Growing a Social Coding culture, one seed at a time
summary
Siemens launches a Social Coding platform in 2015 and grows it to 50,000 active users and 200,000 projects, using self-hosted GitLab, CI pipelines, python-gitlab integrations and internal open-weight LLMs; a grassroots ambassador network (~40 people) and a small ops team (around eight people) run a pay-per-use internal billing model, upstream-first contributions to GitLab, internal summits, awards and measurable gains in developer efficiency and software quality.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to social coding
- 1:09About Siemens and social coding
- 5:54Planting the first seeds
- 8:24Eating our own dog food
- 10:52Automation and transparency
- 11:34Removing inner source roadblocks
- 13:00Building the community
- 14:47Ten years of steady growth
- 17:32Lessons learned along the way
- 20:22Harvesting the crops takes time
- 21:51Q&A session
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