InnerSource and Open Source mixed with a bit of information retrieval and machine learning
"Use channels that are shared by all trusted committers and potential contributors, that are archived, searchable and linkable for decision making" - what sounds trivial in theory often is very scary in practise. In this talk you will learn why shared async communication channels are vital to make cross team collaboration work, what that means for documentation accruing over time and why async communication alone cannot replace trust building based on personal relationships.
📢 We're thrilled to welcome Isabel Drost-Fromm as our speaker for the Berlin leg of the InnerSource Summit 2025! 🎤 Isabel will give a talk on Open communication for Open Development. When engineers think about contributing upstream, they often imagine sending code modifications or publishing projects. But seasoned open source contributors know there’s more to true involvement. 👩💻 In this talk, Isabel will explore what it really means to engage with upstream open source: the benefits for engineers, the importance of a customer-driven mindset, and the practices that make participation meaningful. She’ll then draw connections to InnerSource, highlighting how transparency, reduced sync meetings, and open collaboration can empower contributors across teams. 🤝 Isabel Drost-Fromm is the former Chair of the Board of Directors at the InnerSource Commons Foundation and a past board member of the Apache Software Foundation. With deep expertise in open source collaboration and a focus on search and text mining, she currently works as an Open Source Strategist at Europace AG. She is also co-founder and creative force behind Berlin Buzzwords (a conference on search, scale, and storage) and FOSS Backstage. 📍 Join us in Berlin (or online!) on November 13, 2025. 👉 Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/edH6sHzC? 🎟️ Early bird pricing is available until October 15, 2025! #InnerSourceSummit2025 #TechCommunity #DevOpps
UNH Professor. Research in information retrieval, LLM-as-a-Judge, rubric-based evaluation, RAG, circularity in LLM evaluation, and neuro-symbolic methods for retrieval and generation.
2wA really important topic to discuss, and I 100% agree that these channels are essential, but also leave us vulnerable to some extent.