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Navigating the Messy World of Open Source Contributor DataCategory: Data, Privacy, Kubernetes, github
Kasten is sponsoring The New Stack’s coverage of Kubecon+CloudNativeCon North America 2021. At this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America, Sophia Vargas, research analyst and open source program manager at Google’s open source office, talked about how best to navigate the regulations and ethics of data management in an open source community.
Part of the pain is that there is no single definition of an open source project.
A lot of the data collected within an open source community is typically centered on contributions, in order to know who is doing what, who to acknowledge, who do you need to encourage more, how to attract more users, how to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion, and other goals that maybe traditional business models may not prioritize.
She recommends that you: Also while this article focuses a lot on the world’s biggest open source repository GitHub, don’t think that’s your one and only source of data.
Part of the pain is that there is no single definition of an open source project.
A lot of the data collected within an open source community is typically centered on contributions, in order to know who is doing what, who to acknowledge, who do you need to encourage more, how to attract more users, how to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion, and other goals that maybe traditional business models may not prioritize.
She recommends that you: Also while this article focuses a lot on the world’s biggest open source repository GitHub, don’t think that’s your one and only source of data.
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