Sam Backus

(He/Him)

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Community Health

How would you measure the health of a community?

Metrics

  • Diversity and Inclusion

  • Evolution

  • Risk

  • Value

Diversity and Inclusion

  • Event Diversity

    • Diversity Access Tickets
    • Family Friedliness
  • Governance 

    • Code of Conduct for Project
  • Leadership

    • Mentorship

Evolution

  • Code Change

    • Lines of Code 
  • Code Reviews
    • Accepted
    • Declined
  • Issues

    • New
    • Active
    • Closed

Risk

  • Code Quality
    • Test Coverage
  • Licensing
    • License count
    • License coverage
  • Transparency
    • Bill of Materials
  • Governance
    • Elephant Factor
    • Commiters
  • Investment

    • Labor Investment

    • Project Velocity

  • Living Wage

    • Organizational Project Skill Demand​

Value

Psychology of Recommendations

  • How do you convince a dev to adopt a new tool that would make them more productive?

What Doesn't Work?

  • Emails 
  • Automatic Pull Requests
  • Bots

What Does Work?

  • Peer to Peer interaction
    • politeness
    • persuasiveness
    • receptiveness: desire, familiarity
    • time pressure
    • tool usability

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