Unconventional Metrics in OSS

Most projects measure success based on stars, but instead, they would benefit from turning stars into first-time contributors. This talk will discuss how a project's success can be correlated to second-time contributors.

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1. Unconventional OSS Metrics opensauced.pizza @bdougie
2. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 2 What is success in open source?
3. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza My success is a series of stupid questions I asked and got answer to.
4. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza
5. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. New Contributors* 2. Rate of Self Selection (outside contrib) 3. Engagement 4. Contributor Con fi dence Unconventional
6. opensauced.pizza @bdougie If you don’t got sauce, then you lost 6 Gucci Mane
8. Chief Sauce Of fi cer oss.fyi/bdougie
10. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Disclaimer 
 1. This is not Scienti fi c Research 2. No metric can be looked at in isolation 3. Not all metrics are important to all projects 4. These metrics are not answers, just ideas.
11. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 11 What are success metrics in OSS?
12. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Not stars.
13. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Please rate this talk 5 stars
14. https://github.com/jquery/jquery
15. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza >1k stars is top 10%
16. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza ROSS Index
17. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Not cumulative stars
18. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Not cumulative stars
19. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Not cumulative stars godotengine/godot
20. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Stars = Marketing
21. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Stars = VC Money
22. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza zed-industries/zed
23. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza maybe- fi nance/maybe
24. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Stars do not convert into success*
25. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza makeplane/plane
26. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza makeplane/plane
27. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza makeplane/plane
28. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Stars actually correlate to forks.
29. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza New contributors correlate to forks*
30. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Stars correlate to Forks not success
31. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. New Contributors not Stars 2. Rate of Self Selection (outside contrib) 3. Engagement 4. Contributor Con fi dence Unconventional
32. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza zed-industries/zed
33. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza
34. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza
35. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Rate of Self-Selection % of (code) contribution outside of the organization
36. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Name a successful OSS project with zero outside contribution.
37. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Typescript took no outside contribution in all Q4. Rate of Self Selection (Q4’23) Q4’23
38. Stars Forks New Contributor Success
39. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. New Contributors not Stars 2. Rate of Self Selection (outside contrib) 3. Engagement 4. Contributor Con fi dence Unconventional
40. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Commits Velocity
41. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Events over time
42. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza oven-sh/bun Funding 1.0
43. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Engagement (PR commits + Issue comments) / Unique Contributors
44. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza k8s has high adoption This is healthy This is niche Q4’23
45. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 45 youtube.com/opensauced
46. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 46 youtube.com/opensauced Issues = Interest
 
 PRs = Adoption
47. Stars Forks New Contributor Success
48. Stars Forks New Contributor Engagement
49. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza 1. New Contributors not Stars 2. Rate of Self Selection (outside contrib) 3. Engagement 4. Contributor Con fi dence Unconventional
50. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Contribution Con fi dence
51. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza star velocity / forks (commit velocity*weight) = a notable project
52. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Con fi dence (Contributor to a notable project more than one time)
53. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza Repeat, Con fi dent, and Outside Contribution = Success Unconventional
54. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 54 Contribution Distribution
55. Repeat contributors opensauced.pizza @bdougie
56. https://pizza.new opensauced.pizza @bdougie
57. CLI opensauced.pizza @bdougie
58. Coming soon opensauced.pizza @bdougie
59. @bdougieYO opensauced.pizza api.opensauced.pizza
60. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 60 youtube.com/opensauced
61. opensauced.pizza @bdougieYO 61 Let’s talk Open source