Empowering Engagement: Introducing a Dynamic Dashboard for Proactive Retention Strategies
summary
A retention-focused web dashboard called Survival dashboard mines GitHub activity and uses statistical survival models to predict group- and individual-level disengagement, segmenting by gender, region and affiliation. It includes a time selector, an automated or optional survey button, and a table of top‑at‑risk volunteers; an Apache Beam evaluation shows maintainers re-engaging top‑5 at‑risk volunteers. Limitations: privacy and low survey uptake, not reliable for very small projects, and it assumes maintainer capacity to act on alerts.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 4:21Retention challenges in open source
- 10:20Demographic data collection concerns
- 17:44Dashboard design and features
- 25:04Existing tools and limitations
- 31:07Use case and practical actions
- 35:29Demo walkthrough of the dashboard
- 44:12Real-world feasibility and scalability
- 50:41Q&A and community feedback
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