Open spier opened 1 year ago
Also worth checking which other publicly available material on this topic we can integrate. e.g. https://program.foss-backstage.de/fossback23/talk/S9P7QY/
Some of the strategies I remember at the top of my head:
trying to think of a few more things over the weekend, hope it's ok to add them here.
I was wondering if it would further help to think about this topic similar to a Sales funnel (also referred to a Sales pipeline).
While Sales and InnerSource contributions are clearly not the same thing, it might be that both the visual of a funnel as well as the comparison to Sales helps us to find different and interesting ways to think about and describe this.
Comparison:
The idea is apparently not novel :) At least a quick search lead me to this post by one of the maintainers of homebrew: https://mikemcquaid.com/the-open-source-contributor-funnel-why-people-dont-contribute-to-your-open-source-project/
Also if you have never heard of a Sales funnel, here one of the many images that you can find online:
That's interesting @rrrutledge. Especially as the opensource.guide link refers to the blog post I shared above :) A small world out there.
When teaching the concepts to your InnerSource maintainers, can you just point them to https://opensource.guide/building-community/, or would you apply some translation from open source to InnerSource?
Haven’t looked - just know that there’s a lot of overlap and want us to be intentional about how we manage that.
@rrrutledge this is an interesting conversation, leading us to the general approach that we take when producing material within the Commons. However it may take us on a tangent, somewhat unrelated to this issue here. Shall we continue this in slack or would you prefer to do it elsewhere? e.g. Slack or GitHub discussions?
Sure - we can continue elsewhere. I don’t have much more specific to share at this point, but it is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. A GitHub discussion would be good so that we can point people to it later - do you want to start that?
Sure. Where to start it? On a public repo I guess, right?
@rrrutledge I have left my somewhat unfinished thoughts about this topic in this discussion: New patterns: What to write, what to link, and what to skip?
Looking forward to continue the conversation there.
In conversations in Slack @MaineC has shared many great tips about how to keep the number of contributors to a project healthy. Her tips are focused on
We would like to interview her about these topics, and see how we could turn this content into a pattern.
See our full pattern syntax to understand the type of information we would like to extract by doing an interview.