GSOC 2016/Student Application bee2502

Contact Information

• Your name:Bhagyashree
• FAS Account: bee2502
• Fedora userpage: Bee2502
• Email Address: bhagyashree dot iitg at gmail dot com
• Blog URL: https://networksfordata.wordpress.com
• Freenode IRC Nick: bee2502
• Github : https://github.com/bee2502

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

I love Fedora OS

While Fedora isn't the first Linux distribution I have used, it is surely one which I have used the longest and am most comfortable with.

I love the Fedora Community

The Fedora community is very warm and welcoming. I especially like that CommOps encourages contributors to work in diverse areas and to try out new stuff, with the Fedora community always ready to help you out if stuck.

I love Fedora CommOps

I love the work. I love the team and I want to continue contributing and helping improve Fedora. Period.

High Impact

Even as a newcomer, I have had the opportunity to work on high impact projects like organizing elections or working on metrics which affect strategic decisions. The huge impact your work can have on milllions of Fedora users and contributors is something which motivates me to contribute to Fedora.

Great Learning Opportunity

Due to the flat hierarchy in Fedora, I have already collaborated with or worked under some of the long term contributors and important figures in Fedora community. This experience has been a great learning opportunity in many different ways and I look forward to many such chances in the future.

I look forward to work and be involved with Fedora. I aim to stick around and become a long term contributor in the Fedora community.

Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or any other open source project as a contributor?

Yes, I have been involved with the Community Operations team since the past six months. Some of my past contributions include -

• Collaborated with Justin Flory on Women in Computing and Fedora article.

• Helped Jan Kurik organize F23 Elections ! Also compiled the post-election metrics. Read more about the F23 elections on the CommOps retrospective here.

• Compiled Fedora IRC metrics here

• Fedora Badges post for Newcomers : 'How to get started with Fedora Badges?' here.

• Some bug fixes for fedora-infra repo along with contributing to Community Blog and Fedora Magazine.

• Community Blog statistics link here

I am also a member of Fedora Women and recently started contributing to Fedora Hubs development too.

Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?

No

Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2016 program, if yes, which team(s), are you interested with?

I will, of course. I'll continue with the CommOps team and Hubs development. I am also interested in being an Ambassador(but that's for a bit later)

Why am I the best fit for this project idea?

I am really passionate about Data Analytics. With data, I want to understand and impact the community by bringing to light the critical issues along with identifying our strengths and weaknesses to help the leadership make informed decisions.My work in the Community Operations team at Fedora has revolved around these areas and I couldn't be more grateful for this wonderful experience and the awesome community.

Apart from that,

• I'm really passionate about open source, love the CommOps and Fedora community and I will continue to contribute to Fedora and CommOps even when the project ends.

So, Choose me ! Choose me ! Choose me !

// something about watching CommOps grow // Fedora community here

• "Bee has been a founding member of the CommOps team since October 2015. In her time contributing to CommOps, she has helped with F23 elections (which was the fourth most participated in election in Fedora history), generated metrics analyzing impact at the FOSDEM conference and telling the story of Fedora's Ambassadors in quantifiable terms (and being featured on the Fedora Magazine for it), and added her unique perspective and wisdom into the decision-making behind many CommOps decisions. Bee has been an integral part of helping CommOps succeed." --Jflory7 (talk) 14:35, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Project Proposal

Overview

CommOps

Metrics Overall Goals for these Tasks include :

-Learn more about Fedora Users as well as Contributors. -Improve Contributor Experience as a whole. -Along with onboarding strategies, Improve contributing experience for newcomers. -Improve Engagement of existing Fedora Contributors(through badges series' and events) -Suggest strategies for making passive/stagnant contributors more active. -Observe and Record Fedora Contributor behavior. -Identify common trouble spots for Fedora Users and suggest Improvements.

• Develop Metrics to learn more about Fedora Users as well as Contributors to aid in generate strategies using these metrics.

We can also use data analytics to find triggers which caused contributors to become passive ? -Can we Relate this patterns to newcomers to identify their longetivity and supress such triggers ? -How to help passive contributors make a comeback ? How to increase such numbers ? -Are there any such previous comeback cases ?

Impact

Tasks List

METRICS IDEAS

Relevant Tickets and Mailing List Discussions :

FEDORA EVENT STATISTICS

• Analyse the participation in past Fedora events including conferences like FOSDEM , FLOCK
• Develop metrics for contribution activity of participants
• Analyse the short term and long term impact of the events on Fedora Community

fedmsg STATISTICS

• Generate Fedora Wiki Monthwise/ Weekwise/ Daywise topic related metrics
• Timewise metrics for the past year for all topics, if possible
• Identify active projects from fedmsg statistics
• Which build has most contributions ?
• How many contributors are just long-tail from packaging one thing?

FEDORA BADGES STATISTICS

• Compile an overall Badges Metrics Report to find fedoraproject.org Improvement Areas

(eg : Only 8.1 % of overall contributors have earned "Baby Badger" ! -> 91.9% of contributors have never logged into their Fedora Badges Account -> Are these passive/active ? Need to promote Fedora Badges more in fedoraproject.org community)

• Monthwise Trends in Badges Collection . By badge type, ideally :)

MAILING LISTS STATISTICS

• Overall Metrics like Average size of thread , number of people in a thread, trends in a thread as possible go
• Mailing List wise Metrics like which lists are highly active lists(get more posts),levels of traffic ,traffic over time , length of discussions
• Also answer questions like : Where are posters from? Redhat v.s. Non-redhat (can be misleading, because mattdm uses fp.o address, but you get idea)

BUGZILLA and GITHUB STATISTICS

• Timewise statistics of bugs/issues like Bug turnaround/Ticket Turnaround.
• Identifying repositories/bugs which need most help.
• If possible ,system to identify bugs/issues suitable for newcomers. (Need more discussion on this ).

ASK FEDORA STATISTICS

• Metrics(Monthwise/Weekwise/Daywise) to answer questions like like Question Posting Rate, Question Answering Rate , Mean Questions posted, Tagwise distribution of Questions posted, % Questions Answered , Mean number of Answers/Comments before Question closed , Time period with Highest Answering Activity , Topic wise Answering Activity Distribution

FEDORA CONTRIBUTOR STATISTICS

• Red Hat vs Non Red Hat Contributors
• Area wise top contributors
• Average Contributor Age(Fedora Activity wise) , Retention Rate of Contributors
• Does contribution activity over time follow a longtail pattern ?

• Identify patterns in contribution behavior for successful contributors ( Do successful/old contributors have diverse contributions ? Are their contributions in bursts or continous over a period of time ? )

• Do people care about things outside of their own packages? ( How many developers have a significant number of content badges and visa versa? )

• Data Analytics for Newcomer Retention and improving contribution activity of community
• Analyse Fedora Badges Activity of Newcomers to identify suitable tasks
• Identify impact of Attending Fedora Events on Contribution Activity

FEDORA ELECTION METRICS

• Work with the Fedora Community Operations Team in improving Voter Turnout.
• Do people feel elections are meaningful? Do they not vote because they are confident, or not confident?
• Do the loud people who get elected really represent the base? Is there a vast silent majority?
• Do people get elected on incumbency?
• Was bundling really such a big issue?
• Agenda and Campaign Analysis of Candidates, if possible

Collaborate with other teams in Fedora Community on metrics related tasks wherever required.

• Work with Fedora Diversity and Inclusion Advisor to programmatically create, deploy, and most importantly, analyze the Contributor Demographics Survey
• Collaborate with other teams like Design team, Infra Team and Marketing Team on Metrics Related Tasks

AUTOMATE METRICS related TASKS

• Automate the fedmsg statistics for quarterly report for Fedora Project
• Automate Elections related metrics Tasks

COMMOPS TOOLBOX

• Develop Tools for CommOps Toolbox

FEDORA HUBS WIDGETS

• Componentization of CommOps deliverables into Fedora Hubs Widgets.
• Develop metrics related widgets for Fedora Hubs

Some other cool Ideas bee2502 would like to work on

• NLP analysis to find the expertise Fedora Contributers

To answer the question "How can best solve my doubt?" OR "Who is the most qualified person for this task?" using meeting logs from IRC meetings

• Badge Recommendation Engine widget for Hubs

Much along the lines of Stack Overflow Badge Recommendations : "You are 50% of the way to earning the 'Master Editor Badge' " Provide recommendations like "80% of contributors who last collected 'White Rabbit Badge' went on to collect 'Origin Badge' next "

This could be especially helpful for newcomers to explore different areas of Fedora Project Some related representations by mizmo : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_RPG_OLD

Other CommOps related stuff

• Publish Wordclouds based on IRC Meetings to twitter and CommBlog.

• Onboarding Series Badges

• Update fedmsg Documentation. Ongoing work here

• Selecting and building the Delegation of Subproject membership within the CommOps team. More info here

• Editing Wiki Pages/ Wiki Gardening tasks whenever possible

• Assist Diversity Advisor on various diversity related issues. Actively participate in Fedora Community and be involved with projects like Fedora Women

• Report back weekly on Community Operations to Mailing Lists, Community Blog, and other channels when appropriate.

• Metrics deliverables would include data files(.csv), automated python scripts used to generate the statistics(committed to the fedora-stats-tools github repo) along with data visualizations and reports published to community via Mailing lists, Fedora Planet and/or Community Blog posts whichever appropriate.

Related Initial Contributions during the Application Period

• And I have learnt to communicate in mailing lists and IRC channels as well by subscribing into the Fedora summer-coding mailing list and Fedora developers mailing and as well as to the IRC channels.

• I have communicated with the mentors Remy Decausemaker(decause) , Corey Sheldon(linux modder) and Justin Flory(jflory7) via mailing lists and via IRC and got to know more about the project and the technical things that I need to master in developing this project.

Timeline

I would like to start having a look and master the technical stuff that I need to fulfill even before the Community bonding period starts.

Upto the start of Community Bonding Period (25th of March - 22nd of April)

• Automating fedmsg

Community bonding period (22nd of April - 25th of May)

• Discuss further about the redesign plan of AskFedora via mailing lists and communicating actively in the IRC channels
• Present my ideas on how to change the current design of AskFedora reflecting my own ideas.
• Present what I have already done with the design of AskFedora web interfaces and mock ups, receive feedback from the mentors and further carry on development work on the mock ups and interfaces according to their feedback.

Work Period until mid-term evaluations (25th of May – 20th of June)

• Week 1-2
  • Finish doing mockups for all the pages in AskFedora and get them finalized.
• Week 3-4
  • Code the UI for the mockups.
  • First finish with the responsive UI for the Main page and Q/A page and integrate them with the AskBot.
  • Testing and bug fixing.
• Week 5
  • Start coding responsive UI for the other pages.

Period of submitting mid-term evaluations (20th of June - 27th of June)

• Completing and submitting mid-term evaluations.
• Carry on coding responsive UI for the other pages.

Work Period (27th of June – 15th of August)

• Week 1
  • Complete coding responsive UI for all the other pages.
• Week 2-3
  • Find and code the separate and individual left out elements
  • Integrate them with AskBot
  • Testing and bug fixing
• Week 4-5
  • Final integration with AskBot
  • Testing and bug fixing
• Week 6
  • This week is allocated in case of emergency reasons that I would not be able to complete some work within the schedule.
  • Apart from the above I will be continuously blogging about the progress of the project and the work I do and on this week I will spend my time refining the content in my blog.

Potential Mentors

Remy Decausemaker(decause) , Corey Sheldon(linux modder) and Justin Flory(jflory7)