Google Season of Docs: CHAOSS Project under The Linux Foundation — Week 3

Blog Post for Week 2

Introduction

👋Holla everyone!

I am Jaskirat Singh, an open-source research strategist, and tech diversity community management specialist, developing new and improving existing, computer-based technologies, systems, and solutions in advanced open source ecosystems. I have been working quite a while with various communities in the open-source, helping them maintain good relationships with external communities and projects, organizing meetups and events generating FOSS ecosystem, supporting the community in the outreach, creation of tools, and process with good relationships.

I hold a great experience in mentorship spends most of the mine time mentoring and administrating young-minded people across the globe such as an administrator in Google Summer of Code and in Google Code-In for Terasology Foundation(Codeuino), Google Season of Docs Administrator for Open Collective, Mentor at Rails Girls Summer of Code and MLH League Summer program and recently administrating for Codeuino Mentorship project under The Linux Foundation CommunityBridge mentorship platform

I help organizations understand, use, release, and contribute to free and open-source software in a way that’s good for both their end-users and for the community.

Exciting news! I am working within the Google Season of Docs program on a CHAOSS Project under The Linux Foundation.

Things I learned this week

This week I worked on the “Path to Leadership” and “Terminology” section under the CHAOSS community handbook.

I researched how Technical, Governance, and Operational Leadership has been incorporated within the CHAOSS Community and what are the ways for any existing or newcomers to follow a path of leadership. For me, the exuberant thing was to understand — How to become a leader in the CHAOSS community? while understanding these things I was able to prepare a checklist for becoming the Maintainer, Website Maintainer, Documentation Maintainer, Board Member and Decision Maker, and Community Manager.

Another interesting thing I worked on was the “Terminology” section through which I got to understand various terms and usage inside with the community. I was able to figure out the CHAOSS Community Specific and Committee Terms.

While I was surfing around and understanding the various things inside within the CHAOSS community, I was lucky enough to propose an idea for writing “CHAOSS History” as a timeline within the CHAOSS community-wide handbook. I am excited to discuss this with core people and seek their opinions on this.

After discussing these with community members I was able to draft them into the community-handbook.😊

Work Done this Week

Day 1 [Documentation]

• Wrote the “Technical Leadership”, “Governance Leadership”, and “Operational Leadership” within the community-handbook
• Wrote the quotes provide by Georg and Elizabeth on the mailing list
• Sent for review about this section
• Wrote the Blog Post for Week 2
• Wrote the email to the CHAOSS mailing list sharing the Blog Post and Weekly Report with a subject line — “GSoD: Week 2 progress of Jaskirat Singh”

Day 2 [Documentation & Research]

• Worked on the inconsistencies and suggestions mentioned by Georg and Matt within the Google Doc and on the mailing list regarding the Working Groups section and Project Tracker
• Research around the “Terminology” section for community handbook
• Started a draft and asked the community to chime in with any thoughts or additions they have regarding terms https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Tmeh1wH2GZTW81sL9r-_qEtTaK0zce7fi3-K_luW7w/edit?usp=sharing
• Wrote to the mailing list with the subject line — “Terminology — Community Handbook”

Day 3 [Docuementation]

• Started Writing the “Terminology” section
• Attended the second official GSoD Meeting: GSoD office hours with mentors and meeting notes can be found here
• Proposed new idea to the community of having the “History-Timeline” within the community handbook

Day 4 [Research]

• More research on the “Terminology” section
• Made some research on the “CHAOSS Specific” terms — Open Source Community Health, Code Review, Open Source Software Metric, Metric Release, Focus Area, CHAOSScon, CHAOSScast, CHAOSSblog, CHAOSStube, CHAOSSweekly, Charter

Day 5–6 [Research & Documentation]

• Wrote CHAOSS Committee terms — CHAOSS Project, Community, Organisation, Community Members, Core Contributors, Maintainers, Working Groups, Governance Board, Event Attendee, CHAOSScon Organizing Committee Member, CHAOSS Metric Release Collaborator, Mailing List Moderator, CoC Enforcement Team Member, Twitter Manager
• Wrote CHAOSS Community Working Group Terminology — Common Metric Working Group, Diversity & Inclusion Working Group, Evolution Working Group, Risk Working Group, Value Working Group, GrimoireLab, Augur, Cregit, Application Ecosystem, Diversity & Inclusion Badging

Day 7 [Documentation]

• Added visual illustrations for the terms and finalized the terminology section. Though it took me a while in order to find the relevant images with the text, it was fun researching them. :)
• Converted different sections into the subpages
• Wrote CHAOSS Community Mentorship Terminology — Organisation Administrators, Mentors, Mentees/Students, and CHAOSS Mentorship Alumni
• Wrote about CHAOSS Specific terms

There is more exciting ahead in the coming weeks! 😊

Once again, I am very much grateful to my mentors and the community members for being so supportive.

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