InnerSource in Action - Community Call with Isabel Drost-Fromm and Georg Grütter
Channel: InnerSource Commons
Date: 13/09/2021

In the last number of years, we have seen an explosion of organizations adopting InnerSource - but some organizations have been immersed in the InnerSource way of working for some time. In 2018, Danese Cooper and Klaas-Jan Stol documented a number of InnerSource case studies in their book Adopting InnerSource. In this month’s community call, we checked back in with two of the early InnerSource examples featured in the book, Bosch and Europace, to see how their InnerSource journeys have evolved since the book was published. Georg Grütter (Bosch) and Isabel Drost-Fromm (Europace) shared their experiences over the past few years - what’s been going well as well as some of the pitfalls they have encountered. 

Georg Grütter
Georg Grütter is a social coding evangelist and developer advocate at Bosch.IO. He co-founded and led the first InnerSource community at Bosch. Georg is a passionate software developer with over 30 years of experience. Previously, he held various positions and roles at Bosch, Line Information, the Zurich System House, and DaimlerChrysler. Georg has created two open source projects, XHSI and stashNotifier. He’s an avid recumbent cyclist and mountain biker who also loves photography and chocolate.

Isabel Drost-Fromm
Isabel Drost-Fromm is Open Source Strategist at Europace AG Germany. She’s a member of the Apache Software Foundation, co-founder of Apache Mahout and mentored several incubating projects. Isabel is interested in all things FOSS, search and text mining with a decent machine learning background. True to the nature of people living in Berlin she loves having friends fly in for a brief visit - as a result she co-founded and is still one of the creative heads behind Berlin Buzzwords, a tech conference on all things search, scale and storage.

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