The InnerSource Gathering is an event that explores the secrets to achieving collaboration across organizational boundaries in software development. InnerSource means fostering an open source-like culture within a company and realizing highly transparent collaboration. As companies grow, walls can form between departments and products, making collaboration difficult. By adopting InnerSource to break down barriers between departments and achieve co-creation, organizations can generate synergy and prevent reinventing the wheel. InnerSource Gatherings introduces the latest trends and practical examples of InnerSource and provides a place for participants to deepen their interactions. The key to unlocking the future of your organization is here. Please join us! Registration for the Gathering is now open and you can get your tickets at the top of this page or you can get your gathering pass as an add-on to a ticket for FOSS Backstage, the two day conference on all things community, management and compliance in Free and Open Source Software here.
Isabel Drost-Fromm, Former Chair of InnerSource Commons Foundation
Tom Sadler - Principal Software Engineer at the BBC, InnerSource Commons Foundation board as Director and Treasurer
This talk will examine how open source at the BBC improved internal collaboration, and led to adopting InnerSource, and since then how InnerSource has improved the engagement in open source. This is a virtuous cycle - InnerSource methods are based on open source practices, and InnerSource can prepare teams and individuals for working in open source. This talk will show how InnerSource trains up the next generation of open sourcerers, and how it improves the quality of closed source code, potentially on the path to open source.
Guilherme Dellagustin - InnerSource Officer at SAP
Promoting awareness of InnerSource is challenging and so is guiding teams in applying InnerSource best practices. Contributor Journey Optimization is an idea for a method on how project teams can evaluate their projects and define a concrete backlog of tasks to adopt InnerSource, focusing on minimizing the friction for people interested in the project to become contributors. It aims to bridge the definition of InnerSource, referring to Open Source best-practices and culture, with an actionable system. This idea is not yet battle tested, so the objective of this talk is to propose the method, collect feedback and hopefully also brave test pilots for the method.
Carsten Hoffmann - Senior Software Architect at DB Systel GmbH
Carsten will explore the world of InnerSource at Deutsche Bahn (DB) during this talk. He will begin with a look back at the history of InnerSource at DB, highlighting the unique challenges they faced and the solutions they developed along the way. Learn how the establishment of a thematic team within their architecture guild helped promote the adoption of InnerSource and overcome obstacles. Carsten will explain the benefits of InnerSource for the company and software development while clarifying the distinction between “community-maintained” and “team-maintained” InnerSource. Additionally, he will demonstrate why a centralized platform is essential for fostering community-maintained InnerSource projects and outline the features they implemented for this platform. Finally, he will reveal how InnerSource serves as a bridge to Open Source and showcase a few specific InnerSource projects. Be inspired by how InnerSource is driving the future of software development at Deutsche Bahn!
Daniel Izquierdo - Founder and CEO of Bitergia and President of the InnerSource Commons Foundation
This talk will share experiences on creating and applying an InnerSource Maturity Model across several organizations. Based on experience, a maturity model has guided developers, middle managers, and chief level into having a full picture of where they are in terms of InnerSource readiness, but at the same time, give a set of established and common next steps across the organization. However, a maturity model by itself is just a photo of the organization in a given point in time. What are the missing pieces? What are the next steps? What are the missing skills? These are questions that are not answered by the maturity model itself and require further steps. The audience will learn about the whole process and effectively build internal models similar to the existing ones within the Patters Working Group.
Senior Software Architect at DB Systel GmbH
Founder and CEO of Bitergia and President of the InnerSource Commons Foundation
InnerSource Officer at SAP
Open Source Strategist at Europace AG
Principal Software Engineer at the BBC and InnerSource Commons Foundation board as Director and Treasurer
A community rooted in the region. Connect with InnerSource practitioners and people interested in InnerSource in Germany and Europe.
Hear case studies from companies that have actually built an open and transparent development culture within their organizations.
The Gathering is connected not only to the local community but also to InnerSource communities around the world. It’s an opportunity to open the door to exchanges with practitioners worldwide.