Collaboration as a Key Health Indicator for OSS Communities
TalkinSpanishat Open Source Summit Latin America 2022 · on Tuesday, 2022-08-23· at 11:50· ROOM 5, Virtual·
summary
Presents a way to measure open-source community health by constructing contributor–repository graphs and computing network metrics (adjacency, degree, connectivity, centrality). Uses GrimoireLab for visualizations, ingests 30+ data sources with historical snapshots, and manages identities/affiliations with GDPR controls. Reports patterns like dense “continents” versus fragmented “archipelagos,” identifies bridge contributors and isolated repos, and delivers public dashboards/reports used by organizations such as Santander and Mozilla.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Collaboration definition
- 3:20Collaboration network visualization
- 7:11Continent vs archipelago communities
- 11:07Organizational density and diversity
- 17:27Project and developer interconnections
- 18:50Graph theory for collaboration metrics
- 22:23Key network properties and metrics
- 28:50Theoretical framework for collaboration
- 32:01Grimor Lab for OSS analysis
- 34:28Grimor Lab metrics and use cases
- 37:21OSS community health reports
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