Meet the Community DevRoom Speakers (vol. 4)
In our latest post of Leslie and Laura interviews for the FOSDEM Community Devroom , we turn our attention to VM (Vicky) Brasser, who I’ve only had the pleasure of meeting in real life a handful of times. I’ve been following Vicky online for a long time, looking up to her as a role model for women in tech, inspired by how her career has progressed and all the great lessons she’s shared with everyone in the industry.
Passing the Baton: Succession planning for FOSS leadership
Why did you submit your talk to the Community DevRoom?
One of the most encouraging trends in FOSS in the past several years is the recognition that people, not technology, are the heart of the movement. The Community DevRoom embodies that, which to me makes it the heart of FOSDEM. Why wouldn’t I (or anyone else) want to support that?
Beyond the info in your abstract, can you tell us one or two sentences about why our audience should come see your talk? Perhaps you could tell us who the ideal audience member is or a teaser for a story you will tell as part of your presentation. Anything you want to share, we are all ears.
Ya know what sucks? Important people leaving the project. Ya know what also sucks? Burnout. Ya know what can help with both of these things? Succession planning. Come learn more.
Other than the Community DevRoom, what other talks or activities are you planning to attend? Anything you’d like to share about why these sparked your interest?
To be honest I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t even looked at the schedule yet. I’ll probably end up in the Law and Policy DevRoom for a while, since that information is up my alley, but beyond that I haven’t thought about it much. I’m looking forward to spending time working in the OSI, (Open Source Initiative, It’s their 20th Birthday, stop by and say congrats!) and SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) booths, though. That’s a great way to meet a lot of amazing people and hear about what they’re doing with free and open source software.
We are also looking forward to hearing from David Moreno Lumbreras, presenting on the topic of Analyzing developers network in a community. Everyone nowadays is tracking some form of metrics on their work, community, and development. It’s a topic that most developer relations managers are currently tasked with to show value of their community outreach.
We asked him why he submitted his talk! Here’s what he had to say:
Because I think that a community is one of the most important things in life. If you belong to a community, you will improve yourself and others will improve themselves. And I think that my plugin (that I will present in the talk) is a good tool in order to show how the different factors (authors, projects, messages) are related among them.
Beyond the info in your abstract, can you tell us one or two sentences about why our audience should come see your talk? Perhaps you could tell us who the ideal audience member is or a teaser for a story you will tell as part of your presentation. Anything you want to share, we are all ears.
Well, I will show how to analyze a developers community showing the information of the community (users, organizations, projects, repositories) with Kibana/ElasticSearch and a plugin that I’ve developed called Network plugin. This plugin is an open source project and allows you to visualize information of a community in a social network way (a graph). I will show how to import open source project data (e.g., commits, usernames, repositories, organizations, etc.) to ElasticSearch from GitHub (or other sources) using GrimoireLab.
This is interesting because you can see the relation between Authors and projects, for instance; one nodes are authors and other nodes are projects and there is a relation between them, given by the number of commits (but you can use fields like repositories, organizations, etc . and other sources like Slack, Bugzilla). I will build this visualization from scratch, showing how to customize the network (sizes given by a metric, colors, relationship types…) and I will show some use cases where these networks can be integrated with some others visualizations in order to show what it’s happen in the community instantly.
Other than the Community DevRoom, what other talks or activities are you planning to attend? Anything you’d like to share about why these sparked your interest?
I’m a really Web frontend and 3D printers (makers) lover, I will attend talks related with that.
We hope to see you in the Community DevRoom in Building K, room K.4.601 from 10:30 to 19:00 on Saturday, 3 February. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Laura & Leslie
Read the previous interviews from the FOSDEM Community Devroom 2018
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