Sophia Vargas

open source program manager @GoogleOSS , CHAOSS board, open source operations researcher, cat mom. she/her

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

Open source is free as in puppies, not free as in beer. 🐶📦

While prior research focuses on upstream maintenance, @sophia_iv studied the effort required to USE and update open source packages at Google.

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[Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn]

You still have until September 26 to tell us more about the challenges you've experienced using CHAOSS tools and metrics!

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

Excited to hear your questions/comments/feedback! research in this space is ongoing

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

We launched an in-depth study to better understand open source developers, contributors, and maintainers. Our findings show community leaders should:

⏰ Value time
📝 Invest in documentation
🗣 Communicate
And more!

Full results → https://t.co/cEhE4d9T4B

[gRPC @grpcio]

Good news! The deadline to submit a talk for gRPConf 2023 has been extended to July 9, 2023. Get your proposals in today! #grpconf https://t.co/kJ3PH1Q4Jr

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

@courtneyr_dev Happy birthday!! So fun to hang with you this week

[McCoy Smith @McCoySmith]

If you’re at the @linuxfoundation Open Source Summit, Vancouver 🇨🇦 today, come by the @OpenSourceOrg booth and get 25th Anniversary 🧁 🧁. Bonus is you get to meet and talk with @Sophia_IV !

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

Excited to talk oss metrics with these brilliant humans

[Tech At Bloomberg @TechAtBloomberg]

During #OSPOcon at #OSSummit NA today (3 PM PDT), our #OSPO's @alyssapwright is moderating a panel discussion about measuring project health with metrics experts from the OSPOs at Google (@Sophia_IV), Microsoft (Emma Irwin) & VMware (@geekygirldawn)
https://t.co/iRUkH4yAaf

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

Excited to see this out in the wild! For all you open source researchers out there, this a great resource:

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

When https://t.co/A9TwCBJBH4 first launched, many folks inquired about an API ...thank you for listening and adding this feature!!

[Abhishek Arya @infernosec]

We are excited to launch Open Source Insights https://t.co/scLeAV5iVF API! This makes critical security metadata for 50M pkg versions across 5 major ecosystems (Go,Maven,PyPI,npm & Cargo) universally accessible with a single API call (no signup, keys) https://t.co/6vayC9Z0iV

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

@geekygirldawn Happy Birthday Dawn!

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

🚨 The deadline for contributor applications to Google Summer of Code is one week away!

Register as a GSoC Contributor and submit a proposal to one of our 171 mentoring organizations before registration closes on April 4th 👉 https://t.co/O7ltg0MKXC

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

@amcasari @juliaferraioli @leahecole Yes

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

@InessaPawson jealous!! sad to miss this one

[Bob Killen @mrbobbytabl.es @MrBobbyTables]

The 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is out:
https://t.co/CQpb7HdqCI

I need to spend more time looking at it, but theres always some good stuff in there.

[CHAOSS Project @CHAOSSproj]

We hope you'll join us for CHAOSScon EU 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, in conjunction with FOSDEM. Happening February 3, 2023, CHAOSScon is a 1-day interactive conference where we can chat about all things related to measuring open source community health! https://t.co/OcmjgL4Oj9

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

@amcasari please count this as my vote to produce 'corgi's of ospo 2024'

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

So which OSS security metrics are better at predicting vulnerabilities? Thank you @sonatype for putting popular metrics to the test: https://t.co/5p6IDGw0DN #opensource #metrics

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

Thank you @CHAOSSproj for the discussion, reviews and feedback!

[Sophia Vargas @Sophia_IV]

Well this is great

[Bob Killen @mrbobbytabl.es @MrBobbyTables]

Super happy to see this \o/ There are a number of maintainers that have struggled to be able to attend KubeCon and now theres a happy path forward for them.

https://t.co/VuIzspOJee

[FINOS @FINOSFoundation]

🎫 Join us in #NewYork December 8 for our #OpenSource in #Finance Forum & hear from @Sophia_IV of @Google for a talk on the benefits and pitfalls of #OSS project metrics

➡️ Sophia's talk: https://t.co/xBqaatUjfu

#fintech #financialservices #bankingtech #OSfinserv #NYC