Georg Link

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Omaha, NE, USA

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several open source projects and has presented on open source topics on many occasions. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting metrics and making open source more sustainable. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading fiction and hot-air ballooning.

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Authored Content

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8 ideas for measuring your open source software usage

Wondering how to collect usage metrics for your open source software project? Consider the pros and cons of using these alternatives.

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How to address challenges with community metrics

Consider this advice for addressing the organizational and technical challenges of implementing community health metrics for your own community.

Teamwork starts with communication across silos

What do you do with community metrics?

The data about your community will never stop changing, and that's to be expected. It's important to keep asking questions, iterate, and take action.

3 warning flags of DevOps metrics

5 metrics to track in your open source community

The CHAOSS community has defined more than 70 metrics and maintains software to get the insights you need. Here are the five focus areas you should pay attention to.

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Open source events: 4 goals to set and how to measure them

Measure the success of your community events by defining goals and creating metrics.

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5 levels of transparency for open source communities

Open source community managers need to apply these 5 levels of transparency to build a thriving open source community.

Contributed Content

3 warning flags of DevOps metrics

How to measure the impact of your open source project

Traditional metrics don't accurately predict the success or impact of open source projects. Here are some alternative approaches.

Authored Comments

25 Mar 2020

Tough lessons learned from measuring community health with open source software

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19 Jan 2019

Is open source wealth distribution fair?

Thank you, Armstrong, for the positive feedback.