Oct 3, 2018
Fall Summit 2018
October 3-5, 2018 in Islandia, New York, USA
Event
That’s an official wrap on the InnerSource Commons Fall Summit! Thanks to all attendees and speakers for making this summit so productive and fun!
Please watch the site home page for details on the upcoming 2019 Spring (April) and Fall summits!
Agenda and Speakers
Wednesday, October 3rd |
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| 09:05 – 09:15 | Erin Bank (CA Technologies) | Day 1 Opening Comments |
| 09:20 – 10:00 | Otto Berkes (CA Technologies) | Morning Keynote |
| 10:05 – 10:50 | Russell R. Rutledge (Nike) | The Inner Source Learning Path
Show AbstractInner source is the application of open source methodologies to internally-developed software. While simple to define, inner source can be difficult to explain and implement successfully. The Inner Source Learning path gives a simple, easy to understand introduction to inner source. It introduces key terms, concepts, and principles for effective inner sourcing along with explanations and real examples. It is intended to bring newcomers up to speed as well as provide those with experience a common vocabulary to use when discussing more advanced concepts. The Inner Source Learning path will be freely hosted by O’Reilly Media at https://www.safaribooksonline.com/learning-paths for your use and sharing. More advanced segments of the learning path are forthcoming, and we’ll outline how you can get involved. |
| 10:55 – 11:15 | Ice Breakers | |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Georg Grütter (Robert Bosch) | The State of InnerSource at Bosch
Show AbstractIn this session, I will share insights into recent developments of InnerSource at Bosch, including metrics on collaboration, changes in InnerSource governance as well as lessons learned from nine years of InnerSource at Bosch. |
| 11:55 – 12:25 | Stephen McCall (Fidelity Investments) | Cultivating Your InnerSource Marketplace
Show AbstractEstablishing an InnerSource program inherently implies creating a supply and demand scenario. Failing to satisfy the needs of this marketplace can fundamentally limit your program’s effectiveness. Creating systems of discoverability that allow project owners to easily connect with potential contributors can yield unexpected benefits. |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Jim Jagielski (ConsenSys and The Apache Software Foundation) | Foundations of InnerSource and The Apache Way
Show AbstractJoin this session to learn about the best practices of Open Source via a deep dive into The Apache Way, which serve as the inspiration for InnerSource. |
| 1:00 – 2:10 | Lunch | |
| 2:15 – 3:25 |
Erin Bank (CA Technologies) Daniel Izquierdo (Bitgeria) |
Inner Source Patterns: Introduction & Workshop: Together we can build the roadmap for success!
Show AbstractThose of us establishing InnerSource programs encounter similar problems. Developing Patterns is a way of capturing proven solutions to these problems. This workshop will provide a brief introduction of the InnerSource patterns, and the standard components of patterns. Then we’ll break out into groups to draft patterns for pervasive problems. Let’s work together and provide solutions for the larger community! |
| 3:25 – 3:40 | Break | |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | David Mittman (NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory) | InnerSource at JPL: Collaboration around software in a science, technology, engineering & research enterprise
Show AbstractIn 2013, a number of employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believed that the tools that were so successfully supporting the open source community could have significant benefits for our software development community at JPL. Core to this belief was the theory that the JPL software development community was similar to the open source community in the way it operates. This theory has been put into practice in a number of companies, and is known as InnerSource. |
| 4:15 – 5:00 | Russell R. Rutledge (Nike) | Keynote: Growing an InnerSource Program
Show Abstract"Inner source is a great idea! Go do inner source!" You’re the dedicated champion for inner source in your company. What do you do now? How do you realistically affect the behavior of dozens or hundreds of teams to the point where robust and pervasive inner sourcing is a normal part of the way that engineering is done? This presentation shares principles, practical anecdotes, and relatable examples on this situation gleaned from experience at Nike. While not claiming all of the answers, it is insightful summary of over a year of work in the area. |
| 5:00 – 5:15 | Raimund Hook (EXFO Inc.) | Starting an InnerSource Program: This is scary – where do I begin?
Show AbstractI’ve long been a proponent of software reuse, sharing, and breaking down of silos, but it wasn’t until this year (2018) that I was introduced to InnerSource as a formal concept. At the same time, my company was advertising internally for somebody to start building an InnerSource program internally. I felt that it was a position designed for me. |
| 5:15 – 5:25 | Day 1 Closing | |
Thursday, October 4th |
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| 08:45 – 08:55 | Erin Bank (CA Technologies) | Day 2 Opening Comments |
| 09:00 – 09:50 | Nigel Simpson (The Walt Disney Company) | Keynote: Cultural Change at Enterprise Scale |
| 09:55 – 10:25 | Noah Cawley (Nike) | The Science Behind Grass Roots InnerSource
Show AbstractAt Nike, we’ve chosen a bottom-up, grass roots strategy for our InnerSource effort. We strive to achieve horizontal adoption of InnerSource tools and practice before advocating up Nike’s organizational hierarchy. Recent work in social networks and network dynamics suggest there is more than intuition and anecdotes behind this strategy. In this session, we will review the science behind behavior change and connect the theoretical and experimental evidence to our own experience running an InnerSource effort. |
| 10:25 – 10:55 | Kanchana Welagedara (Apache Software Foundation and JP Morgan Chase) | The Need of Innersource in FinTech
Show AbstractIn this session, I will deep-dive into the issues that engineering silos cause at large financial tech companies. Silos limit innovation, cause less collaboration amongst engineering teams, contribute to a lack of quality mentorship, limit people skills, and can drive fear to move more current technologies. I will discuss how inner source brings a revolutionary approach to transform such engineering cultures to adopt efficient, collaborative processes, quality mentorship and to create a more organic and innovative software engineering ecosystem overall. |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break | |
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Daniel Izquierdo (Bitergia) | Are You Sure You are Measuring What You Want to Measure?
Show AbstractCheating on metrics is easy. And it happens that from time to time we realize that the metrics that we thought were the right ones, are in reality the wrong ones. |
| 11:50 – 12:30 | Noah Cawley (Nike) | Modeling and Measuring the Value of your InnerSource Effort
Show AbstractHow do you explain the value InnerSource brings an organization? How do you determine whether your InnerSource effort is successful in delivering that value? In this session we will explain how we model the value of InnerSource at Nike and how we go about measuring it. |
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Robert Hansel (Robert Bosch) | Case Study: Artificial Intelligence – How to enable a whole company with the help of InnerSource
Show AbstractInnerSource – what we call Bosch Internal Open Source (BIOS) internally – is a great tool for a variety of use cases in a corporate setup. One of them being internal training where we think InnerSource is quite a natural fit. The enabling team of the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence has the challenging mission to spread knowledge about AI within Bosch. One of the approaches which we use to tackle that challenge is to build up an InnerSource learning community. Apart from providing details on the first steps we took, we will also give some insights on the preconditions which are key for a successful InnerSource project and give a brief overview about the next steps we’re going to take. |
| 12:45 – 1:55 | Lunch | |
| 1:55 – 2:40 | Georg Grütter (Robert Bosch) | The Inner Source Manifesto
Show AbstractDuring this collaborative session, we will review, discuss, and collaborate on the latest draft of the InnerSource Manifesto, created by the InnerSource Commons community. |
| 2:50 – 3:40 | Nigel Simpson (The Walt Disney Company) | Tech Tectonics: What dramatic shifts will we see in the next decade?
Show AbstractThe pace of technology innovation is accelerating. New technologies can be disruptive to existing products and businesses, but they can also create exciting new opportunities. Businesses must future proof themselves by keeping an eye on emerging trends and potential disruptions. While the future is hard to predict, trends can be identified and extrapolated. In this session Nigel Simpson will share his views on emerging trends and predict how things might change as a result. |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | Break | |
| 4:05 – 4:35 | Silona Bonewald (PayPal) | Discoverability and Collaboration
Show AbstractThis session will discuss how to find teams that are ready to practice InnerSource together. It will also explore how to prove to middle management that it is safe to collaborate across BUs. |
| 4:35 – 4:45 | Day 2 Closing | |
| 6:30 – 9:30 | Event Night | |
Friday, October 5th |
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| 08:45 – 08:55 | Erin Bank (CA Technologies) | Day 3 Opening Comments |
| 08:55 – 09:45 | Dr. Mary Lynn Manns (UNC Asheville) | Keynote: Leading Change from the Heart (Instead of the Head) |
| 09:50 – 10:15 | Billy Foss (CA Technologies) | The Enablement Team Pattern
Show AbstractOperations teams need to adopt automation to scale. The development background and operational knowledge required to build these automations can be hard to find. We will discuss a pattern that uses inner source to create these automations using an enablement team. The enablement team builds the initial automation using tools that are easy to learn and publishes them in shared source control. The automation is exposed via GUI for easy execution. By having open visibility to the code and easy execution, we can create a culture where the operations team can increase their expertise in the automation and eventually assumes ownership. The open culture enabling operations teams to learn these development skills also addresses a critical gap in the workforce. |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Kristof Van Tomme (Provonix) | Documentation InnerSource Patterns
Show AbstractAt the European InnerSource Commons event, we held a workshop about the documentation patterns that teams and individuals can follow to get better documentation for their projects. In this talk I will explain the background constraints/forces that documentation projects typically struggle with and give a short introduction to the different candidate patterns such as: Beginners teach, Design first, Readme first, Docs as definition of done, Docs as code (with its subpatterns docs in code and docs also in code), Writers become editors, Docs as innersourcing projects, Docs appreciation, Documentation scaffolds, Activation energy, SDK patterns, Glossary, and Docs as sales. I will also explain which patterns I think apply to Innersourcing projects, and do an attempt to create a decision tree that helps you to choose what documentation patterns could be useful in a given company context. |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Andre Hagemeier (Wayfair) | Foundation for IS: A Sense of Ownership
Show AbstractJoin this session to hear about what we have learned at Wayfair, when we tried to launch an Innersource program at a company with well over 1300 engineers and a single monolithic code base. We’ll talk about why a common understanding and a clear definition of ownership is a fundamental pre-requisite for any Innersource initiative, and how company politics can sometimes threaten to derail such initiatives |
| 11:35 – 12:10 | David McKenna (CA Technologies) | Case Study: Agile Transformation at CA Technologies: Some Assembly Required
Show AbstractIn this session, I will discuss how agile teams implement inner source, and use CA’s internal “agile” transformation as a backdrop to share the key mindsets of effective transformation we’ve learned supporting hundreds of companies in their change journeys. |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Loren Sanz (Nike) | Harness the Power of Gravity to Build a Strong Inner Source Culture
Show AbstractGravity is a natural phenomenon that occurs when bodies are in close proximity to one another. It is such a powerful force that rivers and canyons form as a result. We can take a few lessons from this natural phenomenon and apply it to developing inner source culture. Learn to use gravity to harness existing momentum and energy within your organization. |
| 12:50 – 1:00 | Summit Closing | |
Our Keynote Speakers
Otto Berkes, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at CA Technologies
As EVP and chief technology officer of CA Technologies, Otto Berkes is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company’s technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value. Otto joined CA on June 15, 2015. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies. An early champion of mobile computing, he led the development of touch-based technologies, user interfaces, hardware architectures, and physical designs that were the forerunners to today’s tablets.
Before joining CA, Otto served as the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. During his tenure, HBO GO became one of the most popular streaming services in the U.S. Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft and was one of the four original founders of Xbox. As Xbox’s first architect, he led its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation. He led Microsoft’s OpenGL and DirectX graphics development groups in Windows during the formative years of the evolution of the modern GPU.
Earlier in his career, Otto served as a senior developer at both Autodesk where he wrote the graphics engine and user interface for the first Windows-based version of AutoCAD.
An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines. Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.
Dr. Mary Lynn Manns, Professor at UNC Asheville and Author
Dr. Mary Lynn Manns is a professor in the Department of Management at UNC Asheville and the co-author of two books, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, 2005 (also published in Japanese and Chinese) and More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen, 2015. Mary Lynn has given numerous presentations on change leadership throughout the world in many organizations that include Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and amazon.com. On campus, she coordinates the “Ideas to Action” initiative at UNC Asheville, which guides students as they work in interdisciplinary teams to design, develop, and defend their ideas for changing the world.
Russell R. Rutledge, Community Core Team Lead, Nike
Russ Rutledge is the lead for Nike’s Community Core team—a startup within the company that culls the process and tools to encourage and foster cross-team and community interaction and development. Russ’s drive and passion is to enable all software engineers to achieve incredible technical and business throughput via quality tooling and streamlined work process. Previously, Russ ran another successful startup delivering JavaScript continuous delivery solutions to hundreds of projects throughout Nike and did feature and infrastructure development for the Outlook and OneDrive consumer websites at Microsoft.
Nigel Simpson, Director of Tech Strategy & Research at The Walt Disney Company
As Director of Tech Strategy & Research at The Walt Disney Company, Nigel Simpson leads a team that is future-focused; looking at the interplay of technology, culture, consumer behavior, and other factors, and exploring what it means to the company by mapping it into strategy, education, and tactical initiatives. As a pragmatic technologist, Nigel enjoys making sense of technology: cutting through the hype and explaining the relationship between vision and current and future potential.
Nigel is passionate about all types of engineering and innovation. He established Disney’s Open Source Program in 2015 which is designed to enable developers while simultaneously managing risk. He also created an enterprise-wide developer productivity initiative that was designed to break down artificial barriers between business units, enabling collaboration around technology through the enterprise adoption of open source community concepts and tools.
Prior to joining Disney, Nigel had a 20-year career at Sun Microsystems, where he began by answering the phones as a technical support engineer and ended up as a researcher in Sun Labs. While at Sun Labs, he co-developed Open Wonderland, an open source, immersive 3D virtual world designed for distance collaboration.
Nigel is a long-term mentor to aspiring young engineers. He’s currently mentoring STEM startups through LearnLaunch, an Accelerator program for EdTech startups. He is also mentoring high school students via The Possible Project, a Cambridge, MA-based after school program that teaches students with untapped potential entrepreneurship, technical, and business skills. Nigel graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Computing Science. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents in areas that include virtual worlds, voice interaction, and electronic communications.
Conference Speakers
Erin Bank
Erin Bank has more than 20 years of experience building and executing transformative programs and solutions, with roles in engineering program management, product management, and technical communications in North America and abroad. Erin is currently Sr. Director of Engineering Program Management for the CA Technologies Office of the CTO, where she drives both the Open Source and Inner Source programs for CA Product Development. Erin has also been a driver of the Accelerator, CA’s hybrid-angel VC incubator program where internal innovators receive support and funding to get new products into market. She is a contributing member of InnerSource Commons, committed to establishing inner source best practices with the community. Erin has Lean Six Sigma and Pragmatic certifications.
Silona Bonewald
I’ve been involved in innersource since the second summit, which Danese Cooper asked me to join. I have been hooked ever since!
I’m currently the Director of Enterprise Intelligence at PayPal, where I created a centralized set of tools and standards so that teams can innersource effectively across business units and acquisitions, removing years of backlogged features. I’m responsible for Enterprise Search, Unified DataHub, ALM (application Lifecycle Management), Monitoring and Notifications.
I re-architected the FDI (Failed Developer interactions) monitoring program to be more accurate, resilient and reliable. I also worked with DevX team on the creation of a Unified Product Model for End to End Developer Experience.
In addition, I open sourced the unified search tool Seazme, while engaging with other companies in its adoption outside of PayPal.
Noah Cawley
I am a software engineer at Nike where I work to support collaborative efforts within Nike Digital. I am passionate about applying both theoretical and empirical tools to understand and measure the dynamics and impact of collaboration. I believe that collaboration can radically improve the effectiveness and health of software engineering organizations, and I am lucky I get to work on confirming that belief every day.
Billy Foss
Billy Foss works in the world between development and operations. As part of bridging these worlds, he has helped development teams run and operate development integration environments that provide continuous feedback on the stability of the code base. He has also helped operations and infrastructure teams adopt development techniques with source control and automated build processes of infrastructure as code. He enjoys automating to help people and helping people to automate. Prior to his experience at enterprise software companies (CA Technologies and IBM), he performed military simulation research while earning a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Central Florida.
Georg Grütter
Georg Grütter is a Senior Expert at Bosch Corporate Research and a founding member of the InnerSource activities at Bosch. He is driving the adoption of InnerSource within Bosch as an evangelist and as a developer since 2009. Georg is also a passionate software craftsman with over 30 years of experience. Previously, he worked for Daimler Chrysler as a researcher, the Zurich System House as a software engineer, and the Line Information GmbH as a consultant. Georg has created two open source projects: XHSI and stashNotifier. He is an avid recumbent cyclist, mountain biker, stargazer and generally collects way too many hobbies.
Andre Hagemeier
Andre Hagemeier is the Head of Development Platforms EU at Wayfair, where he tries to improve the quality of the code base, introduce scalable patterns for a rapidly growing Engineering group and establish a sense of ownership, commitment and collaboration. Before his position at Wayfair, Andre was Principal Engineer at IBM for IBM Connections, where he led a globally distributed team of over 200 engineers and guided them through a fundamental re-architecting of an industry leading enterprise software product.
Robert Hansel
Robert Hansel is a founding member of the Social Coding Initiative at Bosch, in which he is driving the adoption of InnerSource within Bosch as a Social Coding Evangelist. Over his ten-year career in software development, Robert has worked in different technical areas from laboratory equipment to automotive components before he joined Bosch in 2011. He joined the InnerSource movement at Bosch in 2012, has led his own community and was part of the Social Coding team before joining the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, where he continues to promote Social Coding within Bosch. He is a passionate motorbike rider and a proud father of his little son which consumes nearly every bit of his spare time.
Raimund Hook
As InnerSource and DevOps Specialist at EXFO Inc., Raimund Hook has a corporate mandate to introduce and develop InnerSource in his organization. He is bringing his skills honed from his 20-year career into building tools and trying to foster a community of developers across the business. A technical generalist, Raimund has experience with a vast array of technology from hardware to deep network stacks, virtualization to cloud building, and a plethora of programming languages to several automation frameworks.
A passionate believer in Automation, Raimund believes that there is a solution for most mundane tasks – somebody simply needs to take the time to implement it. Unfortunately, he’s found out, automating people is less of an ‘easy target’. He’s admittedly learning along the way and has found that sharing his experiences is part of the InnerSource way. Raimund joined Ontology Systems in London in late 2015, which was later acquired by EXFO in 2017. Prior to working at EXFO, he spent 11 years working for Internet Solutions in South Africa, a converged Telecommunications provider. There, Raimund held various positions culminating in leading a team responsible for building and maintaining fulfilment and provisioning solutions for the business.
Jim Jagielski
Jim Jagielski is a well-known and acknowledged expert and visionary in Open Source, an accomplished coder, and frequent engaging presenter on all things Open, Web and Cloud related. As a developer, he’s made substantial code contributions to just about every core technology behind the Internet and Web and in 2012 was awarded the O’Reilly Open Source Award and in 2015 received the Innovation Luminary Award from the EU. He is likely best known as one of the developers and co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation, where he has previously served as both Chairman and President and where he’s been on the Board of Directors since day one. He serves as President of the Outercurve Foundation and was also a director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and. Jim currently works as an Open Source Chef for ConsenSys. He credits his wife Eileen in keeping him sane.
Daniel Izquierdo
Daniel Izquierdo Cortazar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open source ecosystems. Currently the chief data officer at Bitergia, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis, and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel holds a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, where he focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community.
Stephen McCall
Stephen McCall is currently the InnerSource Governance Architect within the Enterprise Cloud Computing Group at Fidelity Investments, where he collaborates with individuals and teams across all Fidelity business units to enable and speed the adoption of InnerSource best practices. A curious and persistent technologist, a DesignOps innovator, an InnerSource evangelist, and a Design Thinking advocate, for over 20 years, Stephen has been driving cultural change within organizations both large and small. His focus is to remove as many of the layers of translation required between product ideation and implementation by creating streamlined systems of interaction across all disciplines involved.
David McKenna
Dave McKenna is an Agile Coach who has worked in the information technology field for more than 20 years. A United States Air Force veteran, he started his career in IT unboxing IBM and Apple computers in a Computerland store (Remember those?) while moonlighting as a bouncer and part time professional wrestler. Dave eventually became a Novell Certified Network Engineer and worked his way into a Sustaining Engineer position at CA Technologies. In 2009, he began his Agile journey which continues today. Dave has performed as the “World’s Strongest Mainframer” and works with kids as much as possible, putting on anti-bullying programs and running a weekly youth group.
David Mittman
David Mittman has been developing software for over 35 years, and is currently Manager for Enterprise and Information Systems Engineering at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he leads the delivery of processes, tools and services that are specially designed to serve the needs of the scientists, engineers and technicians of JPL’s Engineering and Science Directorate. His software helped plan the Mars Pathfinder mission that put the first-ever rover on Mars in the late 1990s, and is planning observations for NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. As an advocate for the software developer, David is helping to modernize the state of software product development and encourage a culture of collaboration across the Laboratory.
Loren Sanz
Loren Sanz is a gregarious engineer on Nike’s Community Core team – a startup within the company that fosters cross-team and community interaction and development. Loren brings a broad background of experience to the team. His background includes management, enterprise sales, customer service and software engineering. Loren is passionate about collaboration and believes that we are strongest when we are all working together.
Kristof Van Tomme
Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, DevRel, and technical writing communities. For a few years now he’s been building bridges between the documentation and Drupal community. He is co-organiser of the London Write the Docs meetup, and cheerleader for the Amsterdam and Brussels Write the Docs meetup groups. After a first InnerSourcing Conference, Kristof got really excited about pattern languages and how they can be applied to help teams develop better documentation despite the constraints that exist for internal software programs.
Kanchana Welagedara
A long-time open source enthusiast and community contributor, Kanchana Welagedara is a member of The Apache Software Foundation, and a contributor for Apache Axis C++, Geronimo, and other open source projects. Kanchana’s experience includes being Lead Developer at JPMorgan Chase. Previously, she was an innersource evangelist at PayPal. Kanchana is also the proud mother of a geeky 3-year-old boy.
Formerly Scheduled
Due to a conflict, the following speaker is unable to attend.
Nithya Ruff
Nithya A. Ruff is the Head of Comcast’s Open Source Practice. She is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities. Prior to this, she started and grew the Western Digital’s Open Source Strategy Office. She first glimpsed the power of open source while at SGI in the 90s and has been building bridges between companies and the open source community ever since. She’s also held leadership positions at Wind River (an Intel Company), Synopsys, Avaya, Tripwire and Eastman Kodak. At Wind River, she led a team of product managers in managing a world class embedded Linux distribution and was a key member of the Yocto Project advocacy team on the board. Nithya is a Director at Large on the Linux Foundation Board and represents community interests on the board.
Nithya has been a passionate advocate and a speaker for opening doors to new people in Open Source for many years. She has also been a promoter of valuing diverse ways of contributing to open source such as in marketing, legal and community. You can often find her on social media promoting dialogue on diversity and open source. She has spoken at multiple conferences such as OSSummit, OSCON, All Things Open, SCALE, Grace Hopper, OpenStack, VMWorld, OS Strategy Summit and Red Hat Summit on the business and community of open source. In recognition of her work in open source both on the business and community side, she was named to CIO magazine’s most influential women in open source list. She was recently one of 4 people to win the 2017 O’Reilly Open Source Award for exceptional contribution to open source.
Nithya graduated with an MS in Computer Science from NDSU and an MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a proud mother of two daughters. You can follow her on twitter @nithyaruff.
What is the InnerSource Commons?
The InnerSource Commons (InnerSourceCommons.org) aka ISC is a consortium of representatives from over sixty companies and institutions. It utilizes open source methods to provide organizations pursuing inner sourcing a forum for discussing and improving the practice of InnerSource through the sharing of experiences (under the Chatham House Rule), creation and review of InnerSource patterns, and the open exchange of ideas.
Venue
This Summit was hosted by CA Technologies at their facility at 1 Computer Associates Plaza, Islandia, NY, 11749.
Code of Conduct
All participants, vendors, and guests at InnerSource Commons events are required to abide by the code of conduct.
InnerSource Commons meetings and events run under the Chatham House Rule: information discussed at a meeting can be shared but not attributed.
Interested in getting involved? Email summit@innersourcecommons.org or join the conversation on the #innersourcecommons slack channel!