Why innersource is a critical component of FOSS sustainability
summary
Companies adopt innersource to reduce knowledge silos and resource bottlenecks by reusing code on GitHub Enterprise, and a 26‑page Getting Started with Innersource booklet is the most downloaded non‑code asset on public GitHub. Claims include cutting single‑owner components, increasing cross‑team innovation (Comcast and Microsoft rollouts), and training engineers so universities can teach collaborative development. Evidence shows most FOSS contributors now work for companies, Bosch maps internal collaboration, and innersource commons offers patterns, training and case studies to scale maintainer capacity and lower burnout.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10What is inner source
- 3:16Why companies adopt inner source
- 6:05Inner source and innovation
- 9:15Inner source and FOSS sustainability
- 13:25Companies leading in inner source
- 15:31Inner source at Bosch
- 16:14Inner source Commons
- 17:38Conclusion and call to action
- 18:21Q&A begins
- 19:03Inner source as recruiting tool
- 20:33Cultural shift vs technological shift
- 21:56Promoting inner source internally
- 24:21Inner source for DevOps libraries
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