All Episodes

Episode 132: Please take the CHAOSScast Impact Survey - and we're taking a break

Episode 131: Repo-Health - a tool built on CHAOSS metrics

Episode 130: Connecting Open Source and Research in Australia with Rowland Mosbergen

Episode 129: Using Metrics in your OSPO

Episode 128: Guest Episode - GR-OSS OUT Podcast: Building Welcoming Communities with Stacey Potter

Episode 127: Community Health metrics for Commercial Open Source

Episode 126: Meet Leon, your new Asia host

Episode 125: A very CHAOTIC 2025

Episode 124: Practitioner Guides: #7 Diverse Leadership

Episode 123: Practitioner Guides: #6 Sunsetting an Open Source Project

Episode 122: Meet the 2025 CHAOTICS of the month!

Episode 121: Package Metadata Working Group with Andrew Nesbitt and Damián Vicino

Episode 120: Practitioner Guides: #5 Demonstrating Organizational Value

Episode 119: Guest Episode - Sustain asks how Ecosyste.ms maps open source dependencies

Episode 118: Insights from CHAOSScon Africa, Open Source Community Africa Festival, and KCD Nigeria

Episode 117: Business Success with Open Source with VM (Vicky) Brasseur

Episode 116: Metrics For Maintainers with Sarina, Feanil, and Felipe

Episode 115: Trends from UN OSS Week and OSSNA

Episode 114: Awesome POSM and Jellyfish Visualizations for the Cardano Community with Christian, Tex, and Johnny

Episode 113: FOSS Backstage post-conference report

Episode 112: Community health metrics and open infrastructure decision making – with Chrys Wu, Invest in Open Infrastructure

Episode 111: Introducing the CHAOSS Education Project

Episode 110: 20m in CHAOSS Africa with Busayo Ojo and Yigakpoa Ikpae

Episode 109: SBOMs and Project Health with Brittany Istenes

Episode 108: CHAOSS in Asia with Divya Mohan, Leon N, and Yaya Xia

Episode 107: Guest Episode - Sustain meets Sean Goggins to talk about CHAOSS and Auger

Episode 106: Funding Impact Measurement Working Group

Episode 105: GrimoireLab at Thunderbird

Episode 104: 20m in CHAOSS Africa with Oluchi Nwankwo and Winifred Young

Episode 103: GrimoireLab at FreeBSD

Episode 102: 20min in CHAOSS Africa with Hamza Danjaji and Gift Uhiene

Episode 101: Inside CHAOSScast with your producers

Episode 100: Celebrating 100 episodes of CHAOSScast!

Episode 99: Guest Episode - Re-licensing, forks, and community impact with Data in the Hallway

Episode 98: Community building - the role of culture in OSS project health

Episode 97: Practitioner Guides: #4 Security

Episode 96: What's new with GrimoireLab, the open-source community analytics platform

Episode 95: Planning an Open Source event or project with DEI badging

Episode 94: 20min in CHAOSS Africa with Precious, Gloria, and Maryblessing

Episode 93: Guest Episode - Sustain meets CHAOSScast to talk about Practitioner Guides

Episode 92: ISO Standards for Open Source Community Health Metrics

Episode 91: Red Hat OSPO: Contextual Community Analytics and the AI Hype Cycle

Episode 90: 20min in CHAOSS Africa with Victoria and Kingsley

Episode 89: Practitioner Guides: #3 Organizational Participation

Episode 88: Practitioner Guides: #2 Contributor Sustainability

Episode 87: Celebrating 2 years of CHAOSS Africa

Episode 86: The Turing Institute: Using AI ethically with the power of Open Source

Episode 85: Introducing CHAOSS Practitioner Guides: #1 Responsiveness

Episode 84: Community Viability - how Verizon thinks about OSS risk

Episode 83: Metrics for Organizational and Digital Infrastructure with Edward Vielmetti

Episode 82: The AI Conundrum: Implications for OSPOs

Episode 81: Managing Federal CHAOSS at CMS.gov

Episode 80: Counting Potatoes vs. Computational Mysticism - Using CHAOSS for Research

Episode 79: The Mechanics of CHAOSS: A Deep Dive into Open Source Community Health Analytics

Episode 78: University Open Source Engagement

Episode 77: Open Source Metrics at Microsoft

Episode 76: CHAOSS Goals for 2024 and Beyond

Episode 75: DEI Metrics Overcoming Social Barriers in OSS

Episode 74: Building on Top of CHAOSS Software

Episode 73: Reflections on the LF OSS Maintainer Report

Episode 72: Open Source Software Viability and Project Selection

Episode 71: What's New in CHAOSS: Podcast Reboot Episode

Episode 70: Revisiting Metrics Journeys with Chris Mercer

Episode 69: Community Insights with Hedan Zeng [Part 2 of 2]

Episode 68: Community Insights with Hedan Zeng [Part 1 of 2]

Episode 67: The CHAOSS Newcomer Slack Bot and She-Code-Africa with Precious and Iyimide

Episode 66: Deciding what metrics to measure for community managers with Bri, Lori, and Victoria

Episode 65: How Projects Secure Their Code with Chris and Nir

Episode 64: Policy for Open Source in Amsterdam with Maurice Hendriks

Episode 63: Revisiting Communities with Jono Bacon

Episode 62: Maintaining Open Source Projects - a joint episode with the Sustain Podcast

Episode 61: The Untapped Potential Of Goal-Oriented Metrics with Richard Millington

Episode 60: Lessons Learned in Implementing Community Management Metrics

Episode 59: The Craft of Coding and Code Metrics for Open Source in M&As

Episode 58: Panel Discussion: The Future of Metrics

Episode 57: The Ins and Outs of Large Scale Research

Episode 56: Using GrimoireLab to Understand the Health of Your Open Source Project

Episode 55: GSOC 2021: "Risky" Business

Episode 54: CHAOSS DEI Reflection Project

Episode 53: Gathering Open Source Usage Data with Avi Press

Episode 52: Understanding the Community through Metrics with Carina C. Zona [Part 2 of 2]

Episode 51: Understanding the Community through Metrics - Carina C. Zona [Part 1 of 2]

Episode 50: Recognizing all Kinds of Labor in Open Source Ecosystems with Amanda, Katie, and John

Episode 49: CHAOSS Community Year 2021 in Review

Episode 48: Creating Appreciative Communities and Implicit Mentoring with Anita Sarma and Iftekhar Ahmed

Episode 47: Writing the GrimoireLab Tutorial through the Summer of Open Source Promotion Plan with Veerasamy Sevagen

Episode 46: Social Science Theories with Erin Staples

Episode 45: Fireside Chat: Metrics Strategy with Daniel, Sean, and Venia

Episode 44: GSOC: M.A.R.S. Project - Metrics Automated Release System with Yash and Ritik

Episode 43: Growing the CHAOSS Community Globally - CHAOSS 社区的全球化故事 - with Xiaoya, Willem, King, and Clement

Episode 42: Hidden Infrastructure: The Foundations of Open Source with Josh Simmons

Episode 41: Forecasting Sustainability with Vladimir Filkov and Likang Yin

Episode 40: A Call for Qualitative Developer-First Metrics with Terrence Chen

Episode 39: Leaderboards and Metrics at Drupal.org with Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen

Episode 38: Co.Lab and Increasing Diversity in STEM with Ruth Suehle

Episode 37: The Orbit Model with Patrick Woods

Episode 36: CHAOSS DEI Badging Initiative with Rachel Braun and Celia Stamps

Episode 35: Metrics for Downstream Users of Open Source with Justin Rackliffe

Episode 34: Anniversary Episode with Georg, Dawn, Matt, Sophia, Elizabeth

Episode 33: Managing Portfolios of OSS Projects with Emil Wåreus

Episode 32: SmartSHARK: Reproducible Project and Code Analysis with Steffen and Alexander

Episode 31: Marketing Metrics for OSS Foundations and Projects with Aniqa, Caroline, Kristi, and Paul from GNOME and KDE

Episode 30: Databases, Privacy, and Licenses with Matt Yonkovit

Episode 29: Supporting Teams to Make Data-Driven Decisions with Stefka Dimitrova and Ivana Atanasova

Episode 28: Human-Centric Operations and Metrics with Sophia Vargas

Episode 27: GSOD with Xiaoya & Jaskirat

Episode 26: SustainOSS and CHAOSS

Episode 25: GSOC: GitLab Data with Abhinav

Episode 24: Starting a Metrics Company with Luis Cañas-Díaz

Episode 23: GSOC & Outreachy: D&I Efforts - Aastha and Tola

Episode 22: University OSPO Metrics with Stephen Jacobs

Episode 21: GSOC Pt. 2: Extending GrimoireLab projects with Ria and Venu

Episode 20: CHAOSS + FINOS: Lessons Learned with Rob Underwood

Episode 19: GSOC: Anomaly Detection with Pratik, Akshara, Sarit, and Tianyi

Episode 18: DevRel Metrics with Mary Thengvall

Episode 17: Growing as a Community Manager through Metrics with Antonio Nardella

Episode 16: Role Diversity with Silona Bonewald

Episode 15: OSPO Metrics with Stormy Peters

Episode 14: The Theory and Future of Measurement with Chris Mercer

Episode 13: Internews OSS Lightweight Needs Assessment Toolkit with Gina Helfrich

Episode 12: How Social Marketing Interfaces with Community with Michelle Dalton

Episode 11: Diversity & Inclusion with Emma Irwin

Episode 10: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Open Source with Frank Nagle & David A. Wheeler

Episode 9: In Defense of Vanity Metrics

Episode 8: Mautic Community with Ruth Cheesley

Episode 7: Your Community Story with Jono Bacon

Episode 6: CNCF, DevStats, and TODO Group with Chris Aniszczyk

Episode 5: Defining “Open Source Community Health”

Episode 4: GrimoireLab

Episode 3: Augur

Episode 2: Social Currency Metric System (SCMS)

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