InnerSource Commons

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Dec 17, 2024

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INSIGHT

InnerSource Breaks Engineering Silos

InnerSource uses open source methods within company firewalls to improve engineering outcomes.
It breaks silos by allowing transparency and peer review across internal teams.

INSIGHT

Many Eyes Make Problems Shallow

Open source enables many eyes on code, making problems shallow by collective review.
Silos cause fragility when only one expert understands critical code, which InnerSource prevents.

ANECDOTE

Danese's Apple Silo Experience

Danese shared how internal silos at Apple hindered collaboration on QuickTime and FaceTime efforts.
This experience motivated her to found InnerSource Commons to improve internal software collaboration.

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A dive into the basics of InnerSource Commmons, the worlds largest community of InnerSource advocates.

In this episode, host Karsten Hohage speaks with Danese Cooper, Guilherme Dellagustin (SAP), and Russ Rutledge about InnerSource Commons. Founded in 2015, InnerSource Commons is the worlds largest community of InnerSource advocates. InnerSource Commons provides knowledge, best pratices, challenges, and solutions related to InnerSource for organizations and individuals.

Guests:

Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper is a well-known advocate for open source. She is also the founder of the InnerSource Commons Foundation. During her career in tech, she has focused on manifesting better software engineering outcomes by fostering healthy community practices and implementing transparent processes. She says that she abhors silos.

GitHub: https://github.com/danese

Russ Rutledge

Russ Rutledge is the Executive Director of the InnerSource Commons. He also serves as Senior Director of InnerSource and collaboration at WellSky, the health technology company leading the charge to make healthcare better for everyone. And Russ’s drive and passion is to enable all software engineers worldwide to achieve incredible results via streamlined collaborative InnerSource processes.

GitHub: https://github.com/rrrutledge

Guilherme Dellagustin

I am a software developer who acts as InnerSource Officer at SAP. I’m also a member of the InnerSource Commons foundation. As InnerSource officer, I co-lead the InnerSource program at SAP, helping spread the practice in the company, and as member of foundation, I do the same, but to spread the practice in the whole industry. I was also the producer of this very podcast in 2023. In my free time, I talk about retrogaming (in portuguese) at the podcast “Fliperama de Boteco”.

GitHub: https://github.com/dellagustin-sap

Show Notes:

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InnerSource Commons: https://innersourcecommons.org/
SAP Open Source Program Office
- SAP Open Source at SAP Community
- SAP Open Source on X (Twitter)
- Email us: ospo@sap.com
Try out an open-source podcast player – find a list here (list not maintained by SAP)

Host:

Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I)

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

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