05  - The Contributor Role in InnerSource - Benefits of Contribution
Channel: InnerSource Commons
Date: 2020-06-12

Contributors are the life blood of InnerSource projects. Every project that is run as an InnerSource project comes both with the promise and with the ultimate goal of expanding their development team beyond the original founders, tapping into the potential of further collaborators amongst users (also sometimes referred to as customers in corporations) of that project.
However, what would motivate an individual developer to spend time on a project that is not under the direction of their manager? What would motivate a manager to make time for their developers to improve projects that are not 100% under their purview?

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