CHAOSSMonthly - September 2025

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CHAOSSMonthly Newsletter - September 2025

👋 Welcome back from the August break ! 👋

💥 New Working Group: Package Metadata

There is a new Context Working Group for those who may have an interest in working with Package Metadata and working toward mutual standardization. This group is led by Damián Vicino and they meet every Wednesday at 10:00 am US Central/Chicago time. Here are more details about the group:

• You can read about the mission of the group in their repo’s README.
• Subscribe to the calendar of meetings here.
• Join the Slack channel here.

Join now to help shape the future of the working group!

📹 CHAOSScon Africa Videos Released

CHAOSScon Africa was a huge success! The CHAOSScon Africa Committee spent many hours coordinating and hosting an impactful and inclusive event, and we want to acknowledge that entire team:

• Adeyinka Oresanya
• Faith Kovi
• Felix Enemuo
• Harmony Elendu
• Precious Abubakar
• Oluchi Nwankwo
• Olamide Lawal
• Ruth Ikegah
• Kingsley Mkpandiok
• Busayo Ojo
• Cynthia Udoh
• Winner Bright
• Peculiar C. Umeh
• Yigakpoa Ikpae
• Ariane Djeupang
• Temitope Omolere
• Chidalu Anukam
• Eunice Eze
• Motunrayo Adeneye
• Maryblessing Okolie
• Gloriah Johnson

You can watch a highlight video and the list of recorded talks is in a CHAOSStube Playlist. There is also a CHAOSScast dedicated to CHAOSScon Africa.

We are so grateful to all those who came and who made this event one to remember. We will have more on CHAOSScon Africa coming to the blog soon!

🙌 Help Wanted: Data Science WG Looking for Help

The Data Science Working Group is looking for help with their Foundational Stats Project.. There are numerous ways to get involved, and you can read more about them here. If you'd like to participate you can also reach out to the group in the #wg-data-science Slack channel.

🎧 Catch up with CHAOSScasts

Our CHAOSScast team has been hard at work hosting and producing new episodes for your listening enjoyment. Check out these CHAOSScasts published since our last newsletter:

• Episode 115: Trends from UN OSS Week and OSSNA (In this special double-episode, Elizabeth Barron, Andrew Nesbitt, Cali Dolfi, Laura Langdon, Divya Mohan, Ruth Ikegah, and Daniel Izquierdo provide personal insights, reflect on key moments, and share learnings about the future direction of open source.)
• Episode 116: Metrics For Maintainers with Sarina, Feanil, and Felipe (Open edX community discusses their experiences with the GrimoireLab tool and the launch and growth of their maintainer program.)
• Episode 117: Business Success with Open Source with VM (Vicky) Brasseur (Vicky Brasseur, author of Business Success with Open Source and Forge Your Future with Open Source discusses her books, the business aspect of open source, and contributing to open source)
• Episode 118: Insights from CHAOSScon Africa, Open Source Community Africa Festival, and KCD Nigeria (Harmony welcomes guests Maryblessing Okolie, Ileriayo Adebiyi, and Joan Njeri, to discuss their experiences and key moments from recent open source community events in Lagos, Nigeria.)

👯 Community Reminders

Add your Community Contributions via an Issue on GitHub

We now have an easier way to add your community contribution to our community-contributions.md document. Simply open an issue using the CHAOSS Contribution Issue Template, and when you submit your issue, your contribution will be added.

Looking for Podcast Questions and Ideas for CHAOSScast

Alice Sowerby, Harmony Elendu, and the CHAOSScast team would love to hear your questions, comments, and ideas for new episodes of CHAOSScast! Feel free to send an email to [email protected] with your thoughts.

CHAOTIC of the Month Nomination Form

Have you noticed a fellow CHAOTIC doing something amazing for CHAOSS? Has there been someone who is going above and beyond? If you'd like to nominate them for CHAOTIC of the Month, now you can! With our CHAOTIC of the Month feature, we like to celebrate their contributions to CHAOSS and enable our whole community to get to know them a little better. It's a great way to show appreciation for our fellow CHAOTICs so don't hesitate to nominate someone through our CHAOTIC of the Month Nomination Form.

Upcoming Meetings

Please refer to the CHAOSS Community Calendar for details on all upcoming meetings. Meetings should show in your local timezone, but you can convert to another time zone here. You can also subscribe to individual meetings on the CHAOSS Community Calendar by right-clicking the .ics file and adding to your calendar as a URL.