Building an active InnerSource community is crucial for InnerSource
Channel: The ASF
Date: 2020-10-23

Building an active InnerSource community is crucial for InnerSource
Jerry Tan

A presentation from ApacheCon @Home 2020
https://apachecon.com/acah2020/

InnerSource is the use of Apache Way within an organization. it needs both high-level support and internal engineers community support. Sometimes, high-level support is easy to get and implemented, but internal engineers' community support is much hard, it means culture shift. So building one active internal open source community is very important. As OSPO of Baidu, I adopt InnerSource inside Baidu for more than 4 years. I will talk about how I build the internal community in my company, including how I plan, how I implement it. I need to attract the target people, set small tasks to let them participate and contribute, and incentivize them. InnerSource is a long journey, but it is worth the investment.

Committer of apache.org, mozilla.org, gnome.org PPMC of apache brpc incubating project, InnerSourceCommon Foundation member, InnerSource advocator in China, more than 20 years of Open Source Experience