Summary

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In this module, you learned how to manage a successful InnerSource program on GitHub through effective discoverability, guidance, and maintenance.

You learned about:

• Contrasting user owned projects versus organization owned projects.
• Making recommendations about the number of GitHub organizations you should have.
• Creating discoverable repositories.
• Creating robust repository READMEs.
• Using templates for issue requests and pull requests.
• Building transparency into repositories.
• Measuring the success of InnerSource within your organization.
• Distributing your InnerSource toolkit.

Now that you have an InnerSource program together, learn to Create an open-source program by using GitHub best practices.

Learn more

Here are some links to more information on the subjects we discussed in this module.

• An introduction to InnerSource
• Types of GitHub accounts
• Setting base permissions for an organization
• Managing access to your organization's repositories
• Git branching strategy
• Best practices for protected branches
• GitHub Collaboration Best Practices
• Awesome README examples
• Awesome CONTRIBUTING.md examples
• Awesome GitHub issue & pull request templates