# Community metrics ## Growth and Visibility --- ## Eventful year - Huge growth - Foundation - Edition 2021 - A *lot* more! --- Rust is *not* "just" the compiler: - it's the tooling - it's the documentation - it's the ecosystem - it's the *people* --- - Official Teams - Working Groups - Self-driven individuals on their spare time - Employed maintainers - Crate maintainers - Documentation writers - and more! Rust is "made" by *all* of the above --- ## Growth, health and scale - Are we seeing bottlenecks? - Are specific projects "healthy"? - Are individuals at risk of burning out? - What can we do to help? - *Where* do we need to help? - Where do we direct eager newcomers towards? --- ## Human element - Answering these kind of questions is time consuming Talk to people! - This doesn't scale --- ## Automated metrics a possible useful tool? --- ## Human element - Answering these kind of questions is time consuming Talk to people! - This doesn't scale - You *still* need to talk to people! Metrics are not the *end* goal, they are one more tool to notice where *more questions* are needed. --- ## Optopodi - Collect metrics from GitHub Rust projects - Started by Niko - Doc Jones and Chaz Kiker did a lot of work in it --- ## "We are a way of the Cosmos to know itself" — Carl Sagan I want the Community to understand itself. # Please join me to talk about this in the Social Hour if you're interested. ---