InnerSource SIG 2025 Roadmap

[chamindra]

2025 Roadmap Ideas

Focus

Provide input on the key things we will focus on 2025

Items continuing form 2024

• White papers
  • InnerSource value metrics whitepaper
  • Ideal conditions for a InnerSource project
• Legal an Risk
  • InnerSource Licensing and CLA
  • InnerSource and GenAI

Talk series planned last year #114

[chamindra]

Comments from 14-January

• Articulating value statement
  -> Value Metrics white paper
• Breaking Silos
  -> InnerSource commons reference and host on our site
• Just Interest in InnerSource
  -> update site to be more structured to journey https://osr.finos.org/docs/InnerSource/Resources
  • what are the problems and chanllenges
• Interest in ROI metrics -> specific focus on this topic
• Bring awareness of InnerSource culture
  -> update site
• Achieve higher consumptions
• Work on white papers
• What kind of metrics can we use for the success
• Help bridge the open source with the enterprise
  -> Bringing high quality to internal projects (follow the same maturity as Open Source)
  -> Bringing employees to OpenSource using Inner Source as an intermediate step
  -> Getting the buy in can only be done with the above (improved product and employees)
  -> Need to sell the metrics
• Understand what other banks are doing
• what are the cultural aspects and how do we solve those challenges
• Work on chargeback models and getting that formalised

[winterrocks]

At OpenChain there are short explainer documents for different roles/groups within an organization. Maybe similar explainers could be useful for InnerSource as well.
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/Education-For-Internal-Teams

[chamindra]

Types of output from the group

• Whitepapers
• Explainer documents
• License / CLAs
• Talks

[chamindra]

Key topic areas for links existing articles, new white papers:

1. Getting support for InnerSource internally
2. Driving InnerSource culture
3. Gamification of InnerSource
4. Explainers for different stakeholders
5. Ideal projects for InnerSource and types of InnerSource projects
6. GenAI and InnerSource
7. InnerSource specifically within a large enterprise

[chamindra]

hosting in innersource commons vs finos

• We should not duplicate
• There is value in having the FINOS stamp which means we have reviewed and made recommendation
• Always look at are we duplicating with everything we do

[chamindra]

What would make you come more regularly to this SIG meeting?

• Depends on topics and progress between meetings
• Working meetings are preferred and temporary time and goal in min
• Good with regular getting resources and making them actionable
• Case studies from people with successful innersource program -> good practice and best practices
• More regular and learning from other people
• Organising some talks -> recording and host it on our site

[chamindra]

Appoint Co-Chairs

• Web sites
• Running meetings
• Curating talks

Without committing for a year -> identify a task list