Creating an Open Source Policy

THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER

Refer to Policy as the output from this activity.

should we split this into inbound and outbound? They might be two separate things. But I think you need to start the policy here.

When drafting open source policies, among the many topics that need to be discussed are:

How employees of your company can contribute to open source projects
How your company can open source internal projects
How your company accepts external contributions to their open source projects
How to prepare for open source releases
How approvals are received
How developers can use open source code they find on GitHub and other code repositories
Procedures and rules explaining how open source code can be brought into your company
How the incoming code is catalogued so others know it is being used
How a company can grow a community of like-minded external developers around it to keep it thriving
Rules that help determine when code should be released as open source or kept as intellectual property

It can take a long time to get policy approved - you need people on-side to help build this from the policy team (expand). (1 year as an example)