Kickstart with a Contribfest

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Aerospace runs a hybrid internal Contribfest at an FFRDC to teach InnerSource by doing: funded spots for ~30 people, 31 participants from 21 departments, maintainers on hand, Teams work sessions and Kanban boards listing ready-to-pick tasks with templates and a clear definition of done. Results: 15 PRs/tickets closed during or soon after the event (15 tickets closed), internal docs traffic nearly doubles, a merged feature removes a fork, and lessons include repo access bottlenecks and the need for follow‑up funding.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:11Aerospace background
3. 2:13Development environment challenges
4. 4:40Inner source at Aerospace
5. 6:46Why Contribfest idea
6. 7:29What is a Contribfest
7. 9:14Preparing the Contribfest
8. 10:38Designing tasking
9. 12:44Event execution
10. 13:49Follow-up and metrics
11. 14:32Contribfest results
12. 16:58Lessons learned
13. 18:43Next steps and future

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