InnerSource Community Toolkit

When starting an InnerSource Community, you need various resources to get your community off the ground quickly. This is true no matter whether your community is a company-internal activity, a regional community, or a specific business-to-business sharing group.

Luckily this toolkit by the InnerSource Commons is just what you need to get your InnerSource community started. :)

Starting a local InnerSource Community

These steps provide guidance for how to start a new local community:

• Announce the launch of your new community at the #local-community Slack channel. Open a pull request with the details of your local community at InnerSourceCommons/community-toolkit.
• The local community should have a point of contact (one or more human beings).
• The communication channel should be clearly stated. It is recommended to use the InnerSource Commons Slack Workspace.
• Use either the country (e.g., #spain-general) or the ISO country codes (e.g., #es-general) as part of your channel name. This will help to have a consistent way to discover local community Slack channels.
• If you’re planning to have local meetings, please share the URL where those are managed (e.g., as in meetup.com).
• If you have produced translations, please share them as part of your local community work (e.g., those happening at the Learning Path).
• Other assets such as Twitter, Mastodon account, other social networks or tools you may use, should be shared in the README file of your local community i.e. <YOUR_COMMUNITY_NAME>/README.md

Creating your Community Directory

Building on the structure of the international directory is a good starting point. You can customize the directory structure, but try to keep the base as close as possible so that other communities can easily refer to it.

The following commands may be helpful:

rsync -avz --include "*/" --exclude "*" international/ <YOUR_COMMUNITY_NAME>
find <YOUR_COMMUNITY_NAME>/ | xargs -I BASEPATH touch BASEPATH/.keep

Existing Communities

Brazil

• Communication channel: Slack #innersource-brazil channel.
• Repository working directory: Brazil.
• Started in 2022.

China

• Translations:
  • InnerSource Learning Path translations to Chinese.
  • InnerSource Patterns translations to Chinese.
• Started in 2022.

France

• Communication channel: Slack #fr-general channel.
• Translations: InnerSource Learning Path translations to French.
• Repository working directory: France.
• Started in 2021.

German Community

• Communication channel: Slack #local-german channel.
• Translations: InnerSource Learning Path translations to German.
• Started in 2020

Italy

• Translations: InnerSource Learning Path translations to Italian.
• Started in 2020.

Japan

• Communication channels:
  • Slack #jp-general channel as main entry point for discussions.
  • Slack #jp-marketing channel for marketing actions.
  • Slack #jp-content channel for content-related discussions.
  • Japanese Twitter account.
• Local in-person meetings.
• Translations:
  • InnerSource Learning Path translations to Japanese.
  • InnerSource Patterns translations to Japanese.
  • Getting Started with InnerSource Book.
• Repository work:
  • Working directory: Japan.
  • With the tag "Japan :jp:" you can filter for their issues and discussions.
  • Their Public Community Roadmap shows their plans for the coming quarters.
• Started in 2020.

Russia

• Translations: InnerSource Learning Path translations to Russian.
• Started in 2021.

Spain

• Local in-person meetings.
• Translations: InnerSource Learning Path translations to Spanish.
• Started in 2018.

Thailand

• Communication channel: Slack #th-general channel.
• Repository working directory: Thailand.
• Started in 2022.

Questions?

This toolkit is really new!

Please contact us in #local-community in Slack with any questions.