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Today is the last day to submit a talk for CHAOSScon EU 2025 in Brussels! Submit your abstract here before 18:00 Pacific Standard Time today: https://lnkd.in/eNuxuJ2N

Hello CHAOTICs and CHAOTICS-to-be! CHAOSS will be taking a little holiday/end-of-year break from meetings until January 6, 2025. We do this every year to protect our contributors from burnout, because breaks are important! We are still around unofficially on Slack, but otherwise we will see you in 2025. ❤️

The OpenSource.net blog had a wrap-up of their top posts from the past year, and there were 2 CHAOSS-related posts on the list! Anita ihuman's DEI metrics post and Dawn Foster's Practitioner Guide post. The full list is here, and there are some other great articles in the list! https://lnkd.in/dbKwBGga

We collaborated with the Sovereign Tech Agency, NGI Commons, and The Linux Foundation on a paper and presentation about measuring the impact of public funding. This STA blog post does a great job of summing up the research, and you can find a link to the paper from the blog post. We hope you enjoy it!

It's International Day of People with Disabilities! Read about CHAOSS Africa's efforts this year to improve inclusion and accessibility by bringing more folks with disabilities into open source, and help us celebrate their contributions: https://lnkd.in/e85KtWaF https://lnkd.in/eYkSHvyv

Relicensing of open source projects and the forks that result from those license changes have been a hot topic within the CHAOSS community (and elsewhere). In this Data in the Hallway Episode, Ray Paik and Daniël van Eeden interview Dawn Foster in a lively 30 minute discussion about the topic! If you want more details, there is also a more academic paper that was presented at the OpenForum Academy Symposium, "The New Dynamics of Open Source: Relicensing, Forks, and Community Impact": https://lnkd.in/eywdBEac

Some of you already know that we have been creating a series of MIT licensed Practitioner Guides focused on improving the sustainability of our software and communities. Dr. Dawn Foster will delve into the details in an OpenChain Project Webinar @ 2024-12-05 – 09:00 UTC. It is open for anyone to attend and is in a timezone that is friendly for Europe, Asia, Africa, and similar regions: https://lnkd.in/eSQeqYk5 Learn more about our Practitioner Guide Series: https://lnkd.in/ehQDsKXc

Cailean Osborne, Paul Sharratt, Dawn Foster, and Mirko Boehm presented a paper at the OpenForum Academy Symposium: 'A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development.' This was in collaboration with NGI Commons, Sovereign Tech Agency, and The Linux Foundation jointly with CHAOSS. If you are interested in understanding the impact of funding on open source projects, you can read the NGI blog post (https://lnkd.in/dVqfFEjJ) or the entire paper (https://lnkd.in/ek2XamkU).

Big congratulations to the #Django project for earning the Bronze DEI Badge for Open Source Projects! Much thought and care went into crafting their DEI.md file, and we appreciate their efforts in making open source more welcoming and inclusive for everyone. Learn more in their README: https://github.com/django

The CHAOSScon CfP is open and so are affordable sponsorship opportunities! Read all about both on the CHAOSScon website: https://lnkd.in/ghf8vme8