Isabel Drost-Fromm
Isabel Drost-Fromm is the President of InnerSource Commons. She is also an Open Source Strategist at Europace AG Germany. She’s a member of the Apache Software Foundation, co-founder of Apache Mahout and mentored several incubating projects. Isabel is interested in all things FOSS, search and text mining with a decent machine learning background. True to the nature of people living in Berlin she loves having friends fly in for a brief visit - as a result she co-founded and is still one of the creative heads behind Berlin Buzzwords, a tech conference on all things search, scale and storage.
Sessions
Many Open Source Program Offices are exploring InnerSource (using open source methods and practices internally in organizations to create proprietary code) as a step on the path to open source readiness. Some OSPOs find that they can overcome organizational resistance to open source by getting teams to first sharing code internally. Others go as far as to mandate that teams who plan to open source their projects first prove they can build and maintain a community using InnerSource. Some OSPOs are motivated to create InnerSource Programs as a way to bring in learnings from the open source communities into their organizations just because it is just a better way to build software. In this panel session we will examine the trend of InnerSource in OSPOs, why it’s happening and the ways in which OSPOs are using InnerSource as a tool in their toolbox to drive open source culture change.