The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2020

InnerSource is the use of modern massive peer-based software development engineering methods proven in thousands of FOSS projects over the past 20 years, inside of proprietary companies. Most long-established companies are interested in increasing collaboration and full-stack knowledge and they’re looking to InnerSource. Meanwhile, FOSS developers feel empowered to collaborate, but as the FOSS movement has grown, cracks in sustainability starting to show in the form of maintainer burnout, lack of sufficient or appropriate corporate support for FOSS, and a real shortage of people willing and able to lead FOSS into the future ... So how can InnerSource help FOSS Sustainability? Learn from someone who has been thinking about how to grow the pool of qualified FOSS developers and to improve corporate support for FOSS basically since the term Open Source was coined. You'll hear about specific actions every developer and every company can take to improve software engineering whether FOSS or proprietary, and help sustain the precious FOSS ecosystem through the next generation.