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I share here the speaker bio and image that I use when submitting talks (mostly, so that I have one place to find it). Below that, I list my future and past talks, presentations, and workshops.
Speaker Bio
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.
2022
Squashing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bugs in Open Source Projects. OpenInfra Summit. June 7-9, 2022. (Program)
Incentivizing Good Community Citizenship with Contributor Leaderboards. OpenJS World. June 6 – 10, 2022. (Program)
Responding to the need for Open Source Technology Management Continuing Education. Co-presented at OpenApereo 2022: The Value of Open Source, online. June, 2022. (Program)
2021
面向 Gitee 项目的开源软件项目健康指标 | OSS Project Health Metrics for Gitee Projects. Co-presented at Open Source Summit China, online. December 2021. (Program)
Building and Supporting Open Source Communities Through Metrics. Presented at SeaGL, online. November 2021. (Program)
Panel Discussion: Metrics for Understanding Project Health. Co-presented at Linux Foundation Member Summit, Napa, CA, USA. November 2021. (Program)
Growing Communities: A Research-based Framework for Eliminating Barriers to Contribution. Presented at Linux Foundation Member Summit, Napa, CA, USA. November 2021. (Program)
Identify and Recognize your Most Valuable Contributors. Presented at All Things Open, Raleigh, NC, USA. October 2021. (Program)
Welcome & State of CHAOSS. Presented at CHAOSScon North America, Seattle, WA, USA. September 2021. (Program, Video)
Panel Discussion: Contributor Leaderboards to Incentivize Good Community Citizenship. Co-presented at Open Source Summit North America in Seattle, WA, USA. September 2021. (Program)
Panel Discussion: Eliminating Common Barriers to Contribution for More Inclusive Communities. Co-presented at Open Source Summit North America in Seattle, WA, USA. September 2021. (Program)
Leaderboards: Celebrating contributors and incentivizing good community citizenship. Presented at Upstream 2021, online. June 2021. (Program, Video)
2020
BOF: Discussing Metrics for Open Source in Light of Insights from the CHAOSS Project. Birds of a Feather session facilitated at Open Source Summit Europe, online. October 2020. (Program, Slides)
Metrics for open source in light of insights from the CHAOSS Project. Presented at State of the Source, online. September 2020. (Program, Slides, Video)
Building community metrics for GNOME and everyone. Presented at GUADEC 2020, online. July 2020. (Program)
Panel: Succession Planning for the Open Source Movement. Hosted at Open Source Summit North America 2020, online. June 2020. (Program)
BoF: Discussing Metrics for Open Source in Light of Insights From the CHAOSS Project. Hosted at Open Source Summit North America 2020, online. June 2020. (Program, Video)
Measuring Community Health – CHAOSS. Presented at Virtual OpenShift Commons Gathering. June 2020. (Program)
AMA Live Chat with Speaker, Panelists and Community. Presented at Virtual OpenShift Commons Gathering. June 2020. (Program)
Open source project data is not open data: a tutorial on analyzing open source projects. Presented at SCALE 18x, Pasadena, CA, USA. March 2020. (Program, Video)
Keynote: Welcome and State of CHAOSS. Presented at CHAOSScon Europe 2020, Brussels, Belgium. January 2020. (Program, Video)
2019
Preparing a Community Diversity and Inclusion Report with CHAOSS Metrics. Co-presented with Nicole Huesman at the Open Source Summit North America 2019, San Diego, CA, USA. August 2019. (Program)
BoF: CHAOSS Value Metrics for Open Source Project Health – Andy Leak, CHAOSS. Co-presented with Andy Leak, Matt Germonprez, and Sean
Two different philosophies on measuring open source project health: Comparing GrimoireLab and CROSSMINER. Presented at CHAOSScon North America 2019, San Diego, CA, USA. August 2019. (Program) (PDF Slides, Video)
Diversity & Inclusion WG Tutorial. Co-presented with Dawn Foster and Nicole Huesman at CHAOSScon North America 2019, San Diego, CA, USA. August 2019. (Program) (PDF Slides)
Growing a community through diversity and inclusion metrics. Co-presented with Nicole Huesman at the Community Manager Gathering 2019, Portland, OR, USA. July 2019. (Meetup Event) (PDF Slides)
Panel Discussion: Metrics That Matter: Forging a Path to More Diverse, Inclusive Communities. Open Source Leadership Summit 2019, Half Moon Bay, CA, USA. March 2019. (Program)
Signaling Diversity and Inclusion for Open Source Project Health. Presented at the Student Research and Creative Activity Fair 2019, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. March 2019. (Slides)
2018
Distributing the Wealth Created by Open Source Software Fairly? Facilitated at the Mozilla Festival 2018, London, UK. October 2018. (Program) (Blog post, PDF)
Open Community Metrics and Privacy. Facilitated at the Mozilla Festival, London, UK. October 2018. (Program) (Blog post, PDF)
Tutorial: How to Prepare a Diversity and Inclusion Report for your Community. Presented at the Open Source Summit Europe 2018, Edinburgh, UK. October 2018. (Program) (Slides)
BoF: Community Health Analytics for Open Source. Birds-of-a-Feather at the Open Source Summit North America, Los Angeles, California. September 2017 (Program)
Chaos or CHAOSS: What we Hear From the CHAOSS Community. Presented at the CHAOSScon North America 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada. August 2018. (Program) (Slides, Video)
Engaging Volunteers and Voluntolds in Open Source Projects. Presented at the Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE, USA. March 2018. (Slides)
2017
The Value of Engaging With Open Source Communities. Presented at the OpenSym 2017 Doctoral Consortium, Galway, Ireland. August 2017. (Slides) (Paper)
Understanding Organization and Open Source Community Relations Through the Attraction-Selection-Attrition Model. Presented at the OpenSym 2017, Galway, Ireland. August 2017. (Slides) (Paper)
The Role of Open Source in New Business Formation: Innovations for Development. Presented at the Twenty-third Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston. August 2017. (Slides) (Paper)
Measuring Adoption of Open Source Software and Practices in Organizations: A Pilot Study. Presented at the Twelfth Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference, Springfield, IL. May 2017. (Slides) (Paper)
Advancing Open Online Community Science Practice: The Open Community Data Exchange. Presented at the Twelfth Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference, Springfield, IL. May 2017. (Slides) (Paper)
2016
Moving Open Source Communities: How Foundations Onboard Communities. Presented at the SIGOPEN Developmental Workshop at ICIS 2016, Dublin, Ireland. December 2016. (Slides) (Paper)
Communication Technology Selection in a Young Open Source Community: A Case of the Hyperledger Project. Presented at the SIGOPEN Developmental Workshop at ICIS 2016, Dublin, Ireland. December 2016. (Slides) (Paper)
The Open Community Data Exchange: Advancing Data Sharing and Discovery in Open Online Community Science. Presented at the OpenSym 2016, Berlin, Germany. August 2016. (Slides) (Paper)
The Guided Evolution of Open Source Communities. Presented at the 14th Annual Big XII+ MIS Research Symposium, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA. April 2016. (Slides) (Paper)
The Guided Evolution of Open Source Communities. Presented at the 8th Annual Research and Creative Activity Fair, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE, USA. March 2016. (Slides)
2015
The Movement and Commoditization of Open Source Communities. Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2015, Philadelphia, PA, USA. November 2015. (Slides)