InnerSource Commons Foundation Public Roadmap

Our roadmap outlines how we'll empower collaboration through patterns, learning, and community growth. RISE with us to shape the future of InnerSource. 🌟

Our Mission

We empower developers and organisations to apply open collaboration principles in their daily work.

We are the neutral hub and central collaboration space for InnerSource knowledge. As such, we maintain our independence and operate on a lean budget.

We build a strong, inclusive community and industry partnerships. Together, we apply open collaboration principles to drive the conversation about InnerSource and steward the InnerSource body of knowledge.

RISE - Our Strategic Goals for 2025

Our roadmap is aligned with our RISE strategy:

R - Reach New Industries and Regions

Reach New Industries and Regions: Establish organized, purposeful outreach programs to specific industry subgroups. We will create, fill, and grow a structure and program for how to integrate InnerSource among existing industry practice areas (e.g. open source, agile, devops, developer experience, platform). Goals in these areas could be things like ensuring that we show up at relevant conferences, connect with key influences in the industry practice, publishing on how the practice area relates to InnerSource, etc. We will similarly support and organize around InnerSource in specific regional and/or language groups (e.g. Japan, China, Brazil, Africa, etc). Goals for these areas could include hosting local, in-person gatherings, translating InnerSource Commons materials, ensuring that InnerSource shows up at regional and language conferences, etc.

I - Implement Specific Documentation

Specific documentation on InnerSource We will publish more-detailed, quality documentation on specific challenges or confusions that we see on InnerSource in the industry. In this effort, we move past high-level guides and directional pieces but get specific as to how InnerSource can actually work in real situations. Whitepapers, blog articles, and guides cover topics such as: definition of InnerSource, qualitative benefits of InnerSource, ROI of InnerSource, AI and InnerSource, transfer pricing, governance, maturity model, pitch deck, etc.

Two adjacent goals support these principal goals and the InnerSource Commons in general.

S - Summit Success

Global, In-Person InnerSource Summit 2025 In the year of the 10th anniversary of the formation of the InnerSource Commons, we will hold an in-person summit instead of the virtual event that we’ve seen post-pandemic. Organizations will be invited to apply to host the summit.

E - Establish Brand Consistency

Brand Consistency through the Brand Guide We will create, document, and share visual and stylistic branding guidelines for the InnerSource Commons. We will bring all current assets in-line with the guidelines and plan so that future publishing follows them.

How We Work

Open source methodology
Chatham House Rule for experience sharing
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
No participation fees

Community Structure

Open community membership
Merit-based ISC Members system
Board of Directors governance
501(c)(3) non-profit organization

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Getting Involved

We welcome participation from:

Individual contributors
Corporate partners
Regional communities
Industry experts
Open source enthusiasts

Join Our Journey

Whether you're here to explore, learn, or lead, we invite you to be part of our mission to elevate InnerSource practices worldwide. Together, we're shaping the future of collaborative development.

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