Measuring Suc...
summary
CHAOSS Academic Working Group (formed 2023) finds most CHAOSS metrics don’t map to university needs and produces 37 goals before discovering major gaps: universities often cannot inventory their projects, many efforts are single-grad-student or grant-driven and go dormant during funding gaps, and maintainer roles aren’t in HR. Practical fixes discussed include Zenodo DOIs for reproducible snapshots and ORCID integration plus ASO/CURIOSS-style programs to track citations, health signals, and institutional impact.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:46Academic open source challenges
- 7:02Academic vs industry projects
- 15:27Defining success
- 21:50Metrics gaps in academia
- 25:42Tracking citations and impact
- 29:14Project longevity
- 33:50Student involvement in open source
- 39:52Final thoughts
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