[Practitioner Guide]: Demonstrating Your Project’s Contribution to the SDGs

[Maryblessing]

Practitioner Guide Topic (1 - 3 words)

This guide should offer a clear roadmap for understanding and measuring open source project’s impact and goals with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Primary Metrics (2 - 4 metrics)

We've not been able to identify CHAOSS metrics related to the UN's sdgs yet

Why is this topic important? How will this help people improve their open source project and / or community? Who will benefit from this guide?

In the chaoss un-sdg working group we believe every project tells a story. A project may not be an overt global solution, but it can still make a significant contribution to worldwide efforts that improve lives.

This guide will benefit projects unsure how it's making a global impact and help projects to answer how they contribute to SDGs

How would you like to see this guide developed?

I would like to help write the guide, but I need someone with more experience in the topic to help me

Additional Notes

This is originally Cassie's idea, and you can find the initial issue here: chaoss/wg-un-sdg#9

[geekygirldawn]

We're planning to start another series of guides - something like Expert Guides.

The practitioner guides are really designed as very basic getting started guides, and this one sounds like it's probably more advanced than what we want for practitioner guides. Happy to chat more about the format for an expert guide - we haven't published any yet, so we're looking for feedback and people to help us find the right format :)

[geekygirldawn]

I created a document based on our new template that you can use for this guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZNLxhUuHMPotVCcAAI_8zVsPgmclkBpVOf4t4EGfso/edit?usp=sharing

We're still experimenting, so if the template doesn't work for you, let me know, and we can make changes as needed :)

[peculiaruc]

Hi @Maryblessing @geekygirldawn I will like to contribute to this too