OpenInfra Summit ‘22 sessions: a summary on Community Metrics, Project Sustainability, and Barriers to Contribution

At the OpenInfra Summit ‘22 in Berlin, we organized three “Birds of a Feather” sessions. Birds of a feather sessions bring together people who share a common interest so they can talk about it. We started each session with a brief presentation to introduce the topic and get everyone on the same page. Then we opened the discussion and encouraged everyone to share experiences, ask questions, and work together on ideas and solutions.

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Contributors and Contributions: the right tool to have the right metrics

At Bitergia we work with contributions and contributors to get metrics about them. Both meanings seem clear, however, both of them can be a little ambiguous, so in this blog post we are going to see what is a contribution and a contributor in the most famous free culture communities to see that sometimes the right tool gives you the right insight that you need.

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The first release of Bitergia Analytics Platform based on OpenSearch.

As we know, Elastic no longer releases new versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under an open source license. One of Bitergia’s core values is to always maintain our work in an open source environment. For these reasons, we are migrating to OpenSearch and now have the first release ready and deployed with the first customers.

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Why it’s a good time to set up an OSPO in your organization.

90% of IT leaders use open source software in their organizations’ innovation streams. This requires a strategy to manage modern companies’ relationships with the open source projects they use, release, or even contribute to. An open source program office (OSPO) creates this strategy by working across the organization. In this blog post, we want to highlight 5 reasons that your organization can master with an OSPO.

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The many faces of measuring OSPO success

There are different ways to measure the success of an OSPO (Open Source Program Office). What constitutes success is dependent on the goals of the organization and why it established the OSPO. Whatever the success metrics are, it is important for an OSPO to demonstrate its success. In this blog post, we want to navigate through some strategies that an OSPO can use to measure its success and show its value to the organization.

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