The Value group focuses on metrics that directly result in funding community activities.
Community initiatives do not reflect the same direct monetary value as other common organizational efforts. This results in community work often being undervalued by organizations. (As one contributor puts it, how do you communicate the business value of hugs?)
Due to this difficulty in comparison, it is essential that we share metrics that have proven success in securing funding for community work.
Value group will collect all known metrics that, when measured, help secure funding for community work. These metrics must be, at furthest, one step removed from a direct financial incentive to invest.
The approach used to date (March 2020) uses language that defaults to the technology industry and its organizational structures. These terms may not reflect other industries or organizations (e.g. nonprofits).
While our measurements may focus on certain categories to begin (enterprise technology, open source software), our aim is to become the de facto standard for all value-based discussions around community work. Please bring up terminology discrepencies or recommendations through a new issue.
The Value group is part of the CHAOSS project, which is a project under the Linux Foundation.
The Value group was relaunched in March 2020. See the [./metrics/CHANGELOG.md] for details.
All contributors are welcome to participate in Value group. Regular participants have the opportunity to join as a Core Contributor.
This groups welcomes any metric that is, at most, one step removed from funding community programs, whether it's in the shape of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO), Developer Relations (DevRel), influencer program (ex. Microsoft MVP), or other specific goal. Read more about our goal of metrics here.
If you have a metric in mind that directly links community activity to organizational funding, then:
- Copy the
metric-template.mdfile - Open a pull request with the new metric added to the
metricsfolder - Continue the discussion in the pull request until we decide to merge it
If you are not sure the metric is a good fit, it's best to start by discussing through a new issue.
We welcome all interested in this topic to join us by:
- Joining the general CHAOSS mailing list
- Participating in our bi-weekly community calls (information below)
- Getting involved in open discussions happening through issues
As a contributor, you can help us keep our community open and inclusive. Read the code of conduct to understand how.
We host video calls every other Thursday from 10-11 am US Central Time. All are welcome.
Read our meeting notes to learn our history and find out when our next call will be held.
The videoconference URL is https://unomaha.zoom.us/j/720431288.
Maintainers
Core Contributors
The criteria for becoming a core contributor is to participate at least once per month over a period of 3 months. Participation includes providing feedback in the weekly Value group meetings, providing feedback on docs, or making other contributions on GitHub (commits/issues). People not participating over a 3 month period may be removed as core contributors.
If you'd like to be on our squad, an easy way to start is by going through the issue list and participating in the discussion. 🎉
All Contributors
Ordered by first name: Andy Leak, Dylan Marcy, Georg Link, Jon Lawrence, Kevin Lumbard, Matt Broberg, Matt Germonprez, Samantha Venia Logan, Sean Goggins, Venu Tekula, and Vinod Ahuja.
Are you eligible to be on this list? You are if you helped in any capacity (whether its filed an issue or proposed a metric) then please open a Pull Request to add yourself. The team will try to update this list monthly, but please open an issue or post on the mailing list if we've missed anyone.
The documents in this repositories are released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
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