Episode 124: Practitioner Guides: #7 Diverse Leadership

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This episode discusses the importance of diverse leadership in open source communities and how CHAOSS' practitioner guides can facilitate this through specific metrics.

Thank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast! CHAOSScast – Episode 124 This episode of CHAOSScast kicks off a new Practitioner Guide series focused on “Building Diverse Leadership” in open source communities. Harmony Elendu hosts with co-host Georg Link and guests Dawn Foster and Peculiar Umeh, exploring why diverse leadership matters, how CHAOSS’ practitioner guides turn “walls of metrics” into practical action, and how three specific metrics: Board/Council Diversity, Sponsorship, and Inclusive Leadership, can help projects become more welcoming, representative, and sustainable. Hit download now to hear more! [00:00:35] Dawn, Peculiar, Georg, and Harmony share their backgrounds. [00:02:57] Dawn gives us an overview of the Practitioner Guide series and emphasizes that the guides focus on how to improve projects using metrics, not just on measuring. [00:05:13] Georg asks Peculiar what inspired her to write the “Getting Started with Building Diverse Leadership” guide. She describes working on CHAOSS metrics templates and wanting to help non-data science people use them. [00:08:09] Harmony connects the topic to broader industry conversations on…

People in this episode

Host: Harmony Elendu

Guests: Dawn Foster, Peculiar Umeh

Topics covered

• Diverse Leadership
• Open Source Communities
• CHAOSS Practitioner Guides
• Metrics for Diversity
• Inclusive Leadership

Keywords

• Diversity
• Leadership
• Metrics
• Open Source
• Inclusion
• CHAOSS
• Practitioner Guides

Sponsors

Sustain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CHAOSS

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