Over the past few months, we've been hard at work creating the infrastructure to collect and analyze impact metrics for open source projects. We're excited to announce that we're ready to start doing some new analysis on data from open source projects ... and we need your help!
This post includes some of the domains we're interested in exploring as well as an initial list of impact metrics we'd like to collect. We're looking for feedback on these metrics and suggestions for additional metrics we should consider. We're also looking for contributors to help us apply these impact metrics.
Get Involved
If you'd like to get involved, here's what to do:
- Apply to join the Data Collective. It only takes a few minutes. We'll review, and reach out to schedule an onboarding call.
- Join our Discord server and say hello.
- Get inspiration from our Colab directory of starter notebooks for impact metrics. We also have of them in our Insights repo if you prefer to run them locally.
- Consult our docs and especially our impact metric spec as you prepare your analysis.
The rest of this post includes more details on the types of impact metrics we're interested in.