Proposal: Get a CII Best Practices Badge for OSSHealth

[GeorgLink]

We heard a presentation about the CII Best Practices Badge program. (Presentation Slides)

The badge is a self-certification that any open source project can obtain to signal its health. There are several great criteria for assessing the community health in this process. We have already indicators inspired by the badge process.

I propose that we not only look at the metrics of the badge but, as an open source community, we get the badge ourselves. This hands-on experience will give us a great sense for the issues that any open source community is facing and can help us orient the metrics.

The badge will include several things that we do not fulfill yet, like having a https-secured website. By starting the process and resolving an issue or two for each milestone, at the end of this one-year project, we will have earned the CII Best Practice Badge.

[GeorgLink]

We can get the badge now and the percentage will increase as we work on the different items, which will be a great practical learning experience for us.

P.S.: Delaying this, will make it much harder and more costly for us. Patrick shared his experience about building a successful open source project.

[germonprez]

I second this. The CII badge program is a great way to think about your repo/community and things to work towards that are being done by other successful projects.

[howderek]

Aye! This looks fun and informative.