A curated list of awesome InnerSource resources (books, articles, blogs, projects and more).
InnerSource is a software development strategy that applies open source best practices to proprietary code. InnerSource can help establish an open source culture within an organization while retaining software for internal use. Teams use InnerSource to increase visibility, strengthen collaboration and break down silos. Through the set of practices, InnerSource helps companies to simplify, standardize and make cost savings globally and across departments.
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- Getting Started With InnerSource - Author Andy Oram takes you inside InnerSource, first by reviewing the principles that make open source development successful, and then by describing how InnerSource has worked at PayPal.
- Understanding the InnerSource Checklist - A checklist guides you through various steps needed to produce software using the InnerSource approach, whether it's company wide or just for one team.
- Managing InnerSource Projects - In this book Daniel Izquierdo & José Manrique López explain basic infrastructure as well as metrics that are helpful when introducing InnerSource methodologies into an enterprise.
- Adopting InnerSource - The case studies candidly discuss the difficulties of getting InnerSource projects started, along with the progress so far and the benefits or negative fallout.
- InnerSource Patterns - This book contains the most mature patterns, collected by the InnerSource Commons Community.
- Backstage - An open platform for building developer portals. Realization of the InnerSource Portal Pattern.
- gilda - InnerSource web gamifiaction platform for GitLab.
- Project Portal for InnerSource by SAP - A reference implementation to list all InnerSource projects of a company in an interactive and easy to use way.
- InnerSource Commons Homepage - InnerSource Commons is the world's largest community of InnerSource practitioners. It is dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge about InnerSource, the use of open source best practices for software development within the confines of an organization.
- InnerSource Commons YouTube - Presentation recordings related to InnerSource. The channel contains Community Calls and Summit presentations organized by the InnerSource Commons.
- Knights and Gold Stars: A Tale of InnerSource Incentivization
- Starting the InnerSource Journey: Key Goals and Metrics to Measure Collaboration
- Sustaining arm's length cost allocations for highly integrated development functions – an explorative case study of transfer pricing for InnerSource communities
- FINOS InnerSource Special Interest Group - a community of people implementing, or interested in implementing, InnerSource within their financial services organization in order to increase collaboration and remove/deal with excessive ownership issues that can stall innovation. GitHub.