CHAOSS / CHAOSScon EU 2022

The success of an Open Source community depends on how healthy the Community is. Hence, It is important when building the right community should be the topmost priority of any open-source organization. It helps achieve a healthy community where the members have equal inclusion.

We often think of a successful open source project as one that just tackles a challenge for the public. This perception has driven several open source project owners to start innovative open source projects without any plans on how to manage the community behind this project. In the end, increasing the number of dormant open source projects already existing. A successful open source project is one that is built on the collaborative effort of a healthy community. A properly coordinated community can plan and build projects and unanimously work together to ensure sustainable project performance. The responsibility of achieving a successful open source community does not rest on the community managers or the program managers alone but also on the whole community. During this session, I will be sharing;

1. How you can accept and implement feedback from members
2. How to give feedback to the community.
3. Improve the onboarding process for your new Contributors
4. The importance of community first approach in Open Source Community and a lot more.

What can our collaboration networks tell us about the health of our projects? From the spread of innovation to the spread of disease, the field of social network analysis has examined a dizzying array of interactions and framed them as a network. As we work together to solve problems in software, our collaboration effort can also be described as forming a network as well. In this talk, Kaylea applies network analysis ideas to the world of open source. This unlocks powerful tools for analyzing collaboration at scale. She'll be reporting results of her research to understand the relationship between collaboration network structure and whether a project is thriving or barely surviving.

In this video, we hear from Iyimide Adegunloye:

"I would like to share my open source experience with CHAOSS project during the Contributhon 2022. An initiative by SheCodeAfrica to introduce more women to open source contribution. The program introduced me to open source contribution and I was able to settle in and collaborate with others to build a bot for the CHAOSS Project. The bot welcomes and directs new users to the CHAOSS Community on slack; before the bot project, individuals had to welcome and give directions to new members. The program was a life changing experience that has impacted positively on my skills. There are lots of people out there who really don’t know how to go about contributing to open source and programs that can introduce them to open source contributions are really important for the open source ecosystem. This presentation will provide a holistic view of:
- Contributing to open source as a newbie.
- Highlight experience and knowledge gained."