Orchestrate all the Things Open source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS. Featuring CHAOSS Project co-founder Georg Link
Trying to capture the value open source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand.
By now, the tension between commercial interests and open source projects is well known.
Trying to balance building a sustainable business and a community around open source software, in a cloud-first world is not the easiest thing in the world.
In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their licenses.
Their rationale was clearly communicated as trying to protect the business they have built around the respective open source projects from cloud vendors that they feel compete unfairly with them, without contributing as much as they do.
Interestingly, all parties involved refer to "the community" as being front and center in what they do. While obviously important, however, what constitutes an open source community, how it's faring, and what value it generates all seem rather vaguely defined.
The people working on the CHAOSS project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation want to change that. We caught up with Georg J.P. Link, CHAOSS project co-founder, to find out more.