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Is this Open Source Project
Healthy or Lifeless?
All Things Open October 2020
Dr. Dawn M. Foster (pronouns: she / her)
Director of OSS Community Strategy
fosterd@vmware.com fastwonderblog.com
Open Source at VMware @vmwopensource
blogs.vmware.com/opensource

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whoami
• Geek, traveler, reader
• 20+ yr tech career focused on
community & open source
(Intel, Puppet, Scale Factory, …)
• PhD from the University of Greenwich
focus on Linux kernel collaboration
• OpenUK Board, CHAOSS Board and
Maintainer, Bitergia Advisory Board
• Kubernetes contributor & CNCF
Contributor Strategy SIGPhotos by Mom, Josh Bancroft, Don Park

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Agenda
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Project Health and Risk
Ownership and Risk
Governance
Final Thoughts and Resources
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Project Health and Risk
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Active, engaged,
helpful, and welcoming
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Community
Kubernetes CNCF CC BY 4.0

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Keeping up with
contributions
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Responsiveness
Image by Joe Penniston CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Measuring Time to First Response
Data generated by Augur, a CHAOSS project

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Measuring Keeping up with Contributions
Data generated by Augur, a CHAOSS project

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Active contributors and
organizational diversity
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Contributor Risk
Image by the CNCF CC BY-NC 2.0

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Measuring Contributor Risk - Healthy
Data generated by Augur, a CHAOSS project

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Measuring Contributor Risk - Mentoring Opportunity
Data generated by Augur, a CHAOSS project

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Measuring Organizational Diversity
Data generated by Bitergia and GrimoireLabs, a CHAOSS project

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Regular releases and
security updates
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Security
Image by darwin Bell CC BY-NC 2.0

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Measuring Release Frequency
Data generated by Augur, a CHAOSS project

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Code of conduct, events,
leadership, and community
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Diversity and Inclusion
Photo by David Jakes - CC BY 2.0
https://chaoss.community/metrics

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Ownership and Risk
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Lower risk:
participate as equals
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Neutral Foundations

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Higher risk:
single company in control
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Company-Originated
Photo by Jan Fidler - CC BY 2.0

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Ongoing commitment to
collaborate with others
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Contributing to Neutral Foundations

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Governance and Risk
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Materials from the CNCF Contributor Strategy SIG, Governance WG
provided some of the content for this section

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Processes for how people
collaborate and make decisions
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Governance is about People
Photo by Allen and Allen - CC BY 2.0

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Licensing, code of conduct,
contribution, and
communication process
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Minimum Documentation
Photo by Jenni C - CC BY 2.0

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Opportunities and
responsibilities for
leaders
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Leadership
Image by the CNCF CC BY-NC 2.0https://github.com/cncf/sig-contributor-strategy/tree/master/governance

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Make informed and deliberate
decisions about how much risk you
can accept and plan to
monitor / mitigate those risks
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Final Thoughts on Risk
Photo by Mohanraj Sivanandam - CC BY 2.0

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Linux Foundation’s TODO Group
https://todogroup.org/guides/
CNCF Contributor Strategy SIG
https://github.com/cncf/sig-
contributor-strategy
CHAOSS
https://chaoss.community/
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Resources
Photo by Abhi Sharma - CC BY 2.0

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Dr. Dawn M. Foster
fosterd@vmware.com
fastwonderblog.com
Open Source at VMware
blogs.vmware.com/opensource
@vmwopensource
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Thank You!