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Open-source communities are powerful assets for software development. However, many such communities receive little or no steering support, since they may not refer to any one leader, let alone an organisation or sponsor. Also, deeper knowledge about the organisational and social workings behind a community might foster external contribution, critical for communities’ longevity. This paper outlines YOSHI, i.e., “tYpifying Open-Source for Harmonising communitIes”, as an attempt to offer organisational and social transparency as well as computer- assisted steering to open-source communities, by inheriting and implementing insights from organisations and social networks research. YOSHI typifies open-source communities by eliciting and processing their key characteristics. This improves open- source communities’ transparency and efficiency, e.g., by allowing informed governance, more in line with communities’ own desired way of working. We evaluate YOSHI studying cases from GitHub.