The InnerSource Commons welcomes the European Commission’s new Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023 highlighting how InnerSource (the creation of working cultures based on open source) is an integral part of a robust open source strategy and ecosystem. Teams adopting a culture of InnerSource can accelerate active open source corporate participation. We fully support the intention to set InnerSource as a default way of working in order to bring teams closer to open source working methods and to encourage sharing and reuse within the organisation. We agree that InnerSource can be instrumental to the success of this strategy.

“InnerSource is rapidly gaining momentum as a way to help developers on their path to open source. It can be a great tool to help break down silos, encourage collaboration and reuse of code, and to identify opportunities to contribute software back to the open source world. We welcome the European Commission’s decision to adopt and promote InnerSource. We hope the community-created resources from the InnerSource Commons community will aid the Commission in their implementation of this strategy, and we look forward to learning from the Commission about their own best practices.” said Danese Cooper, President of InnerSource Commons.

About InnerSource Commons

InnerSource Commons est la plus grande communauté au monde de praticiens de l'InnerSource. Elle est dédiée à la création et au partage de connaissances sur l'InnerSource, l'utilisation des bonnes pratiques de l'Open Source pour le développement de logiciels à l'intérieur d'une organisation.
Fondée en 2015, elle rassemble aujourd'hui plus de 1500 personnes et 500 entreprises, institutions académiques et agences gouvernementales. Elle s'est constituée depuis le 19 février 2020 en tant qu'organisme à but non lucratif (article 501(c)(3) du code des impôts US).