, and communication style for everyone else. I think a CHAOSS leader (whether it be informal or formal) should embody and foster empathy, compassion, and respect for everyone else working on the project, no matter in what capacity. I think that being an excellent communicator and having a passion for helping open source projects prioritize and measure their community's health is also helpful.
-- Elizabeth Barron, Community manager at CHAOSS
Why is leadership important to us?
We are a volunteer-driven👥organization which means the work within the CHAOSS community is focused around the creation of metrics and software which depend upon the contributions made by external individuals and communities. We need people to direct the vision of creation, planning, and architecture of new initiatives within the community in order to drive through the better objectives.
The CHAOSS community has defined its different set of leadership roles under a specific set of community guidelines and governance policies.
How to become a leader?
Technical Leadership
Leadership that focuses on building amazing projects and good engineering teams across the community
Checklist✅before becoming a Maintainer
Checklist✅before becoming a Website Maintainer
Checklist✅before becoming a Documentation Maintainer
NOTE: Usually existing maintainers elevate others to become maintainers when they see it helpful for the project.
Governance Leadership
Leadership involved in the process of decision making within the community
Checklist✅for becoming a Board Member and Decisions Maker
NOTE: New board members are nominated and voted into office by existing board members. Co-leads of the board are nominated and voted into office by existing board members.
Operation Leadership
Leadership that addresses every aspect of the community model
Checklist✅for becoming the Community Manager
NOTE: The community manager is a paid position and is hired through a job-application process. Selected community members are asked to serve on the search committee to review applications, interview candidates, and make a recommendation.
Last updated