Remy DeCausemaker

Like it or Loathe it, this election was historic--for the candidates, for citizens, and even the Free Software Movement. The creation of DevProgress.us marks the first time that a major national political party or presidential campaign in the United States has officially adopted contribution policies embracing copyleft licenses. Come hear about how hackers and artists from around the world made an impact up and down the ticket, and ways #wewillcontinue.

This presentation will feature metrics from the Fedora Project. Some topics of interest will include:

• Mailing List Demographics and Breakdown. Annual and All-time metrics
• Downloads and server traffic
• Yearly contributor Activity on the Fedmsg bus (technical and non-technical contributions)
• Bodhi Updates System traffic and metrics
• Data visualizations and graphics
• Storytelling and anecdotes

This presentation will feature metrics from the Fedora Project. Some topics of interest will include:

• Mailing List Demographics and Breakdown. Annual and All-time metrics
• Yearly contributor Activity on the Fedmsg bus (technical and non-technical contributions)
• Downloads and server traffic
• Bohdi Updates System traffic and metrics
• Data visualizations and graphics
• Storytelling and anecdotes

The Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) team has been compiling statistics and metrics about community activity within Fedora. This data will be used to inform strategic decisions on how to invest scarce project resources in our volunteer-driven community. We will also include some analysis and retrospective conclusions about future releases of the Operating System.

Tools used to compile metrics, graphics, and visualizations used in this talk will be made available under FOSS licenses, as they may be useful for other distros and projects outside of Fedora.

This talk will make heavy use of graphs, charts, and data visualizations, with a goal of quickly capturing a number of activity vectors to be presented in interesting and engaging ways. An extensive Q&A session will be a big part of this presentation, so the audience can get ample explanation of both results and tools used to generate them.

Free software and journalism have a long and rich history of informing one another and the Web at large. These communities share many values: transparency, objectivity, skepticism, and dogged pursuit of solutions, particularly ones that help improve our understanding of and access to the world. We'll talk about what these values look like in newsrooms (including the coding side of news) and where there are opportunities for these groups to learn from and reinforce these common values. Journalism drives a huge portion of what we read on the Web, so let's chat about the values that drive both that reporting and development work.

This session will cover the curriculum, methodology, and contributions made for and by the students of the Humanitarian Free/Open Source Software Development course at Rochester Institute of Technology in Upstate New York. This is the gateway course for a newly minted, first-of-its-kind, academic minor in Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture. Course materials are licensed CC-BY-SA, source code is available online, and patches are always welcome.