CHAOSS Community Working Group Terminology

Terminology across working groups

Working Groups around Metric

Common Metric

The group that focuses on defining the metrics that are used by both working groups or are important for community health, but that does not cleanly fit into one of the other existing working groups.

Diversity & Inclusion

The group that aims to bring together experiences measuring diversity and inclusion in open source projects.

Evolution

The group which focusses on refining the metrics that inform evolution and to work with software implementations.

Risk

The group which focuses on compliance and risk metrics.

Value

The working group that focuses on industry-standard metrics for economic value in open source.

Working Groups around Software

GrimoireLab

This working group connects the GrimoireLab software development with metrics work in other CHAOSS working groups.

Augur

This working group connects the Augur software development with metrics work in other CHAOSS working groups.

Cregit

This working group connects the Cregit software development with metrics work in other CHAOSS working groups.

Working Groups around User Groups

Application Ecosystem

This working group applies CHAOSS metrics in the context of an open-source app ecosystem. The mission of this working group is to build a base set of metrics that is focused on the needs of open source communities that are part of the FOSS app ecosystem.

Diversity & Inclusion Badging

The working group that encourages projects and events to obtain D&I badges for reasons of pride, leadership, self-reflection, and self-improvement on issues critical to building the Internet as a social good.