Clare Dillon
Clare Dillon is the Executive Director of the InnerSource Commons Foundation. Clare has spent over 25 years working with developers and developer communities. Clare has been involved with InnerSource Commons since early 2019, when she helped set up NearForm’s InnerSource practice. Before that, Clare was a member of Microsoft Ireland Leadership Team, heading up their Developer Evangelism and Experience Group. Clare helps to organize the OSPO++ Network, to support the establishment of University and Government Open Source Program Offices globally, that can collaborate to implement public policy and trustworthy public services. She is also a co-founder of Open Ireland Network. Clare frequently speaks at international conferences and corporate events on topics relating to the future of work, innovation trends and digital ethics.
Session
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.