[Chaoss-members] Proposal for a FOSDEM devroom
Sean Goggins
s at goggins.com
Thu Sep 21 19:53:20 UTC 2017
Thank you, Jesus!
Sean
From: <chaoss-members-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org> on behalf of "Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <jgb at bitergia.com>
Organization: Bitergia
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 5:14 PM
To: Matt Germonprez <germonprez at gmail.com>
Cc: <chaoss-members at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Chaoss-members] Proposal for a FOSDEM devroom
Thanks to you all for your support. The proposal was sent. See attached
message.
Jesus.
On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 05:28 -0500, Matt Germonprez wrote:
Thanks for following through with this Jesus.
Matt
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:53 AM, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona <jgb at bite
rgia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 13:21 -0700, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
> wrote:
> > BTW, I will include your name as a backer of the proposal, maybe
> with
> > some others if I have their approval.
> >
> > In your case, I will assume that you're ok if I use your name and
> > affiliation, as it is in the list of board members, except that
> you
> > tell me otherwise (sorry for the opt-out, but deadline is getting
> > closer, and I completely forgot asking you about this during our
> > meeting).
> > [...]
>
> Hi all,
>
> Find below the final proposal I will be sending tonight to FOSDEM
> (deadline is approaching). I've talked to Stefano Zacchiroli to be
> the
> secondary contact, and one of the backers. He is a well known FOSS
> developer, and especially well known in the context of FOSDEM, and
> he
> agreed to back our proposal. He agrees in the proposal being mainly
> a
> CHAOSS thing (as much inclusive as possible, as we had dedcided),
> so
> the text is the same I sent you. This version is only formatted to
> meet
> the form that FOSDEM provides.
>
> If you have any comment, please send it asap, so that I can have it
> into account before submitting.
>
> Saludos,
>
> Jesus.
>
> -------------------------------------------
> https://submission.fosdem.org/devroom.php
>
> * Proposal for a FOSDEM devroom: FOSS Development Analytics*
>
> * Title: FOSS Development Analytics
>
> * Description
>
> ** Main objectives **
>
> To reinforce the emerging community interested in FOSS (free, open
> source software) development analytics.
>
> More specifically:
>
> - To discuss the current status of FOSS tools in this area
> - To share models about FOSS health and sustainability based on
> factual
> data
> - To share experiences by FOSS projects already doing their own
> analytics
> - To find ways of pooling development effort and other resources
> - To explore the requirements and functionality of future platforms
>
> ** Summary **
>
> Tools and platforms for analyzing and visualizing information from
> software repositories (source code management, bug reporting /
> ticketing, code review, mailing lists, etc.) are flourishing. Many
> of
> them are proprietary, which means that in many cases, FOSS (free,
> open
> source software) projects are having to use proprietary tools to
> analyze themselves.
>
> There is also a lot of interest in models to evaluate the health,
> quality or sustainability of FOSS projects, based on factual data
> retrieved mainly from their repositories. But there are little
> opportunities of sharing these interests, and the experiences in
> building and applying these models, in venues were all stakeholders
> are
> represented: developers, academics, project managers, users, etc.
>
> We believe that the FOSS development model is specially well suited
> for
> being applied in both cases. In fact, many projects are already
> developing software and setting up platforms for analyzing their
> own
> repositories, some FOSS systems and tools do exist for retrieving,
> analyzing and visualizing information about FOSS development, and
> some
> health and quality models for FOSS are being created and discussed
> using practices quite similar to those of FOSS development.
>
> If a certain critical mass is reached in this domain, it is
> reasonable
> to assume that usual mechanisms observed in FOSS development will
> enable incremental innovation and the quick improvement of the
> capabilities of these tools and models.
>
> The FOSS Development Analytics devroom intends to be an open venue
> to
> present these models, tools, and analysis that are already under
> development, and to discuss about collaboration, synergies, etc.
> The
> devroom will be organized to foster discussion and finding of
> synergies, but also development of new tools and models,
> improvement of
> existing ones, and spread the knowledge about what is being done
> and
> can be done in this area. Given that the devroom will happen in the
> context of FOSDEM, it will be focused on the needs, interests and
> contributions of FOSS developers.
>
> ** Backers **
>
> This proposal is put together by the CHAOSS group, which includes
> contributors from well known FOSS Foundations, companies producing
> FOSS
> tools for software development analytics, and academics with
> experience
> in analysis of FOSS projects. To ensure that the needs of the wider
> FOSS development community are met, CHAOSS has contacted other
> parties,
> and all together have put together this list of people backing the
> proposal, and with interest in contributing to the success of the
> devroom (alphabetic order, all of them representing themselves,
> affiliation is only informative):
>
> The responsibility for the organization and coordination will be
> led by
> the CHAOSS group, in a way as inclusive as open as possible.
>
> * CHAOSS Group: http://chaoss.community
>
> List of backers:
>
> Andrea Gallo, Linaro
> Daniel M German, University of Victoria
> Don Marti, Mozilla
> Ildikó Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation
> Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Uni. Rey Juan Carlos, Bitergia
> Jono Bacon, Jono Bacon Consulting
> Josianne Marsan, Université Laval
> Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska-Omaha
> Scott K. Peterson, Red Hat
> Sean Goggins, University of Missouri
> Stefano Zacchiroli, INRIA, Software Heritage
> Wayne Beaton, Eclipse Foundation
>
>
> ** Participants **
>
> Participation as speaker in the devroom will be subject to an open
> call
> for contributions. This call will be communicated through mailing
> lists
> and social media channels related to the subject, in which the
> backers
> of the proposal participate.
>
> The backers of this proposal commit to prepare at least five
> presentations for the devroom, which will be submitted through the
> open
> call. They will be subject to the same review and selection
> process
> than the other proposals.
>
> In addition, anyone could attend, provided there is space.
> Interaction
> between speakers and other attendants will be promoted as much as
> possible.
>
> ** Organization **
>
> An organizing committee will be established to promote the devroom,
> the
> open call, and the organization in general. It will be composed by
> the
> backers, plus some other persons related to the subject of the
> devroom.
> It will be as much inclusive as possible, giving voice to FOSS
> projects
> and developers interested in the subject.
>
> The organizing committee will produce the call for contributions,
> which
> will be based on this proposal. They will receive all proposals,
> and
> will openly discuss about how to better accommodate as many of them
> as
> possible, while at the same time fostering discussion and reserving
> some slots for open interaction.
>
> The devroom will include some time for demos and live explanations
> of
> how to use FOSS applications for analyzing software development,and
> models of FOSS health, specifically focused to FOSS developers.
>
> All the materials used in the talks, demos and other activities
> will be
> published under free culture licenses.
>
> Since this is the first year the devroom will be celebrated, we
> envision having a half-day (morning or afternoon) devroom, but a
> full
> day devroom will also be possible.
>
>
> * Why does it fit FOSDEM
>
> FOSDEM is the main meeting, worldwide, for FOSS developers.
> Therefore,
> it is the best place to have discussions on how to do analytics on
> FOSS
> development, to learn about the interests of FOSS developers, to
> listen
> to their stories of how they are already doing analytics in their
> projects, etc.
>
> Besides, we're concerned that many FOSS developers are consuming
> analytics prodcued with non-FOSS tools, which they cannot modify,
> audit
> or even understand. We want to specifically address this situation,
> making the FOSS development community at large aware of the
> situation,
> informing about alternatives using FOSS tools, and discussing how
> to
> coordinate the projects already producing FOSS tools in this
> domain.
>
>
> * Primary contact:
>
> Jesus M.
> Gonzalez-Barahona
> jgb at bitergia.com
>
> I've been researching FOSS development for more than 15 years. I
> was
> one of the organizers of the Research devroom at FOSDEM (2007-
> 2009),
> and come to FOSDEM almost every year. In 2012 I co-founded
> Bitergia, a
> startup devoted to FOSS analytics, which follows a business model
> based
> on producing FOSS software. I started around 2005 one of the
> earlier
> projects for FOSS Analytics, Grimoire Tools, and I'm a contributor
> of
> GrimoireLab, a new project which has built all the analytics
> toolchain
> from scratch, reusing other FOSS components. I'm one of the
> founders of
> the CHAOSS collaborative project.
>
> * Secondary contact:
>
> Stefano
> Zacchiroli
> zack at upsilon.cc
>
> Stefano Zacchiroli is an academic and computer scientist. He is
> also a
> free software activist and developer. He served as Debian Project
> Leader from 2010 to 2013, and is one of the co-founders and current
> CTO
> of Software Heritage. He serves as board director of the Open
> Source
> Initiative. He has many years of experience on extracting and
> analyzing
> information related to FOSS development.
>
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