In the lifespan of an open source project, it is key to understand when the project is thriving, and when it is at risk of becoming stagnant due to low contributions and participation. To this end, measuring project health is key, but how do we do this in an ethical way that also respects the project’s community privacy? In this session, we will overview 3 roles involved in measuring project health: a project’s community, a country’s data regulations, and private companies. You will have an opportunity to dive into each perspective, discuss priorities and share your experience and expectations measuring a project’s activity.
In this session, participants will:
- understand data collection ethics
- understand roles involved in measuring project health
- negotiate with other parties involved in a given scenario and come to an agreement
If participants are interested, after the session we could open a Google Group to continue the conversation asynchronously and share any questions, research projects that are interesting to learn about.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:This session is structured to have some discussion time, and the activity can be used with 3 people or 100. I set a cap at 45 because that is more likely to give everyone a chance to weigh in during group discussion.
María is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and lives in California since 2015. She worked for Wikimedia from 2013 to 2019; now at the Google OSPO, focusing on cloud native projects.
