Our Respondents’ Thoughts about InnerSource Commons

Overall Usefulness of InnerSource Commons

Most Appealing Features of InnerSource Commons

What People LIKE about InnerSource Commons:

• Learning path
• Community
• There’s a lot of great content for seemingly every situation.
• Interaction and discussion
• Exchange of experiences with other members of the community
• Hearing about real experiences from other people
• Supportive members
• Meeting others working towards the same goals
• Learning from others and being able to share
• Provides a safe space (chatham!) To discuss problems, ideas, observations
• People are responsive and address any questions
• Get to meet other people interested in innersource
• The innersource summits
• Github
• Books
• Knowledge sharing
• The community of interesting people openly sharing their experience and questions
• Transparency and recognition for contribution
• People and their willingness to develop and share their knowledge as a community.
• I do not know what is commons is
• International
• The openness and inclusion
  
  

How to make InnerSource Commons more Useful?

• Faq & local community
• Organize the content to be less of a “hodgepodge” of solutions, and more like a set of organizational skills to be developed. Scrum and safe have done a great job of this (i’m not endorsing them, just pointing out that they’ve been widely adopted for reasons innersource commons could benefit from).
• Wiki ?
• More opportunity for real time interactions with other practitioners
• Having more time to contribute.
• Office hours would be nice.
• More learning resources. The learning path was a stellar start. More materials on specific issues (patterns, blog posts, …) should follow
• Knowing who can help with which problem.
• Beginners getting started guide
• Ways how to measure the use of innersource projects throughout the organization
• A clear and detailed how to guide and how to move from project to infrastructure based innersource
• Awards and recognition for contributions, time spent on innersource contributions should be counted as work
• Nothing comes to mind.
• I do not know what is commons is
• Better integration with labview
• More regular birds of a feather sessions or meetings around common interests. e.g. Fsi