Each community is different and therefore requires other metrics for data-driven decisions about building and supporting it. In this blog post, we review this and share a summary of a 3 chapter series brought together by our friends at opensource.com. Take a look at this reading about Open Source Communities Metrics.
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Bitergia continues this month with some events around Open Source, and in this blog post we’re summarizing our participation in different events around the world, like All Things Open in the USA, OSPOlogy in Sweden, and EclipseCon in Germany, lets dive in!
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Sláinte! During last week, we were part of a full week of activities, events, social gatherings, networking, and interesting discussions. All of this was surrounded by the strong Irish culture which we had the opportunity to learn about on our latest trip to Dublin, Ireland.
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Last month, we were part of not one, but two Open Source events organized in Latin America! The OpenInfra Days and the Open Source Summit Latin America were broadcasted from Mexico and Brazil to the world.
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Open source is coming of age. Corporations have started to embrace open source and are establishing best practices for managing their engagement with open source software and communities. However, some organisations that are willing to adopt open source software methods require support and guidance during their first steps. This is where the OSPO Alliance comes into play.
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Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) have become vital to companies and their open source ecosystem, but getting the right information and a way to report OSPO activities is still unclear for many practitioners. Today’s post explains how Cauldron Cloud can be used as a reporting tool for three OSPO responsibilities: advocacy, community management and support.
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Whether you struggle to understand which open source technology your software team should put its effort into, which open source projects are sustainable in the long term, or where is your development team contributing to, Cauldron.io can help you!
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One benefit that comes from the open source nature and transparency of open source covid19 tracing apps, is how quickly these solutions can scale up to stop disease outbreaks. This post shares some insights from a previous analysis, which investigates how robust the software development activity is on the different open source contact tracing apps.
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You might have seen our last post about Grimoirelab joining Hacktoberfest. What is Grimoirelab and what makes this project special? Here are 3 facts you didn’t know about this open source project.
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It’s Hacktoberfest time! Have you considered contributing to the CHAOSS software tool GrimoireLab? This post summarizes how to get started as well as some open source contribution guidelines which any newbie should keep an eye on!
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