Formation Meeting Minutes 2017-05-02

Governance Document

We have a new idea for a name for the group: CHAOSS - Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software.
The name “CHAOSS” is more distinct than the English 'chaos' and can serve as a better brand name.
We like the name.
The governance document combines two committees, one for code and our committee for metrics.
The Governing Board has members from both committees, ensures coordination between the committees, and maintains contact with the Linux Foundation.

We will host a BoF at the Open Source Summit North America
For 60-90 minutes, we will do a deep-dive on the issue of 'growth/maturity/decline' rather than a broad survey
In the future, a deep-dives are desired, for example for risk.
We might have a chance to host an unconference session next weekend in Austin.
A possible process for our group could be: deep-dive → document → online feedback → finalize → go to 'new topic'

Title: “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure”
http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/
Interesting concept: Keystone people and keystone projects → cross-project comparisons might be interesting for our metrics.
Some projects are “keystone species” - important to the entire OSS ecosystem

The CAOSS project pursues cooperation with other foundations and aims to be an industry-wide effort.
Goal: Establish initial cooperation before announcing the project publicly.

We are cleaning up the wiki, reducing the noise on the metric list and moving information to detail pages for each metric.

We would like to have a domain and landing page for the CHAOSS project when it is announced.
For the metrics committee, we have all the infrastructure we need: the Wiki, listserve, and regular calls.
We reduce the frequency of our calls to once a month and will announce the next meeting on the wiki.
It would be great to have a short background on each person involved in the project on the website.

(alphabetical by first name)