What is an InnerSource Pattern? How can you use them? How can your own? InnerSource Commons Community Call 10/2021 Speakers: Gil Yehuda Fei Wan Sebastian Spier

1. InnerSource Commons
Community Call 05 Oct 2021
Fei Wan (Comcast)
Sebastian Spier (Meltwater)
All about
InnerSource Patterns

2. What is an
InnerSource Pattern?

3. A template
for solving
an InnerSource problem

5. Where does this
format come from?

6. The ISC* Community is
sharing experiences
with each other
*ISC = InnerSource Commons

7. Stories of what worked
(and what did not)

8. But does this story
apply to my org?

9. Structure
of a pattern

10. How to find
relevant Patterns
for my org?

11. Our book:
Most mature patterns

12. InnerSource
Patterns book
with 20 mature
patterns
For Free!

15. Project is difficult to contribute to and use

17. Our GitHub repo:
Includes draft patterns

19. How do I get started?

20. ● ask your InnerSource and Pattern questions in
#innersource-pattern in Slack
● capture a challenge as a Donut Pattern
Ways to participate:

21. Donut
Pattern
a donut pattern has
a “hole in the middle”
i.e. no solution yet

22. ● fix a typo in a Pattern
● using a pattern? Add your company as a Known
Instance to a Pattern
Ways to participate:

23. ● share a solution as a Pattern
Ways to participate:

24. More from Fei:
Work: comcast.github.io
Contact: fei_wan@comcast.com and twitter.com/FeiWAN12
Talk to you in Slack ;-)
More from Sebastian: spier.hu
Work: underthehood.meltwater.com
Contact: sebastian@spier.hu and twitter.com/sebastianspier

25. References
● InnerSource Patterns book and GitHub repo
● InnerSource Patterns - How They Work (5min video)
● Pattern Template (also see the reasoning behind using that template)
● To talk to a human join the InnerSource Commons Slack

26. InnerSource Commons
Community Call 05 Oct 2021
Gil Yehuda (U.S. Bank)
Sebastian Spier (Meltwater)
Walk-through Creating a
Pattern

27. References
● Blog posts by Gil Yehuda: Culture, Behaviors, and InnerSource
● Incubator Pipeline Pattern (draft) by Gil Yehuda (U.S. Bank)
● InnerSource Patterns book and GitHub repo
● Pattern Template (also see the reasoning behind using that template)