Mentorship terminology
The members of the CHAOSS community who manage CHAOSS's participation in various programs like Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, and Outreachy.
Mentors are people from the CHAOSS community who volunteer to work with a student. Mentors provide guidance such as pointers to useful documentation, code reviews, etc. In addition to providing students with feedback and pointers, a mentor acts as an ambassador to help student contributors integrate into their project’s community. CHAOSS community has mentors helping in Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, and Outreachy.
Mentees are the aspirants who participate under the CHAOSS community through open-source programs like Google Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, and Outreachy.
CHAOSS Mentorship Alumni is a directory as a specific page on the CHAOSS website which hosts the records of all the mentees who have worked with CHAOSS in any of the open-source programs in the past. Check it out here****
Terminology across working groups
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.
The group that aims to bring together experiences measuring diversity and inclusion in open source projects.
The group which focusses on refining the metrics that inform evolution and to work with software implementations.
The group which focuses on compliance and risk metrics.
The working group that focuses on industry-standard metrics for economic value in open source.
This working group connects the GrimoireLab software development with metrics work in other CHAOSS working groups.
This working group connects the Augur software development with metrics work in other CHAOSS working groups.
This working group connects the Cregit software development with metrics work in other CHAOSS working groups.
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.
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.
Understanding the CHAOSS terminology
We have developed some terminology to describe the interaction and roles within the CHAOSS community. Please understand and use these terms to overcome any conflicts
CHAOSS Specific terms
The potential that an open-source software community continues developing quality software.
It is a software quality assurance activity under the CHAOSS that consciously and systematically convenes with one’s fellow programmers to check each other’s code for mistakes, and shows acceleration and streamlines towards the process of software development by following best practices.
Without data, you're just a person with an opinion
-- W. Edwards Deming, Statistician
The open-source software metric within the CHAOSS project is a documented way of measuring and tracking the success of any open-source software/community. Read more about Open Source Software Metric
The release of CHAOSS metrics represents the published work being done by CHAOSS Metrics Working Groups. The metrics are officially released biannually following a 30 day comment period. Read more about Metric Release.
The focus area is a set of goals around which any open source software metric is defined. Inside CHAOSS, there are different Working Groups who have defined their own focus area around specific metrics.
CHAOSScon is a conference organized by CHAOSS Community annually which fosters around the topics - open source project health, CHAOSS updates, use cases, and hands-on workshops for developers, community managers, project managers, and anyone interested in measuring open source project health. It also shares insights from the CHAOSS working groups on Diversity and Inclusion, Evolution, Risk, Value, and Common Metrics. Read more about CHAOSScon.
The CHAOSS Community podcast that elevates conversations about metrics, analytics, and software for measuring open source community health. Read more about CHAOSScast.
CHAOSSbog is the CHAOSS community blog hub hosted on the website for which anyone can contribute to getting published on the CHAOSS website. You can find CHAOSSblog here
It is the central directory - Youtube, where you can find all the recorded community meeting calls that are held within the CHAOSS Community. You can find them here
It is the directory where all the weekly newsletters are hosted. Read more about CHAOSSweekly
The Charter sets forth the responsibilities and procedures for technical contribution to and oversight of, the CHAOSS – Community Health Analytics Open Source Software Project (the “Project”) within The Linux Foundation. Contributors to the Project must comply with the terms of the Charter as well as any applicable policies of The Linux Foundation. Read about Charter
A Linux Foundation open source project that advances our understanding of and tools for open source community health. Check out the
Any person who participates in and contributes to the CHAOSS community.
An organization represents a company or legal entity in the world engaging with the CHAOSS project.
A community is the people who share a common interest. The CHAOSS community consists of various diverse people who work on different interests related to open source community health.
A self-selected group of people who associate with the CHAOSS Community, no contribution required.
The people who are major contributors to CHAOSS through long-term participation in any working group.
A contributor who has the ability to commit directly to a project’s repository and are responsive to contributions or changes from other Contributors. Maintainers are listed in the README of each repository.
A group of people working together to achieve a specific goal. Within the CHAOSS community, these are established and maintained by project contributors to advance project work. Working Groups focus on a specific metric, methodological, ethical, and technical issues associated with open source community health.
The Governance Board is responsible for the overall oversight of the CHAOSS Project and coordination of the efforts of any Technical Committees and Working Groups inside the CHAOSS community.
People who register to attend a CHAOSS Project event.
A person who is a part of the organizing team of the CHAOSS conference - CHAOSScon.
The people who work for the successful release of metrics by coordinating with working groups and releasing it under the CHAOSS website.
A person within the community that takes care of the moderation mail list requests.
A person who responds to the CoC incident reports made on the mailing list.
The person who handles the CHAOSS Twitter handle and who is responsible for likes, re-tweets, and sharing status updates from .