MOSE Shorts - 8: Build Your Community Internally, Too

In order to help your internal teams of software developers to be successful as they are working upstream, you need to have an internal structure and people who take care of creating a community internally as well. This can also be a key to keep your people for the long run, as happy employees are harder to poach.

In this MOSE Short, Alex Scammon, Ildiko and Phil are talking about how important it is to have an internal structure with diverse roles, as part of an organization's investment in open source and upstream work. In some cases, you need to provide support to software developers to be able to work in a public environment and balance community and corporate priorities, in other cases you can support them with doing more than just software development, like writing articles or speaking at conferences. While having your people, and their good work, more visible can look scary when you are trying to keep them on your payroll, they are more likely to stay with your company when they feel supported, while you're also giving more visibility to your company's success indirectly.

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