Francophone InnerSource Commons Gathering @ Devoxx France 2025
The second Francophone chapter InnerSource Commons Gathering was held as a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session during Devoxx France 2025, bringing together over 25 practitioners and advocates for an engaging evening of knowledge sharing and community building.
The discussion centred on:
- practical experiences of adopting InnerSource inside French-speaking organisations
- common hurdles teams encounter when opening internal code for cross-team collaboration
- the positive cultural shifts—greater transparency, faster onboarding, and stronger developer engagement—that InnerSource is already driving
Session details are available on the Devoxx programme site.
Programme highlights
- Facilitated round-tables led by Florent Zara (Eclipse Foundation) and François Nollen (SNCF Connect & Tech) guided participants through success stories and pain points, ensuring a vibrant, solution-oriented dialogue.
- The gathering recognised Matthieu Vincent (Sopra Steria), whose planned contribution was missed due to illness.
- Throughout the evening, attendees exchanged concrete tactics for scaling InnerSource practices—from lightweight contribution guidelines to metrics for measuring cultural impact.
Growing the Francophone community
This BoF demonstrated the steady momentum of the Francophone InnerSource Commons network, deepening connections across enterprises, academia, and the public sector. To continue the conversation, participants and newcomers alike are invited to join the #fr-general channel on the InnerSource Commons Slack workspace.
👉 Join here: https://lnkd.in/giYW2FyR
The success of this Devoxx France session underscores the community’s commitment to fostering open collaboration principles across the Francophone software ecosystem. Let’s keep the momentum going and amplify the reach of InnerSource in 2025 and beyond.