Date

Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021 - 10am EST / 3pm UK

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Agenda

• Convene & roll call (5mins)
• Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
• Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• Introduce the mission and goals of the SIG
• Share priority themes as identified by LT
• Get feedback and input from wider group
• AOB, Q&A & Adjourn (5mins)

Points of Note / Decisions Made

• Shared the topics the LT had proposed:
  • Common policies / guidelines / principles around InnerSource
  • How to measure InnerSource success and value?
  • Identify patterns
    • Cultural / behavioural patterns
    • Project patterns
    • Operational / organisational patterns
  • How can we best advocate for InnerSource?
  • What supporting code/tools do we have that could be open sourced?
  • Feedback for tools vendors
• Feedback from the group
  • Some InnerSource use cases discussed e.g. InnerSource being used to share code with clients.
  • Danese shared ISC community example of Daimler using InnerSource to co-create code with vendors.
  • Discussion around motivations to InnerSource
    • Interest in hearing more about different InnerSource policies e.g. Open First policy
    • Interest in discussing value propositions, problems, pain points.
    • Interest In how to get started and how to scale InnerSource as topics
    • Interest in specific guidelines e.g.
      • when is the size of the PR too big?
      • Interest in sharing common components (utilities, dev docs)
      • Interest in exploring how to get business functions engaged, some experience from some members to share here.
  • Shared good starting points:
    • CI/CD, central services.
    • Re-architecture that impacts multiple sites.
    • Localizations per market
    • Culture hacking (non-code projects)
• Next meeting to have a voting option for which topic to cover.
• Next meeting to be either set up in 2 weeks or 4 weeks time, SIG LT to get input.

Action Items

• @claredillon to set up next SIG Meeting

WebEx info

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• Access Code
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• Join by Phone
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