Community Data is Not Community Metrics

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Argues that raw community data is useless without clear questions and shows concrete tools and metrics: Grimoire Labs / Bitergia pulling GitHub/GitLab commits, pull requests and mailing list traffic; metrics to prefer release cadence over downloads; CHAOSS’s four areas—Project CHAOSS: evolution, diversity, value, risk—used as combinable atomic metrics; warns many projects have a bus factor of one; demonstrates testing hypotheses (correlate PRs to downloads) and building repeatable, Lego‑brick metrics to tell causal, not just pretty, stories.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:33Blue Dragon
3. 1:23Mantis Shrimp
4. 2:25Data
5. 4:01Community Data
6. 5:40Questions are critical
7. 7:18What makes communities healthy
8. 8:50Evolution
9. 12:08Diversity
10. 15:48Combining Metrics
11. 19:10Questions

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